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Sharjah Art Foundation convenes March Meeting, launches SB15
04 Mar 2021
Muhammad Yusuf,
Features Writer
March Meeting 2021 (MM 2021), the annual Sharjah Art Foundation convening of artists, curators and art practitioners to explore critical issues in contemporary art, returns as an expanded 10-day, hybrid on-site and online programme (Mar. 12 – 21). Examining the 30-year history of the Sharjah Biennial and the future of the biennial model through panels, lectures and performances, March Meeting 2021: Unravelling the Present, serves as the launch of Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, which was conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) and is curated by Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) Director Hoor Al Qasimi, alongside the Sharjah Biennial (SB15) Working Group and Advisory Committee, opening 2022.
Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11-Where Visual Art and Music Collide Published January 19th, 2021 - 07:16 GMT
Tarek Atoui and Jad Atoui performing at the opening of Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11. Sharjah Art Foundation, 2020-image courtesy of SAF
Highlights
Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11 celebrates over a decade of the acclaimed sound artist’s collaboration with the Foundation and the surrounding community and is the starting point for a residency programme that invites 13 artists to Sharjah
As part of the major solo exhibition Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11, Sharjah Art Foundation announces a music residency programme that will bring 13 musicians, composers and artists, selected through an open call, as well as Resident Advisors to Sharjah to develop new works that interact with the installations within the exhibition.
Re|sound Returns to Sharjah Art Foundationâs Mirage City Cinema for Fifth Edition Published December 16th, 2020 - 07:42 GMT
Hasan Hujairi, Laith Demashqieh and Makimakkuk performing with Lujain Rakadhâs film Rahhala at Re|sound III, Mirage City Cinema. Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019
Highlights
The biannual event on 18 December 2020 features UAE-based musicians and sound artists performing in tandem with Rouzbeh Rashidiâs 2013 film Homo Sapiens Project: There Is No Escape from the Terrors of the Mind
Sharjah Art Foundationâs biannual event Re|sound returns for its fifth edition on Friday, 18 December 2020, in the contemporary open-air Mirage City Cinema. Re|sound invites locally and regionally based musicians to prepare and perform original live sets in conversation with a projected film. The fifth edition of Re|sound features Rouzbeh Rashidi s film Homo Sapiens Project: There Is No Escape from the Terrors of the Mind (2013), which will be screen