ArtTerritories is conceived as an independent platform for artists, thinkers, researchers and curators to reflect on their art practice and engage in critical exchange on matters of art and visual culture in the Middle East and the Arab World. AT is activated through interview chains which we call Trails. Read more ›

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 ›