Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East

 

 

Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. Initiated by the  Kamel Lazaar Foundation, it was launched at the 54th Venice Biennale as an online publishing platform. Ibraaz now publishes edited readers in print and runs public programmes at institutions across the globe. 

We have an editorial policy that addresses the formal and conceptual issues underwriting art as a practice and how artists work. In addition, we aim to explore how such practices address and reflect upon the complexities of contemporary life and art practices across North Africa and the Middle East. 

Continue reading

Featured Video: Finishing School/MOCAD Grand Re-Opening

LA–based artist collective “Finishing School” have been working as creative consultants both on–site and remotely throughout the season to develop a site-specific project that questions, challenges and redirects the institution moving forward. What if MOCAD’s identity and mission was crowdsourced and collaboratively developed? What kind of museum would it or should it become? Who are museums for, anyway? Join Finishing School at MOCAD for a participatory event which represents the culmination of their onsite research. Their project at MOCAD uses branding and identity tactics to explore institutionality.