Iridescent Nostalgia: Negotiating Kuwait’s Petro-Modernity in Contemporary Art and Architecture

Hindelang, Laura (25 August 2022). Iridescent Nostalgia: Negotiating Kuwait’s Petro-Modernity in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Unpublished). In: Petrocultures 2022, Stavanger. Stavanger, Norwegen. 24.-27.08.2022.

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The petroleum promise has fueled imaginaries of the future. Across the globe and especially for Arab oil states, petroleum and its urban visual culture have constituted the experience of “modernity” and of a fast-forward moving world. The First Gulf War and the images of burning oil wells, however, imprinted a destructive side of petroleum that was hitherto unknown in the collective memory of the Arabian Peninsula. Ever since, the petroleum promise’s iridescent spell on the region has begun to lift and petroleum’s stranglehold on the future imaginary has begun to dwindle, offering new ways of imagining this oil-producing region and its future. However, at the same time, a widespread nostalgic fascination with petro-modernity can be detected. Nostalgia has recently emerged as an aesthetic theme and affective concept in contemporary art and architectural heritage that (re)negotiates petro-modernity and the history of “modernization” in the Gulf region.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Architectural History and Preservation 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History
UniBE Contributor:	Hindelang, Laura
Subjects:	700 Arts 700 Arts > 720 Architecture 700 Arts > 740 Drawing & decorative arts 700 Arts > 750 Painting 700 Arts > 760 Graphic arts
Language:	English
Submitter:	Laura Katharina Hindelang
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2022 07:32
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2022 18:42
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/176116