Issue #65 Reading Art as Confrontation

Reading Art as Confrontation

Denise Ferreira da Silva

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This derelict movie theater in Mount Sinai, Egypt was allegedly rejected by the local population on its opening night.
Issue #65
May 2015










Notes
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Eid-Sabbagh’s bio for that event: “Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh studied history, photography, and visual anthropology in Paris. From 2006 to 2011 she lived in Burj al-Shamali, a refugee camp next to Sour, Lebanon, where she carried out photographic research that included a dialogical project with a group of young Palestinians, as well as archival work on family and studio photographs. Since 2008, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh has been a member of the Arab Image Foundation. Since 2011 she has been a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.” See .

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I elaborate this reading of art as confrontation in a forthcoming piece entitled “Seven Notes on Violence,” which consists of my final comments on all pieces presented at the EVA symposium. It will be appear in Doreen Mende’s edited volume on the symposium, published by the Dutch Art Institute and entitled It Makes Me Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of War (On Violence).

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For a critique of universality and representation, see Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

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For a discussion of Kant’s formulation of the aesthetic and the public, see David Lloyd, “Race Under Representation,” Oxford Literary Review, 1991: 62–94.

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