Welcome Address
Hoor Al-Qasimi (President, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Thursday 14.03.2013
Introduction to Re:Emerge - Towards a New Cultural Cartography
Yuko Hasegawa (Curator, Sharjah Biennial 11)
Sites of Emergence
Monica Narula (Artist, Raqs Media Collective, India)
Hu Fang (Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, China)
Art Practices and Institutions: Languages, Processes and Exchange
Kwok Kian Chow (Deputy Chairman, The Yellow River Arts Centre, China)
Bijoy Jain (Architect, Studio Mumbai, India)
Maj Hasager (Artist, Denmark)
Friday 15.03.2013
Shifting Pivots: Cultural Cartographies of Structures and Practices
Prof. Françoise Vergès (Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London, France)
Khaldun Bshara (Director, RIWAQ Centre, Palestine)
‘Know-How and No-How’: Concurrent Systems of Knowledge and Their Respective Contexts
Paulo Herkenhoff (Director, Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil)
Patrick D. Flores (Curator, Vargas Museum, Philippines)
Why Remap? Shifts in Journeys Inside and Outside History
Tiffany Chung (Artist, Vietnam)
CAMP (Artists, India)
Dr. Edward Simpson (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, UK)
Saturday 16.03.2013
Vantage Points: Subjectivities and Objectivities as Constructions and Projections
Jananne Al-Ani (Artist, UK)
Jens Maier-Rothe (Co-Director, Beirut, Egypt)
Data, Networks And Art: Connectivity and Crisis in the Context of 21st Century Technology
Burak Arikan (Artist, Turkey/USA)
Bill Balaskas (Artist, Royal College of Art/Leonardo Electronic Almanac (The MIT Press), UK)
Closing Keynote
Sarat Maharaj (Professor of Visual Art and Knowledge Systems, Lund University and Malmö Art Academy, Sweden)
Sunday 17.03.2013
The courtyard as constructive void: negotiating perception and memory
From the Residential Courtyard to the City Square
Ahmed Jaride (Artist, Association pour l’art et la culture (APAC)/Association Marocaine des Arts Plastiques (AMAP), Morocco)
Spaces of Appearance: Inceptions of Unified Identity
Farid Noufaily (Architect, FnOffice, UAE/Lebanon)
Blindness and Dreams
Megumi Matsubara (Artist/Architect, Morocco/Japan)
Addressing representations: redefining global and local perspectives
Reactivating Majlis Dialogues
Dr. Woodman Taylor (Associate Professor of Art History, American University in Dubai, UAE)
Is Artists’ Independence Being Subsumed by the Politics of the Square?
Omar Kholeif (Senior Editor and Curator, Ibraaz, UK)
Contemporary Identities and a New Approach to the Concept of Globalisation
Dr. Amal Nasr (Artist/Critic, and Professor/Head of Photography Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt)
Contact and exchange: cartographies of redrafted legacies
The Square and the Labyrinth. The Experience of Freedom in the work of Luis Barragan and Hélio Oiticica
Dr. Pablo León de la Barra (Independent Curator, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution, UK, Mexico)
The Syncretic Machine in Indonesian Art and Culture
Dr. Agung Hujatnika (Visual Art Study Program, Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
Spaces for vision/Histories for interpretation: The hybridity of culture in the Islamic city through contemporary art works
Mohamed Abdelrahman (Art Critic, International University of Africa, Sudan)
Spaces of transformation: city as public and private experience
The Park – A Domestic Public Space
Sara Kanoo (Architect, Al-Riwaq Art Space, Bahrain)
Negotiating Spaces of Conflict in Contemporary Beirut
Mohamed Hafeda (PhD Candidate/Febrik Founding Partner, Bartlett school of architecture, University College London, UK)
Bourj Hammoud: Lessons from a Fabricated World in a Fragmented Landscape
Haig Papazian (Architect/Artist, Lebanon)