Theatre of the Probable: Saʿdallah Wannous, Rabih Mroué, and the spectator

Kesrouany, Maya Issam

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“…In early 2023, in a former Dominican Church in Antwerp, the Extra City art center, presented Images Mon Amour, an exhibition of recent artworks by the Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué. His oeuvre focuses on the mediating role of images in times of war (Kesrouany 2022;Westgeest 2016, pp. 110-12).…”

Section: Sociopolitical Assemblages In Rabih Mroué's Intermedia Insta...mentioning

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Intermedialities as Sociopolitical Assemblages in Contemporary Art

Westgeest

2023

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This article is an introductory essay to the Special Issue “A Comparative Study of Media in Contemporary Visual Art”. It starts with a short overview of the terminological discussion about intermediality as a concept and its relationship with medialities with other prefixes—such as mixed, intra-, multi-, and transmedialities. So far, intermediality has been discussed less by art historians than by literary scholars. This introductory essay argues that critical analysis of intermediality in contemporary artworks may offer additional insights for investigation of the issues addressed in these artworks. The case studies in this Special Issue underscore this view. As a kind of kick-off, the second part of this essay includes a short case study that focuses on two artworks by the Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué in order to provide insight into how intermedial relations can act as metaphors for the sociopolitical relations addressed in his artworks. Applying philosopher Manuel DeLanda’s “assemblage theory”, philosopher Edward S. Casey’s concept of “absorptive mapping”, and anthropologist Tim Ingold’s view of living beings as consisting of a bundle of lines facilitates the highlighting of the sociopolitical aspects of intermediality in Mroué’s artworks.

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Section: Sociopolitical Assemblages In Rabih Mroué's Intermedia Insta...mentioning

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Intermedialities as Sociopolitical Assemblages in Contemporary Art

Westgeest

2023

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Theatre of the Probable: Saʿdallah Wannous, Rabih Mroué, and the spectator

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Intermedialities as Sociopolitical Assemblages in Contemporary Art

Intermedialities as Sociopolitical Assemblages in Contemporary Art

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