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The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019

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dc.contributor.author Taan, Yasmine Nachabe
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-31T12:06:42Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-31T12:06:42Z
dc.date.copyright 2023 en_US
dc.date.issued 2023-10-13
dc.identifier.issn 1474-2837 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10725/15159
dc.description.abstract On 17 October 2019 in Beirut, a Lebanese state bodyguard confronted by demonstrators opened fire when a female protestor hit him with a side kick. Another protestor recorded this moment on his mobile phone. A single frame of the video footage was remediated shortly after as a still image and gained rapid traction across social media platforms, as did the original video. The circulation of the content online inspired a group of artists to remediate the digital image themselves into a series of artistic works, adding in the process additional layers of meaning and interpretation to its original context. Taking the digital image of the side kick as a case study, this qualitative research examines how five young Lebanese artists use ‘cyberartivism’ to participate in the rising wave of political and social transformation. Based on empirical material that consists of a series of interviews with five Lebanese artists, this study aims to understand the role of digital images in their transition from forms of evidence to remediated sites of transgression in the context of the October 2019 Revolution in Lebanon. Its purpose is to explore the way camera witnessing, connective witnessing, and the creative modification of an image and its circulation on social media can foster a sense of solidarity and dissent by empowering and strengthening protestors’ voices, thus generating new forms of leadership and agency. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019 en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.description.version Published en_US
dc.author.school SAD en_US
dc.author.idnumber 198802490 en_US
dc.author.department Art And design en_US
dc.relation.journal Social Movement Studies en_US
dc.article.pages 1-19 en_US
dc.keywords Visual activism en_US
dc.keywords Connective witnessing en_US
dc.keywords Counter visuality en_US
dc.keywords Middle East uprising en_US
dc.keywords Digital image en_US
dc.keywords Social media en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2269105 en_US
dc.identifier.ctation Taan, Y. N. (2023). The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019. Social Movement Studies, 1-19. en_US
dc.author.email ytaan@lau.edu.lb en_US
dc.identifier.tou http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php en_US
dc.identifier.url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14742837.2023.2269105 en_US
dc.orcid.id https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-6142 en_US
dc.author.affiliation Lebanese American University en_US


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