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NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS / STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK The catalogue published on the occasion of this exhibition, edited by Katerina Gregos and Elena Sorokina, will be published by Ludion and designed by BaseDesign, Brussels. The hard cover publication contains 256 pages and will be available in Dutch and English. ISBN 9789461300751 / Price: 27,90 ! CONTENT The book is divided into three sections: 1. Essays With contrubutions by: Ariella Azoulay, Katerina Gregos, Lina Khatib, Kenan Malik, Samuel Moyn, Elena Sorokina, Raoul Vaneigem plus one exclusive, original interview with Stéphane Hessel. 2. ‘Human Rights Heroes’ A selection of short seminal texts by prominent human rights defenders and activists including Liu Xiaobo, Anna Politkovskaya, Shirin Ebadi, Asmaa Mahfouz, Aung San Suu Kyi and others. 3. Artists’ Section Images of works by the 70 artists in the exhibition accompanied by short descriptive texts and very brief biographical information. DISTRIBUTION Ludion (Belgium & The Netherlands) Idea Books (Europe) D.A.P. (North America) 72
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PUBLICATION 1. ESSAY SECTIONS ARIELLA AZOULAY (Israel, 1962) teaches visual culture and political philosophy, and is a curator and a film maker. She is Director of the Photo- Lexic International Research Group at the Minerva Center at Tel Aviv University and Leverhulme Research Professor, Durham University. She is the author of The Civil Contract of Photography, Zone Books, 2008 which has been praised for its critical examination of the relations between photography and citizenship in disaster contexts; From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, (Pluto Press, 2011), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (forthcoming, Verso, 2012); Once Upon a Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin, Bari Ilan University Press, 2006; and Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, MIT Press, 2001. She is a winner of the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing, presented by the International Centre for Photography for excellence in the field of photography. Azoulay’s contribution to the publication is entitled The (In)visibile Victim – Deconstructing the Spectator’s Frame (2012). ABSTRACT Human rights discourse as embodied in photography has cultivated two major figures to date – the victim, whose rights have been violated and the spectator who is supposed to recognize this violation. The victim is the visible figure, usually framed at the center of the photographs, and the spectator is the implied figure, for whose gaze the photograph is intended. For a long time the dominance of these two figures has pushed aside another figure – that of the perpetrator – without whom that what is seen in the photograph would not have taken place at all. This figure has often been present in photographs but remained unseen. Through focus on the perpetrator's figure, Azoulay offers the re-imagination of human rights discourse. KATERINA GREGOS (EDITOR) is a Greek-born curator, art historian and writer based in Brussels. She is currently curator of NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights and also on the curatorial team of Manifesta 9, the 9 th edition of the European biennial. In 2011 she was curator of the Danish Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennial, where she curated an exhibition on freedom of speech, and co-curator of the 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, Germany. During 2006 and 2007 she was the artistic director of Argos – Centre for Art & Media in Brussels and between 1997-2002 the director and curator of the Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens. As an independent curator Gregos has also curated numerous exhibitions internationally including, among others, Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future, 73
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