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Hello from SymbioticA 26 November 2019

Quantum Entanglement: the Relational Dynamics of Art in Arab Political Environments

Date: 26 November 2019
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Suzi Elhafez

The research examines the entanglement of art and the political in post-Arab Spring Cairo. The research identifies three central elements of this nexus. The first is the entanglement of politics and religion in the evolution of the Arab polity and the formation of Arab-Islamic political environments today.

Secondly, the transformative role of art intensified the impact of the Arab Spring movement, through the political participation of youth that served to subvert the dynamics of power between citizenry and the mechanics of statehood and sovereignty.

And third examining the relational dynamics between art and politics in post Arab spring political environment identifies the crucial predicate of democratic and secular institutions, at a juridical governmental level. For the practice of art and the appearance of cultural production to remain visible and free in the public realm, urgent political change and ideological transition is required at an institutional level.

The seminar will explore the first central element; how the research uses the conceptual lens of quantum entanglement to examine the co-ordinated evolution of politics and religion in forming the genesis of the Arab-Islamic polity. Drawing on the orthodoxy of quantum theory and its heterodoxical application beyond the physical sciences, entanglement is used to assess the rationality of how these factors have co-evolved historically and their contemporary manifestations uniquely shaping the conditions of the modern Arab political landscape.

Suzi Elhafez is a doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, her interdisciplinary research intersects physics, philosophy, political theory and Arab history. Her multi-modal art practice spans across visual and digital practices informed by techno-scientific methodologies of image-making, sound, as well as discursive and social-based practices that directly engage with institutions in the public realm across Australia and the Arab region.

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