Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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Re-enacting Traces: The Historical Building as Container of Memory
In this article I refer to an aspect of my recent artistic practice—“wall-wounds”—that was created in response to the site of a former lunatic asylum. This was carried out to explore how art can operate in the interstices between historical narratives, memory, and material evidence relating to the inhabitation of institutional space. The key artistic […]
Settler Dreaming
The redrawing of Middle East boundaries by colonial powers following World War I, and the discovery of oil in the Persian Gulf region from the 1920s to 1950s ushered in more change in two generations than the Bedouin tribes had experienced since the founding of Islam. Urban centres rapidly expanded and new national boundaries created […]