“From Body Politics to Conflict Politics: Aziz + Cucher Come Out of the (Biography) Closet”
A catalogue essay for Aziz + Cucher: Some People, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 2012, pp. 81-101. Published by the IMA in conjunction with Hatje Cantz, Germany.
Aziz + Cucher: Some People featured a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situated recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area. As an “insider”, my essay provides a reading of their work from a perspective of familiarity, of placing it in the complex context of both the local and the international discourse on political art, and above all of mediating it to an audience that is not intimately familiar with the trials and tribulations of Middle Eastern reality.
“From Body Politics to Conflict Politics: Aziz + Cucher Come Out of the (Biography) Closet”
A catalogue essay for Aziz + Cucher: Some People, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 2012, pp. 81-101. Published by the IMA in conjunction with Hatje Cantz, Germany.
Aziz + Cucher: Some People featured a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situated recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area. As an “insider”, my essay provides a reading of their work from a perspective of familiarity, of placing it in the complex context of both the local and the international discourse on political art, and above all of mediating it to an audience that is not intimately familiar with the trials and tribulations of Middle Eastern reality.
Aziz+Cucher, the entrance to Some People
