Opening Program
Sharjah Biennial 13
Tamawuj
March Meeting
March 10–14, 2017
Sharjah Art Foundation
Sharjah
UAE
www.sharjahart.org
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Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce the opening week programme and full list of participating artists for Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj.
Friday, March 10
10:30am
Desiring Institutions
Panel discussion with Binna Choi, Ala Younis and Maha Maamoun, moderated by Charles Eschews
1:30pm
Five Feet High and Rising
Lecture performance by Mario García Torres
3pm
Step by Step
Film by Ossama Mohammed, followed by Q&A
4:30pm
Artist-led tours
10:30pm
Close to here
Theatre performance written and directed by Roy Dib
Saturday, March 11
10:30am
SB3: Interlocutors Conversation
Lara Khaldi, Zeynep Öz, Kader Attia and Christine Tohme
12pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (English)
1pm
Climavore
Lunch performance by Cooking Sections
3pm
Close to here
Theatre performance written and directed by Roy Dib
3pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (Arabic)
3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios
9:30pm
A Present from the Past: 20 September
Film by Kawthar Younis
Sunday, March 12
10:30 – 11:30 pm
Of Oil and Ice
Lecture performance by Design Earth (Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy)
11:30 pm – 12:30 pm
Rogue Planet
Lecture performance by Arjuna Neuman and Shahira Issa
2:30pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (Urdu)
3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios
8pm
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
Film by Ahmad Elghoneimy
10:30pm
Music Concert by Karkhana
Monday, March 13
10:30am
Desiring Institutions
Panel discussion with Lawrence Rassel, Francis McKee and Lina Attalah, moderated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
12pm
Book launch for Noor Abuarafeh
3pm
Bird Watching
Lecture performance by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios
8pm
Clean City
Performance directed by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris
10:30pm
DJ Sets by Bedouin Records: Salem Rashid, SASA and uplow
Tuesday, March 14
11am
Presentations by March Meeting correspondents
12pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj includes works by:
A.S.T (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia M. Hernandez, Elite Kedan with Keller Easterling), Lawrence Abu Hamdan*, Abbas Akhavan*, Abdullah Al Saadi, Tamara Al Samerraei*, Allora & Calzadilla, Maria Thereza Alves*, Kader Attia, Tonico Lemos Auad, Ismaïl Bahri, Sarnath Banerjee, Yto Barrada, Abdelkader Benchamma*, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jonathas de Andrade, Mariana Castillo Deball, Roy Dib*, Vikram Divecha*, Barış Doğrusöz, Koo Donghee*, Mandy El Sayegh*, İnci Eviner*, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Harun Farocki, Fehras Publishing Practices*, Futurefarmers, Daniele Genadry*, Deniz Gül, Shadi Habib Allah*, Taloi Havini, Takashi Ishida, İz Öztat & Fatma Belkıs, Ali Jabri, Lamia Joreige, Christoph Keller*, Samir Khaddaje, Mahmoud Khaled*, Nesrine Khodr*, Basim Magdy, Metahaven*, Hind Mezaina*, Hana Miletić, Mochu*, Oscar Murillo*, Joe Namy*, Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Ashkan Sepahvand, Uriel Orlow, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Deborah Poynton, Khalil Rabah*, Jon Rafman, Rain Wu and Eric Chen, Raqs Media Collective*, Marwan Rechmaoui*, Stéphanie Saadé, Ghassan Salhab, Roy Samaha*, Massinissa Selmani*, Setareh Shahbazi*, Ross Simonini, Nida Sinnokrot, Walid Siti, Monika Sosnowska, Zhou Tao*, The Otolith Group*, Mario García Torres*, Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, Jorinde Voigt, James Webb, Paola Yacoub*, Fathallah Zamroud*
SB13 features over 25 commissions (noted with an * above). Artists Noor Abuarafeh, Iman Issa and Karine Wehbé will contribute with publications that will be released throughout the year.
Artists Christoph Keller, Metahaven and Zhou Tao have been commissioned to produce works which will be completed over the course of the year.
Note each SB13 Boat Trip has a limited capacity. Register by March 7, 2017 at rsvp [at] sharjahart.org.
Overview
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, extends beyond previous Sharjah Biennial formats in both space and time to encompass exhibitions, projects and education programmes in five locations. Curated by Christine Tohme, Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13) includes a public programme in two acts, one in Sharjah (March 10–June 12, 2017) and one in Beirut (October 19, 2017–January 19, 2018), as well as the SB13 School education programme in Sharjah. Off-site projects have been conceived by four interlocutors, each engaging with one keyword underpinning the conceptual framework of SB13. Kader Attia investigates water in Dakar (January 8–9, 2017), Zeynep Oz considers crops in Istanbul (opening May 13, 2017), Lara Khaldi studies earth in Ramallah (opening August 10, 2017) and Ashkal Alwan reflects on the culinary in Beirut (opening October 15, 2017). SB13 also features two notable components in the form of digital platforms: chip-ship, a data-rich source of research as well as the Biennial’s year-long publishing platform www.tamawuj.org.
About Christine Tohme
Christine Tohme is the director of Ashkal Alwan, a nonprofit organisation established in Beirut 1993 that supports contemporary artistic practice. She is the recipient of the Prince Claus Award (2006) and CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2015).
About Sharjah Art Foundation:
Sharjah Art Foundation brings a broad range of contemporary art and cultural programmes to the communities of Sharjah, the UAE and the region. Since 2009 SAF has built on the history of cultural collaboration and ex change that began with the first Sharjah Biennial in 1993. Working with local and international partners, we create opportunities for artists and artistic production through our core initiatives that include the Sharjah Biennial, the annual March Meeting, residencies, production grants, commissions, exhibitions, research, publications and growing collection. Our education and public programmes focus on building recognition of the central role art can play in the life of a community by promoting public learning and a participatory approach to art. All our events are free and open to the public.
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