Jayce Salloum : "..The Ascent of Man.." / Acts of Consumption

Composed of videotapes, slides, wall pieces and book works, Salloum's project is described by the artist as a study of the use of reproductions in the formation and distribution of knowledge

The 1990s -Jayce Salloum : There Was and There Was Not [redux/fragments]

"Jayce Salloum’s installation كان يا ما كان There Was and There Was Not [redux/fragments] is an opportunity to take a step back and look at the 1990s. The photographs, newspaper clips, scholarly and other texts, books, postcards, Polaroid shots, and videos – which Salloum, a Canadian-born artist of Lebanese parentage, collected, made, or recorded during his time in the Middle East in the late 1980s and early 1990s – compose one large document, which we consider here as a record of the 1990s." -- Publisher's website

Jayce Salloum : Untitled

In their essay "archive of the street", Drobnick and Fisher suggest that Salloum's photographs of storefront windows and other forms of public/private display provide a critique of the ideological and psychic effects of inhabiting the postmodern city. Includes numerous references to Michel de Certeau's "The Practice of Everyday Life"; twenty-one pages of excerpts from "Untitled 1988-98" and projects from 1978-99; artist's statement; list of works; biographical notes. 43 bibl. ref

Alternate Photography : Isaac Applebaum, David Clarkson, Stan Denniston, Peter MacCallum, Jayce Salloum

Criticizing traditional pictorialism in photography, Rhodes presents the work of five photographers and situates their work within the conceptual and emotional concerns of contemporary art. Artists' statements

The Militant Image Reader

"The Militant Image Reader brings together eight diverse texts from theorists and artists from Europe and North America that speculate on the relationship of artistic representation and social change today." -- Publisher's website

...East of Here... (Re)Imagining the "Orient"

Salloum provides a general context for "...East of Here..." by examining the political and cultural relations between the Middle East and the West. Bringing together works by artists from diverse backgrounds creates a multi-layered exhibition concerned with issues of cultural identity, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism. Kawaja's paper focuses on how representations of "Arab" women affect women's rights activists in the Middle East and North America. Marks questions the stereotypical representations of the "Orient" produced in the West. Hassan's analysis of the relationship between cultural production and economics focuses on questions concerning ideology, authoritarianism, and neo-orientalism. Artist's projects by Vogwill and Thorne. Brief descriptions of videotapes, films, and installations. Biographical notes. 54 bibl. ref