What Remains To Be Seen
Art and Political Conflict: Views from Britain, Israel, Palestine and Northern Ireland.

Publication: Paperback, 66 pages, Full Colour
Publisher: Multi-Exposure Publications
ISBN: 0954664108

How is it possible that art has been made and exhibited in Ramallah during one of its most brutal periods in recent Palestinian history? How do Israeli artists who have always believed in a peaceful future for Israel see their state now? Is all art produced either within, or at the margins of, any political conflict inherently ‘political'? And if so, what are the implications of this?How is it possible that art has been made and exhibited in Ramallah during one of its most brutal periods in recent Palestinian history? How do Israeli artists who have always believed in a peaceful future for Israel see their state now? Is all art produced either within, or at the margins of, any political conflict inherently ‘political'? And if so, what are the implications of this?

It is the common desire to try and address these and many other important questions that brings together the acclaimed list of international artists and authors whose works comprise What Remains to be Seen - Art and Political Conflict: Views From Britain, Israel, Palestine and Northern Ireland, edited by Gordon Hon.

This richly-illustrated collection presents a distinct mix of visual and written works joined by their shared commitments to and critically-refreshing relationships with the many ways in which contemporary art might confront the diverse issues that traverse the political conflicts that occupy the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

What Remains to be Seen thus reveals the intricacy of contemporary art's engagement with the politics of both nation-states and ‘everyday life', while also subtly offering alternative ways through which we might reconsider our relationships both to art and one another.

List of contributors:

 
Editor
Gordon Hon is an artist and writer based in London. His work is mainly in film and video. His most recent work, Circles (2003), involved aerial surveillance of a new BAE Systems Electronic Warfare plant in England. He is a lecturer at the University of Luton where he has worked with Professor Bashir Makhoul in establishing a new Department of Art and Design.

Artists
Aissa Deebi is a Palestinian artist born (1969) in Galilee, Israel. He has been based in the UK and USA for the past eight years, during which time he has worked in photography and video art. Deebi has exhibited his work in Israel and internationally. Currently, Deebi is Director of Visual Arts at ArteEast and an active curator working in New York, the Middle East and Europe.

Miki Kratsman was born in 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and migrated to Israel in 1971. For the past nine years he has been working with journalist Gideon Levy on Twilight Zone, a weekly piece covering human-angle stories in the Occupied Territories that appears in Haaretz weekend supplement.  Kratsman's photography and video works have been viewed internationally and he teaches photography at Haifa University and the School of Geographic Photography in Tel Aviv.

Susan Trangmar has worked for many years producing light and photographic time-based installations designed to enter into conversation with the location in which they are based. Trangmar's works have been exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Europe and she is currently a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Writers
Kamal Boullata is a Palestinian painter who lives in France. His writings on art have appeared in numerous international publications and he is the author of a book on Palestinian art (in Arabic).

Haim Bresheeth is the Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is the co-editor (with Nira Yuval-Davis) of the Gulf War and the New World Order (1991) and co-author (with Stuart Hood) of Introducing the Holocaust (1993, 2001). He has made a number of documentary films on the Palestinian Intifada and is currently working on history and memory in Palestinian Cinema.

Shuka (Yeoshua/Joshua) Glotman was born in 1953 in Israel, the son of Holocaust survivors who arrived in Israel as refugees on an illegal boat to the country. At the age of nine, he started taking photographs. His mixed-media art has a special interest in the Israeli situation and its inter-cultural phenomena. His works have been exhibited internationally and he currently lectures at Beer-Sheva University.

Ian Jeffrey is an art historian with a longstanding interest in photography. He has written several books on the history of the medium, monographs on Josef Sudek and Shomei Tomstsu, and has curated and organized several photographic exhibitions. He is currently teaching at Goldsmiths College, University of London and has published a book of his own photographs.

Liam Kelly is a Professor of Irish Visual Culture at the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster - Belfast. He is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary Irish art and has also curated both various exhibitions internationally. He is additionally a vice-president of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris (AICA).

Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941 and arrived in Israel in 1949. Since the early 1960s, he has been active on Tel Aviv's literary scene, edited several literary reviews, and has become the leading figure of the 'Tel Aviv Poets of the Sixties'. He has been awarded many literary awards and has been internationally published in various languages. He currently lives in Tel Aviv and is a professor at the University of Haifa.

Val Williams is a writer, curator, and Joint Research Fellow at the London College of Printing. Her curatorial work has been featured at many museums and galleries across London, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican Gallery, while her written works have been internationally published by the likes of the Phaidon Press. Williams is currently working on survey shows of the work of Anna Fox and Derek Ridgers.