11:00 am–12:30 pm
Tour: Al Mureijah Square
*Shuttles will depart for Al Mureijah Square at 10:30 am. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
*Shuttles will depart for Africa Hall at 12:30 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
01:00 pm - 01:30 pm
Registration
01:30 pm - 01:45 pm
Welcome Remarks
Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Noora Al Mualla (Director of Learning and Research, Sharjah Art Foundation)
01:45 pm - 02:30 pm
Archeology: The Burden of Extraction
Dialogue
Akram Zaatari (artist); Claudia Martínez Garay (artist)
Moderator: Zeynep Öz (Independent curator, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm
Women’s Knowledge as Source of Activism
Dialogue
May Adadol Ingawanij (Professor of Cinematic Arts; Co-director, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, CREAM, University of Westminster); Avni Sethi (interdisciplinary practitioner)
Moderator: Alia Swastika (Director, Biennale Jogja Foundation, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
Lunch
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Lyrical Assembly
Performance
One Sudan One Sound of Solidarity (OSOS)
05:30 pm - 06:15 pm
Physical and Spiritual Geographies
Dialogue
Megan Cope (artist); Yhonnie Scarce (artist)
Moderator: Megan Tamati-Quennell (Curator of modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
06:15 pm - 07:15 pm
Water Songs
Dialogue
Caroline Courrioux (curator, Head of exhibitions and programs at Villa Medici, Rome); Hsu Fang-Tze (curator); Bint Mbareh (sound artist and musician).
Moderator: Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, and Curator at Large, Serpentine, both London, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
07:15 pm - 07:45 pm
Perspectives in (Art) History
Dialogue
Mahmoud Khaled (artist); Yasmine El Rashidi (writer and critic)
*Shuttles will depart for Al Mureijah Square at 7:45 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
08:30 pm - 09:15 pm
Farm Project activation
Performance
Mirage City Cinema, Al Mureijah Square
Başak Günak (artist); Berke Can Özcan (artist); Sandy Chamoun (artist); Haupmeier I Recker (artist duo)
09:30 pm - 10:15 pm
Confluence of Rivers in E Minor
Performance
Gallery 3, Al Mureijah Art Spaces
Tara Al Dugaither (vocalist, shruti box, piano); Ziaire Trinidad Sherman (flute, sax, electronics); Chatori Shimizu (sho, piano) Sponsored by Gyomu-Super Japan Dream Foundation; Arwa Alobaid (violin, vocals)
*Please note that spaces in Gallery 3 are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
10:00 am–12:00 pm
Tour: Calligraphy Square and Bank Street Building
*Shuttles will depart for Calligraphy Square at 09:30 am. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
*Shuttles will depart for Africa Hall at 12:00 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
12:30 pm - 01:00 pm
Registration
01:00 pm - 01:30 pm
Choreographies of Proposal
Dialogue (YAZ Publications Activation)
Daniela Castro (experimental artist-curator, writer, researcher); Raafat Majzoub (artist)
Moderator: Zeynep Öz (Independent curator, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm
Publishing as Part of Political Movements
Dialogue
RRD (Reproduction and Distribution Network); Bhumika Saraswati (journalist, filmmaker, photographer, educator); Siddhesh Gautam (artist)
Moderator: Krystie NG (curator; co-founder, Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping (IAWM) research collective)
02:30 pm - 03:00 pm
Life after Loss
Dialogue (YAZ Publications Activation)
Sophia Tintori (biologist); Fatma Belkıs (artist)
Moderator: Zeynep Öz (independent curator, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Lunch
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Sa Ating Pag-tahan / In Our Stillness
Performance and Conversation
Sa Tahanan Co. (art collective)
05:00 pm - 05:30 pm
The Water that Asked for a Fish
Dialogue
Mariam M. Alnoaimi (artist); Abbas AlShajjar (researcher and fisherman)
*In Arabic
05:30 pm - 06:30 pm
A body in Fukushima
Film Screening and Recorded Dialogue
Eiko Otake (artist); Alia Swastika (Director, Biennale Jogja Foundation, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
06:30 pm - 07:00 pm
The Voice of Domestic Workers: Labour, Visibility and Art for Social Movements
Dialogue
Marigold Quimoy Balquen (The Voice of Domestic Workers); Georgina Velasco (The Voice of Domestic Workers)
Moderator: Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, and Curator at Large, Serpentine, both London, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
07:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Break
07:30 pm - 08:15 pm
The Flood of Rites
Performance
Bint Mbareh (sound artist and musician)
*Shuttles will depart for Al Mureijah Square at 8:15 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
09:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Pulse to Terrain
Vinyl Launch and Music Performance
Gallery 3, Al Mureijah Art Spaces
Sarathy Korwar (musician, composer); Deepak Unnikrishnan (Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, NYUAD); Al MacSween (musician); Zawose Sisters (music duo)
Introduced by Natasha Ginwala and Hasan Hujairi
*Please note that spaces in Gallery 3 are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
10:00 am–12:00 pm
Tour: Bait Al Serkal, Bait Al Obaid Shamsi and Sharjah Art Museum
*Shuttles will depart for Arts Square at 09:30 am. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
*Shuttles will depart for Africa Hall at 12:00 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
12:30 pm - 01:00 pm
Registration
01:00 pm - 02:30 pm
Coastal Remembrance and Oceanic Belonging
Dialogue
Seema Alavi (professor of History); Bettina Ng'weno (Associate Professor, University of California, Davis); Engseng HO (Professor of Anthropology and History, Duke University, USA)
Moderator: George Jose (Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, NYUAD)
02:30 pm - 03:00 pm
Break
03:00 pm – 03:30 pm
WATER (reprise)
Performance
Koleka Putuma (writer, theatre maker and cultural worker)
Introduced by Natasha Ginwala (Artistic Director, Colomboscope and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
03:30 pm - 04:30 pm
Lunch
04:30 pm - 05:15 pm
Time, Space and Relationships
Dialogue
Albert L Refiti (architect and academic); John Clang (artist)
Moderators: Amal Khalaf (Director, Cubitt, and Curator at Large, Serpentine, both London, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator); Megan Tamati-Quennell (Curator of modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
05:15 pm - 05:45 pm
Mediums of Exchange
Dialogue (YAZ Publications Activation)
Taloi Havini (artist); Zeynep Öz (independent curator, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
05:45 pm - 06:30 pm
Physical and Spiritual Geographies
Dialogue
Brian Martin (artist); Kaili Chun (artist)
Moderator: Megan Tamati-Quennell (Curator of modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
06:30 pm - 07:00 pm
From Commons to Chaos: Art in the Age of Speculation
Dialogue (YAZ Publications Activation)
Dawn Chan (Senior Lecturer, Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies); Christianna Bonin (Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory, American University of Sharjah; curator; critic)
07:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Reversal
Film Screening
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (artist)
*Shuttles will depart for Al Mureijah Square at 7:30 pm. Click here to view the transportation schedule.
08:30 pm - 08:45 pm
First Horse
Film Screening
Awanui Simich-Pene (director)
09:00 pm - 09:45 pm
Ihi: Awa Herea (Braided Rivers)
Performance
Mere Boynton (soprano), Liam Wooding (pianist)
Introduced by Megan Tamati-Quennell (Curator of modern and contemporary Maori and Indigenous art, and Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry co-curator)
*Please note that spaces in Gallery 3 are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.