Displacement, Conflict and Luxury: Palestinian Contemporary Art
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Hon&Makhoul. 2019. DCL
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Umm El Fahem Gallery (Israel/Palestine)
- Brief description of type
- T – Other; multi-component output comprising an edited collection, containing a co-authored chapter, and an exhibition with accompanying catalogue
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2019
- URL
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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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- Research group(s)
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2 - Fine Art and Photography Research Centre
2 - Fine Art and Photography Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Displacement, Conflict and Luxury: Palestinian Contemporary Art’ is a research output comprising an edited collection (containing a co-authored chapter) and an exhibition, which together provide both a practical investigation and theorizing of contemporary Palestinian art. The work aims to find new ways of thinking about the production of contemporary art in a globalized and conflicted context.
The research builds upon long standing collaborative research between Professors Bashir Makhoul and Gordon Hon 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 collection 'Conflict and Compassion', co-edited by Makhoul and Alnoor Mitha, addresses these ideas through a number of avenues, including a chapter by Makhoul and Hon on origin and myth. The exhibition 'The Punishment of Luxury', featuring new artworks by Makhoul and co-curated by Hon with Jonathan Harris, allowed for the development of the project towards reflective practice, in which links between the ontology of the work and ideas of origin in the context of contemporary Palestinian art are addressed more directly.
Collectively this research investigates contemporary art practice as both symptomatic and expressive of living with irreconcilable conflicts and paradoxes within national and cultural identity.
The portfolio of contextual information outlines the output’s underpinning research context, aims and methods and includes images of both the installation and realisation of the exhibition. It also includes PDFs of the edited collection and the exhibition catalogue.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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