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This chapter critically interrogates popular understandings of Egyptian revolutionary art by historically grounding these understandings within the temporality of the Egyptian revolution. Temporality is framed using the liminality of Arnold van Gennep and later by Victor Turner. This framework helps us address the Egyptian revolution as a period of liminality characterized by “in-betweenness”, whereby the normative order has been momentarily suspended and essentially inverted to give space for a new order, narratives, and ideas. This chapter will illustrate the ways in which different moments of the historical event of the Egyptian revolution produced “new” liminal moments that demanded different artistic strategies and responses, which informed how the art producers interviewed for this research perceived their understandings of art and their role in its creation. |
