Qalqalah #3

<p>For its third issue, <em>Qalqalah</em> continues to circulate ideas and practices, and to exchange resources concerning artistic and cultural issues in the ongoing hope of broadening its reach beyond familiar readers. By publishing the articles quarterly, the <em>Reader</em> renews its format to better resonate with the interrogations posed by the artists and theoreticians invited by KADIST, Bétonsalon and Villa Vassilieff. Conceived closely with the teams at the three art centers, I have been entrusted to conceive of the editorial line of this composite issue as Associate Editor. By the small displacement that this perspective confers in relation to the programming at the respective art centers, this extended conversation seeks to provoke unexpected and differing intersections between the artistic projects. In view of the current social and political climate, both locally and internationally, what has rapidly emerged is the necessity to take into consideration the increasingly acute feeling of helplessness in the face of a politically, culturally and socially disturbing period in Europe and abroad. The incapacity of existing political systems to meet the needs of those endangered by the consequences of the neoliberal economy and nationalist protectionism, wars, persecutions and climate change is now evident. Today, entire sections of society—from Turkey to France, from Hungary to Gabon—are seeking salvation from the authoritarian leaders in power and their xenophobic policies…</p> <p><strong>Why Exhibit at All ? An Answer from the Year 2030</strong><br /> Nora Sternfeld</p> <p><strong>Grandma’s Story</strong><br /> Trinh T. Minh-ha</p> <p><strong>An Idiosyncratic Statue of Friendship</strong><br /> Aykan Safoglu</p> <p><strong>Be Still my Beating Heart, Part 3: A Fugue in Fictional Art History</strong><br /> Rasha Salti</p>