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Literature has played a crucial role in Palestinian cultural and national resistance, especially since the 1948 Nakbah. Authors such as Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and Adania Shibli have used their works to counter the Zionist narrative and give voice to the Palestinian historical experience of opression and dispossesion. This essay explores how literature has become an effective strategy for cultural survival and national resistance, analyzing the contributions of these authors and the evolution of Palestinian resistance literature in recent decades.
Resistance litreature- Palestine- Ghassan Kanafani- Nakba
Copyright (c) 2025 Maha Mamdouh Ganem https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Review of the graphic novel The War on Gaza by Joe Sacco, originally published as a webcomic between January and July 2024 and published in print in December 2024.
LabTxt. Artistic Experimentation Projects.
Copyright (c) 2025 Juan Carlos Pérez García https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Clay Man is an artistic project born from the desire to explore my family's roots and connect our past with the present. At it's core is the story of my dad, Naim, who was forced to exile from Jenin, Palestine, leaving behind his land and family. Through family photographs intervened by my parents by texts and drawings, I construct a visual file full of memories and emotions. This project is a bridge between the intimate and the universal, and a way of understanding how the exile has shaped our identity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Usama Mossa Chaty https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
New Intelligentsia of the Middle East and democratic thinking.
The declassification of Israel's official archives in the mid-1980s opened access to a vast volume of secret documents relating to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. If until then the political narrative had been officially justified by the achievements of Zionism, the New Historians articulated a novel civic perspective. The New Historians (Shlaim, Pappé, Morris) succeeded in defining a new language based on the category of settler colonialism and conciliatory dialogue with the Palestinian intellectual resistance represented by Edward Said, Khalidi, Abunimah, Barghouti, and Noura Erakat.
Copyright (c) 2025 JESÚS PALOMINO OBRERO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Interview by Jesús Palomino with the Palestinian author Abdallah Abulaban on the occasion of the publication of his recent novel Women in the Sun.
Lobbying for zionism on both sides of the Atlantic
Reseña sobre un ensayo de Ilan Pappé publicado por One World Publications Londres, Reino Unido. Versión castellana: El lobby sionista . Una historia a ambos lados del atlántico . Ediciones Akal, 2025.
Jesús Palomino’s article contextualizes the Palestinian–Israeli conflict after the events of October 7, 2023, analyzing its geopolitical, cultural, and ethical dimensions from a critical and humanist perspective. It explores Ilan Pappé’s notions of a “Global Israel” and a “Global Palestine,” addressing the ongoing media narrative war and the mechanisms of censorship within academic institutions. The text also highlights the involvement of the University of Málaga in fostering reflection on Palestine, as well as the literary and artistic contributions that resist through memory, justice, and the pursuit of self-determination.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jesús Palomino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Una intimidad compartida» is a collective artistic project carried out within the framework of the Experimental Laboratory at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga, during February 2025. The 2más2 Collective explored the notions of intimacy and extimacy through artistic practice. Through multiple activities and a final exhibition, the project explored the links between artistic production, memory, identity, and the exposure of the intimate in the digital age. This article presents the development of the project from a multidisciplinary perspective, reflecting on the potential of art as a tool to rethink intimacy.
Copyright (c) 2025 María Melgar Becerra, Silvia Duque López, Jorge Montalbán Blanco, Alicia González Molina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The article Art, Body, and Sensitive Diversity: Poetics of the Visible and the Invisible explores the impact of the ErgonoARTE 2 | xSense project, an initiative that intertwines art, technology, and philosophy to challenge normative conceptions of the body and perception. Through tools, prototypes, and theoretical reflections, the project invites us to reconsider how we inhabit the world and how diversity, fragility, and the invisible can take a central place in our perceptions. This interdisciplinary approach celebrates sensory and bodily diversity as sources of innovation and resistance against cultural and political hierarchies.
Copyright (c) 2024 Silvia López Rodríguez; Jesús Marin-Clavijo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Review of the inauguration of the Málaga Paradise exhibition, held at the UMA’s Contenedor Cultural from Thursday, Septembre 19 to November 15, 2024.
Contenedor Cultural of the University of Malaga
Copyright (c) 2024 Samuel Vargas Núñez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Design is an ideal terrain to illustrate the implications of the social model of disability, and particular gruitful one for its application. The exaples of various interactions of hands and tools serve to verify how the constructed world is designed for a single, statistically fixed type of body. The fluidity in the use of the tool produces its invisibility: capacity and autonomy are thus the effect of the technologies that allow it, and so are disability and dependency. How to think about other possibilities in the tense relationship between disability and design?
Copyright (c) 2024 Maite Barrera Villarías https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Ergonomic models and artificial representations.
A reflection is made on the conflictive relationship that human beings have with their bodies and their advanced technology in this era of globalisation. The ergonomic devices or artefacts it creates, and the increasingly artificial representations it makes of them, have become the main reference models. Their ergonomic forms are designed to make us adapt to them, creating unnatural habits that affect our health, feeding a complex or feeling of inferiority towards them, underpinning a desire for control and fetishisation based on transhuman ideals.
Copyright (c) 2024 David Domínguez Escalona https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The Trajectory of Tomiyama Taeko’s Art as seen in Wild Grass: Our Lives, the 8th Yokohama Triennale.
For over seven decades, Tomiyama Taeko (1921-2021) created powerful works across various media, including lithography, painting, collage, and multimedia slide/DVD projects. Working on the fringes of the art world, she developed a unique practice that revisits histories obscured by nationalist rhetoric, reimagining narratives of colonization and war from postcolonial and feminist perspectives. Often overlooked in mainstream postwar Japanese art narratives, her work has nonetheless sparked transnational dialogues and reconciliation. This paper discusses the trajectory of selected works by the artist exhibited in 'My Liberation,' part of the 8th Yokohama Triennale, Wild Grass: Our Lives (March 15-June 9, 2024).
Copyright (c) 2024 Rebecca Jennison https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
To begin this presentation, I am going to allow myself, beyond the usual academic format, to make three prior considerations regarding its form and content: first, that it has an unavoidable logistical bias that is somewhat personal, but barely glimpsed in its gestation, Well my presence disappears immediately; second, it comes from a history of life and work for many years of various people and agents in the art world; and, third, that it does not pretend to be exhaustive in any sense, but just a brief, simple and humble note, mainly of a narrative nature, that helps to understand the context in which the publication that you have on your screens has been forged.
Copyright (c) 2024 JOAQUÍN IVARS PINEDA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Against the As-It-Is: An Inquiry into Sculptural Bodies in Recent Japan
This article aims to propose the way of an interpretation on recent sculptural works in Japan, especially ones with bodily figuration. Although they would share some features with artistic production outside the country and the proposed approach is not comprehensive considering variegated contemporary sculptural practices, it is suggestive that there was a historical situation where artists criticized the human-based representation of the world and turn to a kind of naturalism, as led by Mono-ha in the context of postwar Japan. Some succeeding sculptors have struggled against the naturalism that demands to leave things as it is.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ryo Katsumata https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Acting Significance from the Film Max Is Missing (1995).
In 2021, an interview was conducted with the actor, dancer and choreographer Víctor Rojas, who is remembered in Peru for having participated in the North American film Max is Missing (1995). During the conversation, some questions were asked to the guest, in order to learn a little more about his artistic performance that he maintains to this day.
Copyright (c) 2024 Jesús Miguel Delgado Del Aguila https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This is a review of the exhibition When Two Collections Meet organized jointly by the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, paying particular attention to Chapter 2 ‘Woman Made’, devoted exclusively to work by female artists, and touching also on the distinguishing features of Aichi Prefecture in the Japanese context, and circumstances behind the establishment of prefectural art museums. The discussion covers local-authority–art-museum relationships, plus issues and recent developments with regard to the social status and evaluation of female artists.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ayako TAKAHASHI https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Úrsula Martín Asensio [UMASENSIO] explores a common territory for all those people who are or have been sick, love someone who has or has had cancer. All human bodies are the same but there are no two same bodies. Some people survive and others die. Everyone knows it, however living close to that truth changes everyday reality. Placing ourselves close enough to what we love to eradicate the loneliness of suffering and at the same time far enough away to be of help, a proposal of which it is interesting to study the other aspects of trauma as a power.
Copyright (c) 2024 Úrsula Martín Asensio, María de la Paz Ortiz Mariada https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Amatsuchi Kosaku: Reconsidering Postwar Japanese Art History from a Perspective of Ecology
This paper discusses Amatsuchi Kosaku, an artist collective that formed in the late 1980s and continued its unique activities until the early 2000s. Because Amatsuchi Kosaku was based in Shizuoka, it was excluded from the normative narrative of Japanese art history, which has been constructed around artists and artist collectives working in metropolises like Tokyo and Kyoto. This paper examines the “metropolitan-centrism” in the Japanese art history, and reconsiders the artistic practice of Amatsuchi Kosaku, from the perspective of “ecology,” a concept that has been the focus of much attention in recent contemporary art discourse.
Copyright (c) 2024 Iroki Yamamoto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Copyright (c) 2023 Silvia Lopez-Rodriguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The Identity Construction: theoretical map of an incomprehensible concept.
The purpose of this article is the construction of a theoretical map on the processes of identity consruction at present. A study about the concept of identity from the holistic vocation of describing, associating, sistematizing, but also analyzing and synthesizing the theories, referents and currents that deal with this concept, target of multiple approaches and meanings throughout history. A concept that even today escapes concrete formulations due to its complexity, but which has re-emerged in current social contexts and is at the origin of many conflicts and debates in our contemporary world.
Copyright (c) 2023 jorge Galán https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The search for identity through nature in a liquid world
Just as globalization has demolished borders to connect individuals from all around the world, it has also dismantled the elements that construct human identity through culture, both at a social and individual level. In this way, this article argues, through the study of contemporary artistic practices, how it is becoming evident that individuals in Western society, having been deprived of the restraints provided by cultural tradition, are connecting with their most primal aspect as a species and clinging to nature in an attempt to rediscover their identity.
Copyright (c) 2023 Cristina Sanz-Martin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Demonstration-Leitmotiv. Joaquín Ivars, 2023.
This article aims for various purposes. Among them the sharing of a workshop as a means to create an art work by incorporating significant individual and collective identity elements. Likewise, it approaches theoretical aspects that underpin and accompany an artistic process of this kind, such as complexity, autopoiesis, totality, opinion, the risk of experimentation, imagination, or paradox. Demonstration-Leitmotiv employs various types of content and implements logistics that are manifested through two audiovisual components, which are described and studied here.
Copyright (c) 2023 JOAQUÍN IVARS PINEDA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Liquid ruralities: new identities versus old imaginaries. Contemporary art in rural Malaga
Although in the collective imaginary there is still a vision of the rural debtor of the contributions of classical sociology, the life of the rural world and its inhabitants is already very different. The boundaries with the urban are increasingly diffuse, which generates a diverse rurality. For about a quindennium, the rural world has been arousing great interest. The manifestations of this trend are evident in all cultural and therefore artistic spheres. Rural Malaga would be a good example of the different ways to channel the growing relationship of rural peoples with contemporary art.
Copyright (c) 2023 Salvador García-Pozuelo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Unsettling the seeing. Joaquín Ivars and the (dissonant) murmurs of the connected crowd.
In May 2023, Joaquín Ivars presented his video installation "Demonstration-Leitmotiv" in the temporary exhibition hall of the Museo Provincial de Salamanca as part of the project "La Imagen Promiscua", promoted by the Master's Degree in Advanced Studies in Art History at the University of Salamanca. The curatorial discourse was based on a paradox: in no period in history have images appeared with such intensity in our aesthetic, everyday, political and historical universe as they do today, yet we have never doubted their veracity to such an extent. Under this premise, every artist - indeed every citizen - must ask himself what role he wants the images he produces, consumes and exchanges to play in this new "regime of visibility".
Copyright (c) 2023 Francisco Javier Panera Cuevas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Presentation of the workshop and production of the work DEMONSTRATION-LEITMOTIV.
Presentation of the activities carried out during the DEMONTRATION-LEITMOTIV workshop and its results.
Este artículo se centra en la exposición QUEDA (CAÍDA) para explorar un caso específico de pérdida de identidad en una comunidad minera del sur de Portugal y, simultáneamente, en la condición contemporánea de “infundación” .
Copyright (c) 2023 Rogério Taveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Teaching Notes was a questionnaire created by Paul Thek to teach at the New York Art School Cooper Union between the years 1978 and 1981. One of the straightforward tasks proposed by Thek was imperative: Design something to put in an altar. The students were invited to design a specific three-dimentional object conceived to be installed in a altarlike location. As we all know, an altar, is a place of meaning condensation and spiritual-personal request. Hence, following TheK´s suggestions, I am proposing this installation conceived specifically to articulate a site of meaning in relation to health and its recovery.
Installation Editorial performativity Cultural debate Health
Copyright (c) 2023 JESÚS PALOMINO OBRERO
tive process in Sculpture: conditions, idea, development and materialization.
This article shows a personal creative process within the field of sculpture, starting from an initial positioning around important characteristics in sculpture and addressing the entire creative process. It reflects on the workspace, the origin of the idea and the final materialization, and two concrete examples are provided. The main motivation of the article is the teaching, to provide first-hand information about ways of making art by the artist himself, which may be of interest to art students, other artists or people interested in the subject.
Copyright (c) 2023 JESÚS MONTOYA HERRERA
La La Naturaleza Encubierta de la Fotografía
The article analyzes the veiled nature of photography that masks what it makes visible, manifest and evident. So the clarity and sharpness do not give transparency and clarity of meaning. The meaning of the photograph is managed beyond its opacity from interpretive powers that start from the sender and end with the receiver. In this interpretation we approach memory through grammars that alternate word and image. The article closes with a reflection on the trivialization of the image archive on social networks and its disruptive channeling as a testimony of the present.
Photography Memory Archive Time Mask Photo-text Social media