Maayan Amir

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Maayan Amir (born 1978, in Hadera, Israel) is an artist, researcher, and senior
lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Arts Department.
Maayan Amir
Born 1978
Hadera, Israel

Contents Nationality Israeli

Education Goldsmiths, University
Biography
of London
Exterritory project
Known for Researcher, Curator,
Publications - books Art, Video art
References Website exterritory.wordpress
.com (http://exterritory.
wordpress.com/)
Biography
Amir’s collaborative work with artist Ruti Sela has been widely exhibited, including at the Sydney Biennale (2006),
Istanbul Biennale (2009), and Berlin Biennale (2010), the New Museum Triennial (2015), and in such venues as the
Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, Ludwig Museum, HKW, and Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo among others. She is the holder of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) 2011 young artist award.

Amir holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA and MFA
from Tel- Aviv University. In 2008, she edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema titled Documentally. In 2011, she
was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She has curated exhibitions related to state power, art, and
ideology. Her essays have been published internationally, in books, journals, and catalogs, and she was a researcher on the
Forensic Architecture project at Goldsmiths University, London. In recent years, her research has focused on the concept
of extraterritoriality. In addition to her in-depth inquiry into existing definitions of extraterritoriality, Amir proposes that
the concept may be extended to other objects and spheres of activity such as, regimes of representation and information.
Her work conceptualizes what she views as extraterritorial images. A definition to extraterritorial image was first included
in Forensis (Sternberg Press) and later appeared in other platforms such as the New Museum Triennial “Surround
Audience” catalog and in the mini special journal published by Utrecht Law Review. Before joining BGU, she was the
head of the MFA in Fine Art Program at Haifa University and lectured at Tel-Aviv University at the History of Art
Department.

Exterritory project
Consisting of video art, transdisciplinary collaborations, and techno-aesthetic interventions, Exterritory is devoted to
theoretical and practical investigations of extraterritorial phenomena and ideas concerning extraterritoriality in an
interdisciplinary context. Initiated by Sela and Amir in 2009, Exterritory began with the screening of a compilation of
video art by Middle-Eastern artists onto sails of boats navigating the extraterritorial waters of the Mediterranean. Using
the high seas as a meeting space, the intervention hoped to offer a suspension of the region’s border regimes by enabling
encounters between artists and diverse participants from conflict areas which cross-border restrictions usually outlaw.
Since then, Sela and Amir’s work created in the frame of the project has been shown internationally, in museums and art
venues such as the HKW in Berlin, the Union of Comoros Biennial in Moroni, and the New Museum in New York,
amongst many others. The Exterritory project has also extended into a series of public symposia for leading thinkers and
practitioners, organized in collaboration with art and cultural institutes (e.g. Kadist Art Foundation, Beit Hagefen, the
Stedelijk Museum) and held in various global locations. In 2016, Punctum Books released Amir and Sela’s edited
anthology on extraterritoriality––Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds. Professor Zygmunt Bauman commended the
book saying: “this book …hits the bull's eye when it tries to capture the substance of our time in the net woven of
concepts ... who knows, perhaps it should be written in terms of the rapid and very profound changes in the idea of
extraterritoriality and in the idea of occupation, particularly occupation in relation to the world.”[1]
Publications - books
United States of Palestine-Israel (http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1310&l=en&bookId=2
05&sort=year), Exterritory Together with Ruti Sela, Ed. Joshua Simion, Sternberg Press, New-York, 2011
Documentally- Collection of Essays on Israeli Documentary Cinema (http://www.am-oved.co.il/htmls/produc
t.aspx?c0=17690&bsp=13470) (Ed. Maayan Amir), Am-Oved, Tel-Aviv, 2008

[https://punctumbooks.com/titles/extraterritorialities-in-occupied-worlds/ Extraterritorialities in Occupied

Worlds (Ed. together with Ruti Sela)

[http://www.sternberg-press.com/?pageId=1488 Extraterritorial Images in Forensis

References
[https://exterritory.wordpress.com/ Official site
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2s Professor Zygmunt Bauman, Center for Research
Architecture Goldsmiths, 2016:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://www.jeudepaume.org/pdf/PetitJournal_FauxAmis.pdf
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://dublin.sciencegallery.com/secret/exhibits/a-
secrecy-impulse-image-blockade/
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://www.columbia.edu/~mh2968/Syllabi/Hart_late_modernism_syllabus.pdf
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttps://interventionsjournal.net/author/interventionsjournal/page/24/
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRVPgs5BVs
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/1915
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://www.smba.nl/en/events/the-exterritory-project-
symposi/
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://www.kadist.org/en/programs/all/1469
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://bombmagazine.org/article/0563415/exterritory

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LjIWhc2qJnc&t=2shttp://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/5/1/trans050111.xml

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