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Oraib Toukan is an artist who works in photography, video, and installation. Participation, appropriation, referentiality, and institutional interventions under the radar are typical of her practice.<ref>http://hafny.org/women-in-photography/oraib-toukan/</ref> She was born in Boston in 1977 and was raised in Amman, Jordan. Toukan has degrees in Geography and Information Systems (BSc and MSc) as well as an interdisciplinary Fine Arts and Photography MFA from Bard College.
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In 2009, she was an artist in residence at Delfina, London and was also artist in residence that same year at Artist Alliance in New York city, where she has been based since 2007. In 2008 she received a full two-year Fellowship Award from Jacob Javitz, as well as MAWRED, YATF, and AFAC production grants.<ref>http://nadour.org/artists/oraib-toukan/</ref> She has worked with both Triangle Arts Trust and the Fondazione Pistoletto in pushing ‘studio practice’ into public and social spaces. Oraib initiated the Shatana International Arts workshop in Jordan, as well as experimental sound/image labs for youth in Jordan.<ref>http://www.artistsinresidence.ch/galerie/galerie/oraib-toukan/</ref>
==Artist Statement==
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Oraib Toukan works across media in photography, video, text, and installation often using current affairs as source material. Threaded throughout her
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is a form of play in and around neo-liberal absurdities and institutional critique.<ref>http://www.programonline.de/toukan.html</ref>
==Exhibitions==
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Recent exhibitions include the Asia Pacific Triennial (2012), Kunstraum Munchen (2012), Mori Art Museum (2012), the Hordaland Kunstsenter Bergen (2011), NGBK/Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin (2010), the Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon (2010), the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (2010), Iniva London (2010),
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the 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009).
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==Publications==
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==Major Works==
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* "The New(er) Middle East" (2007) - Toukan "appropriated known topographical
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and replaces their mere representational qualities with interactivity. She literally cuts up what has become almost iconographic territory based on a found US army map, into new strange magnetic forms for audiences to piece back together on a magnetic wall. Instead, even stranger new territories are formed by them."<ref>http://nadour.org/artists/oraib
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* "The equity is in the circle" (2007–09) - From the Asia Pacific Triennial guide: This work "involves the creation of a fictional advertising campaign to auction off countries across the Middle East under 100-year leases, including nations in economic or political turmoil. Variously comprised of documents, videos, public billboards, lectures, advertising spreads, and branding presentations, the project has drawn upon the expertise of a real estate agent, a brander, a diplomatic advisor, a financial strategist, a public relations consultant, media strategist, and Middle East affairs advisor. By using the processes of advertising campaigns, international diplomacy and the real estate market
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Toukan offers candid and ironic perspectives on the complex state of affairs in the Middle East through an imagined yet ominously
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reality."<ref>http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2012/apt7_asia_pacific_triennial_of_contemporary_art/artists/0_now_traversing_west_asia_oraib_toukan</ref>
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[http://vimeo.com/42901538 Artist talk by Oraib Toukan, Delfina Foundation, June 2010]
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[http://www.oraibtoukan.com/Home.html Oraib Toukan
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==References==
==References==