[oberlist] ARTMARGINS: EDITORIAL PRESENTATION, PUBLIC DISCUSSION, EXHIBITION IN BEIRUT

[Angela Harutyunyan]

[image: ARTMargins]

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/artm

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*EDITORIAL PRESENTATION, PUBLIC DISCUSSION, EXHIBITION IN BEIRUT
**Editors*  Sven Spieker, Octavian Esanu, Angela Harutyunyan, Karen
Benezra, Anthony Gardner*

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*ARTMargins* publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary
art, politics, media, architecture, and critical theory.
*ARTMargins*studies art practices and visual culture in the emerging
global margins,
from North Africa and the Middle East to the Americas, Eastern and Western
Europe, Asia and Australasia.

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*Event - APRIL 28th, **2013,** 6-10pm,
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*Exhibition- April 28-May 6, 2013
Opening Hours: Daily, except Sunday, 1-8pm*

*392RMEIL393, GEMMAYZE (Behind the Sursock Building, SEE THE MAP FOR
DIRECTIONS ATTACHED)*

On the occasion of the editors' meeting in Beirut, the ARTMargins'
editorial team is launching a public event in the newly opened  392Rmeil393
in Gemmazye, Beirut. The editors will present the journal, engage in a
discussion with *Walid Sadek, Ghalya Saadawi and Jacques Aswad* and their
favorite present and future readers. The garden-discussion will be followed
by an exhibition opening involving artists who have collaborated with
ARTMargins --*Media Farzin *and* Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Aras Ozgun,
Honza Zamojski *and *Kasper Kovitz*. The exchange of ideas and impressions
will continue at a reception generously hosted by OSLO. For further detail,
continue reading...


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PROGRAM*

6:00- Presentation of ARTMargins and Discussion With The Editors

6:30 – Panel Discussion, *Sites of Critique: Engaging Art And Criticism in
a Global Context*, with Walid Sadek, Ghalya Saadawi and Jacques Aswad

8:00 – *When Works Leave the Printed Page*. Opening of the exhibition
involving the artists who contributed to the Journal’s Project Section

8:30- *Chronoscope*,* 1951, 11pm.* Video Screening of Alessandro Balteo
Yazbeck’s and Media Farzin’s work

8:30 – Reception hosted by OSLO


*Sites of Critique: Engaging Art And Criticism in a Global Context
Panel Discussion*

Editors of ARTMargins in conversation with *Walid Sadek, Ghalya Saadawi and
Jacques Aswad*


In his 2003 book What Happened to Art Criticism James Elkins argues that
this century old profession has retreated to the sphere of the art market
weakening its links to academic publishing. Overproduction of art criticism
goes hand in hand with the decline of its impact on critical discourse,
which today is taking place, for the most part, behind the gates of the
academia. Is this truly the case? Who are the producers and publics of art
critical writing in the global context? What is the function of art
criticism in relation to the practices and contexts it addresses and the
readers that it reaches? Does it have an impact upon the production of
discourse of contemporary art, or does it merely evaluate the discourse
produced by artistic practices, art institutions and a variety of actors
that constitute these institutions? Can we think of ARTMargins as a site of
art criticism while avoiding the academization of the latter? And,
conversely, can art criticism benefit from--or does it even require--more
historical approaches, even or especially when it comes to contemporary art?


This panel discussion aims at investigating art critical writing in a
global context while engaging with specific, often locally and regionally
defined art practices and audiences. We will question the role of criticism
at times when it is often difficult to obtain criticality; when the
standardizing forces of the neoliberal art market threaten the very notion
of critique; when any critique is subject to incorporation by the very
structures to which it is directed.


*When Works Leave the Page
Exhibition*
*Media Farzin and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Aras Ozgun, Honza Zamojski and
Kasper Kovitz
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*April 28-May 6, 1-8pm
*


 Acting as curators, the editors take the artists’ projects out of the
printed pages of the journal and materialize them in a physical space of
392Rmeil393, a historical building in Beirut’s Achrafieh district. The
small exhibit consists of enlarged printed texts and photographs of *Aras
Ozgun’s* Black Sea, a site where nature intersects with erased histories
and unspoken politics; *Honza Zamojski *shows an installation that consists
of conceptual, audio and visual notes from a Transatlantic journey; *Media
Farzin* and *Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck* video installation *Chronoscope,
1951, 11pm *engaging Cold-War politics is screened in the garden; and *Kasper
Kovitz* presents a famous artists’ course taught to the nuns of a convent
in the form of large prints. The exhibition engages with artists’ works
spatially, while going beyond the two-dimensional and virtual working
context in which the editorial cooperation unfolds.

*Special thanks to the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at AUB, Arts
and Humanities Initiative, AUB Art Galleries, FAS Dean's office and the
following individuals: Nayla El-Zein Audi, Alfred Cochrane, Lynn El Hout,
Kasper Kovitz and G. H. Rabbath.*



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-- 
Angela Harutyunyan

Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
Beirut - Lebanon

Tel.: +961135000 ext.4246
Email: ah140 at aub.edu.lb





-- 
Angela Harutyunyan

Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
Beirut - Lebanon

Tel.: +961135000 ext.4246
Email: ah140 at aub.edu.lb



-- 
Angela Harutyunyan

Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
Beirut - Lebanon

Tel.: +961135000 ext.4246
Email: ah140 at aub.edu.lb
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