Shifting Art Constellations and the Non-Aligned Movement in Egypt

Radwan, Nadia Susanne (3 December 2022). Shifting Art Constellations and the Non-Aligned Movement in Egypt (In Press). In: From Alexandria to Tokyo: Art, Colonialism and Entangled Histories. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum

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My contribution examines the effects of the political imaginaries generated by the Non-Aligned Movement on art and exhibition practices in Postwar Egypt. By focusing on the aftermath of the Bandung Conference held in Indonesia in 1955, I would like to question the artistic dimensions of new alliances and their repercussions on artistic approaches and cultural policies. I propose to investigate how Nasserist ideologies regarding Afro-Asian solidarities were generated by cultural state projects, such as the Alexandria Biennale and the role it played in reconfiguring new geographies of power and in activating anti-imperialist discourses.
I also suggest to take a closer look at the potentialities of social realism and the multiple translations of a “revolutionary art” oscillating between state propaganda and artistic emancipation. Overall, I wish to interrogate how reimagined identities both national and transnational were constitutive of Egyptian modernism in the context of the Cold War.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Contemporary Art
UniBE Contributor:	Radwan, Nadia Susanne
Subjects:	700 Arts 700 Arts > 750 Painting
Publisher:	Mori Art Museum
Language:	English
Submitter:	Nadia Susanne Radwan
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2022 11:44
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:18
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/168719