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1 Heba Elkayal, "Ganzeer: The De Facto Cultural Operator," Daily News Eygpt, July 27, 2011.

2 Ganzeer, "Practical Advice," in Bidoun, no. 25, Summer 2011, quoted in Anny Shaw and Gareth Harris, "Arab Protesters Put Their Art on the Streets," Art Newspaper, Dec. 30, 2011.

3 Jack Shenker, "Egypt's Uprising Brings DIY Spirit out on to the Streets," Guardian, May 18, 2011.

4 Ganzeer, quoted in ibid.

5 Andrei Yerofeyev, quoted in Ellen Barry, "Radical Art Group Wins Russian Ministry Prize," New York Times, Apr. 8, 2011.

6 Alexei Plutser-Sarno, quoted in Michael Lithgow, "Even Banksy Couldn't Help Them," Art Threat, Feb. 7, 2011, artthreat.net.

7 Niklas Maak, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 21, 2003.

8 Daniel Hernández, "Temple of blood: Teresa Margolles at the Venice Biennale," Intersections,
May 28, 2009, danielhernandez.typepad.com.

9 Nina Berman, interviewed by Jonathan Blaustein, A Photo Editor, March 3, 2010, www.aphotoeditor.com.

10 Richard Mosse, Infra: Photographs by Richard Mosse, New York, Aperture, 2011, p. 133.

11 Ibid., p. 132. 12 Hans Ulrich Obrist, quoted in Mathieu Wellner, "Ai Weiwei," Mono-Kulture, no. 22, Autumn 2009, p. 5.

Christian Viveros-Fauné is a New York-based writer and curator.