Halil Altındere’s Space Refugee: Martian Modernism, Syrian Resettlement, and Life After Climate Change

IF 0.3 3区艺术学 N/A ARCHITECTURE

International Journal of Islamic Architecture Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI:10.1386/ijia_00147_1

Rachel Winter

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Halil Altındere proposes in his video Space Refugee (2016) that Syrian refugees resettle on Mars to escape the dire environmental and political circumstances of Earth. Through a visual analysis of the Martian landscapes and built environments featured in Altındere’s video, I examine how the artist evokes the overlapping visual languages and rhetorical devices used to frame the construction of real and imagined cities in the UAE and on Mars. I argue that Altındere’s Martian landscape brings together features of Gulf modernism in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with elements of historical Islamicate architectures to imagine a Martian modernism that subverts repressive conditions on earth and offers social transformation. I theorize and contextualize Altındere’s vision of a utopian Martian life for Syrian refugees through the framework of Martian modernism. This critical lens elucidates how the visual features, living conditions, and ideological motivations of the future imagined in Space Refugee are shaped by and respond to intersecting histories of modernity, coloniality, architectural development, extraterrestrial exploration, science fiction, and climate change.

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Halil Altındere 的《太空难民》：火星现代主义、叙利亚重新安置和气候变化后的生活

Halil Altındere 在他的视频《太空难民》（2016 年）中提出，叙利亚难民为了逃离地球上恶劣的环境和政治环境而在火星上定居。通过对 Altındere 视频中的火星景观和建筑环境进行视觉分析，我研究了这位艺术家如何唤起人们对重叠的视觉语言和修辞手段的兴趣，这些语言和修辞手段被用来构建阿联酋和火星上真实和想象中的城市。我认为，Altındere 的火星景观将迪拜和阿布扎比的海湾现代主义特征与历史上伊斯兰建筑的元素结合在一起，想象出一种火星现代主义，它颠覆了地球上的压抑条件，并带来了社会变革。我通过火星现代主义的框架，对阿尔特恩德雷为叙利亚难民设想的乌托邦式火星生活进行了理论和背景分析。这一批判性视角阐明了《太空难民》中所想象的未来的视觉特征、生活条件和意识形态动机是如何被现代性、殖民主义、建筑发展、外星探索、科幻小说和气候变化等相互交错的历史所塑造并做出回应的。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes bi-annually, peer-reviewed articles on the urban design and planning, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. The main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the practical, historical and theoretical aspects of architecture, with a focus on both design and its reception. The journal also aims to encourage dialogue and discussion between practitioners and scholars. Articles that bridge the academic-practitioner divide are highly encouraged. While the main focus is on architecture, papers that explore architecture from other disciplinary perspectives, such as art, history, archaeology, anthropology, culture, spirituality, religion and economics are also welcome. The journal is specifically interested in contemporary architecture and urban design in relation to social and cultural history, geography, politics, aesthetics, technology and conservation. Spanning across cultures and disciplines, IJIA seeks to analyse and explain issues related to the built environment throughout the regions covered. The audience of this journal includes both practitioners and scholars. The journal publishes both online and in print. The first issue was published in January 2012.

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