Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, 2012

Wael Shawky
Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, 2012
Video, color, sound
58 minutes
Film Still
Courtesy the Artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Overview

In the lead-up to Sharjah Biennial 11, Tate Modern hosts a preview panel discussion including Yuko Hasegawa, this year’s Curator, and Hoor Al-Qasimi, President of the Sharjah Art Foundation. For this year’s Biennial, which will run from March and to May 2013, Hasegawa proposes ‘a selection of artworks that reassess the Westerncentrism of knowledge in modern times'.

Starting from the metaphor of the courtyard in Islamic architecture; her project focuses on exploring the complexity and diversity of cultures, societies and politics. She calls for a gathering of architects, designers, creators and artists, who will bring together different perspectives and challenge viewers to seek new knowledge by sharing ideas.

In holding a preview debate in London, Tate and The Sharjah Art Foundation open the floor to important questions about international contemporary art that are often simplified, subsumed or ignored. Wael Shawky, one of the participating Artists, will talk about his work in relation to transregional politics, religion and history. Professor John Hutnyk and Sarat Maharaj explore the notion of ‘new cartographies’, which Hasegawa considers crucial to our understanding of the complexities of global developments in art.

Speakers include: Hoor Al-Qasimi, President, Sharjah Art Foundation; Yuko Hasegawa, Curator, Sharjah Biennial 11; Wael Shawky, participating Artist; academics Sarat Maharaj and John Hutnyk in conversation; and a question and answer session chaired by Marko Daniel, Tate.

£12 / £8 concessions

For further information and to book tickets:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talks-and-lectures/towards-new-cultural-cartography.

Related

Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Hasegawa, Yuko

Yuko Hasegawa is the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Professor in Curatorial Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Shawky, Wael

Shawky uses a range of media to produce work that explores issues of history, religion, culture and the effects of globalisation on society today.