d ɪˈv a n | A Journal of Accounts , is a biannual journal co-published by Alan Cruickshank and UNSW Sydney School of Art & Design. d ɪˈv a n | A Journal of Accounts presents critical interpretations on contemporary art and culture, and its broader historical, socio-political and theoretical contexts, from the greater Asian regions (Middle East, South/Southeast/East Asia and Asia-Pacific), which determine historical and current socio-cultural affinities with contemporary Australian art and society.
divan: from the Persian dīwān, an account book; origin dēvan, booklet; also related to debir, writer; evolved through ‘a book of poems’, ‘collection of literary passages’, ‘an archive’, ‘book of accounts’ and ‘collection of sheets’ to ‘an assembly’, ‘office of accounts’, ‘custom house’, ‘government bureau’ or ‘councils chamber’, to a long, cushioned seat, which in this sense entered European languages.
divan presents a shift of content and meaning over time coexistent with evolving historical relationships between the East and West.
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EDITOR ALAN CRUICKSHANK
PUBLISHER DIVAN JOURNAL | UNSW ART & DESIGN
ISSN 2207-1563
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International Editorial Advisory Board
NANCY ADAJANIA India
Cultural theorist, editor, writer and curator, Mumbai
HOOR AL QASIMI United Arab Emirates
President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
STEPHANIE BAILEY London/Hong Kong,
Writer and editor
UTE META BAUER Singapore
Founding Director NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore Co-Curator, 17th Istanbul Biennial, Hong Kong/United Kingdom
THOMAS BERGHUIS The Netherlands/Australia
Independent Curator and Art Historian, Leiden
DIANA CAMPBELL BETANCOURT Bangladesh
Chief Curator, Dhaka Art Summit, Artistic Director, Samdani Art Foundation,
DhakaArtistic Director, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila
FULYA ERDEMCI Turkey/Denmark
Curator, Istanbul/KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark
PATRICK FLORES The Philippines
Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, Manila
BLAIR FRENCH Australia
CEO, Carrigeworks, Sydney
ADAM GECZY Australia
Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney; author, artist, Sydney
PAUL GLADSTON United Kingdom
Judith Neilson Chair Contemporary Art, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney
ALEXIE GLASS-KANTOR Australia
Executive Director, Artspace, Sydney
REUBEN KEEHAN Australia
Curator Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
VASIF KORTUN Turkey
Board Member, SALT, Director, Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul
LEE WENG CHOY Malaysia/Singapore
Independent art critic, Kuala Lumpur
IAN MCLEAN Australia
The Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australia Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
VALI MAHLOUJI United Kingdom
Curator, founder of Archaeology of the Final Decade, advisor to the British Museum, London
GUYS MANNES-ABBOTT United Kingdom
Writer, essayist and critic, London
CHARLES MEREWETHER Georgia
Curator of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
NAT MULLER The Netherlands
Independent curator and critic, Amsterdam
DJON MUNDINE Australia
Independent curator, writer, and art critic, Sydney
NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS Australia
Professor, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
ROBIN PECKHAM China
Co-director Taipei Dangdai, writer, Taipei
SHUBIGI RAO Singapore
Artistic Director 2021 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, artist
ZARA STANHOPE Aotearoa
New Zeland Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, Ngāmotu New Plymouth
PHIL TINARI China
Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
MURTAZA VALI USA/UAE
Writer, art historian, and curator, New York
ALA YOUNIS Jordan
Curator and artist, Amman
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