Fareed Armaly (*1957 Iowa) is an Arab American artist, curator, and editor who lives an works in the US and Berlin, Europe. He became known as an important agent in the field of Context-Art (developed and influenced from Conceptual Art) during the 1990s through several major exhibition projects combining Installation / Architecture, Media, and Information Design. Arab Americans constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from 22 Morocco in the west to Oman in the east. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. ... It has been suggested that Street installation be merged into this article or section. ... The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αρχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... Information design is the design of information objects, and more generally the design of visual displays of data. ...

His productions focus on a contemporary artistic practice linked to issues of culture, identity and representation in a range of interdisciplinary-based projects and various roles held within the art institutional framework. Furthermore the working field includes his involvement through advisory analysis for several projects specifically related to the broad field of media. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... // Computer programming In object-oriented programming, object identity is a mechanism for distinguishing different objects from each other. ... Most generally, a representation is a performing of selected functions or roles of another physical or abstract object/person/organization in predefined circumstances and it is based on the consensus of the group/community involved. ... Interdisciplinarity is a type of academic collaboration in which specialists drawn from two or more academic disciplines work together in pursuit of common goals. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... An institution is a group, tenet, maxim, or organization created by a group of humans. ... Look up Analysis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An analysis is a critical evaluation, usually made by breaking a subject (either material or intellectual) down into its constituent parts, then describing the parts and their relationship to the whole. ...

Method of Work

Armaly’s work can be described as a conceptual conjunction of various cultural aspects which are brought together in an open architecture of information design for his exhibition and programming projects. These are based on a structural analysis, which is achieved by building connections through the apparent paradox of a sythesizing breakdown of cultural practices. His concept is devoted to building routes, which become new guidelines to reveal undisclosed dispositions. In a world structure, which turned increasingly discrete, his concept of 'breaking down, synthesizing, and interconnecting' establishes in the field of cultural practice, what Stuart Hall generally has analysed for cultural studies by asking for an exchange of the term 'roots' for 'routes' | (1). The resultant installations consider specifically spacial translations of media to dismantle cultural constellations and their complex impact on identity processings. A concept is an abstract, universal psychical entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events or relations. ... Stuart Hall (born 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a cultural theorist from the United Kingdom. ... Cultural studies combines sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. ... // Computer programming In object-oriented programming, object identity is a mechanism for distinguishing different objects from each other. ...

Recalling the importance of a discursive medium Armaly's art works establish an ongoing search towards a contemporary representational syntax that pertains a general creative 'unfinishedness' of cultural identity and contrives these embodiments onto changing institutional models. His concept draws a major parallel between this approach for a politics of representation that constantly finds 'openings' in the linking of art, culture and society, and the shift in understanding conventions of a [politics] that S.Hall relates to regarding globalization and new 'diasporic identity' (the move from 'roots' to 'routes'), where media plays an increasingly important role in or as culture. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ... // A typical - but restrictive - definition can be taken from the International Monetary Fund, which stresses the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services, free international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology. ... This article is about dispersion of peoples. ...

Artistic Practice

In the beginning of Armaly's practice stand early productions in the US in form of the self-published journals Terminal Zone and R.O.O.M. (1987-89), which transposed the search for a contemporary art practice syntax onto a music-culture magazine, a format not existing at hat time. His magazines collected essays and discursive interviews with seminal musicians and instantiated a generational Identity politics of thought-communities linking everyday- and pop-culture through specific terms like 'nation' and 'representation'. Contemporary art refers to recently produced visual art. ... For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Essay, a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... interview An interview is a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked to obtain information about the interviewee. ... Generation (From the Greek γιγνμαι), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ... Identity politics is the political activity of various social movements for self-determination. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: the culture of the people) consists of the cultural elements that prevail (at least numerically) in any given society, mainly using the more popular media, in that societys vernacular language and/or an established lingua franca. ...

In the late 80s works such as displaced passages (1988) or the solo exhibition (re)orient (1989) reflected on the institutionalisation of orientalist, western-based knowledge discourses, in order to root out a contemporary media spatiality from 'closed' texts. The concept extended into large institutional exhibition projects, such as Orphée 1990 (1990, France), and Brea-kd-own (1993, Brussels, Belgium) to construct narratives that linked the remainders of post-68 cultural policies to the current post-89 transitional settings which destabilized the officially-sanctioned notions of representation, history, nation, and thus identity. Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s - 130s 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Note: Sometimes 80s is used as shorthand for the 1980s, the 1880s, or other such decades in different centuries. ... Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, by Westerners. ... In semantics, discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences - in other words, conversations, arguments or speeches. ... In non-technical terms, no matter what the context (whether scientific, philosophical, legal, etc) a narrative is a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality (per Walter Fisher). ...

Open Concepts of Networks

F. Armaly defines his deliberate adaptation of artistic practice by the way of the interplay between different cultural fields and strategies, which unfold as a 'scripting' of correspondences of the between. A philosophy that shows also evidence in his different roles within the art institutional operating systems, as they include long-term artistic/curatorial advisory collaborations to develop new methodologies for institutional projects.

The complex interdependency of roles becomes especially apparent in the productions after 1998, like Program (1998), a university-based public art-TV program, then followed by From / To, a large scale institutional project (Witte de With, 1999 / Documenta11, 2002), which combined symposia, exhibition and media production to link the spatiality of refugee movement to modernity and media. This continued throughout the programming concept as artistic director of haus.0 (1999-2002), for the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, an artist’s space in transition. The framework here included architectural renovations, media production studios, workshops, discourse productions, which were introduced and connected to create unique interdisciplinary international projects defining the identity of haus.0 program. See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. ... Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being modern. Since the term modern is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be taken in context. ...

The described methods were also deployed for the exhibition Orient(n)ations, 2004, at Art Pace, Texas, which established an orientation, that derived in part from the sense of the ' uncanny'. It set itself within a nation at a time of war, where the current combination of politics and broadcast-media networks reflect a worldview handled as if a corporate identity, along 'imaging' guidelines, was overlaid onto the self and / as the world. This method allowed the creation of new correspondences to provide nodal points, through which cultural productions thread together as passages mapping out this very project. That way the work reflects and breaks the implicated enclosure as the different passages suggest intersecting narratives, from which the project 'script' develops. This processing of the script manifests the intersections as links embedded within a spatiality that is informed by the notion of a ' social imaginary'. The Uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being unconfortably strange [1]. To be canny, the root of the word, is to be knowing [2], so therefore, uncanny is to be un-knowing. ... Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Note: broadcasting is also a term for hand sowing. ... Corporate may refer to either A corporation, a type of legal entity, often formed to conduct business Corporate (film), a 2006 Bollywood film starring Bipasha Basu. ... Imaginary refers to the system of values, institutions, laws, and symbols - in short the matrix of ideological meaning - correspondent to a particular social group upon which said society is constituted. ...

Again the creative transformative character connected to representations in the everyday is multiform and fragmentary. As such, it leaves terms like 'nation', 'society', and 'culture', as unfinished constructs in play. The concepts of 'individual' / 'collective identity' provide the staging of these relations. Operating within these various dynamics, Orient(n)ations determines its site, by establishing three 'positioning agencies' - a 'compass', 'atlas', and ' radio signal' -, that together triangulate location. Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ... As commonly used, individual refers to a person or to any specific object in a collection. ... Collective can also refer to the collective pitch flight control in helicopters A collective is a group of people who share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective. ... For the tool used to draw circles, see Compass (drafting). ... For other uses, see Atlas (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Radio (disambiguation). ...

Teaching

He has taught at several postgraduate programs in Europe. (CCC, Ecole superieure des beaux-arts, Geneva; Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht; Universität Hamburg)

Exhibitions

• 2004 orient(n)ations, ArtPace, San Antonio, USA
• 2004 Advisory role, Waiting, Dir. R. Masharawi
• 2002 From/To, Documenta11, Kassel, D (included films by Dir. R. Masharawi)
• 2000-01 Architectures of Discourse, 2001, Foundation Tapies, ES, Curator: Ute Meta Bauer
• 1999-02 haus.0, four year program as Artistic Director, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, D
• 1999 From/To, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL.
• 1998 Program, Art in Public Space commission, Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Germany.
• 1997 Parts, Kunstverein München, Munich, D
• 1995-96 ?, (in NowHere), Louisiana Museum, DK, Curator Ute Meta Bauer, participation as Co-Curator / Artist
• 1995 Scale, Forum Stadtpark Prag, Prague, CR
• 1993 BREA-KD-OWN, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, B
• 1992-93 Project Unité, Firminy, F, Curator: Yves Aupetitalot
• 1992 Contact, Galerie Nagel, Cologne, D
• 1990 Orphée 1990, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, F
• 1989 (re)Orient, Galerie Lorenz, Paris, F
• 1988 Wechselkurse, Galerie Dürr, Munich, D
• 1987 Publications: Terminal Zone / R.O.O.M.

Bibliography

• "Blood of the poets: the tribal '80s - Critical Essay", Artforum, 2003, T.Holert
• "Survival, not comprehension, An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi", Springerin, 2002, F.Armaly
• "The Allegorical Impulse of the Curator", Springerin, 2001, H.Draxler
• "Fareed Armaly - Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels", Belgium, Artforum, 1994, S.Vogel

External Links

• Documenta11
• Witte de With
• From/To
• haus.0