Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions
in the Middle East
Edited by Anthony Downey (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016)
We are pleased to celebrate the launch of Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East, volume 03 in our Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East series.
Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present day and future contexts for the production, dissemination and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa. It offers historical contexts for a discussion that has become increasingly urgent in recent years ? the role of culture in a time of conflict and globalization ? and an in-depth critique of the state of cultural institutions in an age of political upheaval, social unrest, exuberant cultural activity,
ascendant neoliberal forms of privatization, social activism, and regional uncertainty. What is needed in terms of infrastructure for cultural production today, and how, crucially, can we speculatively propose new infrastructures and institutions in the context of present-day realities?
Contributors include
Monira Al Qadiri, Hoor Al-Qasimi, Anahi Alviso-Marino, AMBS Architects, Stephanie Bailey, Erayayl, Rachel Dedman, Elizabeth Derderian, Anthony Downey, Karen Exell, Reema Salha Fadda, Wafa Gabsi, Hadia Gana, Adalet R. Garmiany, Baha Jubeh, Suhair Jubeh, Amal Khalaf, Kamel Lazaar, Jens Maier-Rothe, Guy Mannes-Abbott, Doreen Mende, Lea Morin, Jack Persekian, Rijin Sahakian, Gregory Sholette, Tom Snow, Ania Szremski, Christine Tohme, Toleen Touq, Williams Wells, Ala Younis, Yasmine Zidane.
The publication is accompanied by a collection of special projects from Leila Al-Shami, Wided Rihana Khadraoui, Lois Stonock, Nile Sunset
Annex, Alia Rayyan and Hussam al-Saray. Click here to view the online projects commissioned for Future Imperfect.
For more information on the Visual Culture in the Middle East series, visit Ibraaz and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation.
Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East is available to purchase from Amazon.
Front cover image copyright Guy Mannes-Abbott.
