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Episode No. 704 features artist Wafaa Bilal. The MCA Chicago is presenting "Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me," the first major survey of Bilal's work. Across his genres-busting career, the Iraqi-American Bilal has made performances, sculptures and related digital presentations that have interrogated the United States' relationship with and conduct within Iraq, the Middle East, and broader geopolitics. Bilal's work also investigates the notion of cultural cannibalism, the ways in which the culture of one people may be used, disassembled, and consumed by another. "Indulge Me" was curated by Bana Kattan, and is on view in Chicago through October 19. An invaluable catalogue was published by the MCA. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $20-32. Bilal's work is in the collections of museums as unalike as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Qatar. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah UAE; the Art Gallery at NYU Abu Dhabi; and the 32015 Venice Biennale. Instagram: Wafaa Bilal, Tyler Green.
Next month, the German artist Anselm Kiefer will be 80, and the first of a number of shows internationally to mark this landmark moment opened this week at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. It focuses on his early works, and Ben Luke visits Oxford to discuss this pivotal moment in his career with Lena Fritsch, the curator of the exhibition. The latest edition of the biennial in the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah opened earlier this month. The Art Newspaper's correspondent Dale Berning Sawa visited during opening week and spoke to Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, the president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation, which runs the biennial, about this year's edition, her journey in art, and her role in establishing the biennial as a leading art world event. And this episode's Work of the Week is Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901) by Pablo Picasso, a painting from the artist's Blue Period. Conservators at The Courtauld Institute in London have discovered an image of a mystery woman hidden beneath this portrait of De Soto, Picasso's friend and fellow artist. We talk to Barnaby Wright, deputy head of The Courtauld Gallery, about the painting and the image beneath it. The work features in a new exhibition at the gallery, Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection.Anselm Kiefer: Early Works, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 14 February-15 June; Anselm Kiefer: Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 7 March-9 June; Kiefer / Van Gogh, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 28 June-26 October; Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Ocean, Saint Louis Art Museum, US, 18 October 2025-25 January 2026To carry, the 16th Sharjah Biennial, until 15 June 2025.The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14 February-26 May.The Art Newspaper's book The Year Ahead 2025, an authoritative guide to the year's unmissable art exhibitions, museum openings and significant art events, is still available to buy at theartnewspaper.com for £14.99 or the equivalent in your currency. Buy it here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comics artist Rawand Issa joins us to talk about her book Inside the Giant Fish (trans. Amy Chiniara, Maamoul Press); her path from journalism to graphic art; artist groups and collectives across the region; the “new school of Arab comics,” and the challenges of making a living as a comics artist. We also talk about a few other Lebanese graphic novels, particularly Lamia Ziadé's My Port of Beirut, translated to English by Emma Ramadan, and Lena Merhej's I Think We'll Be Calmer in the Next War.Show Notes:You can find several of Rawand's books available from Maamoul Press: http://maamoulpress.com. Also read Rawand's “Being Illegal is Unbearable at The Nib, her ماذا نفعل في مواجهة استمرار العنف ضد النساء؟ at Jeem and her untitled work in Chime.And if you missed it, there's a discussion with Rawand and translator Amy Chiniara about Inside the Giant Fish at ArabLit.Samandal magazine is on Instagram (@samandalcomics), and you can find them at samandal-comics.org.You can buy copies of the magazine Corniche at the Sharjah Art Foundation website.Lab619 (@lab619), Skefkef (@skefkefmag/), and Fanzeen Comics (@fanzeencomics/) are on Instagram, while TokTok has a website, toktokmag.com.Rawand Issa (@rawand.issa_) and Amy Chiniara (@amychiniara) are both on Instagram, too.Lamia Ziadé's My Port of Beirut, translated to English by Emma Ramadan, from Pluto PressLena Merhej's We Will Be Calmer in the Next War is available online.Please support BULAQ! You can donate to our fundraiser for the 2023 season at donorbox.org/support-bulaq. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hoor Al Qasimi has been named the most influential person in the contemporary art world in 2024, according to ArtReview's Power 100 list. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
A quick chat with Raneem Turjman (Film Programme Senior Coordinator at Sharjah Art Foundation) to talk to us about the 7th Edition Of Sharjah Film Platform Taking place from 15 to 24 November 2024 at Mirage City Cinema and City Centre Al Zahia, the Sharjah Film Platform 7 is one to keep an eye out for. Bringing 30 international films from around the world, this festival promises 10 days of cinematic glory. For more info, check out https://ticket.sharjahart.org/Home/SFP?E=MTA0OA~EQ~~EQ~&L=NA-1 Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the programme for the seventh edition of Sharjah Film Platform (SFP7), featuring a rich array of documentary and fiction screenings, alongside a series of thought-provoking talks. This annual film festival continues to present transformative, compelling, and boundary-pushing films to audiences in Sharjah and beyond. Running from November 15 to 24, 2024, Sharjah Film Platform 7 will take place at the Mirage City Cinema, the open-air theatre in Sharjah's historical quarter, and VOX Cinemas, City Centre Al Zahia. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
On this episode I'm joined by Sandra Poulson. Sandra Poulson is an Angolan artist based in London and Luanda. Poulson draws from personal experiences and observations growing up in Luanda, Angola, a former Portuguese colony. Her work investigates the political, cultural, and socio-economic landscape of Angola analyzing the relationship between history, oral tradition, and global political structures. I first discovered Poulson's work earlier this year on a trip to Sharjah when I visited the Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute. At the time, Poulson's work, as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennale, was still on view. This exclusive season of Everything is Connected: African Artists & Curators in the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale is sponsored by The Africa Institute, Global Studies University. Light Work is a creative media platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture highlighting the work of emerging, mid-career, and established artists from diverse communities and the art professionals who seek to amplify their achievements and contributions to society.
Conversations on Sound and Music, a web-based conversation series hosted by Sharjah Art Foundation Register here https://www.sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/conversations-on-sound-and-music Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
Omar Alobeidli, Team Leader, Visitor Services at Sharjah Art Foundation joins us on our special Eid show to talk about the Hidden Gems of the foundation and Sharjah. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Art Foundation, in partnership with Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF), invites Emirati filmmakers to apply for an open call to receive funding of 25,000 AED. Designed to support independent Emirati cinema, this special grant will be offered to one Emirati awardee, jointly selected by the Foundation and ADMAF. Through this dedicated grant, the awardees will be provided with opportunities and professional challenges that will help connect them with the international community of experimental filmmakers. The deadline to apply is 11:59 pm UAE time (GMT +4) on 24 June 2024. For more information about the open call, visit sharjahart.org. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
Discover how to use a range of digital illustration apps, including Procreate, as you transition from traditional paper sketches to digital artwork. Gain an insight into the intricacies of this transformative process. Register Here https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/comics-lab-digital-art Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio
Inviting artists and thinkers from different geographies and musical traditions to elaborate on the ways in which they engage with sound and music, Sharjah Music Programme presents a series of concerts, talks, workshops, events and publications. Audience members are invited to participate in conversations, activations, classes, listening sessions and intimate performances with the invitees, furthering Sharjah Art Foundation's aim to become a platform and a meeting point for community-building and renewed discourse on music and sonic culture. The events will take place on 21, 22 and 23 April 2024 with the Japanese duo REFUGEES (Kawol Samarqandi and Meacha). Tckts here https://ticket.sharjahart.org/Home/Details?E=MTAyNDg~EQ~&L=NA-1 Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Ep.193 Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia's work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY. Metaferia's work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City. Photo credit: Tommie Battle Artist https://www.helinametaferia.com/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/arts/things-to-do-this-weekend.html Artsy Helina Metaferia Honors the Activist Legacies of Black Women across Collage and Performance | Artsy Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-do-you-judge-the-value-of-social-practice-art-artist-helina-metaferia-developed-metrics-to-determine-if-a-project-is-successful-2181336 Vanity Fair Leisure, Adornment, and Beauty Are Radical Acts in “Resting Our Eyes” | Vanity Fair The Cut ‘Resting Our Eyes': 10 Black Artists at ICA San Francisco (thecut.com) Chicago Tribune 4 female artists mount a Chicago exhibit on climate issues: ‘Activism work is care work' – Chicago Tribune Sugarcane Magazine Ritual and Remembrance in Sharjah Biennial 15 - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine Interior Design Magazine Artist Helina Metaferia Celebrates Black Women Activists in Two Solo Shows - Interior Design The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/06/16/black-artists-and-performers-take-over-fort-greene-park-for-juneteenth-jubilee Financial Times ( First) https://www.ft.com/content/9b75fdcd-9f1a-4c3f-ae70-b1140fc9cdad Financial Times (Second) https://www.ft.com/content/e8030f71-2925-4fbb-8e0a-96d6ce1cf774 Contemporary And https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/helina-metaferia-weaving-and-resisting-in-more-than-a-few-ways/
Join Natasha Ginwala as she explores one of Lala Rukh's works from her iconic series, River In An Ocean, and how it captures the diverse rhythms of life and landscape with a minimalist vocabulary of lines, symbols and blackness. Backstory is available in both audio and video formats. To view this episode in video, click here. CREDITS Host: Natasha Ginwala Artwork: River In An Ocean: 6 (1993) and Moonscape (2010 / 2012) by Lala Rukh Producers: Jyoti Dhar, Kamayani Sharma and Mahshid Rafiei. Film and Multimedia: Dima Bittard, Unnikrishnan Suresh, Ward Helal, Shafeek Nalakath Kareem, and Magdi Tawfig. Special Thanks: Nawar Al Qassimi, Umer Butt, Elaine Lubguban and Mahmoud El Safadi. © Sharjah Art Foundation, 2024See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What if we write our own histories? What if we create the change we seek? In this episode, we talk to the President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Hoor Al Qasimi, under whose watch, Sharjah has become one of the most influential centers for cultural creation and research in the Global South. From revamping art biennials to creating new universities, overseeing architectural triennials, running a fashion house, sitting on international museum boards, to curating large and small scale art projects around the world, Hoor Al Qasimi is perhaps one of the busiest people we have ever interviewed. At the heart of all of this is art, and Hoor's profound belief in its essential ability to change us as people, and her insistence that this needs to be done by working together. Tune in for more!
Sharjah Art Foundation announces the international premiere of Mohit Takalkar's play Hunkaro, winner of seven awards across 13 categories at the 2023 Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards in Delhi. Co-presented with Ishara Art Foundation, the performance takes place on 17 and 18 February 2024 in Calligraphy Square, Sharjah. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
In this episode of Backstory, curator and art historian Salah Hassan elaborates on the historical significance of Untitled (1990), a painting by Gavin Jantjes, and how it contributes to the discourse and representation of African and African Diaspora art. Backstory is available in both audio and video formats. To view this episode in video, click here. CREDITS Host: Salah M Hassan. Artwork: Untitled (1990) by Gavin Janjtes. Producers: Jyoti Dhar, Kamayani Sharma and Mahshid Rafiei. Film and Multimedia: Dima Bittard, Unnikrishnan Suresh, Ward Helal, Shafeek Nalakath Kareem, and Magdi Tawfig. Special Thanks: Nawar Al Qassimi and Carmen Hassan. © Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For EMPIRE LINES' 100th episode, we join artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah to journey the Columbian Exchange, connecting continents from the 15th century, and contemporary port cities from Plymouth to Sharjah and Venice. The Columbian Exchange refers to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, goods, and people between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe - or the ‘Old' and ‘New World' - since the 1400s. With five screens, Arcadia considers these layered, overlapping journeys, travelling across stormy seas and sublime, epic landscapes. But these histories are also ‘interrupted' with symbolic images of trade, disease, and smallpox, highlighting the fatal, often ‘genocidal', nature of colonial encounters. Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah talks about his intersectional, environmentally-engaged films, comparing previous works like Purple (2017) to this first ‘post-human project'. He connects historic viruses - often represented by Indigenous cultures in vivid oral and visual sources like Aztec codexes and ‘plague journals' - with his experience producing during the COVID pandemic. Drawing on his work with the Black Audio Film Collective, John shares his collaborative, ‘democratic' approach to filmmaking. And, 400 years since the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth to transport the Pilgrims to North America, we discuss the meaning of Arcadia's immersive cinematic display for the port city today. John Akomfrah: Arcadia runs at The Box in Plymouth runs at The Box in Plymouth until 2 June 2024. He will represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale 2024 in Italy from 20 April to 24 November 2024. For more on water and migration on film, hear Barbican curator Eleanor Nairne on Julianknxx's Chorus in Rememory of Flight (2023), on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/1792f53fa27b8e2ece289b53dd62b2b7 For more on sublime landscapes, listen to photographer David Sanya on the EMPIRE LINES episode about Lagos Soundscapes, Emeka Ogboh (2023): pod.link/1533637675/episode/dd32afc011dc8f1eaf39d5f12f100e5d WITH: Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA, British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent. Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), and now Smoking Dogs Films, with works including The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a moving portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall's life and work recently on display at Tate Britain. Arcadia (2023), which premiered at the Sharjah Biennial 15 in the United Arab Emirates, is co-commissioned by The Box, Plymouth, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam, and Sharjah Art Foundation. ART: ‘Arcadia, John Akomfrah (2023)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast And Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines
The 11th edition of the Vantage Point Sharjah Exhibition kicks off and runs until January 14th 2024, showcasing four artists and one artistic group of photographers all from Asia and Africa at the early stages of their careers. Aisha AlMazmi had the privilege of talking to Jiwon Lee, the Curatorial Department Manager of Sharjah Art Foundation, and also Yashna Kaul, who is one of the photographers from New Delhi. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio www.youtube.com/pulse95radio
Big Hass chats with Inge Thomson who has been creating music for over 30 years as a composer, producer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and performer. She is in Sharjah, part of the Music Program by the Sharjah Art Foundation. For more info, check out: https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/inge-thomson-lecture-concert Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Big Hass chats with Emmie McLuskey who works across the roles of artist, programmer, writer and educator. For more info, https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/emmie-mcluskey Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Did “Arabness” die in 1973? How meaningful is the word Arab now anyway? And what role does the internet play in visual culture and civic imagination? In this multifaceted conversation with Dr Omar Kholeif, we explore many strands of thought, venturing from Arab culture as a “creole culture” to looking at the internet as a “pesky medium”. We share afikra's core tenets and philosophy and reflect on key players in the production of Arab pop culture now in 2023. Dr Omar Kholeif is an Egyptian-born artist, author, broadcaster, edit and curator (among other things). They are currently director of collections and senior curator at the Sharjah Art Foundation. Kholeif started their career as a music writer, researcher and documentary producer, going on to found the UK's first Arab Film Festival (now called the Safar Film festival). They have since worked across film, media, fine art and visual culture. They have taught at many institutions including the University of Chicago and University of Oxford. About their most recent publication “Art_Internet: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs”:“A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time.”Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices of the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital.The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future.****** ABOUT THE SERIES ****** afikra Conversations is our flagship program featuring long-form interviews with experts from academia, art, and media who are helping document and/or shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with new found curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. Following the interview there is a moderated town-hall style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp Watch all afikra Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... ****** ABOUT AFIKRA ****** afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity.
Curator Morad Montazami assembles the revolutionary artist-professors and students of the Casablanca Art School who constructed the post-colonial state of Morocco in the 20th century, and how North African crafts were part of both transnational networks, and local traditions, pre-dating Western European modernism. The Casablanca Art School proposed a bold, revolutionary new wave of Arab visual culture following Morocco's declaration of independence from French and Spanish colonial rule in 1956. Reflecting a new social awareness, Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa and Mohamed Melehi looked beyond Western European academic traditions - and demanded the removal of all Greco-Roman sculptures - sending students to travel more locally, where they encountered traditional arts and crafts more modern than Klee and Kandinsky. The Tate is the only institution in the world to hold works by all three of the Casablanca trio. Morad Montazami, a curator of a landmark new show in St Ives, explores how the School's many artists worked across painting, sculpture, graphic design, and architectural murals, integrating art and infrastructure, and artists and the economy. Plus, why we should decentre the Bauhaus as a Western European school, how artists incorporated modern abstract influences alongside Mexican, pan-Arabic, and Marxist revolutionary politics, why a Dutch anthropologist coined the phrase Afro-Berberism, and how the absence of museum spaces after empire provided an opportunity for more public, accessible art - for the nation to ‘build itself'. The Casablanca Art School: Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde, 1962-1987 runs at the Tate St Ives in Cornwall until 14 January 2024, then at the Sharjah Art Foundation into 2024. For more, you can read my article. WITH: Morad Montazami, art historian, a publisher and a curator. He is the director for the platform Zamân Books & Curating, committed to develop studies of Arab, Asian and African modernities, and co-curator of The Casablanca Art School. ART: ‘Multiple Marrakech/Multiple Flamme (Multiple Marrakech, Multiple Flame), Mohamed Ataallah (1969)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines
Comics artist Rawand Issa joins us to talk about her book Inside the Giant Fish (trans. Amy Chiniara, Maamoul Press); her path from journalism to graphic art; artist groups and collectives across the region; the “new school of Arab comics,” and the challenges of making a living as a comics artist. We also talk about a few other Lebanese graphic novels, particularly Lamia Ziadé's My Port of Beirut, translated to English by Emma Ramadan, and Lena Merhej's I Think We'll Be Calmer in the Next War.Show Notes:You can find several of Rawand's books available from Maamoul Press: http://maamoulpress.com. Also read Rawand's “Being Illegal is Unbearable at The Nib, her ماذا نفعل في مواجهة استمرار العنف ضد النساء؟ at Jeem and her untitled work in Chime.And if you missed it, there's a discussion with Rawand and translator Amy Chiniara about Inside the Giant Fish at ArabLit.Samandal magazine is on Instagram (@samandalcomics), and you can find them at samandal-comics.org.You can buy copies of the magazine Corniche at the Sharjah Art Foundation website.Lab619 (@lab619), Skefkef (@skefkefmag/), and Fanzeen Comics (@fanzeencomics/) are on Instagram, while TokTok has a website, toktokmag.com.Rawand Issa (@rawand.issa_) and Amy Chiniara (@amychiniara) are both on Instagram, too.Lamia Ziadé's My Port of Beirut, translated to English by Emma Ramadan, from Pluto PressLena Merhej's We Will Be Calmer in the Next War is available online.Please support BULAQ! You can donate to our fundraiser for the 2023 season at donorbox.org/support-bulaq. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sharjah Art Foundation presents Grammy Award-winning musician and Senegalese icon Youssou N' Dour, debuting The Salam Project as part of the Sharjah Biennial 15 Music Programme. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Jiwon Lee, Curatorial Department Manager at Sharjah Art Foundation. speaks to the Morning Majlis about the key events of the Sharjah Biennial 15 and how to make the most of your time.
Sharjah Biennial 15 will position Sharjah's own lived past within the transcultural universe of thought furthered by over 300 works by over 150 artists and collectives, which will be installed in 5 cities and towns across the emirate. Sheikha Nawar Al Qasimi, Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation speaks to Aisha Al Mazmi of Pulse 95 Radio to discuss the event and why it should be visited.
Omar Kholeif gehört zu den interessantesten jungen Kurator*innen der Gegenwart. Als Direktor*in der Sammlung der Sharjah Art Foundation forscht Kholeif zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, Politik, Urbanismus und Technologien. Weltweit hat Kholeif mehr als 100 Ausstellungen kuratiert, darunter IN THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY für die Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Darin erkunden 61 Künstler*innen den Heimatbegriff als Gefühl der Sehnsucht und Zugehörigkeit von Künstler*innen, die heute über die ganze Welt verstreut und weit von den Orten entfernt leben, zu denen sie sich ursprünglich zugehörig fühlten. Kholeif interessiert dabei besonders, wie physische Bewegung – Mobilität über Ländergrenzen hinweg – die Rahmenbedingungen des internationalen zeitgenössischen Kunstschaffens formen. In dieser Folge von DAS IST KUNST spricht Friederike Herr mit Omar Kholeif über Heimat, die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit und die Musik von Rachmaninoff als Inspirationsquelle.
Font Size Sharjah Art Foundation's season of performances, Perform Sharjah, will conclude with Bruno Beltrão's ‘New Creation.' The performance will take place on January 8, 2023, at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy. Choreographer Bruno Beltrão combines sophisticated stagecraft with contemporary dance and raw hip hop, casting a spell over audiences worldwide. Tckts here: https://ticket.sharjahart.org/Home/Programs?E=MTAxOA~EQ~~EQ~&L=NA-1 Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.instagram/com/pulse95radio www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
A discussion with Nora Razian (Head of Exhibitions at Art Jameel) about recent exhibition trends in museums and galleries, specifically how 'research based art' is presented and translated into a final piece of artwork. The discussion includes questions about the proposition of the work and what are curators and artists demanding from an audience, works made for biennials compared to museum/gallery exhibitions, how best to present durational work like film and video and how can the layout invite and engage viewers to watch them in their entirety. We also discuss labelling, how to accommodate multi-lingual viewers, and how artists present works that challenge and contest dominant art narratives and histories. Links to some of the works mentioned in the discussion: Nepal Picture Library at the 17th Istanbul Biennial https://www.nepalpicturelibrary.org/update/feminist-memory-project-at-istanbul-biennial/ https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/feminist-memory-project-nepal-picture-library Lamia Joreige at the 17th Istanbul Biennial https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/lamia-joreige Christian Marclay - The Clock https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marclay-the-clock-t14038 A Word to Curators - about making exhibitions accessible https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/to-curators/ Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses at Sharjah Art Foundation https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/watch-chill-2.0-streaming-senses An Ocean in Every Drop at Jameel Art Centre https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/an-ocean-in-every-drop/ About our guest: Nora Razian manages the exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Centre, and contributes to curatorial thinking across the board. Previous roles include heading up programmes at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, and curating public programmes at Tate, London. She has an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths College, London, where she also designed and taught the MA course ‘Critical Pedagogy in Contested Space' at the Centre for Arts and Learning.
Jasmine Soliman is an archivist. She started her work on the Akkasah Photography Archive (now part of the al Mawrid Center for Arab Art at New York University (NYU)-Abu Dhabi) in 2016. Prior to that, she worked as an archivist at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, beginning in 2013, and formerly was a business development professional working largely in the Middle East. Her work focuses on collection appraisal and management, cataloging and descriptive vocabularies, website UX/UI design, and social media outreach. She collaborates with the al Mawrid team to oversee the physical and digital collections, and works closely with the NYU Digital Library Technology Services Team and the website teams at NYU Shanghai and Abu Dhabi, as well as with the general public as they use the collections. She has presented her work at MELCOM, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Sharjah Art Foundation and The British Library. She endeavors to create archives that are inclusive and accessible to all in their design and function, and considerate of socioeconomic status and physical ability. She is the Founder of RepCinema.com which highlights repertory cinema screenings in the UAE and London and highlights of her work can be found at JasmineSoliman.com
This week on my podcast “Conversations About Art” I spoke with Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, a curator who established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts, not only in Sharjah, UAE, but also in the region and across the world. With a passion for supporting experimentation and innovation in the arts, Al Qasimi has continuously expanded the scope of the Foundation to include major international touring exhibitions; artist and curator residencies in visual art, film and music; commissions and production grants for emerging artists; publications and publication grants; performance and film festivals; architectural research and restoration; and a wide range of educational programming in Sharjah for both children and adults. In 2003, Al Qasimi co-curated Sharjah Biennial 6 and has remained Biennial Director ever since. She is currently curating the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023). Under her leadership, Sharjah Biennial has become an internationally recognised platform for contemporary artists, curators and cultural producers. Her leadership in the field led to her election as President of the International Biennial Association (IBA) in 2017, an appointment that transferred IBA's headquarters to Sharjah. In addition to her role at the Foundation, Al Qasimi also serves as the President of The Africa Institute and President and Director of the Sharjah Architectural Triennial, which inaugurated its first edition in November 2019. She and I spoke about chance moments, the history of the place, the Africa Institute, “thinking historically in the present”, not rushing, decentralizing, doing less, telling you own history, not pursuing things that don't work, and counting experiences!
Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.Ryan Inouye is associate curator for the 58th Carnegie International. He served most recently as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, where he curated exhibitions and co-organized the 2018 edition of the March Meeting, an annual program that explores developments in culture through contemporary art.
harjah Art Foundation announces its inaugural performances programme—featuring five performative works by regional and international artists taking place in the open spaces, public venues, heritage houses and theatres across the emirate from 4 November 2022 to 8 January 2023. Actress Nada Mohammad joins us on the Morning Majlis to discuss the play 'Every Brilliant Thing.'
Ageing Ruins…: A Listening Session with Otobong Nkanga and a response by Dr. O. Otobong Nkanga, one of the leading artistic voices of her generation, returns to FORUM to present four tracks from her forthcoming vinyl record release, developed from her award-winning installation, ‘Ageing Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past,' at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, commissioned as part of Sharjah Biennial 14. Here, audiences are invited to an intimate evocation that explores the use of the artist's voice within her practice, proffering possibilities and questions about the multiple forms of imagination that can be conjured through this form of embodiment. Here, the duo discusses the voice in relation to the body as a site contingency with its natural surroundings — the environment, which is forever transmuting, seeping through our hands, as much as it is responding to the contours of our hands. A discussion with the audience will follow. https://www.1-54.com/
Sanna Almajedi talks to Jad and Tarek Atoui about their experimental music duo, Through Rust and Dusk. The conversation is followed by an excerpt of their performance at e-flux on September 26, 2022 that incorporated improvisation, custom made instruments, field recordings, and electronic sounds. Read more about Tarek Atoui‘s The Whisperers (October 1–December 10, 2022) at Flag Art Foundation here. Jad Atoui is a Beirut-based sound artist and improviser. He composes and performs electronicand electro-acoustic music and has worked with musicians like John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson, Chuck Bettis, and Anthony Sahyoun. During his formative years in New York, Atoui found interest in the New York avant-garde scene. He began working closely with NYC downtown musicians and learning improvised music techniques, while also working at the Stone and the Guggenheim Museum. In 2015, Atoui spearheaded the “Biosonics” project in collaboration with scientist Ivan Marazzi where they used bio-sonification of behaviors as compositional tools. The project was later published in John Zorn's Arcana Book Vol. XVIII and premiered at National Sawdust as part of The Stone's commissioning series. Atoui has given and co-directed workshops at Marfa Sounding, Ashkal Alwan, and Beirut Synth Center, and has been a resident at The Stone, The National Sawdust, Beirut Art Center, Arab Image Foundation, and Sharjah Art Foundation. Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer born in Beirut. His work stems from performance and looks into how sound can be perceived with sensory organs other than the ear, how sound acts as a catalyst for human interaction, and how it relates to social, historical, and spatial parameters. The point of departure for his works is usually extensive anthropological, ethnological, musicological, or technical research, which results in the realization of instruments, listening rooms, performances, or workshops. Atoui has presented his work internationally at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2009 and 2013); dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany (2012); the 8th Berlin Biennial (2014); Tate Modern, London (2016); CCA NTU, Singapore (2017); Garage Moscow (2018); the 58th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia (2019); the Okayama Art Summit 2019; the Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); The Fridericianum (2020); And Pinault Collection (2021). He was appointed co-artistic director of STEIM studios in 2007, and of the Bergen Assembly, a triennial for contemporary art in Norway in 2016. He is the recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize 2020. Tarek Atoui currently lives and works in Paris, France. e-flux music is curated by Sanna Almajedi.
Big Hass talks about Sharjah Art Foundation to present South Asian pop art as part of autumn programme Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Abdul Karim Hanif, Rania Saadi, and Ahmad Dawud speak to Ahmad Makia, Head of Publications at Sharjah Art Foundation, about the 4th edition of the Focal Point Art Book Fair that is taking place December 9-11 at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Big Hass visits Sharjah Art Foundation to speak with Had and Anthony Following their workshop, Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun collaborate for a sound performance at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. They will be using research conducted during the residency to deliver this performance. Their live performance encourages participants and the audience to intervene by playing some of the tools and instruments available on stage.
1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 A History of Echoes Amidst this symphony of voices: curators, artists and creative collaborators discuss the exhibitions fashioned from the imagination of the late Nigerian curator, Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019). By exploring the sediments of the past, the collective voices herein sketch out a path for listeners to imagine an alternative possible future—one that is inclusive of the dissonant voices and identities, which make up our shared world. Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation and President, The Africa Institute, Sharjah) leads a conversation with Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker (former Director, Villa Stuck; Vancouver Art Gallery; Frye Art Museum and Biennale of Sydney), Godfried Donkor(Artist, Gallery 1957) and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Artists). www.1-54.com
Michaela Crimmin is an independent curator and co-director of the not-for profit agency, Culture+Conflict. For over 15 years she taught on the Royal College of Art's curating contemporary art MA.Hrair Sarkissian is a photographer who was brought up in Damascus and who now lives and works in London. His practice explores his own personal memories and histories and the relationship between visibility and invisibility. In this podcast, our guests discuss Sarkissian's formative years working in his father's studio in Damascus, the notion of home and identity and the aesthetic and political capacities of photography, especially in relation to trauma and personal and social histories.This is the second in a new series of talks for the Roberts Institute of Art podcasts, where artists, cultural practitioners and other thinkers are invited to discuss a theme connected to our programmes and contemporary culture. MORE INFOWe recommend you take a look at Sarkissian's website where you can look closely at the photographic series discussed: ‘Home Sick', ‘Unexposed', ‘Sarkissian's Photo Centre & my father & I', and ‘Last Scene', for example.Michaela Crimmin works as an independent curator and is co-director of Culture+Conflict, a not-for-profit agency profiling and supporting artists whose work relates to international conflict. For over 15 years she taught on the Royal College of Art's curating contemporary art MA, and most recently led a major EU-funded research programme that included a residency with Delfina Foundation by Noor Abuarafeh, an artist from Palestine; a forthcoming film commission that opens at Gasworks in October this year by Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer; and a symposium with The Showroom and Tate co-programmed with Elvira Dyangani Ose asking to what extent can art affect change when addressing issues of migration, displacement, and access.Previously she was Head of Arts at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a role that included initiating and directing the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre; and coordinating the first works of art on the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square. Hrair Sarkissian is a photographer. Born and raised in Damascus, he earned his foundational training at his father's photographic studio, where he spent all his childhood vacations and where he worked full-time for twelve years after high school. In 2010 he completed a BFA in Photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He lives and works in London since 2011. He will be showing in the British Art Show 9 (2021) and his first mid-career survey, Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence, curated by Dr Omar Kholief, will be shown at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and the Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2021-2022).Have questions, comments or want to see more of what the Roberts Institute of Art does? Reach us via therobertsinstituteofart.com, @therobertsinstituteofart and subscribe to our newsletter!
“The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…”Over the course of two seasons of On Opinion, we've looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psychology, social science, anthropology and evolution. But one area we've missed is that of feeling.Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar take very different approaches to understand the world we live in, but both see emotion as something that can affect individuals and collective groups.Jonathan feels that you can transpose psychoanalysis, which is designed for the individual, to a culture and a moment in history. Omar is convinced not only that ‘ages' have emotions, dominant leitmotifs of feeling that impact everyone around them, but also that today is a particularly emotional age - that our feelings are closer to the surface.Listen to Turi speak to Jonathan and Omar about:How we define ‘ages'The difference between the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter protestsWhether we need to ‘fix' an age of anxietyThe rise of hatred across the WestHow psychoanalysis can heal emotional wounds of traumaThe importance of mourning“There's a considerable rise in anxiety and tension and people hating other people, and there's far less debate going on…”Works cited include:William Reddy's Emotional RegimesWill Davies on Nervous StatesRead the Full TranscriptOmar KholeifOmar is a writer, curator, and cultural historian, and is Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, Government of Sharjah, UAE. Trained as a political scientist, Kholeif's career began as a journalist and documentary filmmaker before entering into the picture palace of museums. Concerned with the intersections of emerging technologies with post-colonial, and critical race theory, Kholeif's research has explored histories of performance art; the visual experience of mental illness; the interstices of social justice, as well as the aesthetics of digital culture.Jonathan SklarJonathan trained in medicine at the Royal Free, University of London in 1973, and then trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Adult Department, Tavistock Centre for four years with adults, children and adolescents. At the same time he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and has been a psychoanalyst since 1983 and a training analyst since 1996. He is chair of The Independent Psychoanalysis Trust.Additional InformationOn Opinion PodcastMore shows from The Democracy Group
Today we speak with Nawar Al Qassimi, book lover and art advocate from Sharjah Art Foundation. We reminiscence back to stories of growing up in Sharjah, celebrating its contemporary art and culture scene, and exploring new places. #WeCauseCulture Hosted by OT, Reem, and Akkaoui, the Dukkan Show is brought to you by the audiophiles at Dukkan Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today we speak with Nawar Al Qassimi, book lover and art advocate from Sharjah Art Foundation. We reminiscence back to stories of growing up in Sharjah, celebrating its contemporary art and culture scene, and exploring new places. #WeCauseCulture Hosted by OT, Reem, and Akkaoui, the Dukkan Show is brought to you by the audiophiles at Dukkan Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today we speak with Nawar Al Qassimi, book lover and art advocate from Sharjah Art Foundation. We reminiscence back to stories of growing up in Sharjah, celebrating its contemporary art and culture scene, and exploring new places. #WeCauseCultureHosted by OT, Reem, and Akkaoui, the Dukkan Show is brought to you by the audiophiles at Dukkan Media.
Have you ever seen it rain inside? At the Sharjah Art Foundation you can see it rain inside and you won't even get wet! Liz discusses how it works, who created it and why it is so cool. Instagram: @elizabeth.callie --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/absurdart/support
S2 E25: On Emotion“The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…”Over the course of these two seasons of On Opinion, we've looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psychology, social science, anthropology and evolution. But one area we've missed is that of feeling.Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar take very different approaches to understand the world we live in, but both see emotion as something that can affect individuals and collective groups.Jonathan feels that you can transpose psychoanalysis, which is designed for the individual, to a culture and a moment in history. Omar is convinced not only that ‘ages' have emotions, dominant leitmotifs of feeling that impact everyone around them, but also that today is a particularly emotional age - that our feelings are closer to the surface.Listen to Turi speak to Jonathan and Omar about:How we define ‘ages'The difference between the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter protestsWhether we need to ‘fix' an age of anxietyThe rise of hatred across the WestHow psychoanalysis can heal emotional wounds of traumaThe importance of mourning“There's a considerable rise in anxiety and tension and people hating other people, and there's far less debate going on…”Works cited include:William Reddy's Emotional RegimesWill Davies on Nervous StatesRead the Full TranscriptOmar KholeifOmar is a writer, curator, and cultural historian, and is Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, Government of Sharjah, UAE. Trained as a political scientist, Kholeif's career began as a journalist and documentary filmmaker before entering into the picture palace of museums. Concerned with the intersections of emerging technologies with post-colonial, and critical race theory, Kholeif's research has explored histories of performance art; the visual experience of mental illness; the interstices of social justice, as well as the aesthetics of digital culture.Jonathan SklarJonathan trained in medicine at the Royal Free, University of London in 1973, and then trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Adult Department, Tavistock Centre for four years with adults, children and adolescents. At the same time he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and has been a psychoanalyst since 1983 and a training analyst since 1996. He is chair of The Independent Psychoanalysis Trust.On Opinion is a member of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.Produced by Emma PenneyMore on this episodeLearn all about On OpinionMeet Turi Munthe: https://twitter.com/turiLearn more about the Parlia project here: https://www.parlia.com/aboutAnd visit us at: https://www.parlia.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. This panel discussion and conversation with artist Khaled Kaddal examines The Formula of Giving Heart as a piercing study of our contemporary socio-political environment. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and creative perspectives, the panellists variously explore such themes as the global increase in physical confinement(s), the rise of cybernetics and biodata, and the continued privileging of contemporary science/medicine as distinct from other historical practices of healing. Exploring these phenomena amid a backdrop of global precarity, The Formula for Giving Heart forges fascinating linkages between seemingly disparate phenomena. It demonstrates how spatial imprisonment exists in and through hyperlinked and technologized (global) networks, ancient Pharaonic languages map onto and exist as contemporary (computer) code, and apparently distinct socio-political events—from the Coronavirus pandemic to the 2011 Egyptian revolution—can feel familiar through the very extraordinary nature of their temporal and affective regimes. Exploring these themes through the world premiere of Kaddal's newest work, this panel broadly considers our present moment as well as the shifting nature of sonic and visual performance during a time of global crisis and ever increasing technologization. Christopher Haworth is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Birmingham. His scholarly interests lie in the broad areas of electronic music and sound art, which he researches using a mixture of historiographic, philosophical, and ethnographic research methods. He is currently researching the short-lived 'cyber theory' moment that accompanied mid-1990s hype for the internet and World Wide Web in Britain, and he was previously an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow on Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music. He also composes computer music, often incorporating principles from psychoacoustics, music psychology, and cybernetics. Khaled Kaddal is a Nubian visual artist and sound performer, raised in Egypt and currently resident in London. Allaying science and politics, spirituality and technology, he works with two interdependent abstractions; ‘Immortality of Time' and ‘Sovereignty of Space', in search for the imperishable balance between intelligence, emotions and moral judgments. Recent solo show at Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen; group exhibitions include ‘One the Edge' at Science Gallery, London; '10 Years of Production' at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; ‘What do you mean, here we are?' at Mosaic Rooms Gallery, London; ‘Art Olympics' at Tokyo Metropolitan ArtMuseum, Tokyo; Performances at ‘Keep quite and Dance' at Cairotronica Symposium, Cairo; Zentrum der Kunster Hellerau, Dresden; and ‘Daily Concerns' at Dilston Grove Gallery, London. Kaddal has an upcoming show at 5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Morocco; and a Resident Fellow at Uniarts Helsinki, Finland. He studied Computer Science at AAST (EG), and Sound Art at the University of the Arts London (UK). Darci Sprengel is an ethnomusicologist and Junior Research Fellow in Music at St John's College, University of Oxford. Her research examines contemporary music in Egypt at the intersections of technology, capitalism, and politics. She is currently completing her first book, 'Postponed Endings': Youth Music and Affective Politics in Post-Revolution Egypt, which examines Egyptian independent music in relation to conditions of military-capitalism. She has two additional research projects. The first analyses music streaming technologies in the global South using a feminist and critical race approach to digital media. The second explores the influence of sub-Saharan African culture in Egyptian popular culture. Christabel Stirling is a musicologist specialising in ethnographic approaches to music and sound art in contemporary urban environments. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC-funded project ‘Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism', based at the Music Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the social relations and coalitions that music and sound produce in their live forms, focusing particularly on the potential for such coalitions to transform or reinforce existing social and spatial orders.
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. This panel discussion and conversation with artist Khaled Kaddal examines The Formula of Giving Heart as a piercing study of our contemporary socio-political environment. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and creative perspectives, the panellists variously explore such themes as the global increase in physical confinement(s), the rise of cybernetics and biodata, and the continued privileging of contemporary science/medicine as distinct from other historical practices of healing. Exploring these phenomena amid a backdrop of global precarity, The Formula for Giving Heart forges fascinating linkages between seemingly disparate phenomena. It demonstrates how spatial imprisonment exists in and through hyperlinked and technologized (global) networks, ancient Pharaonic languages map onto and exist as contemporary (computer) code, and apparently distinct socio-political events—from the Coronavirus pandemic to the 2011 Egyptian revolution—can feel familiar through the very extraordinary nature of their temporal and affective regimes. Exploring these themes through the world premiere of Kaddal's newest work, this panel broadly considers our present moment as well as the shifting nature of sonic and visual performance during a time of global crisis and ever increasing technologization. Christopher Haworth is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Birmingham. His scholarly interests lie in the broad areas of electronic music and sound art, which he researches using a mixture of historiographic, philosophical, and ethnographic research methods. He is currently researching the short-lived 'cyber theory' moment that accompanied mid-1990s hype for the internet and World Wide Web in Britain, and he was previously an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow on Music and the Internet: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music. He also composes computer music, often incorporating principles from psychoacoustics, music psychology, and cybernetics. Khaled Kaddal is a Nubian visual artist and sound performer, raised in Egypt and currently resident in London. Allaying science and politics, spirituality and technology, he works with two interdependent abstractions; ‘Immortality of Time' and ‘Sovereignty of Space', in search for the imperishable balance between intelligence, emotions and moral judgments. Recent solo show at Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen; group exhibitions include ‘One the Edge' at Science Gallery, London; '10 Years of Production' at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; ‘What do you mean, here we are?' at Mosaic Rooms Gallery, London; ‘Art Olympics' at Tokyo Metropolitan ArtMuseum, Tokyo; Performances at ‘Keep quite and Dance' at Cairotronica Symposium, Cairo; Zentrum der Kunster Hellerau, Dresden; and ‘Daily Concerns' at Dilston Grove Gallery, London. Kaddal has an upcoming show at 5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Morocco; and a Resident Fellow at Uniarts Helsinki, Finland. He studied Computer Science at AAST (EG), and Sound Art at the University of the Arts London (UK). Darci Sprengel is an ethnomusicologist and Junior Research Fellow in Music at St John's College, University of Oxford. Her research examines contemporary music in Egypt at the intersections of technology, capitalism, and politics. She is currently completing her first book, 'Postponed Endings': Youth Music and Affective Politics in Post-Revolution Egypt, which examines Egyptian independent music in relation to conditions of military-capitalism. She has two additional research projects. The first analyses music streaming technologies in the global South using a feminist and critical race approach to digital media. The second explores the influence of sub-Saharan African culture in Egyptian popular culture. Christabel Stirling is a musicologist specialising in ethnographic approaches to music and sound art in contemporary urban environments. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC-funded project ‘Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism', based at the Music Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the social relations and coalitions that music and sound produce in their live forms, focusing particularly on the potential for such coalitions to transform or reinforce existing social and spatial orders.
Initiateur de l’art moderne dans son pays, cet artiste qui avait développé son art, dans les années 70, en Grande-Bretagne, avait été influencé aussi bien par Marcel Duchamp que par la tendance constructiviste anglaise. Devenu, pour un temps, le caricaturiste du journal Akhbar Dubaï, Hassan Sharif avait ensuite réalisé des performances et des expérimentations artistiques en faisant des objets du quotidien les sujets de ses nouvelles créations. Un regard décalé et plein d’humour sur le changement radical de sa ville d’origine Dubaï. Hassan Sharif est exposé grâce à la Sharjah Art Foundation au Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, dont nous entendrons la directrice Aurélie Voltz.
Hoor Al Qasimi, creative director of Qasimi and president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation, speaks to her friend John Akomfrah CBE, the artist and film-maker, about social responsibility in art and culture, and how it can relate to fashion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Abdulla snags the Sharjah Art Foundation’s Sharjah Film Platform 3 Industry Hub Pitching Forum for his script “Camel Tears.” He talks all about the film industry in the UAE and his hopes for its growth. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Sharjah Art Foundation's Vice President Sheikha Nawar Al Qassimi spoke about the reopening of Sharjah's 'Flying Saucer.' Al Qassimi said the venue will now serve as an art and events space. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Sharjah Art Foundation's Director of Collections and Senior Curator Omar Kholeif spoke about Sharjah's ambitious "Art in the Age of Anxiety" exhibition, and its importance at a time of rapid technological advancement and pervasive social media use. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Nahla Al Tabbaa is an independent educator, artist, consultant and urban researcher with various institutions including Art Jameel, Frying Pan Adventures, previously the Sharjah Art Foundation, and the co-founder of Daftar Asfar, an artist sketchbook platform. In this episode we delve deep into Nahla's socially engaged art practice, her love of food and storytelling, her approach to the reactivity of art especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and how all her various interests and skills enhance and complement one another to create her wholehearted creative lifestyle. You can find her on instagram @nahlatabbaa This episode is available on any of your favorite listening platforms.
Art in the Age of Anxiety is Sharjah Art Foundation's most ambitious exhibition exploring the impact of the digital age on our lives, featuring a global roster of more than 30 international artists presenting more than 60 works across every medium. Sally asks Sharjah Art Foundation's newly appointed Director of Collections and Senior Curator Dr Omar Kholeif why this new show is so important and what it reveals about our relationship with the online world. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Are you ready for a thrilling Japanese art, music and performance? Sharjah Art Foundation’s latest edition of Sharjapan has brought the best of both the cutting edge and the traditional in art and performance here to Sharjah, and you are in for a treat. You can experience everything from ancient Taiko drumming to a robot conducting a human opera! We get all the details next with Mariam Al Askari, Music and Performance Programme Coordinator at Sharjah Art Foundation. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Director and Producer of the short film Layla, At last join the Morning Majlis along with program coordinator from Sharjah Art Foundation to share behind the scenes stories of film production. While we also discuss the success of the short film festival. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Sharjah Art Foundation’s Annual Film Festival, Sharjah Film Platform, has just opened and we get a taste of what’s to come from this year’s edition which features over 50 short and feature films in the narrative, documentary and experimental categories. Whether you’re a film buff or looking to explore something new, Sharjah Film Platform has regional and international film-makers creating thought provoking and inspiring work. Ayman Abdullah, Film Programme Coordinator at Sharjah Art Foundation gives us all the details. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
In this episode Wael Hattar and Hind Mezaina sit with author and journalist Samya Ayish to discuss the state of Arab Cinema, specifically in the UAE and the Gulf region. The discussion includes film education; the role film festivals, especially the importance of Dubai International Film Festival (ended in 2018 after 14 years) for filmmakers, film enthusiasts and cinephiles; the calibre of film critique, film journalism and film discussions on social media in the region; lack of film marketing, short lived film screening initiatives. You can follow Samya Ayish on Twitter https://twitter.com/sayish. Films mentioned in this episode: Musk (dir. Humaid Alsuwaidi) Rashid and Rajab (dir. Mohammed Saeed Harib) Shabab Shayeb (dir. Yasir Al-Yasiri) Sea Shadow (dir. Nawaf Al Janahi) Al Mamar / The Passage (dir. Sherif Arafah) Fan of Amoory (dir. Salmeen AlMurry Amer) Leil Kharji / EXT. Night (dir. Ahmad Abdalla) Key venues to watch films in the UAE: - Multiplexes found across the UAE: Cine Royal Cinemas Cinema City Cinemax Cinemas Novo Cinemas Oscar Cinema Reel Cinemas Roxy Cinemas Star Cinemas Vox Cinema - Independently run cinemas + institutions/cultural spaces that screen films frequently: In Abu Dhabi Cinema Space, Manarat Saadiyat Korean Cultural Center Louvre Abu Dhabi NYUAD Arts Center Sorbonne University Warehouse 421 In Al Ain Al Ain Community Cinema In Dubai: Alliance Francaise Theatre Cinema Akil Dubai Opera Jameel Arts Centre thejamjar Warehouse Four In Sharjah Africa Hall, The Africa Institute, Sharjah Mirage Cinema, Sharjah Art Foundation
Georgina Godwin shakes off the winter chill at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates as she takes a tour of the Louvre Abu Dhabi and meets the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation.
We take a look at Sharjah Art Foundation's new and extensive Autumn 2019 education program, with workshops, courses and other activities for children and adults of all ages, abilities and skill levels covering painting, photography, music, performance and so much more. We get all the details with Sheikha Noora Al Mualla, Director of Learning and Research at Sharjah Art Foundation. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
The Sharjah Biennial 14 is returning March 7 and Judith Greer, Director of International Programmes for Sharjah Art Foundation, a place for the whole family to explore how art is driving new explorations and conversations, with over 80 international artists creating works across the Emirate over 3 months! Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
Walid Siti was born in 1954, in the city of Duhok, in Iraqi-Kurdistan. After graduating in 1976 from the Institute of Fine arts in Baghdad, Siti left Iraq to continue his arts education in Ljubljana, Slovenia before settling in 1984 in the United Kingdom where he lives and works. The work of Walid Siti traverses a complex terrain of memory and loss, while at the same time offering an acute insight into a world, which for him has been a place of constant change. The narrative of Siti’s experience, of a life lived far from but still deeply emotionally connected to the place of one’s birth, is one he shares with many exiles. Siti takes inspiration from the cultural heritage of his native land that is crisscrossed with militarized borders and waves of migration. Solo Exhibitions include, 2017, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin“ The Black Tower”, 2014/15 Istanbul, Edge of Arabia, London,“Reconstruction”. Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York; Rose Issa Projects, London. HIs work is also in Public Collections such as The Metropolitan Museum, New York. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah. The British Museum, London. The Imperial War Museum, London. The National Gallery of Amman, Jordan. The World Bank, Washington, DC. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The Iraq Memory Foundation. Art for American Embassy program, USA. Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE. Elusive Mountain’ 2018, Barbed Wire & thin aluminium wire 400 x 800 x 300cm Stone Tales’ 2018, Hard paper, newspaper of cuts & glue 340 x 600 x 10cm Stone Tales’ 2018, Detail, Hard paper, newspaper of cuts & glue 340 x 600 x 10cm Wheel of Fortune, Berlin/Paris, The Greek Goddess, Fortuna, spins the wheel at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel. Some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls
Sally explores Sharjah’s dynamic art scene with Sheikha Nawar Al Qassimi, Development Manager at Sharjah Art Foundation, as she takes us through the fantastic programs that they have on offer for those who are avid art lovers and for those who want to discover something new! Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
In this episode Wael Hattar interviews the artist Shaikha Al Mazrou. They discuss her art practice, how discomfort drives her, the directional change of her work and the effect of receiving an MFA. As a teacher at University of Sharjah, Al Mazrou also discusses art and higher Education in the UAE, and her role as an educator. We dive into the recent and upcoming projects, from Sharjah Art Foundation's artist residency March Projects, the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation(ADMAF) commission, her current solo exhibition at Lawrie Shabibi, and her upcoming piece for Jameel Arts Centre opening in Dubai in November. lawrieshabibi.com/artists/134-shaikha-al-mazrou/overview/ sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/march-project-2018
Today's program looks at the latest installation by Sharjah Art Foundation, the Rain Room, permanently located in Al Majarah. It’s a site-specific installation created by Random International that provides an immersive experience of continuous rainfall. We’ll meet the two founders of Random International later in the program and experience what it’s like to go into the Rain Room. First up, Anna speaks with Sheikha Nawar Al Qasimi, Director of Development at Sharjah Art Foundation who takes you through their space in the Heart of Sharjah. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tunning in on your radio or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio
In this episode we have Nawar Al Qasimi, the Development Manager at Sharjah Art Foundation. She shares with us the history and role of the foundation, how it is funded and its different initiatives over the years. Located in Sharjah’s historic Art and Heritage Areas, Sharjah Art Foundation's activities and events take place throughout the year and include exhibitions featuring Arab and international artists, performances, music, film screenings and artist talks, plus art education programmes for children, adults and families. The Foundation hosts the annual March Meeting and every two years presents the Sharjah Biennial. Latest exhibitions can be found here: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions Latest events can be found here: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events http://sharjahart.org https://twitter.com/SharjahArt https://www.facebook.com/SharjahArt https://www.instagram.com/sharjahart You can find images on our Instagram instagram.com/p/Bh_VTuIHySO/?taken-by=teawithculture
A look back at highlights and lowlights of 2016. Hind Mezaina and Wael Hattar share their personal highlights as artists. They pause to discuss the passing away of Hassan Sharif and go on to list their favourite exhibitions/talks: 1. The Road by Tammam Azzam at Ayyam Gallery http://www.ayyamgallery.com/exhibitions/tammam-azzam_3 2. Reza Aramish at Leila Heller Gallery http://www.leilahellergallery.com/exhibitions/reza-aramesh 3. Cristiana De Marchi at SIKKA 2016 http://www.cristianademarchi.com 4. White Cube...Literally at Gallery IVDE, curated by Amanda Abi Khalil http://www.ivde.net/exhibitions/6/works/ 5. Phantom Limb by Diana Al Hadid at NYUAD Art Gallery http://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/exhibitions/diana-al-hadid/ 6. Invisible Threads at NYUAD Art Gallery http://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/exhibitions/invisible-threads/ 7. Two Suns in a Sunset by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at Sharjah Art Foundation http://www.theculturist.com/home/exhibition-two-suns-in-a-sunset-by-joana-hadjithomas-and-kha.html 8. The Khartoum School at Sharjah Art Foundation http://www.theculturist.com/home/exhibitions-sharjah-art-foundation-winter-20162017.html 9. And I, Will I Forget? by Manal Al Dowayan at Cuadro http://www.cuadroart.com/en/exhibitions/andwilliforget.html 10. When Time Does Not Exist by at Gulf Photo Plus by Randa Mirza, Stephane Lagoutte https://gulfphotoplus.com/gallery/35/When-Time-Does-Not-Exist 11. ICONS by Cortis and Sonderegger at East Wing http://east-wing.org/icons-works-by-cortis-sonderegger-opens-thursday-14-april-7pm-ezp-128.html and Parataxic distortion by Christto & Andrew at East Wing http://east-wing.org/christto-andrew-parataxi-distortioncoming-soon-to-east-wing-ezp-130.html 12. Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art by Kevin Jones http://www.ibraaz.org/channel/117 You can see Hind Mezaina's complete best of 2016 lists here http://www.theculturist.com/home/tag/best-of-2016
In this episode Hind Mezaina and Wael Hattar share their thoughts after visiting the following exhibitions organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation: Robert Breer: Time Flies http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/robert-breer March Project 2016 http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/march-project-2016 Amir Nour: Brevity is the Soul of Wit: A Retrospective (1956-Present) http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/amir-nour-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq: Women in Crystal Cubes http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/kamala-ishaq The Khartoum School: The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan (1945 – present) http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/the-khartoum-school-the-making-of-the-modern-art-movement-in-sudan-1945-pre Yayoi Kusama: Dot Obsessions http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/yayoi-kusama-dot-obsessions http://sharjahart.org
A lecture by Anne Barlow, Director of Art in General, New York. This is the inaugural presentation in a series of lectures running throughout the year titled 'What Can Art Institutions Do?' At Art in General, Barlow has most recently curated projects with artists Basim Magdy, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Jill Magid, Shezad Dawood, Meriç Algün Ringborg, Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, and launched Art in General's annual curatorial conference What Now? Barlow also curated of Tactics for the Here and Now, the 5th Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, and co-curated the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. From 1999 to 2006, Barlow was Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum, New York, where she organised numerous exhibitions and performances, and initiated and developed its Museum as Hub program. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Barlow was formerly Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Glasgow Museums, where she managed its contemporary art collection, exhibitions program, artists' residencies, and new commissions. Barlow has published with The Journal for Curatorial Studies, Toronto; The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia; Ibraaz; the New Museum, New York; and Tate Modern, London, among others, she has lectured or moderated talks at organisations including the Royal College of Art, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; MUMOK, Vienna; IASPIS, Stockholm; and the Sharjah Art Foundation. Anne Barlow's visit is generously supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. 05/02/2015
A look back at our favourite art exhibitions and cultural events in 2015 and a quick look at upcoming highlights in 2016. Episode breakdown: 00.00-00.30 - Intro 00.30-08.50 - Nathaniel Rackowe's Radiant Trajectory at Lawrie Shabibi - Sadiq Al Fraji's Driven by Storms (Ali’s Boat) at Ayyam Gallery - Anahita Razmi at Carbon 12 - Gil Heitor Cortesão at Carbon 12 - Exhibitions at The Mine - Surveillance .02 at East Wing - Khaldoun Chichakli's Damascenes at Green Art Gallery - Zsolt Bodoni's The Shining Path at Green Art Gallery 08.50 - 10.50 - Juma AI-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage 10.50 - 13.40 - Raphael Lozano Hemmer's Pulse Corniche, interactive installation - Performances at NYUAD Art Center - Slavs and Tatars' Mirrors for Princes at NYUAD Art Gallery - Jill Magi at NYUAD Project Space 13.40 - 14.35 - Sharjah Biennial 12 - Light Show at Sharjah Art Foundation 14.35 - 26.03 2016 highlights: - Wael Hattar's Sold Out at Rotanda Gallery in AUD - Independent initiatives: Cinema Akil, The Flip Side, The Other Side, Yadawi - Not for profit organisations: Jean-Paul Najar Foundation - March Meetings at Sharjah Art Foundation - do it بالعربي at Sharjah Art Foundations's Bait al Shamsi - Farideh Lashai / Simone Fattal / Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at SAF Art Spaces - 1980-Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates at Flying Saucer - Louvre Abu Dhabi - Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi including Lest we Forget exhibition - NYUAD Art Center - Alserkal Avenue expansion - Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian/ Youssef Nabil / Hassan Hajaj at The Third Line - Larissa Sansour's In the Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain at Lawrie Shabibi You can also read more here: http://www.theculturist.com/home/my-top-15-exhibitions-of-2015.html http://www.theculturist.com/home/my-cultural-highlights-of-2015.html
1-54 Forum London 15 - 18 October 2015 Artist Talk Selmani Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation) in conversation with artist Massinissa Selmani. Image credit: Benjamin Hoffman www.1-54.com