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‘Beirut Art Center’s exhibition America is an attempt to question the United States of America a possible model of civilization. What does “America” mean in our collective unconscious?
Certainly, America is a superpower and occupies a predominant position in the world. Its actions and its policies consistently demand that others position themselves in relation to them, whether in agreement, opposition or somewhere in between, stirring as much feelings of fascination and respect as exasperation and resentment.
As this is especially true in our region, where America’s policies and strategies have often been divisive and destabilizing, we believe it is relevant to take a closer look at the physical and mental territory named America through an exhibition and a series of events.’
http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=71&statusid=1#about
‘The Museum of Non Participation raises questions about resistance and the choice and consequence of action vs inaction. The strictures of conflict, class and monetary divisions within a globalised world provoke engagement with the problems of participating or not participating in such a system, whether in Karachi, London or elsewhere; The Museum of Non Participation examines how our lives in one space have implications on the other.’
http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2008/the_museum_of_non_participation
Berlin, Jan-March 2009
Artivism: a week of anti-war creativity.
Art, workshops, music and poetry.
Brighton. 24th February-1st March 2009.
at the Wellcome Collection link
22 November 2008-15 February 2009
From the site: ‘Entitled Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War, Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 will explore photographic images of war, their making, use and circulation, and their currency in contemporary society.’
Robert Capa at Work
Gerda Taro
On the Subject of War
Barbican Art Gallery reflects on conflict and its visual representation.
17 October 2008-25 January 2009 link
William Gibson explores themes of surveillance, intelligence and security in his current novel, which also contains a strand on locative art, a practice that uses GPS, wi-fi etc (nice essay with lots of refs), in the case of the artists in the book to superimpose anomalous objects (such as crosses commemorating soldiers killed in Iraq) in material places (the urban landscape of LA)… In the novel the technical skills that allow the art to be produced are also useful to actors working within or with links to the covert world: spies, criminals, bankers and a character readers will know from Gibson’s previous book, Pattern Recognition (discussion), of which Spook Country is a continuation | blog on Spook Country by London based author |
other WoT-related novels… The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; Surveillance by Jonathan Raban, excerpt from Chapter One here ; Saturday by Ian McEwan;
the April/May and June/July issues of Red Pepper have special sections on art and politics…I have a micro-contribution in the latest one… not available on line but here is the site
‘A group of local artists has come together to organize a multi-media art exhibition called “Experiencing the War in Iraq.” The aim of the exhibition is to give a human face to the complex conflict in Iraq, to bring together diverse expressions of individual experience and to reconnect those who have unconsciously cocooned themselves from the grim reality of the war. Through the language of art, the exhibition seeks to transcend the limitations of mainstream media coverage and engage the public in a broad-based dialogue that promotes awareness, understanding, and healing’
