Mulid al-Tahrir: Semiotics of a Revolution

Taha, Amira; Combs, C. Scott

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“…Though built on familiar rituals, it also perpetuated a transformation in their symbolic meanings, bringing to encroachment new sensorial associations of ‘loudly’ political action (see also Taha and Combs, 2012). Unlike the interpretative ambiguity of the mūlid , for instance, the artists on stage discursively connected FM’s activities to the idea of ‘revolution’.…”

Section: Art Is a City Square (Al-fann Midan): Loud Politicsmentioning

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‘Loud’ and ‘quiet’ politics: Questioning the role of ‘the artist’ in street art projects after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Sprengel

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines the grassroots artistic initiative al-Fann Midan (Art is a City Square) in Cairo and a contrasting approach to street art organizing in Alexandria to demonstrate how each enacted a different relationship to ‘the political’ in a revolutionary moment. Extending sociologist Asef Bayat’s concept ‘quiet encroachment’, it analyzes these contrasting approaches through the sonic metaphor of ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ politics. As a spectrum, this framework highlights how the everyday, the gestural, and the affective on the one hand can exist simultaneously, and at times in tension with, larger, more representational political expressions on the other. It thus avoids fetishizing creative ‘resistance’ or ‘dissent’, while nonetheless analyzing art in a revolutionary moment, by grounding creative expression more historically and with analytical attention to how it reanimates long-standing debates among Arab intellectuals regarding the role of the ‘artist’.

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Section: Art Is a City Square (Al-fann Midan): Loud Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Loud’ and ‘quiet’ politics: Questioning the role of ‘the artist’ in street art projects after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Sprengel

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Mulid al-Tahrir: Semiotics of a Revolution

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‘Loud’ and ‘quiet’ politics: Questioning the role of ‘the artist’ in street art projects after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

‘Loud’ and ‘quiet’ politics: Questioning the role of ‘the artist’ in street art projects after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

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