Conference Programme
Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East: Post-colonial conflicts, Pedagogies of art history, and Precarious artistic mobilization
University of Nicosia | Birkbeck University of London
June 2016
Keynote speakers
Prof. Wendy Shaw, Frei Universität Berlin. Contemporary Art: Writing Histories for a Middle East Under Erasure
Catherine David, Pompidou Centre. Keynote Skype Lecture
Speakers
Androula (Andri) Michael. Artists and “Postcolonial melancholia”
Anita Toutikian. We all see what we are told to see
Candida Pestana and Eman Bukhari, Saudi Contemporary Art Perspectives: engagement through culture and education
Chelsea Haines. From Collection to Archive, One Scan at a Time—DorGuez’s Christian Palestinian Archive Project
Christina Lambrou. Ambivalence and appropriation in the work of Adamantios Diamantis
Chrystalleni Loizidou. On the Nicosia Airport
Constantinos Constantinou. The artist as entrepreneur: The new spirit of creative capitalism
Despina Pasia. Encounters Betwixt and Between: Contemporary Art Curatorial Performances and the Left in the Republic of Cyprus
Elena Parpa. Narratives of triumph: The case of Cypriot Painter Adamantios Diamantis
(1900-1994)
Elisa Adami. Anachronisms and Withdrawals: A Critical Retrospective Construction of the History of Arab Art in the work of Walid Raad
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering. Stones as Currency in the 19th Century and Beyond : A Report on Practice Based Research
Evagoras Vanezis. Desert Islands: Relations of Land and Sea in perpetual Displacement
Evanthia Tselika. Conflict Turns within contemporary social practices
Esra Plümer Bardak. Art History in Dialogue: Reading “SanatGüncesi” as meta-discourse and contemporary responses
Francesco Spampinato. Slavs and Tatars: Alphabets and Art Histories
Gabriel Koureas. ‘The Dark Years’: Ottoman transcultural memories and Cypriot artistic production
Haris Pelapaissiotis. Walking Narratives And Affective Cartographies:Towards a blueprint For an Affective map Of Nicosia using aesthetic Tools of engagement
Helen Westgeest. Dealing with complex socio-political issues through hybrid lens-based-media artworks
Henriette Sorensen. Precarious Alternatives: Experiences from Mansion Blatt, Beirut
Holiday Powers. Qatar Museums
Housni Alkhateeb Shehada. Palestinian Art under Israeli Rule: Creativity in the Shadow of the Conflict
Ioanna Americanou. The Narratives of Female Cinema from divided Communities: Cyprus and Palestine
Isabelle de le Court. Is Curating the New Art History? An approach to art pedagogies and the shift to Curatorial Practices in Lebanon
Joy Stacey. Palestinian Folk Costume and Performances of Identity in Resistance
Judith Asher and Ben Baruch Blich. PHOTOGRAPHY IN CONFLICT: Israeli-Palestinian photographers
Judith Bihr. Pretty Transformations Subversive Strategies and Forms of Expression in contemporary Egyptian Art
Judith Naeff. The Radical Instability of Space and Architecture in Selected Works by Mona Hatoum and Rayyane Tabet
Kirsten Scheid. Towards a Pedagogy of Precarious Art, from the Nike of Samothrace, to the Venus de Milo, to Saloua Raouda Choucair
Klitsa Antoniou. Socially engaged art across the Mediterranean Sea: 2001/51/EC – Embodied Crossings – Now Boarding
Lee Perlman. Busha(Shame) –A Case Study in Precarious Palestinian/Jewish Collaborative Artistic Mobilization in Israel
Lia Lapithi. “White-Desire ice cream – Re-materializing post-colonial Cyprus”. An art installation in 3 Acts; from Concept to Realization to Exhibition
Louli Michaelidou. Art History as Narration: Ideological configurations of the Greek Cypriot modernity in art
Marina Kassianidou. The Traveling Artist “Problem”: Everywhere, Nowhere, and Anywhere In Between
Meysam Yazdi. Disoriented Discourses of Iranian Post-Revolutionary Contemporary Art
Mike Hajimichael. ‘You laugh with my pain – self-reflection on a ‘reality-TV’- like conflict situation/moment in a documentary and music event about division in Cyprus’
Mohsen Biparva. The Neoliberal Shift in Iranian Contemporary Art and the Ideology of Non-ideological Art
Monika Asimenou. Approach of the pedagogy of art history through artworks
Niki Zanti-Philastides. Transitional experiences of visual artists in Cyprus
Rachel Dedman. Knowledge Bound: Alternative Arts Education in the Middle-East
Rawan Sharaf Khatib. Art and Institution: Transforming Field, Shifting Practices in the
Palestinian Contemporary Art Scene
Reema Salha Fadda. Cultural resistance in the neoliberal age: the case of Palestine
Ronnie Close. Between Stadia and Street: The Hooligan Dissensus of Cairo’s Ultras Football Fans – Film of the club
Rounwah A. Bseiso. Revolutionizing Art on Cairo’s Streets
Roy Brand. Chronopolis: how to do contemporary art in Jerusalem
Sabrina DeTurk. Global Art History in the Middle East: Pedagogy and Practice
Sarah Scarsbrook. The influence of The Art School on Professionalised practice in the visual Arts since the Mid 1980s
Toula Liasi. HOME AND IDENTITY -art education in areas of conflict and Cyprus
Vazken Khatchig Davidian. Reframing Ottoman Art Histories: Bringing Silenced Voices into the Picture
Yiannis Toumazis. Famagusta New Museum: Reenacting the Haunted City in a Federal Environment
Yochai Avrahami. Ultra-Orthodox Women: From Culture Consumers to Culture Creators Bezalel’s Ultra-Orthodox Extension
