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Bidoun
''Bidoun'' is an American non-profit organization, focused on art and culture from the Middle East and its diasporas. Bidoun was founded as a print publication and magazine in 2004 by Lisa Farjam, eventually expanding to curatorial projects. The Bidoun magazine was in publication from spring 2004 until spring 2013. Magazine The word "bidoun" in both Arabic and Persian means “without” in English. It is commonly mispronounced and confused with the word Bedouin. ''Bidoun'' was a finalist for the 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (circulation category less than 100k). It has won three Utne Independent Press Awards, for Social/Cultural Coverage and Design. Magazine contributors Notable contributors to the magazine include: Etel Adnan, Tirdad Zolghadr, Pankaj Mishra, Binyavanga Wainaina, Eyal Weizman, Tony Shafrazi, Jace Clayton, Thomas Keenan, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yto Barrada, Bruce Hainley, Hampton Fancher, Gini Aldaheff, Elizabeth Rubin, Yasmine El Rashidi, Shir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shumon Basar
Shumon Basar (born 15 October 1974) is a British writer, editor and curator. Life and education Basar was born in Pabna, Bangladesh, in 1974. His mother Dilruba Basar emigrated with him to the United Kingdom, to join his father, Abul Basar, who had already settled to work as a medical psychiatrist. The family lived in several Northern towns and cities until they settled in Blackpool in 1985. Basar attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University as undergraduate between 1993 and 1996. Between 1998 and 2000 he studied at the AA School, London. In 2005 Basar was invited by Eyal Weizman to join a new doctoral program within the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2009, Basar has lived in Dubai, Vancouver, Berlin, Beirut, Istanbul, and travelled extensively through the Middle East. Books ;Authored '' The Age of Earthquakes'', co-authored with the novelist Douglas Coupland and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, was published in 2015 by Penguin Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada (born 1971) is a Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco and New York City. Barrada cofounded the Cinémathèque de Tanger in 2006, leading a group of artists and filmmakers. Barrada also works as an artistic director for the Tangier art house movie theatre. She was previously a member of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation. Biography Yto Barrada was born in Paris, France in 1971. Her family moved to Tangier, Morocco when she was a young girl, and Barrada claims Tangier as her hometown. Her father Hamid Barrada, former political opponent of Hassan II and leader of the student left, is a journalist and her mother, Mounira Bouzid El Alami, activist and psychotherapist. After living in Tangier for much of her life, Barrada returned to Paris to study at The University of Paris, also known as the Sorbonne, where she studied History and Political Science. Shortly after graduating, Barrada studied at the International Center of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyavanga Wainaina
Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (18 January 1971 – 21 May 2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In April 2014, ''Time'' magazine included Wainaina in its annual ''Time'' 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World". Early life and education Binyavanga Wainaina was born on 18 January 1971 in Nakuru in Rift Valley Province, Kenya."Voices of Kenya's Voters" BBC News. He attended Moi Primary School in Nakuru, in , and |
Naeem Mohaiemen
Naeem Mohaiemen (born 1969) uses film, photography, installation, and essays to research South Asia's postcolonial markers (the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971). His projects on the 1970s revolutionary left explores the role of misrecognition within global solidarity. He is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Independent Film Council. Education Mohaiemen graduated from Oberlin College in 1993 with a BA in economics and concentration in history. He was a member of Oberlin College's Board of Trustees (1994–1996). He received a PhD in anthropology in 2019 from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of Visual Arts there. Films * ''Tripoli Cancelled'' (2017), premiered ''at Documenta 14 ''in Athens. British premiere at the British Film Institute London Film Festival. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirdad Zolghadr
Tirdad Zolghadr (born 1973) works as a freelance curator, writes for Frieze magazine and has also contributed to Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, Afterall, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Straits Times (Singapore) and other publications. He is co-founder of the Tehran-based feminist online magazine Bad Jens (1999) and co-director of "Tehran 1380" (with Solmaz Shahbazi), a documentary on mass housing estates in Tehran (2001). Since 2004, Zolghadr has curated events at Cubitt London, IASPIS Stockholm, Kunsthalle Geneva, various Tehran artspaces, the UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale and other venues. He was co-curator of the Taipei Biennial and the International Sharjah biennial 2005. Zolghadr is a founding member of the Shahrzad Design Collective. Background Zolghadr grew up in Tehran, Zurich, North- and West Africa. He studied Comparative Literature in Geneva, then worked as a cultural journalist and translator before starting to work as a freelance art critic and curator. Curator Curated exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jace Clayton
Jace Clayton, better known as DJ /rupture, is a New York-based American DJ, writer and interdisciplinary artist. In addition to his music, Clayton has established a blog identity with musical and non-musical posts on his website, "mudd up!". His book, ''Uprooot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture'', was published in 2016. Life and career Clayton spent his teenage years in North Andover, Massachusetts. In the mid-1990s, Clayton was a member of Toneburst, described as "Boston's most active and visible experimental electronic art/music/DJ collective", pursuing "a steadfastly DIY aesthetic". Clayton graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in English. In 2001, Clayton (under the name DJ /rupture) released '' Gold Teeth Thief'', initially as an internet download. The mixtape consists of 43 tracks in 68 minutes, including breakcore, ragga and Arabic folk music. It was named as one of the "50 Records of the Year" by ''The Wire'' in 2001. The track was released by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Al Maria
Sophia Al Maria (صافية المرية) (born 1983) is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Five Dials, Triple Canopy, and Bidoun. She works with the concept of "Gulf Futurism". Her memoir ''The Girl Who Fell To Earth'' was published by Harper Perennial on November 27, 2012. Early life and education Sophia Al Maria was born to an American mother hailing from Puyallup, Washington and a Qatari father. She spent time in both countries during her childhood. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. After her studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, Al Maria relocated to the Gulf, where she worked towards opening Mathaf contemporary art museum, alongside the curators Wassan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issandr El Amrani
Issandr El Amrani is a Moroccan-American political analyst, journalist and commentator who writes about Egypt and the Middle East for British, American and Middle Eastern publications. El Amrani was born in Rabat, Morocco, and has lived in Cairo since 2000. He was an editor of the now defunct ''Cairo Times'' and co-founder of ''Cairo'' magazine. From 2007 to 2009 he was the North Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group, an independent non-profit organization that works to prevent, manage, and resolve deadly conflict. He was the Cairo correspondent for ''Middle East International'' (MEI), and writes for ''The Economist'', the ''Financial Times'', the ''London Review of Books'', ''Foreign Policy'', '' The National'', ''Bidoun'' and other publications. He writes a weekly column for ''Al-Masry Al-Youm'', an independent Egyptian newspaper. He also regularly appears as a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs on television, notably on ''Al-Jazeera English'', and conducts priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pendle
George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford. After working at ''The Times'' from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, ''Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons'' (2005). Pendle's second book – ''The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President'' (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore. His third book, ''Death: A Life'' (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love. A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title ''Happy Failure'' in 2014. Pendle's articles can be found in the ''Financial Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Frieze'', ''Cabinet magazine'', ''History Today'', and '' Bidoun''. He lives in New York City, where he has also written signs for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country of origin, date of birth, and place of residence. Her work is primarily concerned with investigating the structural underpinnings and relationships of complicity between the respective complexes of politics, commerce and industry, and in turn, their roles in dictating the shape and structure of mundane life. Haghighian creates solo and collaborative works in the fields of installation, performance, text, and sound. Haghighian's “Pssst Leopard 2A7+”, an ongoing investigation into the German-made Leopard 2A7+ battle tank (designed for urban use, to “pacify” rioters or protesters) has been widely exhibited since it was first conceived in 2013. The audio sculpture covered with a blue, green and grey camouflage pattern of Lego baseplates was described as a sardonic travestying of the Leopard Tank. Her collaborations are often of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chan (artist)
Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973 in Hong Kong) is an American artist, writer and publisher. His single channel videos, projections, animations and multimedia projects are influenced by outsider artists, playwrights, and philosophers such as Henry Darger, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, and Marquis de Sade. Chan's work concerns topics including geopolitics, globalization, and their responding political climates, war documentation, violence, deviance, and pornography, language, and new media. Chan has exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, documenta, the Serpentine Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and other institutions. Chan is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, New York. Chan has also engaged in a variety of publishing projects, and, in 2010, founded the art and ebook publishing company Badlands Unlimited, based in New York. Chan's essays and interviews have appeared in ''Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, October, Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan ( ar, إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal '' MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States''. Besides her literary output, Adnan made visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, films and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world. Life Ethel N. Adnan was born in 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon. Adnan's mother Rose "Lily" Lacorte was Greek Orthodox from Smyrna and her father Assaf Kadri was a Sunni Muslim- Turkish high-ranking Ottoman officer born in Damascus, Ottoman Syria. Assaf Kadri's mother was Albanian. Adnan's grandfather was a Turkish soldier. Her father came from a wealthy family; he was a top officer and former classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at the military academy. Prior to marrying Adnan's mother, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
