Before and after Arab spring: nomadic art as a form of cultural practice. The paper will discuss contemporary nomadic art as practice of numerous artists of Mediterranean area (i.e. Lebanese Mona Hatoum, Egyptian Ghada Amer, Algerian Zineb Sedira) wich probably anticipated and prefigured social and political changes of Arab uprising. Nomadic art will be analysed as a contemporary practice often politically engaged, accounting of ‘places’ as a texture of social relations and as a practice using ethnographical instruments as video, photos, interviews, or objects of the material culture as transitional objects. Producing new ways of seeing, the nomadic artists return into the places they come from or they had to leave, interrogating their native countries and cultures. The nomadic art doesn’t bridge cultures but becomes a reflective instrument of political and ethnographical analysis, by which artist moves from his/her own hybrid identity to produce a kind of re-territorialisation of the culture, or a re-culturalisation of the territory. The paper will discuss those artistic practices as rituals of liminal passages to cope with the contemporary experience of change, defining the nomadic artists as liminal people looking for new meanings in the crossroads of cultures.
Before and after Arab spring: nomadic art as a form of cultural practice
TRASFORINI, Maria Antonietta
2012
Abstract
Before and after Arab spring: nomadic art as a form of cultural practice. The paper will discuss contemporary nomadic art as practice of numerous artists of Mediterranean area (i.e. Lebanese Mona Hatoum, Egyptian Ghada Amer, Algerian Zineb Sedira) wich probably anticipated and prefigured social and political changes of Arab uprising. Nomadic art will be analysed as a contemporary practice often politically engaged, accounting of ‘places’ as a texture of social relations and as a practice using ethnographical instruments as video, photos, interviews, or objects of the material culture as transitional objects. Producing new ways of seeing, the nomadic artists return into the places they come from or they had to leave, interrogating their native countries and cultures. The nomadic art doesn’t bridge cultures but becomes a reflective instrument of political and ethnographical analysis, by which artist moves from his/her own hybrid identity to produce a kind of re-territorialisation of the culture, or a re-culturalisation of the territory. The paper will discuss those artistic practices as rituals of liminal passages to cope with the contemporary experience of change, defining the nomadic artists as liminal people looking for new meanings in the crossroads of cultures.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
