Son[i]a #203
Rasha Salti
Rasha Salti is an independent curator and writer who is based in Beirut and works between New York, Paris and Toronto. She is currently a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, and from 2004 to 2010 she was the film programmer and creative director of ArteEast in New York. Her research projects forge a critical model that rewrites hegemonic narratives by reflecting on artistic production in the Arab world.
SON[I]A talks to Rasha Salti about the methodology of unearthing images that she uses in her research, and about some of its repercussions. Her postcolonial analysis of artistic production in modernism favours new narratives about the former East and West. It also favours the reinterpretation of certain key dates for the creation, on both sides, of the dialectics of alterity and for the emergence of underlying leftist discourses. These discourses reveal another, hidden, story that can be traced through image production to the recent Arab springs.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Fatima El-Tayeb that we were unable to include the first time around.
Fatima El-Tayeb
Fatima El-Tayeb talks about the need to reassess Europe’s internalist narrative and the discourse of integration. She evaluates the role of race in the construction of this account and argues for the creation and recovery of archives as a strategy for developing other types of narratives.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Kristine Khouri that we were unable to include the first time around.
Kristine Khouri
Kristine Khouri talks about the traces of modernity in the Arab World, and about the changes that have been produced in, and in relation to, the postcolonial Arab narrative as a result of 9/11 and its global consequences. She also discusses the methodology that she uses to rewrite regional histories based on the analysis of documents and the production of knowledge.
Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Landau talks about her work and about the methodology she uses to develop her personal vision of the world. She also discusses the inherent contradictions and connections between biography, territory and politics in her work, and analyses the role of art as the language that can account for this convergence.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Rasha Salti that we were unable to include the first time around.
Els Opsomer
The Belgian artist Els Opsomer talks about what travel and territories mean in her way of conceiving art, about how she builds up her archive and how it, in turn, generates her work.