Situating Global Art Sarah Dornhof, Nanne Buurman, Birgit Hopfener, Barbara Lutz / Sarah Dornhof, Nanne Buurman, Birgit Hopfener, Barbara Lutz
2018, 2016, 201805, Letnik:
89
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In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into ...the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic implications of both the term global art itself and the practices it subsumes. Focusing on diverse examples of art, curating, historiography and criticism, the contributions not only take into account (new) hegemonies and exclusions but also the shifting conditions of transcultural art production, circulation and reception.
Street Art out of Time Dornhof, Sarah
Manazir journal,
10/2022, Letnik:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The small town of Asilah in the north of Morocco holds an annual international festival of visual and performance arts, including exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and other parallel activities. ...However, it is best known for the murals that are painted every year anew by invited artists on the facades of old town houses. Founded in 1978, the Arts Festival or Cultural Moussem of Asilah qualifies as the first street art festival in Morocco and has significantly shaped the cultural context for arts to interact with public spaces. It has, in particular, linked street art manifestations to ideas of cultural dialogue and south-south alliances as well as to urban regeneration and social development. At the same time, the Festival has been criticized for using the integrative concept of the moussem, a traditional communal festivity, for cultural marketing and for connecting arts and culture to the power of the monarchy. By focusing on political, aesthetic, and urban aspects of the institutionalization of the Asilah Festival, this article draws a genealogical perspective on entanglements of art, public culture, and urban politics in Morocco. It thereby analyzes the cultural context in which street art finds its place, meaning, and critical potential today.
Street Art out of Time Sarah Dornhof
Manazir journal,
10/2022, Letnik:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The small town of Asilah in the north of Morocco holds an annual international festival of visual and performance arts, including exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and other parallel activities. ...However, it is best known for the murals that are painted every year anew by invited artists on the facades of old town houses. Founded in 1978, the Arts Festival or Cultural Moussem of Asilah qualifies as the first street art festival in Morocco and has significantly shaped the cultural context for arts to interact with public spaces. It has, in particular, linked street art manifestations to ideas of cultural dialogue and south-south alliances as well as to urban regeneration and social development. At the same time, the Festival has been criticized for using the integrative concept of the moussem, a traditional communal festivity, for cultural marketing and for connecting arts and culture to the power of the monarchy. By focusing on political, aesthetic, and urban aspects of the institutionalization of the Asilah Festival, this article draws a genealogical perspective on entanglements of art, public culture, and urban politics in Morocco. It thereby analyzes the cultural context in which street art finds its place, meaning, and critical potential today.
Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, ...collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social.Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam.From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.
Figuren, Geschichten und Erzählformen aus islamischen Traditionskontexten finden heute auf vielfältige Art Eingang in kulturelle Praktiken in Europa und verändern den Blick auf Islam und Muslime. Der ...Islam ist immer seltener das konstitutive Außen; er wird Objekt komplexer Politiken, durch die Muslime in Europa anders gesehen werden, sich selbst anders sehen. Die Studie richtet den Fokus auf die Vielfalt, Konflikthaftigkeit und gegenseitige Veränderbarkeit von Blicken, Wahrnehmungsweisen und Sensibilitäten, durch die sich die Sichtbarkeit des Islams in Europa grundlegend verändert. Im Zentrum stehen Momente der Verletzung durch Bilder, die nicht als repressive, ausgrenzende Macht gefasst sind. Vielmehr werden sie im Rahmen politischer Rationalität analysiert, durch die Muslime auf vielfache Weise in die Arbeit an (den eigenen) Bildern, Blicken und Affekten in europäische Kulturpraxis eingebunden werden.
Rationalities of dialogue Dornhof, Sarah
Current sociology,
05/2012, Letnik:
60, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article addresses debates on the notion of interreligious dialogue that have recently determined the public discourse on Islam in Germany. Focusing on political rationalities that configure ...dialogue as a governmental practice to regulate Islam in the public sphere, the author looks at ways in which these rationalities are reformulated, changed or questioned in different discursive fields. Practices that shape the public role of Muslims in Germany are not limited to institutionalized frames, but are permanently rearticulated in multiple settings and diverse, often conflicting discourses. By expanding the scope of interreligious dialogue, the author’s main intention is to demonstrate how political rationalities are reformulated and rearticulated in a relationship with each other that may be complementary, parallel or contradictory, but which is in any case productive and proliferative, shaping a ‘topology of power’.
Recent discussions about violence against women have shifted their attention to specific forms of violence in relation to migration and Islam. In this article, I consider different modes of ...representing women's experiences in French immigrant communities. These representations relate to the French feminist movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises (neither whore nor submissive), a movement that in the early 2000s deplored both the sustained degradation of certain banlieue neighborhoods and also the charges and restrictions that this entails, particularly for young women. Drawing on different narratives and images of women's painful experience, I consider, in a first step, how the question of representing violence against (post) migrant women is framed in terms of the tension between universality and particularity within French republicanism. In the next part of my argument, I bring into focus the question of how to access women's suffering. For a perspective on pain not as an interiorized, private experience but as an accessible complex of practices, articulations, memories, visions and social reconfigurations, I consider Smaïn Laacher's sociological study (2008) about written testimonies of violent experience that had been addressed by (post) migrant women to French women organizations such as Ni Putes Ni Soumises. I finally suggest reading women's accounts on violence not in relation to a universal discourse of rights, but as a political contestation of the naturalized order of representing violence, suffering and agency inside French banlieue communities. Drawing on Jacques Rancière's notion of dissensus, such a contestation can be staged through words by those who have no visibility in the representational order, words not to criticize the unaccomplished ideals of universal equality, but to create a universal community and a common language of experience in the mode of 'as-if'.
A major academic survey of Muslims in Germany seeks to measure and describe their attitudes to integration, religion, democracy and violence in order to identify the 'problem group' of those who are ...at risk of radicalisation into Islamist extremism. Yet the design of the survey and its categories of interpretation tell us more about the assumptions of the researchers than about the cultural, religious or political life of Muslims in Germany. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright Institute of Race Relations.
