Tamáss 2: Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo

by Ahmad El Attar (Artist), Golo

Tamáss --which means contact, touch, contiguity, adjacency, tangency, and confrontation line(s)--is part of Catherine David's long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations . The project comprises seminars, performances, publications, and presentations of works by different authors--visual artists, architects, writers, and poets--with the aim of encouraging productions, interaction, and exchange between the different cultural centers of the Arab world and the rest of the world. It aims to tackle heterogeneous situations and contexts that may sometimes be antagonistic or conflicting, and thus to acquire more specific knowledge about what is currently going on in certain parts of the Arab world, to look at the complexity of aesthetics in relation to social and political situations, and to encourage people to think more deeply about the role played today by cultural practices in our own countries. Tamáss 2 is dedicated to Cairo Paperback, 6.5 x 12.5 in., 168 pages, 124 color illustrations 6.5 x 12.5 in.

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003