{"id":743,"date":"2024-11-19T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/?p=743"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:47:23","slug":"743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/743\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-color has-text-color\">Morad Montazami<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Black gold or curse: investigating&nbsp;petro-modernities and the hypothesis of a post-oil visual culture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>5 December 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent paradigm of petro-modernity takes oil as a political catalyst through expropriation, coups d&#8217;\u00e9tat or movements to nationalise oil, in the 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;c., beside an intermedia tool for its ability to link architecture, cinema, literature and art history; as well as a specific critical stream in museum history. How can we hence account for the emergence of petro-cultures and infrastructures, in and out mainstream cultural industry and representations of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;c. ? How did humanity shift from the golden age of oil economy and growth to our collapsing era of environmental curse and ecosystems\u2019 resilience ?&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Morad Montazami<\/strong> is an art historian, a publisher and a curator. After serving at&nbsp;Tate Modern (London) between 2014-2019 as curator \u00ab&nbsp;Middle East and North Africa&nbsp;\u00bb,&nbsp;he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zam\u00e2n Books &amp; Curating to explore Arab, African and Asian modernism. He published numerous essays and curated among other projects&nbsp;<em>Bagdad Mon Amour<\/em>, Institut des cultures d\u2019Islam, Paris, 2018;&nbsp;<em>Casablanca Art School<\/em>, Tate St-Ives\/Sharjah Art Foundation\/Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2023-2024;&nbsp;<em>Arab Presences. Modern Art and Decolonization. Paris 1908-1988<\/em>, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art moderne, Paris, 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morad Montazami Black gold or curse: investigating&nbsp;petro-modernities and the hypothesis of a post-oil visual culture 5 December 2024 The recent paradigm of petro-modernity takes oil as a political catalyst through expropriation, coups d&#8217;\u00e9tat or movements to nationalise oil, in the 20th&nbsp;c., beside an intermedia tool for its ability to link architecture, cinema, literature and art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}