Dépouillement du document :
New Artistic Territories
First steps toward public space and consolidation of the movement
Public Space: an interface between tradition and modernity
Action in the Egyptian public space
Mahatat: a place, a team, a project and resources for the Arab world
Towards a new era of international cooperation
Circostrada Contact Sheet

Résumé :
How can we begin to speak in general terms of public space in the countries of the Arab world when they are so diverse and geographically spread out? When it has become in recent years an open theatre of various events, peaceful and violent demonstrations, resistance and barbarism, a melting pot of citizenship and brotherhood, a site of sacrifice and an echo chamber of all possible expectations? How does one begin to consider public space when it is perpetually interfaced with a media that magnifies it and social networks that determine its movement? It must be said that in the past few years, the street has played a leveraging role in the ongoing changes in today’s Arab societies, even while subjected to secular injunctions and protest bans.

Circostrada travelled to Egypt for the first time in order to meet two new members of the network: Mahatat for Contemporary Art, based in Cairo, and I-Act, in Alexandria. After discovering the Backstreet Festival organised by I-Act in Alexandria, Circostrada was invited to take part in the Co-writing lab designed by Mahatat for Contemporary Art early April around the theme “Tales of Community Art and Art in Public Space”, together with the FAI-AR and ISAN, two other Circostrada members. Following this laboratory, the network suggested, in the framework of the new project (2017-2021), to lay the foundations of a new cycle of meetings named KAHWA, which will focus on artistic creation in the Mediterranean region and will be dedicated to professionals working in the public space. [editor summary]

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