Pages

Pages is a bilingual -English and Farsi- magazine that aims to function as a platform for exchange, dialogues and projects: a place for collaboration between artists and writers from Iran and elsewhere. The magazine's interest lies in the socio-political flows within spaces of urban and everyday life.

The diversity of contributions expand and even transgress the geographically bound subjects and subjectivities, as they often develop, return, change and interact with one another from one issue of Pages to the other. It emphasizes on localities and it is the intricacy and dissonances within local currents that give way to chains of meanings, relations, differences and exchange.

Pages is a project initiated by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, both artists living in Rotterdam. However, activities regarding the magazine are organized from both Rotterdam and Tehran, platforms from which all communications and exchanges take shape and place.

www.pagesmagazine.net

Pages has been nominated in category 'Publications 2006-2007' by the jury of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) section Netherlands.

Pages 5 and Pages 6 are awarded 'Best Dutch Book Design 2007'.

What determines our place in history? If it is the past, there we also find the material support with which we reconstitute our historical place. Our relation to history remains retrospective, but also anticipatory.
Events begin with a break from history. But they soon are recaptured by it and fetishized as historical triumphs or failures. Still something remains of past events that, although conditioned by history, is irreducible to it: a surplus that finds way to our time, something out of time that forces us to actively anticipate a renewing in past events.

With contributions by:
- Dariush Moaven Doust / Machinic Life
- Alireza Rasoulinejad & Saleh Najafi / Minor/Major [conversation]
- Norman Klein / Imaginary Future and the Archive [interview]
- Gerald Raunig & Roberto Nigro / Molecular Revolution and Event
- Saleh Najafi / Hope Against Hope
- Sven Augustijnen / Coincidences of History: Reflections on E'mile Meurice's 'Sketch for a psychologial study of Leopold II'
- Jalil Ziapour, Houshang Irani, Gholam Hossein Gharib / Excerpt from Khoroos Jangi magazine, 1949-50
- Performance in Iran [conversation] with Neda Razavipour, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Shahab Fotouhi, Bavand Behpour, Amir Mobed and Mahmoud Bakhshi

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: paperback | 128 pp | 20 x 26 cm
ISBN: 9789460830419
price: € 10.00

In Pages 7 In Translation the editors look at translation as an instance of cultural practice and of political agency. This space is not only found between languages or among cultures, but may be sought, for example, in the spatial and political arrangements of public and private spaces of cities, as communal or individual identities, in representations of state media, and in artistic practice itself.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: paperback | 80 pp | 20 x 26 cm
ISBN: 9789059730991
price: € 10.00

Pages 6 Eventual Spaces includes re-prints of magazine and newspaper clippings that reflect conflicts of architecture, design, predicaments of the social engagement of art, ideological convictions and displacements in art, and the discontinuities in modernist paradigms and their practices.
The reprints coincide with a series of dialogues with practioners in art, culture, architecture and urban planning. What these dialogues have in common is the contemporaneity of their discussions with a historical postponement of a certain modernity. Yet the practices and experiences that are talked about in these dialogues are all affected with the possibility of an eventual gain.
Pages 6 is published with support of Dienst Kunst & Cultuur Rotterdam and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: paperback | 112 pp | 20 x 26 cm
ISBN: 9789059730793
price: € 10.00

To be on the verge of something is to be at a place where something is about to begin and something else is about to end. When we experience the whirling sensation of vertigo we lose our balance. On the verge of vertigo, we nearly lose our equilibrium. The temptation of whirling brings us close to this loss, and yet it doesn't bring us quite there. On the verge of vertigo, you sense stability and imbalance at the same time, and yet you have neither of them. What if this becomes the way we live our lives, an ambivalence in which culture is practiced and identity produced?
Pages 5 On the Verge of Vertigo includes contributions by Sven Augustijnen, Marius Babias, Igor Dobricic, Ana Dzokic, Majeed Eslami, Mohammadreza Haeri, Wietske Maas, Omid Mehregan, Saed Meshky, Marc Neelen, Dan Perjovschi, Alireza Rasoulinezhad, Shadmehr Rastin, Irit Rogoff and Kianoosh Vahabi.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: paperback | 80 pp | 20 x 26 cm
ISBN: 9789059730595
price: € 10.00

Pages 4 Voices includes a survey into cities guided by electronic voices, a reflection on a project about the labour of the larynx in the virtual workplace of call centres in India, a theoretical look into dubbing in Iranian cinema, a sociological study of the Iranian 'Weblogestan' and the production of virtual identities.
Also an introduction into the role of rumour in information societies and an experimental proposal for urban planning based on the fluctuating networks of rumours in the city.
Contributors to this fourth issue of Pages are: Masserat Amir Ebrahimi, Paul Elliman, Hamid Naficy, Raqs Media Collective, Annabelle Sreberny, Babak Rostamian and Ashkan Sedigh.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: folded | 32 pp | 24 x 32.8 cm
price: € 5.00

Pages 3 Desire & Change is a search for a location in Tehran to set up an independent international art space. It appeared that inevitably some important characteristics of any potential location need to be carefully considered. As in any other city, various locations in Tehran carry out not only specific urban functions, they also possess a socio-political significance.
Pages 3 is published i.c.w. Kröller Müller, Otterlo and includes contributions by Asef Baya, Gruppo A12, Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol and Arash Mozafari.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: folded | 32 pp | 24 x 32.8 cm
price: € 5.00

Pages 2 Play & Locations reflects on the ideas of locality and relocation, in terms of changes and replacements within the urban lives and infrastructures and involves contribution of Iranian as well as non-Iranian artists.
Contributors include Steve McQueen (British video artist living in Amsterdam), Rabih Mrouhe (performance artist living in Beirut) and Arash Mazaffari (architect living in Tehran).
This issue has been published i.c.w. the 'Kunsten Festival Des Arts' in Brussels.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: folded | 32 pp | 24 x 32.8 cm
price: € 5.00

Pages 1 Public & Private, published i.c.w. Witte de With Institute, centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam, addresses different manifestations and understandings of public and private in Iran and was brought about by the collaboration and contribution of Iranian artists/writers.

editors: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
graphic design: LUST
: folded | 32 pp | 24 x 32.8 cm
price: € 5.00