Mireille Astore

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Mireille Astore ( Arabic ميراي استور; * 1961 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese-Australian artist and author.

Influenced by continental philosophy, her art is based on autobiographical notions of “ representation ” and “ the uncanny ”; where the conscious and the unconscious intersect. Through her art and writing, she “explores human emotions” and “asks what it means to be human”.

Youth and education

Astore left Beirut in 1975 during the Lebanese Civil War and moved to Melbourne . In 2001 she received a Master of Visual Arts (Research) from the Sydney College of the Arts , the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney . She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science degree before becoming a full-time artist and writer. Astore earned a doctorate in contemporary art from 2003 to 2007 at the University of Western Sydney . From 2009 to 2013 she was a Research Affiliate at the Sydney College of the Arts and from 2011 to 2012 a Research Fellow at the American University of Beirut .

Exhibitions

Mireille Astore's art was exhibited and screened at the 2004 Sydney Film Festival ; in the Freud Museum (London) ; at the Millais Gallery in Southampton; at Espace SD in Beirut; at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London; in the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris; 2008 in Sharjah at the 8th Sharjah Biennial ; and at the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial. Her photomedia art was exhibited at the Conny Dietzschold Multiple Box Gallery in Sydney. In 2003 she won the Australian National Photographic Purchase Award from the Albury Regional Art Gallery .

Mireille Astore's work of art "Tampa" refers to the Norwegian ship " Tampa ". It became known in August 2001 when it picked up 433 shipwrecked Afghans from an overloaded fishing boat, leading to a diplomatic dispute between the governments of Australia, Norway and Indonesia over the whereabouts of the refugees. As for Astore's artwork, it was said:

"Just as Benjamin noted the contextual aesthetic consequences of the circulation of photographic images through newspapers and magazines, Astore's combination of photography with sculpture and performance, circulated via her website, rewrites both photography and the spatial and interpretive dynamics of this installation work."

"As Benjamin pointed out to the contextual aesthetic consequences of the circulation of photographic images in newspapers and magazines, the circulation of Astore's combination of photography with sculptures and performances through her website rewrites photography as well as spatial and interpretative dynamics of this installation."

- Peter J. Hutchings

Astore's short film "Tampa: a Walk on the Beach" is based on "Tampa". He was recorded in Sydney and London.

Short films

After “Tampa: a Walk on the Beach” it was Astore's short film “Not from here” “that questioned the legitimacy of original photographs” (). It has been shown in galleries and at film festivals in over 20 countries. International screenings include the né à Beyrouth Film Festival in Beirut, the Toronto Arab Film Festival, the CinemaEast Film Festival in New York and the Konstföreningen Aura Gallery in Sweden. Another short film “3494 Houses + 1 Fence”, which juxtaposed images of houses in Australia with scenes of a fence in Lebanon destroyed in the war, “created a concise image of your conscious perception of the contrasts between your memories and your current life” (). He was selected for the Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran Film Festival .

Performances

Mireille Astore teaches performance art . She did this, for example, in 2008 in Beirut at Home Works IV , in 2005 in Sydney at the Poetics of Australian Space Conference of the University of Sydney and the Art Gallery of New South Wales , in 2010 in Sydney at the 5th International Conference on the Arts in Society from the University of Sydney, and 2010 in Sydney during the exhibition Silent Spaces at the Macquarie University Art Gallery.

Publications

Mireille Astore's artwork, poetry, and fictocriticism texts have been published in New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century (Thames and Hudson); Art in the Age of Terrorism (Paul Holberton Publishing & University of Washington Press) and Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing (Syracuse University Press). In 2008 Mireille Astore was guest co-editor of Artlink Magazine Vol 28 no.1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hossein Amirsadeghi, Salwa Mikdadi, Nada Shabout (eds.): New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century . Thames & Hudson Ltd, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-500-97698-2 , pp. 80 .
  2. ^ A b Nawar Al-Hassan Golley (ed.): Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2007, ISBN 978-0-8156-3147-7 , pp. xxxiii .
  3. ^ Louise Gray: Them Outside . In: Museum Journal . March 2007, p. 39 .
  4. ^ The Freud Museum ~ Exhibitions ~ Paranoia. In: freud.org.uk. Retrieved January 27, 2015 .
  5. ^ Art in the Age of Terrorism. (No longer available online.) In: solent.ac.uk. Archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 (English).
  6. ↑ Mireille Astore & Fabian Astore. (No longer available online.) In: infocusdialogue.com. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 (English).
  7. ↑ Invitation à Lowave // ​​RESISTANCE [S] III. In: centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved January 27, 2015 (French).
  8. ↑ Sharjah Art Foundation - Efface: Death Becomes Her, 2007. (. No longer available online) In: sharjahart.org. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; accessed on January 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sharjahart.org
  9. ^ Third Guangzhou Triennial reviews and highlights. In: South China Morning Post, Shanghai Eye, Art Radar. October 6, 2008, accessed January 27, 2015 .
  10. ^ Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW - overview. In: artfacts.net. Retrieved January 27, 2015 .
  11. ^ Peter J. Hutchings: Through a refugee's eyes . In: Eyeline . No. 54 , 2004, pp. 12 .
  12. ↑ a b From Bush to the Big Apple . In: Penrith press , October 25, 2004, p. 34. 
  13. ↑ Abigail Dunn: Paranoia - Abigail Dunn visits an exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery and begins to feel a little uncomfortable. In: juliushonnor.com. July 7, 2006, accessed January 28, 2015 .
  14. ↑ David Finkelstein: Film Threat - Resistance (s) Vol. 3 (dvd). In: filmthreat.com. October 8, 2010, accessed on January 28, 2015 (English): "a striking picture of her awareness of the contrasts between her memories and her current life"
  15. ↑ Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran, London (February 2008) & Berkley (April 2009)
  16. ↑ Suzanne Cotter: Home Works IV. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. In: Frieze Magazine . No. 116, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
  17. ↑ Plenary Speakers at artsinsociety.com. In: 2010.artsinsociety.com. Retrieved January 28, 2015 .
  18. ^ Silent Spaces - Macquarie University. In: mq.edu.au. Retrieved January 28, 2015 .
  19. ^ Graham Coulter-Smith, Maurice Owen (ed.): Art in the Age of Terrorism . Paul Holberton Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 978-1-903470-41-1 , pp. 8 .
  20. ↑ Ian Hamilton: Editorial . In: Artlink . 28, No. 1, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Astore, Mireille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ميراي استور
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese-Australian photographer, video artist, performance artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut