Elizabeth Derderian
Biographic Data
| ID | 91661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Derderian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Derderian |
| SIGNATURE | DERDERIAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Wooster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3393-0429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Investing Aura
The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations between artists and the gallery director. In response to the gallery director's contracts, which accorded va…
Consulting Culture
Visible critique/critical visibility
Artists based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are pressured by international art elites to critique the illiberal regime under which they live. But doing so is illegal. It can lead the state to retaliate with harassment, detention, cancellation of residency visas, and expulsion. Nonetheless, gatekeeping curators and critics validate UAE-based artists' work as worthwhile and good if these artists critique the UAE state. How do these artists bala…
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Engendering Change
Contrary to narratives of universally positive modernization in the United Arab Emirates, this article draws on the lives and work of women artists to offer a more detailed view of the UAE ’s rapid urbanization and development. First, the article shows how changing educational structures and systems led to the privileging of the English language, which has resulted in differential generational access to a contemporary art world that operates pred…
Challenging Terms
Curators and gallerists are constantly in search of exciting, new contemporary art from around the globe. Yet in order for "emerging" art markets to become visible to the contemporary art elite, they must adopt infrastructures and criteria from that world. In so doing, they often standardize and lose the very novelty for which they are sought. These infrastructures, such as biennials and commercial art fairs, determine how artworks are exhibited …
Authenticating an Emirati Art World
Following a brief history of the development of arts initiatives and arts practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this article then focuses on claims of tabula rasa and cultural appropriation that, at their core, are contests over the authenticity of such initiatives. In so doing, universal Enlightenment-derived paradigms of authenticity are challenged. In addition, the role of place is discussed, and it is claimed that, in this context, the …
Visible critique/critical visibility
Artists based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are pressured by international art elites to critique the illiberal regime under which they live. But doing so is illegal. It can lead the state to retaliate with harassment, detention, cancellation of residency visas, and expulsion. Nonetheless, gatekeeping curators and critics validate UAE-based artists' work as worthwhile and good if these artists critique the UAE state. How do these artists bala…
Authenticating an Emirati Art World
Following a brief history of the development of arts initiatives and arts practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this article then focuses on claims of tabula rasa and cultural appropriation that, at their core, are contests over the authenticity of such initiatives. In so doing, universal Enlightenment-derived paradigms of authenticity are challenged. In addition, the role of place is discussed, and it is claimed that, in this context, the …
Challenging Terms
Curators and gallerists are constantly in search of exciting, new contemporary art from around the globe. Yet in order for "emerging" art markets to become visible to the contemporary art elite, they must adopt infrastructures and criteria from that world. In so doing, they often standardize and lose the very novelty for which they are sought. These infrastructures, such as biennials and commercial art fairs, determine how artworks are exhibited …
Engendering Change
Contrary to narratives of universally positive modernization in the United Arab Emirates, this article draws on the lives and work of women artists to offer a more detailed view of the UAE ’s rapid urbanization and development. First, the article shows how changing educational structures and systems led to the privileging of the English language, which has resulted in differential generational access to a contemporary art world that operates pred…
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Visible critique/critical visibility
Artists based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are pressured by international art elites to critique the illiberal regime under which they live. But doing so is illegal. It can lead the state to retaliate with harassment, detention, cancellation of residency visas, and expulsion. Nonetheless, gatekeeping curators and critics validate UAE-based artists' work as worthwhile and good if these artists critique the UAE state. How do these artists bala…
Consulting Culture
Investing Aura
The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations between artists and the gallery director. In response to the gallery director's contracts, which accorded va…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works)