| ID | 113021 |
| Title Proper | Anticipatory representation |
| Other Title Information | building the Palestinian nation(-State) through artistic performance |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cesari, Chiara De |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article aims to illuminate the ways in which artists and cultural producers can participate in forging the nation(-state) by performing its institutions, and by mocking its operations. It explores two experiments in setting up a Palestinian national museum, which are also art projects in themselves. It also discusses the recent Palestinian art biennials, organised by a Palestinian non-governmental organisation in 2007 and 2009 in various locations across the Mediterranean. It is my argument that the experiments with the Palestinian national museum and the biennials constitute a kind of artistic practice that does not just represent or imitate the social world: they are artistic practices that purport to produce new social arrangements - in particular, a set of new 'state' (art and cultural) institutions under conditions of statelessness. I also discuss how such a tactic of anticipatory representation, which calls into being, by representing them beforehand, institutions that do not yet (fully) exist, bears resemblance with recent policies adopted by the Palestinian political establishment. |
| `In' analytical Note | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 12, No.1; 2012: p.82-100 |
| Journal Source | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 12, No.1; 2012: p.82-100 |
| Key Words | Anticipatory Representation ; Mediterranean ; Palestinian National Museum ; Artistic Performance ; Palestine |