‘Ik werk in een azc, maar ooit was ik kindsoldaat in Sudan. Dit is mijn verhaal.’ Abu HamdanOmdurman, Sudan, 1998. De vijftienjarige Abu Hamdan heeft maar één droom: net als zijn broer voor de televisie werken. Terwijl hij een theateropleiding volgt, woedt er in het land een onzichtbare oorlog. Op een dag wordt Abu samen met een vriend door het leger van dictator Omar al-Bashir een legerwagen in getrokken en komen ze in een trainingskamp terecht. Ze trekken steeds dieper door de ei...

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for...

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.

This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author and four new artist dialogues to ...

The Mukhtasar Al-Quduri is one of the most celebrated and influential treatises in any Muslim school of methodology and thought and is the foundation for the Ḥanafî school. It is boththe first source for scholars and a manual for the general reader.This is its first ever complete translation in English.