The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Leftovers of Translation
1. But What is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge
2. Extra-Extra: Interview with Raul Ortega Ayala
3. Dissonant Chorus
4. Shen Yuan: The Leftovers of Translation
5. Voices Off: Interview with Susan Hiller

Part II: The Banality of Difference
6. 'We are the Martians...'
7. Van Leo: Self-Portraits
8. Shirani Shahbazi: The Banality of Difference
9. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the Crime
10. Electrifying Eve

Part III: Re-siting the City
11. The Real Me
12. Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting
13. Alfred's Favourite Tree
14. The Leopard
15. Maps of Desire

Part IV: Studies in a Post-colonial body
16. The Revolution Stripped Bare
17. Studies in a Post-colonial Body
18. Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art

Part V: Relocating the Remains: History and Representation
19. Strangers and Barbarians: Representing Ourselves and Others
20. Telling Tales: Keith Piper's Relocating the Remains
21. Sweet Oblivion
22. Godville: Interview with Omer Fast

Part VI: Going Global
23. Going Global: 4th International Istanbul Biennial
24. Detonations: Jonathan Hernández and the Rongwrong series
25. Modern Europeans
26. Slipping Away (or Uncompliant Cartographies)

Part VII: Transmission Interrupted
27. Interruption in Four Acts, or Disappearing Irises, Broken-down Buses and Ceramic Citroens
28. Egypt at the Venice Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed
Everything
29. From Zero to Infinity: The Work of Adel Abdessemed
30. Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left
31. Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration
32. A Thousand and One

Index