Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 184-194 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Third Text |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 25 Nov 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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Keywords
- memory
- identity
- trauma
- culture
- art
- conflict
- Palestine
- Israel
- Middle East
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(Re)constructing Utopia : Remembering and Forgetting in Palestinian and Israeli Art. / Gandolfo, Luisa.
In: Third Text, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2015, p. 184-194.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - (Re)constructing Utopia
T2 - Remembering and Forgetting in Palestinian and Israeli Art
AU - Gandolfo, Luisa
N1 - Funding This work was supported under the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme (2014/15), conducted at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The union of art and politics has endured down the centuries, gazing to the past, through memory, and to the future, through desire. The memory of what was or could have been provides a utopia to be celebrated or mourned, and since 1948 Palestinian and Israeli art has reflected on loss and gain, sacrifice and security, and presence and absence in the land. Contemporary Palestinian and Israeli art has converged seeking peace, critical reflection and an acknowledgement of the impact sixty-six years of unrest has borne on both sides, while technology has afforded a means to trace heterotopias in the spaces between possession and dispossession. Drawing on Luisa Passerini, Michel Foucault and Maurice Halbwachs, this article maps the land, utopia and heterotopias in Israeli and Palestinian artistic practices and explores the performativity of silence, loss and remembrance through the works of Sliman Mansour, Reuven Rubin, Tamam al-Akhal and Yael Bartana.
AB - The union of art and politics has endured down the centuries, gazing to the past, through memory, and to the future, through desire. The memory of what was or could have been provides a utopia to be celebrated or mourned, and since 1948 Palestinian and Israeli art has reflected on loss and gain, sacrifice and security, and presence and absence in the land. Contemporary Palestinian and Israeli art has converged seeking peace, critical reflection and an acknowledgement of the impact sixty-six years of unrest has borne on both sides, while technology has afforded a means to trace heterotopias in the spaces between possession and dispossession. Drawing on Luisa Passerini, Michel Foucault and Maurice Halbwachs, this article maps the land, utopia and heterotopias in Israeli and Palestinian artistic practices and explores the performativity of silence, loss and remembrance through the works of Sliman Mansour, Reuven Rubin, Tamam al-Akhal and Yael Bartana.
KW - memory
KW - identity
KW - trauma
KW - culture
KW - art
KW - conflict
KW - Palestine
KW - Israel
KW - Middle East
U2 - 10.1080/09528822.2015.1102400
DO - 10.1080/09528822.2015.1102400
M3 - Article
VL - 29
SP - 184
EP - 194
JO - Third Text
JF - Third Text
SN - 0952-8822
IS - 3
ER -