Digitally Mediated Art in the War Zone
The Aesthetics of Resilience in Yemen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21808643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nurgul Oruc (0000-0003-1265-5656, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 4-37 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CyberOrient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1804-3194 • E-ISSN: 1804-3194 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1804-3194.2020.tb00001.x |
| OpenAlex | W3171443273 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The current civil war in Yemen has been largely ignored by mainstream media, with the majority of coverage spotlighting the military aspect of the conflict. Yemeni artists challenge this absence of narratives reflecting the suffering of thousands of Yemeni men, women, and children by exposing the actual situation to the outside world through various artifacts shared on digital media platforms. Despite the significance of contemplating creative endeavors in conflict zones and the burgeoning interest in cultural production both during and after the Arab Spring in the Middle East, contemporary Yemeni creative expressions have been largely neglected by scholars working on the Middle East. This article traces how Yemeni artists have intervened in the representation of the conflict and war in Yemen since 2011. It analyzes the heterogonous artistic forms, contents, and representational strategies that Yemeni artists and filmmakers have employed to express their collective concerns over war and destruction. The constraints and limitations imposed by the conflict have also shaped the creative expressions of Yemeni wartime artists, especially in terms of sharing their work both with their own communities and with the wider world. While their creative work manifests the suffering of a nation, it also constitutes a refusal to live under weakness and lack of hope for the future. The concepts of tactical and participatory media and socially engaged art are used to refer to the production and dissemination of a variety of creative responses to the ongoing crisis in Yemen, as illustrated through selected art media forms
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Middle East · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Public Spaces through Art
Uncommon Grounds
Yemen and the World
Yemen Endures
The Naked Blogger of Cairo
Posthumous Images
The Message is on the Wall
The politics of street art in Yemen (2012–2017)
Creative Activism
Mourning the death of a state to enliven it
After the Smoke Clears
Imaging Egypt’s political transition in (post-)revolutionary street art
I’d Double Tap That!!’
Street arts of resistance in Tahrir and Gezi
Without Visible Scars
From Wall 1.0 to Wall 2.0
A Revolution of Dignity and Poetry
Contemporary art from a city at war
Playing with fear
Parkour
When Art Is the Weapon
The Writing on the Walls
Of songs and signs
Street Art and the Changing Urban Public Sphere
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |