The second in a two-part roundtable titled Sharjah Biennials in a Regional Context, this session includes Qudsia Rahim (Executive Director, Lahore Biennale Foundation and Director, Lahore Biennale) and Nada Shabout (Professor, Art History and Coordinator, Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative, University of North Texas). Moderated by John Tain (Head of Research, Asia Art Archive), this talk continues the discussion on the Sharjah Biennial within the context of biennials in the Middle East and South East Asia. Speakers rethink the form of biennials, both in relation to their location and in relation to the global art world.
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Rahim, Qudsia
Qudsia Rahim is the Director of Lahore Biennale, and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Lahore Biennale Foundation, a non-profit aimed at engaging arts as a medium of dialogue for community building.
Shabout, Nada
Nada Shabout’s research and teaching address contemporary visual practices and problems of representation from a global perspective, with emphasis on questions of methodology and in relation to the cultural politics of the Middle East.
Tain, John
John Tain is the Head of Research at Asia Art Archive, where he leads a team based in Hong Kong, New Delhi and Shanghai.