Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, And Museums-In-Exile

Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti

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. Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, And Museums-In-Exile. Red. Khouri, Kristine; Salti, Rasha . : Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, 2019, 193 s. ISBN 978-83-64177-58-3

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The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and ’70s. In that era, individual artists and artist colle...

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193

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Title Page4
Table of Content5
Insert7
Part 1. INTRODUCING PAST DISQUIET8
BARTOMEU MARÍ9
ANSELM FRANKE11
JOANNA MYTKOWSKA12
KRISTINE KHOURI AND RASHA SALTI13
Part 2. ON PAST DISQUIET15
KRISTINE KHOURI AND RASHA SALTI: Transnational Solidarity Networks and Speculative Histories: 1960s–1980s16
Part 3. ESSAYS/INTERVIEWS/ DOCUMENTS36
SLIMAN MANSOUR: Interview by Mohanad Yaqubi on behalf of the editors37
REEM SHILLEH AND MOHANAD YAQUBI: Prologue: The London Film Connection43
ALIA NAKHLI: Writing the History of Modern Arab Art50
TONI MARAINI: Interview by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti56
For a Cultural Humanism (1977)59
In the Margins of the Biennial (1978)61
Interview with Farid Belkahia (1978)65
ANNEKA LENSSEN: Material Support: On Arab Artists’ Unions and Solidarity67
NAKAJIMA IZUMI: Dream for Solidarity: Palestinian Art, JAALA, and Haryū Ichirō in the 1970s and 1980s78
VLADIMIR TAMARI: Interview by Rasha Salti87
DOMINIKA BLACHNICKA-CIACEK: Lost in Transition? The Forgotten History of Exchanges between Communist Poland and the Palestine Liberation Organization91
KATARZYNA MATUL: “Art Instead of Politics”: Polish Artists “in Solidarity” with Palestine and Chile in the 1970s and 1980s99
JÉRÔME BAZIN: Seeing Near, Seeing Far: What Do Images Tell Us About Solidarity in Popular Democracies?106
JELENA VESIĆ: Trajectories of Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America in Belgrade, Students’ Cultural Center, 1977116
SARA CATENACCI: Solidarity and Socially Engaged Art in 1970s Italy124
CATHERINE DOSSIN: The Brush and the Kalashnikov: The Political Vision of the Jeune Peinture from Paris to Beirut134
CAROLL YASKY AND CLAUDIA ZALDÍVAR: An Atypical Museum: The Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende143
ELODIE LEBEAU: When Solidarity Became Art: The Museo Internacional de la Resistencia Salvador Allende (1975–90)154
ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST: Interview by Rasha Salti163
MAEDA REI: Interview by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti168
GORDON METZ AND ANDRÉ ODENDAAL: Interview by Rasha Salti175
List of Works and Photo Credits180
Aknowledgements183
Colophon184
Back Cover192

KRISTINEKHOURI

RASHASALTI

TRANSNATIONALSOLIDARITYNETWORKSAND

SPECULATIVEHISTORIES:1960s–1980s

PredicamentsandRiddles

aboutthesocialhistoryofartandmodernityintheArabworld.Thisresearchprojectbeganthatsameyear,

hortlyafterwemetin2008,wedecidedtojoineﬀortsasresearchersandwriters,exploringsharedquestions

whenwecameuponthecatalogofthe

InternationalArtExhibitionforPalestine

inthelibraryofanartgallery

inBeirut.1Wepickeditoﬀashelf,perusedit,andweredumbfounded.Wehadneverheardofanexhibition

ofthisscaleandleveleverhavingtakenplaceintheArabworld,letaloneinBeirut.Thecatalogseemedlike

amysterioustreasure.Weborrowedit,scannedit,poredoverit.

The

InternationalArtExhibitionforPalestine

wasorganizedbythePlasticArtsSectionofthePalestine

LiberationOrganization’s(PLO)UniﬁedInformationOﬃce,andwaspresentedin1978,inthebasementhall

oftheBeirutArabUniversity(BAU).Thecatalog[FIG.1]isincolor;bilingual(ArabicandEnglish);andincludes

alistofparticipatingartists(179individualsandonecollective)organizedbynationality(30);reproductions

ofartworksincludedintheexhibition(197);twoquotes,oneattributedtoYasserArafat,andanothertoItalian

artistEnnioCalabria;twotexts,theﬁrstauthoredbyMonaSaudi,theheadofthePlasticArtsSection,andthe

secondbyChileanartistRobertoMatta;severalbriefmessagesofsupportandsolidarityfromartists’

associationsandpoliticalorganizations;andalistofpeopleandinstitutionsthankedfortheircontributions.2

This1978BeirutexhibitionwasnotthePLO’ssoleexploitinthesphereofartsandculture,butitwas

certainlyitsmostambitious.ThePlasticArtsSection,3aswellastheDepartmentofArtsandNationalCulture,

weremandatedtocommission,fund,andpromotetheproductionofposters,art,cinema,theater,dance,

music,andpublications;toorganize,preserve,andexhibitfolkloreandculturaltraditions;andtogalvanize

internationalsupportforthePalestinianstruggleintheworldofartsandculture.Between1978and1980,

exhibitionsoftraditionalfolkart(costume,embroidery,andcrafts)touredtwelvecountries,mostlyinEurope,

toshowcasetheheritageofthenation.4ThePLO’sforemostchallengewastocommunicateasense

ofpeoplehoodandpoliticalagencytoaconstituencyscatteredacrossterritories—inrefugeecampsinIraq,

Jordan,Lebanon,andSyria;intheWestBankandGazaunderIsraelioccupation;andthroughoutthediaspora.

AnotherchallengewastomobilizeinternationalpublicsympathiesaroundthelegitimacyofthePLO’scause,

andtohighlighttheurgencyoflendingitsupport.Themosteﬀectivemeansofcounteringthetraumaofthe

dispersalofthePalestinianpeoplewastosafeguardtheiridentitythroughcultureandthearts.Ifhouseswere

usurped,therecordofhavinghadahomewouldremainaliveinpoemandsong;ifthelandwasremovedfrom

sightbydistance,itsdepictionwouldretainitsvisibilityinmyriadforms.Throughthecreativityofartists,poets,

ﬁlmmakers,musicians,andwriters,therepresentationofPalestiniansashaplessrefugeessurviving

onhandoutswastransformed,makingthemdigniﬁed,steadfastﬁghterstakingchargeoftheirowndestiny.

Postersweretheforemosttoolforthedisseminationofimageandnarrative:lightweight,relativelycheap,quick

toproduce,theycouldreachacrosssocialclasses,cities,andcountries.ThePlasticArtsSectionreproduced

artworksonposters,postcards,calendars,andholidaycardsthatwerecirculatedwidely.Moreover,theUnion

ofPalestinianArtists(UPA)establishedDaral-Karameh,anexhibitionspaceinBeirutthatpresentedwork

byPalestinian,Arab,andinternationalartists.AlsopartoftheUniﬁedInformationOﬃce,thePalestineFilmUnit

producedﬁlmsdedicatedtothePalestinianstruggle,documentedeverydaylifeinthecamps,andassisted

internationalfilmmakersinterestedinthePalestiniancause.

WewereintriguedbyaphraseinSaudi’stextthatclaimedtheartworksintheexhibitionhadallbeen

donated5tothePLO;thatthecollectionconstituted“thenucleusofthe‘MuseumofSolidaritywithPalestine’”;

andthattheplanwasto“pushforwardtheideaofestablishingthismuseumandputupaninternational

committee,includingartists,aswellasotherfriends,soastoputtheideaintoaction.”6Saudi,aJordanianartist

whowaswholeheartedlyengagedinthePalestinianstruggle,headedthePlasticArtsSection,whichwas

responsibleforundertakingtheexhibition.Weinterviewedher,aswedidotherartists,artcritics,and

intellectualswholivedinBeirutatthetimeofthe

InternationalArtExhibitionforPalestine

,andwhowere

engagedinonewayoranotherwiththePLOorthePalestiniancause.Wewereinterestedinreconstitutingthe

storyofhowthisexhibitionhappened,andthecontextinwhichittookplace.

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