ABSTRACT This article focuses on recent contemporary art of Gulf Futurism and Arab Futurism with a specific geographical focus on the Near and Middle East. Still only occasionally addressed and analysed in contemporary academic discussions, these art discourses and practices can be understood as particular forms of counterfuturisms and cultural politics of imaginary times; they continue the earlier work of Afrofuturism in using an aesthetic repertoire to complicate normalised notions of time and technology but in an alternative geopolitical context. Some of the analysed works such as Larissa Sansour’s films outline political questions about territories and architectures of control but these are also other contexts that address how experience of time is being infrastructured in material media culture. The article analyses these post-colonial artistic practices in dialogue with contemporary theoretical debate about cultural politics of time including the discourses about cancellation of future (Berardi) as well as the idea of counterfuturisms as a form of audiovisual practice.

中文翻译：

---

中东和其他未来主义：当代艺术和视觉文化中的想象时间

摘要 本文重点介绍近期海湾未来主义和阿拉伯未来主义的当代艺术，并特别关注近东和中东地区。在当代学术讨论中，这些艺术话语和实践仍然只是偶尔被提及和分析，可以被理解为虚构时代的反未来主义和文化政治的特殊形式；他们继续 Afrofuturism 的早期工作，使用美学曲目使时间和技术的规范化概念复杂化，但在另一种地缘政治背景下。一些被分析的作品，如拉里萨·桑苏尔的电影，勾勒出关于领土和控制架构的政治问题，但这些也是解决时间体验如何在物质媒体文化中被构建的其他背景。