This presentation by Grace Anezia Ali, titled ‘The World in Which We Find Ourselves’, discusses how Sharjah Biennial 14: ‘Leaving the Echo Chamber’ (2019) engaged with Caribbean artists who explore issues of global migration, displacement and dislocation. The talk presents research published in an essay of the same title that was commissioned for the March Meeting Papers. Selected through the March Meeting 2021 open call, the essays included in the March Meeting Papers expand on curator Okwui Enwezor’s influential thinking about the Biennial as a platform to engage with history, politics and society. Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which the biennial model, such as the Sharjah Biennial, has contributed to the realisation of new narratives and experiences of modern and contemporary art.
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Aneiza Ali, Grace
Grace Aneiza Ali’s research and teaching practice centres on curatorial activism, socially engaged art practices, and contemporary art of the Caribbean and its diaspora with a focus on her homeland Guyana.