tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69488040762142301722011-08-29T17:36:01.111+02:00Folklore Of The Orientalists~ by Mirak Jamal ~mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-77158931418453389772010-12-01T17:10:00.001+01:002010-12-01T17:13:03.573+01:00Folklore Of The Orientalists #3 "Father Figures Etc."
PDF version here
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-11431110203932507922010-12-01T16:50:00.002+01:002010-12-01T16:50:53.635+01:00At the former Iraq embassy to the former East German republicmirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-57246088089349011162010-09-23T13:17:00.001+02:002010-09-23T13:28:04.736+02:00Legacy of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of Iran
"In Persian mythology, the Bakhtiari consider themselves to be descendants of Fereydun, a legendary hero from the Persian national epic, Shahnameh."
About
About II
Shusha Guppy's "People Of The Wind"
Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent Of Man", and his opinions
"The simplicity is not romantic. It’s a matter of survival."
"What happens to the old, when they can’t cross the last mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-61849314105925976402010-09-10T14:45:00.003+02:002010-09-10T14:47:56.572+02:00Greetings from the Bosphorus
Here
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-90190139101764343322010-09-09T13:52:00.000+02:002010-09-09T13:52:04.303+02:00In Defense of the Corrupt Intellectual
Hassan Khan on Egypt's middle class, and power struggles of intellectual thought:
on Eflux
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-90784838839381031572010-08-23T16:00:00.000+02:002010-08-23T16:00:55.312+02:00Babak Golkar speaks:
http://dailyserving.com/2010/08/interview-with-babak-golkar/#more-8344
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-30889441272403866192010-08-23T13:23:00.000+02:002010-08-23T13:23:55.566+02:00"Mongol"
90x120" (230x305cm), graphite/charcoal/oil stick/spraypaint on mylar, 2010
Cast:Genghis and his many heirs
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-77218759822445171312010-06-26T02:44:00.000+02:002010-06-26T02:44:55.393+02:00D.W. Griffith's Tolerant Lessons On Intolerance
Scenes from "Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages"
Or, how Cyrus freed the Jews from Babylon:
here
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-5399500145881100362010-06-03T01:00:00.002+02:002010-06-03T01:02:04.773+02:00"Achaemenid"
90x120" (230x305cm), graphite/charcoal/oil stick/spraypaint on mylar, 2010
Cast:
The Cyrus/Darius/Xerxes look
about
more
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-15147477323043454942010-04-24T02:57:00.003+02:002010-04-24T03:03:19.942+02:00Gog and Magog- Black Metal from the Middle East
about
From Saudi Arabia: Al Namrood
From Bahrain: Narjahanam
From Israel: Melechesh
From Pakistan: Burzukh
From Turkey: Pagan
From Iran: Ekov Efrits
From the U.S.A. : Nile
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-723819611166588052010-04-12T17:44:00.015+02:002010-04-13T17:56:38.222+02:00"Qajar"
90x120" (230x305cm), graphite/charcoal/oil stick/spraypaint on mylar, 2010
digital glitches
Our Cast:
Nasser Din-Shah Qajar, father of the imperial Qajar-era stache
about
Mozaffar Din-Shah Qajar, son and torch-bearer of the Qajar style stache
about
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-52085249171711402502010-04-11T22:45:00.009+02:002010-04-18T22:41:37.965+02:00Arab Poetry in the world of tradition and pop culture
TV reality show competition:
Der Spiegel
BBC clip here
Bjork on Omar Souleyman's right hand man:"I always heard interesting stories that he has one man called Mahmoud Harbi who is a longtime collaborator — he writes poems for Souleyman. When they are really warmed up and going for it at a good-times party, Harbi stands next to him on stage and chain-smokes. Then he will whisper poetry in hismirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-36657718693535479412010-03-22T01:05:00.009+01:002010-04-12T12:25:05.685+02:00Happy Nowrouz
in Iraqi Kurdistan
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-47825410272213044502010-03-16T15:27:00.003+01:002010-04-12T16:34:16.160+02:00Amon Duul IImirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-44001232712409003042010-03-14T14:53:00.017+01:002010-04-27T15:17:23.294+02:00At The British Museum 2010 PlundersFallen civilizationsEmpty treasures
Smashed facesAnd edited histories
I went to the British MuseumIt’s where gods are left for treatmentDwindling in their infinite misery
I am not sure how I feel about museumsIt seems right to let things beWhy manifest deathWhen death alone does not prevailBut gives weight to a much greater cycle
In the British MuseumWhere gods are left formirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-69151494848022113422010-02-23T01:14:00.015+01:002010-04-12T12:05:58.796+02:00A Tribute To Men
A connectedness of mystical search of identity through space (physical travel) and time (mental travel). Men that carry on in journeys between East and West, to mold and break:
Ibn BattutaWikipedia
Rumi
"Mystic Iran"
On Dr. Soroush and Orhan Pamuk:here
G.I. Gurdjieff
Joseph Campbell and History Of Myth:PBS series
Goethe's East-Western Divan:online version
Martin mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-52461152918297225962010-02-07T23:00:00.008+01:002010-04-12T12:07:48.368+02:00For They Know What They Do Know
Insightful article on the Iranian visual arts canon, by Barbad Golshiri:
on Eflux
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-89222868901372028722010-02-03T16:54:00.004+01:002010-04-11T23:12:09.612+02:00"Sacrifice"
11.5x16.5", digital laser print over graphite on mylar and watercolor on paper
Photoshop detail
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-4740209840352647772010-01-21T03:54:00.026+01:002010-04-13T15:58:29.935+02:00"Sattar Khan's Mustache"23x33", graphite on mylar over watercolor on paper
...And Our Cast:
Sattar Khan-The Rebel of the Constitutional Revolution
about
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar-The royal hand of constitutional abolishment
about
Ahmad Shah Qajar-The tired last hope of the Qajar Dynasty
about
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-6823895134166709802009-12-23T18:47:00.006+01:002010-04-12T12:11:42.666+02:00Issue #2Cover
Contents
"Timelessness" p.4
"Dudes Dudes" p. 6-8, "Probability Over Certainty" p. 9
"Barred One" p. 10, "Our Suffering" p. 11
"Lessons, Graphs And Other Shit" p. 16-17
"Timeline (Unbiased)", p. 21-23
Back
Note: These are just page samples. The actual zine is not printed on white paper (see below).
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-80729366032970691372009-12-15T19:37:00.010+01:002010-04-12T13:01:24.958+02:00Folklore Of The Orientalists #2 (Day Issue)
The new issue for Folklore Of The Orientalists zine is out. It contains a collection of my recent artwork, collected online imagery, and some of my gayest writings I could gather. This time around it's a limited edition of 50, signed and numbered.
Issue #2 has 24 pages. The cover is color printed on 120gm paper, and the rest is printed on a nice 80gm paper. If you'd like one, get in mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-5948728047393752092009-11-28T21:26:00.060+01:002010-04-11T23:39:30.167+02:00
"Round"
Rolling Of The Film-Reel:
Carousel Of The Spinning Wheels
Spinning Of The Ballerinas
Merry-Go-Round Of The Dervish Robes
Autumn Leaves Of The Whirlwinds
Radials Of The Hypnotists
Stirs Of The Hot-Tea Sugar Cubes
Backwash Spirals Of The Sinks
Pebbles Of The Grinders
Slow Turning Of The Screeching Tanks
Curling Of the Hair-Entangled Nervous Fingers
Circling Of mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-50007623802581082282009-11-23T02:53:00.018+01:002010-04-12T12:14:10.193+02:00"Outward Future Monkey"
As organic snapshots of singular times,
we must realize continuity outward:
One that dates to prior knowledge.
Travels forth to possible practice.
Extends outside linear limits of flesh.
Knowing to transcend.
Willing to connect. Able to Google.
Grass (1925):here
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-39784455996905082582009-11-23T02:45:00.019+01:002010-04-12T12:16:05.026+02:00Baadeh Sabah / The Lovers' Wind / Vent Des Amoureux (1970)
English version:
here
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-31737941384651153942009-11-15T20:37:00.024+01:002010-04-28T15:06:25.282+02:00A Drinking Game Where Blood Is Lost, Humanity Won (Or Maybe It's The Other Way Around)
Films to be watched:
"Tehran Has No More Pomegranates"
"Once Upon A Time"
"Amir Kabir"
"Afsaneh Soltan"
"Imam Ali"
"Saladin"
"Sinbad"
"Aladdin"
Questions to be answered:
Is history really just archiving?
If no, who is to interpret narratives?
Should we consider modern reinterpretations of the past as part of history?
Do these narratives mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-37545147084287410352009-10-22T03:37:00.031+02:002010-04-11T23:44:53.870+02:00"Timelessness"
From born time that I have come to conceiveI have elaborated on the tall wall that is now,building, along and in pace with all that is in the rapid current to flow.
Forth into a predetermined maturity,Timelinessis what they call that.
Learning to suck obscurity trapped shut into a cannon.
~
To reach further than own flesh,climb beyond what has been built,and gaze through tall mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-26815012716062079342009-10-21T23:39:00.006+02:002010-04-12T14:41:17.132+02:00"In The Valley"
in the valleywhere time is forgivingspace encompassing
diptych, ea. 11x14", two layers of graphite on mylar with digital print on acetate overlay, 2009mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-16952792293536652472009-09-19T23:14:00.003+02:002010-04-12T12:31:54.560+02:00Where Asian Still Means Oriental
Asians Art Museum
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-4499430078035133542009-09-13T01:30:00.004+02:002010-04-12T12:33:57.841+02:00Zine availability
Toronto:
Art MetropoleThis Ain't The Rosedale LibraryF13
Berlin:
Motto
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-59593641290598098712009-09-07T20:39:00.002+02:002010-04-12T13:02:29.620+02:00Berlin
I now live in Berlin. This is the city, which my parents and I came to via the Soviet Union to East Berlin, and around the U-Bahn system to finally land in West Berlin to apply for asylum. The Iron Curtain is long gone now, but there certainly resonates a history here of both merging and conflicting cultures and politics from various parts of the world. Ideas of “Easts” and “Wests” are still mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-6771103698467313602009-08-16T19:12:00.010+02:002010-04-12T12:36:57.088+02:00Folklore Of The Orientalists Zine, No. 1. Complete color version.
Download the PDF version HERE
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-51122529251861849612009-08-04T20:05:00.004+02:002010-04-12T12:38:14.571+02:00Folklore Of The Orientalists Zine, No. 1
20 pages, 5.5x8.5", b/w quality print
The first issue of my new zine includes personal writings, recent artwork, and selected imagery which I've fittingly compiled into a format and concept. "The Night Issue" is primarily inspired by age-old Sufi philosophy, and I hope that it can exemplify a universal voice of human longing-whether environmental, cultural, or historical.
There is a $3 charge mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-56231494657649337242009-07-26T07:16:00.005+02:002010-04-12T12:41:53.878+02:00Human Rightsmirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-16232522909298774282009-07-19T21:55:00.007+02:002010-04-12T14:43:46.722+02:00"Boteh/Paisley"
with a nonexistent (forgotten) past
comes a nonexistent (irrelevant) present
leaving one only to recall a nonexistent (ideal) future
Graphite on mylar with paper collage, laser print on acetate etc., 15x20", 7/2009
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-68906497903990410142009-07-01T06:48:00.004+02:002010-04-12T12:42:46.492+02:00Survival in nature and coexistence with fellow humans
Australia's Aborigines
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-53416989325980300222009-06-25T20:57:00.002+02:002010-04-12T12:43:32.652+02:00...mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-30561989111342795022009-06-21T21:43:00.006+02:002010-04-12T12:45:51.471+02:00Protest and silence in Iran
BBC reportage 1
BBC reportage 2
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-69263926836394693192009-06-09T06:13:00.006+02:002010-04-12T19:12:25.470+02:00"Folklore Of The Barred One"
11x17", mixed media including digital print on acetate, graphite on mylar, watercolor on paper
Photo reference of Qajar-era prisoner
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-59963683465180511162009-05-22T00:13:00.013+02:002010-04-12T16:39:34.244+02:00From the Shahname: Rostam and Sohrab
Here is the famous part from a Tajiki production of the Shahname where Rostam is confronted by his enemy Sohrab, who as he finds out later after killing him, is his long lost son.
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-55612479760392842962009-05-12T05:38:00.006+02:002010-04-13T18:14:03.223+02:00"Soraya-Queen Of The Bakhtiari Tribe"
9x12", graphite on mylar with digital laser print on acetate, and paper collage
about
"Born in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya Esfandiary was the eldest child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary—a noble of the Bakhtiari tribe of southern Iran who was the Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s—and his Russian-born German wife, Eva Karl."
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-14236572915017460542009-04-28T06:01:00.004+02:002010-04-12T12:55:14.374+02:00Time and distance work like filters
Orientalism today
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-73331766899899241982009-04-27T05:54:00.002+02:002010-04-12T00:01:51.471+02:00T E S T S / C O M P O S I T I O N S / R E I N T E R P R E T A T I O N Smirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-67809803461399401882009-04-23T22:37:00.001+02:002010-04-12T12:55:47.304+02:00Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-87337669471788143122009-03-31T20:43:00.000+02:002009-04-01T19:34:04.073+02:00Recommended readings, in order:1.2.3. (yes, again)4.mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-61334101863958503642009-03-31T18:20:00.002+02:002010-04-12T12:56:46.726+02:00T E S T / D I G I T A L
f u t u r e / p r i m i t i v e :
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-30236345659619621562009-03-11T17:13:00.001+01:002010-04-12T12:57:16.865+02:00Parajanov and his "Ashik Kerib"mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-20931950882444723202009-02-21T01:55:00.003+01:002010-04-12T12:57:49.490+02:00
Regardless of who it was produced by or for whom, this
documentary shows the Iran of many ethnic backgrounds.
mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948804076214230172.post-79512427479182009582009-01-22T04:05:00.001+01:002009-12-06T00:55:55.151+01:002009mirak jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767517362784855455noreply@blogger.com