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2004
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11th
November 2004- Book launched
What
Remains To Be Seen
Art and Political Conflict:
Views from Britain, Israel, Palestine
and Northern Ireland.
Three
artists one British one Israeli &
one Palestinian were invited to make
images for our publication. The
visual work is accompanied by articles
from artists, academics and curators.
All the work is based on the making
of art in places of conflict.
Publication:
Paperback, 66 pages, Full Colour.
Publisher: Multi-Exposure Publications.
ISBN: 0954664108
How
is it possible that art has been made
and exhibited in Ramallah during one
of its most brutal periods in recent
Palestinian history? How do Israeli
artists who have always believed in
a peaceful future for Israel see their
state now? Is all art produced either
within, or at the margins of, any political
conflict inherently ‘political’?
And if so, what are the implications
of this?
It is the common desire to try and address
these and many other important questions
that brings together the acclaimed list
of international artists and authors
whose works comprise What Remains to
be Seen – Art and Political Conflict:
Views From Britain, Israel, Palestine
and Northern Ireland, edited by Gordon
Hon.
This richly-illustrated collection presents
a distinct mix of visual and written
works joined by their shared commitments
to and critically-refreshing relationships
with the many ways in which contemporary
art might confront the diverse issues
that traverse the political conflicts
that occupy the Middle East and Northern
Ireland.
What Remains to be Seen thus reveals
the intricacy of contemporary art’s
engagement with the politics of both
nation-states and ‘everyday life’,
while also subtly offering alternative
ways through which we might reconsider
our relationships both to art and one
another.
List
of contributors
Editor
Gordon Hon is an artist and
writer based in London. His work is
mainly in film and video. His most recent
work, Circles (2003), involved aerial
surveillance of a new BAE Systems Electronic
Warfare plant in England. He
is a Senior Lecturer at Winchester School
of Art, Hampshire.
Artists
Aissa Deebi is a Palestinian
artist born (1969) in Galilee, Israel.
He has been based in the UK and USA
for the past eight years, during which
time he has worked in photography and
video art. Deebi has exhibited his work
in Israel and internationally. Currently,
Deebi is Director of Visual Arts at
ArteEast and an active curator working
in New York, the Middle East and Europe.
Miki
Kratsman was born in 1959 in
Buenos Aires, Argentina and migrated
to Israel in 1971. For the past nine
years he has been working with journalist
Gideon Levy on Twilight Zone, a weekly
piece covering human-angle stories in
the Occupied Territories that appears
in Haaretz weekend supplement. Kratsman's
photography and video works have been
viewed internationally and he teaches
photography at Haifa University and
the School of Geographic Photography
in Tel Aviv.
Susan
Trangmar
has worked for many years producing
light and photographic time-based installations
designed to enter into conversation
with the location in which they are
based. Trangmar's works have been exhibited
extensively throughout the UK and Europe
and she is currently a Research Fellow
at Central Saint Martins College of
Art and Design.
Writers
Kamal Boullata is a
Palestinian painter who lives in France.
His writings on art have appeared in
numerous international publications
and he is the author of a book on Palestinian
art (in Arabic).
Haim
Bresheeth is the Chair of Media
and Cultural Studies at the University
of East London. He is the co-editor
(with Nira Yuval-Davis) of the Gulf
War and the New World Order (1991) and
co-author (with Stuart Hood) of Introducing
the Holocaust (1993, 2001). He has made
a number of documentary films on the
Palestinian Intifada and is currently
working on history and memory in Palestinian
Cinema.
Shuka
(Yeoshua/Joshua) Glotman was
born in 1953 in Israel, the son of Holocaust
survivors who arrived in Israel as refugees
on an illegal boat to the country. At
the age of nine, he started taking photographs.
His mixed-media art has a special interest
in the Israeli situation and its inter-cultural
phenomena. His works have been exhibited
internationally and he currently lectures
at Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv Universities.
Ian
Jeffrey is an art historian
with a longstanding interest in photography.
He has written several books on the
history of the medium, monographs on
Josef Sudek and Shomei Tomstsu, and
has curated and organized several photographic
exhibitions. He is currently teaching
at Goldsmiths College, University of
London and has published a book of his
own photographs.
Liam
Kelly is a Professor of Irish
Visual Culture at the School of Art
and Design, University of Ulster - Belfast.
He is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary
Irish art and has also curated both
various exhibitions internationally.
He is additionally a vice-president
of the International Association of
Art Critics, Paris (AICA).
Meir
Wieseltier was born in Moscow
in 1941 and arrived in Israel in 1949.
Since the early 1960s, he has been active
on Tel Aviv's literary scene, edited
several literary reviews, and has become
the leading figure of the 'Tel Aviv
Poets of the Sixties'. He has been awarded
many literary awards and has been internationally
published in various languages. He currently
lives in Tel Aviv and is a professor
at the University of Haifa.
Val
Williams is a writer, curator,
and Joint Research Fellow at the London
College of Printing. Her curatorial
work has been featured at many museums
and galleries across London, including
the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican
Gallery, while her written works have
been internationally published by the
likes of the Phaidon Press. Williams
is currently working on survey shows
of the work of Anna Fox and Derek Ridgers.
We
shared the event with Exiled
Writers Ink! who launched
a pamphlet "Across the
Divide" Poetry and
Prose from Muslim - Jewish - Arab creative
writing workshops.
The launch was at Stanhope Centre for
Policy Research London W2. The day of
the launch coincided with the announcement
of the death of Yasser Arafat. The launch
was extremely well attended, contributors
from both publications spoke or read
their pieces and Ahlam Akram spoke about
The Death Of Arafat and of our hopes
for progress in this interminable process
towards a peaceful solution in The Middle
East.
Below is the text of the
Multi Exposure Contributors :-
"This evening we are here to celebrate
the launch of 2 publications.
'What Remains to be Seen'
and 'Across the
Divide.' Both books emerge
from projects aiming to provide space
for artists and writers from communities
in conflict, space to share their views
and experiences with each other and
with the wider community.
I use the word "celebrate"
but there has been little to celebrate
in 2004. the occupation continues, people
are being killed amd maimed, parents
losing children and famlies and communities
in mourning......
So what are we doing here.....tonight..?
Are we here to talk about literature
and art..??
Are we here to score political points
??
I dont think so...We are simply trying
to talk about human beings....every
real emotional contact between individuals
from different sides of the divide is
valuable and worthwhile. If we
can help make these contacts, then,
we are doing something.
I am sure that there are representitives
here tonight, of many groups. Arab Israeli
Christian Muslim Jewish. who live here
in England and work for human rights
here and in the Middle East, through
politics, education, music, business,
medcine, the law etc.....We use the
skills we have.
Multi Exposure works through the visual
arts to try to increase the number of
people from both sides of this conflict
who will talk to each other, and work
together for a peaceful and just resolution."
Sandra Jacobs
Multi Exposure
November 2004
Click
on the links below to read some of the
presentations
Shuka
Glotman-All is wrong, Everything is
fine.
Susan
Trangmar's presentation
To order copies of “What Remains To Be Seen” contact Sandra Jacobs - multiexposure93@gmail.com
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