Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Tradition and Modernity - London, 2009.
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/podcast/mp3/2009_01_23_Infrastructures_and_Ideas_2.mp3
About the panel:
Keynote talk: Salah Hassan (Professor, Art History, Cornell University)
What were the specific conditions out of which modern and contemporary art emerged in the Middle East? How have ideas about tradition and modernity played out within this context? This session looks at how definitions of tradition and modernity have shifted over time and in different national contexts in the Middle East.
Panel Discussion with Salah Hassan, Khalil Rabah (artist and director, Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah), Dr Khalid Khreis (director,Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman), Dina Ramadan (PhD student, Columbia University ), Abdul-Raheem Sharif (founder, The Flying House, Dubai) and Michael Rakowitz (artist). Chaired by Vasif Kortun (curator and director, Platform,
About the panel:
Keynote talk: Salah Hassan (Professor, Art History, Cornell University)
What were the specific conditions out of which modern and contemporary art emerged in the Middle East? How have ideas about tradition and modernity played out within this context? This session looks at how definitions of tradition and modernity have shifted over time and in different national contexts in the Middle East.
Panel Discussion with Salah Hassan, Khalil Rabah (artist and director, Riwaq Biennale, Ramallah), Dr Khalid Khreis (director,Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman), Dina Ramadan (
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