The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring

The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab SpringA major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image, Snowdon explores this radical

many different people have read the same copy

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

Artist David Horvitz worked with Tbilisi-based curator Elene Abashidze to collect these words

and this time we’re staying up with you into the small hours of the night

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she did an 11-month residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht

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this unruly genius forced the gaze of history to turn away

Ioulia Podoroga

after a long period of concentrated work and freewheeling research