Tell and Self-Define in an Interstice.
How is one to think an art practice within a double space-time which is neither in Beirut nor in Montréal, but partially in both? On one side, a time ‘at a distance’, diegetic, reiterating the occurrences of a war embanked by sectarian discourses and, on the other, a multicultural time made of girde...
| Publicado en: | Third Text Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 419 - 422 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2012
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| Sumario: | How is one to think an art practice within a double space-time which is neither in Beirut nor in Montréal, but partially in both? On one side, a time ‘at a distance’, diegetic, reiterating the occurrences of a war embanked by sectarian discourses and, on the other, a multicultural time made of girded cultural differences managed by the neo-liberal discourse in Québec and dominated by the neo-conservative discourse in Canada. These parameters characterise a new space-time which the author qualifies as interstitial. |
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