Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward / Works (1995–2025)

Anthony Downey, Tom Holert, Rasha Salti, Hoor Al Qasimi, Chrisoula Lionis, Chiara De Cesari

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    Abstract

    How do cultural institutions and art practices respond to long-standing states of national and international emergency? Khalil Rabah’s artistic practice investigates the future of visual arts production under such conditions. Exploring the relationships between historically sanctioned and experimental exhibition settings, fictional and documentative narratives, and the histories of displacement, his methods not only propose but also produce speculative institutions. Edited by Anthony Downey, the artist’s first major monograph, Falling Forward / Works (1995–2025) presents a comprehensive selection of exhibition materials, previously unseen archival documents and detailed background notes on how Rabah’s methods relate to the broader themes in his work. The volume also introduces new critical writing from curators, authors and researchers on the interrelated subjects of anticipatory aesthetics, subterfuge and fugitive acts; mimicry and performativity; knowledge production; archival technologies; and, crucially, the politics of humour. The monograph includes essays by Chiara de Cesari, Anthony Downey, Tom Holert, Chrisoula Lionis, Hoor Al Qasimi, Khalil Rabah and Rasha Salti.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationGermany
    PublisherSharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz
    Number of pages548
    ISBN (Print)978-3-7757-5405-7
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 1 Jan 2023

    Keywords

    • knowledge co-production
    • collaboration
    • institutional critique
    • performance
    • mimetics
    • archival studies
    • digital methods

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