Palestinian Video Art: Constellation of the Moving Image Edited by Bashir Makhoul – Books

Palestinian Video Art: Constellation of the Moving Image Edited by Bashir Makhoul

Palestinian Video Art: Constellation of the Moving Image is a ground-breaking volume that charts the work of over sixty Palestinian artists using moving images. This collection of essays explores a wide range of intellectual, socio-political and cultural concerns arrayed around these artists’ works. The substantial overview provided by Bashir Makhoul, particularly in his chapter “Locations and Transmissions”, offers a theoretical account of how the state of becoming Palestinian accords so closely with the use of video art, with the two interdependently producing each other.

Richly illustrated, this anthology showcases work by Palestinian artists based all over the world and includes contributions by well-known authors such as Jonathan Harris, Sean Cubitt, Laura U. Marks, Tina Sherwell, Chris Meigh-Andrews, and Ryan Bishop. The collection is deliberately wide-ranging, embracing the subject in all of its diversity.

Examining and chronicling Palestinian video art through a wide variety of scholarly approaches, this publication challenges static accounts of video art as niche art (historical) production, and of Palestinian identity as fixed. Instead, this illuminating collection offers the reader a constellated image of the ever-fluctuating nature of both video art as transmission and the becomingness of being Palestinian.

PROFESSOR BASHIR MAKHOUL is Rector of the Winchester Campus Head of Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design Media. An international Palestinian artist, his work has been exhibited pund the world, including at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). monograph on his more than twenty years of art practice, entitled Bashir Makhoul, was published in 2012 by Palestinian Aft Court – al Hoash, co-edited by Dr August Jordan Davis and Professor Jonathan Harris.