Publication

Here as the Centre of the world
A Transnational Artistic
Research Project
Dutch Art Institute / ArtEZ

Here as the Centre of the World was a transnational artistic research project that took place in six cities worldwide. It was initiated by The DAI/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and was curated by Lucy Cotter, Gabriëlle Schleijpen and Alite Thijsen. The project asked what it might mean for global artists to reinstate their artistic reality in their local context, rather than in a notional ‘international’ art world. The book documents in-situ projects and features a rich array of visual material arising from a series of collaborations between artists from Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei. It reports and reflects on the real conditions in which cultural differences were articulated in the day-today activities of the seventy-five artists participating. The book takes the project as a departure point for further reflection by artists, writers, theorists and cultural producers.
With texts by Lilet Breddels, Lucy Cotter, Tony Chakar, Pascale Feghali, Rana Hamadeh, Ozkan Gölpinar, John Heymans, Erwin Jans, Khaled Khalifa, Bechara Malkoun, Rania Mamoun, Susannah Mira, Kawa Nemir, Alite Thijsen, Jerlian Tsao, Emily Williams, and Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan.

‘It is in conflict and in transformed understanding of conflict that artists look forward to “new forms of cultural imagining for the future”: realize the possibilities of culture against the grain of regnant nation states, against “the shadow lines” of regimes that divide people from people.’
From R.Radhakrishnan’s keynote essay Here in an Uneven World.

ISBN: 978-90-77966-53-2
© 2009 Stichting Archis,
The DAI / ArtEZ Institute
of the Arts, the artists,
the authors.

Here as the Centre of the World was published by Archis, designed by Marco Balesteros / Werkplaats Typografie and kindly supported by the Mondriaan Foundation and the Municipality of Enschede

To order the publication please contact:

The DAI
ArtEZ Institute
of the Arts
PO Box 1440
7500 BK Enschede
the Netherlands
g.schleijpen@artez.nl
http://www.dutchartinstitute.nl

Stichting Archis
PO Box 14702
1001 LE Amsterdam
the Netherlands
info@archis.org
http://www.archis.org

General distribution:

Idea Books
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1011 HR Amsterdam
the Netherlands
t +31 (0)20 622 6154
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idea@ideabooks.nl
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This publication was made
possible with the generous
support of:

The DAI / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Enschede
The Municipality of Enschede
http://www.enschede.nl

The Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam
http://www.mondriaanfoundation. nl

The Province of Overijssel
http://www.provincie.overijssel.nl

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