The punishment of luxury : Palestinian contemporary art
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 55458027
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Umm El Fahem Gallery, Israel/Palestine
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- April
- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This project is built upon long standing collaborative research between Gordon Hon
and Bashir Makhoul into the production of contemporary Palestinian art. In particular, it builds upon their previous findings in The Origins of Palestinian Art (2013), in which the problematic idea of origins in national identities and their relationships to the production of art formed the central argument. The subsequent research, submitted here, extends Hon’s work on myths of origin in Palestinian art. The exhibition, The Punishment of Luxury (2018), featuring new works by Makhoul and curated by Hon, allowed for the development of the project towards reflective practice and dissemination, in which links between the ontology of the work, at the point of production, and ideas of origin in the context of contemporary Palestinian art, could be addressed more directly. The idea of luxury reflects Makhoul’s work in terms of materials and modes of production, but also when incorporating Bataille’s ideas of luxury and excess, ontological questions of origin can also be addressed. Hon does this through a development of a contemporary reading of Freud’s theory of the death drive and Bataille’s economy of excess. The research aimed to find new ways of thinking about the production of contemporary art in a globalized and conflicted context. By reconceiving the relationship between art and luxury within the specific context of contemporary Palestinian art, and beyond the constraints of capitalist definitions of luxury, the project opened philosophical and ethical possibilities in our understanding of the production and dissemination of contemporary art.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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