Illuminated Manuscript Koran written in a decorative New Abbasid style. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum, 2010.
Illuminated Manuscript Koran written in a decorative New Abbasid style. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum, 2010.
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Menasa Studio Dispatches, Part 2
Originally aired on Monday, March 21st, 2011

The MENASA Studio Dispatches are a series of over fifty 5-minute audio works, commissioned by The Island and Art Dubai Projects, by artists working across the North Africa, Middle East and South Asia regions.

Each dispatch reflects the artists’ current work and they range in form from spoken word and music to abstract sound collage. As well as creating a living archive of artistic practice across the region, the dispatches interrogate the contemporary notion of the ‘studio’ and the accelerated expansion of related technologies over recent years, which have transformed the way in which knowledge is produced and disseminated.

Artists
Faisal Samra, Sound Collage
Faisal Anwar, Change our path
Hamra Abbas, Why do Fake Hands Not Clap
Aman Mojadidi, Static

The MENASA Studio Dispatches is the second edition of The Island’s Studio Dispatches Project presented at Art Dubai Special Projects at Art Dubai, 16-19 March 2011. A selection of dispatches were broadcast on Dubai Eye 103.8 and the entire project is serialised on Art International Radio.

To hear more audio works from this special project tune into MENASA Studio Dispatches, Part 3.

Commissioned by
Art Dubai Projects

Supported by
British Council

With thanks to
AIR, Art International Radio
ArtSchoolPalestine
Ashkal Alwan
Darb 1718
Delfina Foundation
Dubai Eye 103.8
Green Cardamom
KHOJ
Vasl Artist’s Collective

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