Recent contributions

004.02 RAAFAT ISHAK

“ The idea of circling the square to me implies a continuous state of take off, a rotation around a fixed point. This is in turn a suggestion that the cube is inherently a grounded flying machine.” Read more ›

009.01 NAEEM MOHAIEMEN

“ The archives are in a state of continual flux, so a lot of research practices have evolved in the shadow of missing documents.” Read more ›

001.04 GANZEER

“ I rely on obvious symbolism a lot of the time, using it to shed light on the wrongs of the current situation or perhaps the upside of an alternative situation.” Read more ›

001.03 KAREM SAID

“Smart Village is a place of utter silence designed to deny the passing of time and the events of history.” Read more ›

003.04 VJ UM AMEL

“I want to bypass the notion of the critic as an authority who controls narrative and instead work to create a new role in the transnational Arab community that resonates with web culture.” Read more ›

008.01 DIALA KHASAWNIH

“The unfortunate thing here is we have been trained so well to sterilize situations when communicating with the other gender/another class, the chemistry is so suppressed, the hormones so subdued, the antennas all off, that one forgets to feel the desire, the tension. Tragic really.” Read more ›

005.02 BASSAM EL BARONI
(Part III)

“It's a curatorial must to work with a kind of radicalized multiculturism that does not care about where artists are from and how much their work highlights the idea of difference and cultures.” Read more ›

005.02 BASSAM EL BARONI (II)

“This deliberate confusion between information and knowledge is at the heart of a certain part of the art market, where information is sold as knowledge.” Read more ›

EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL TEAM

Editors: Ursula Biemann and Shuruq Harb
Guest Editors: Özge Ersoy, Mayssa Fattouh, Bilal Khbeiz, Nat Müller, Ahmad Hosni, Sary Zananiri.

EDITORIAL PROCEDURES

AT publishes interviews on a continuous basis throughout the year. It is activated through interview chains which we call Trails. These interview Trails are initiated by the Editorial Team or by Guest Editors who then take editorial responsibility for the entire Trail; unsolicited Trail proposals are welcome.

Accepting to be interviewed for AT implies your agreement to interview someone else on your turn. Typically, you would approach someone you personally and professionally know and whose practice and ideas you genuinely wish to explore because they inspire, inform or challenge your own work. Choice and content are to be discussed with the Trail Editor who contacted you. Interviewer and Interviewee are responsible for reaching a consensus on the final draft to be handed in. AT Editorial Team will review the material for spelling errors and overall clarity before uploading the material.

New interviews are announced on the intro page and positioned in the main blog for a week before moving to the 5 most recent articles and to the Trail Archive.

CONTENT

AT encourages its participants to address issues around artistic process, theoretical, social and political concerns around their work and visual culture. It is supportive of informal interviewing styles that may be responding to particular events or ideas.

FORMAT

AT accepts interviews in English and Arabic between 1200 and 2500 words. Image format 72 dpi, 1024 pixel wide. Contributors may post a bio of 100 words as well as links to their projects and all their AT activities.

PARTICIPATION

There is neither an ethnic nor a territorial restriction on participation, but we expect contributors to maintain an interest in the region which would allow for interview Trails to meander in and out of its boundaries, producing a loose fabric of connectivity.

COPYRIGHT

Interviews produced for AT must first be published on AT website. Interviews can
then be re-published in other publications with acknowledgment of AT. AT reserves the right to publish interviews in a printed version at a later date.

ADVISORY BOARD

Jeffrey Kastner – Senior Editor of Cabinet Magazine
Nat Müller – independent critic and curator
W.J.T. Mitchell – Editor of Critical Inquiry Journal

CONCEPT