events

Saturday 11.03.2023

March Meeting 2023: By Any Means Necessary: When Black Abstraction Becomes Black Representation

Keynote

Margo Crawford (The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pennsylvania)

11 March 2023
10:15 am–11:00 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Bring the Fish Market Alive in Watercolours

Workshop for Children and Families

11 March 2023
10:00 am–12:00 pm

Souq Al Jubail
Al jubail

Friday 10.03.2023

Resetting Birds’ Memories (2021)

Performance

Kiluanji Kia Henda, accompanied by Kimberley Agyarko, Sahar Ali and Mohammed Rawashdeh

Music by: Satch Hoyt

10 March 2023
7:00 pm–7:45 pm

Sharjah Performing Arts Academy

March Meeting 2023: Megacity: Urbanisation, Challenges and Opportunities

Panel

Nadi Abusaada (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich); Nancy Lin (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University); Pamela Nguyen Corey (Associate Professor of Art History, Fulbright University Vietnam); and AbdouMaliq Simone (Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield)
Moderator: Kamran Ali (Professor of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin)

10 March 2023
3:00 pm–5:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Global Art Cartographies and New Art Histories

Panel

Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow, Art Gallery of Western Australia); Eddie Chambers (Professor of Art History and African Diaspora Art, The David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin); Mithu Sen (artist); and Nina Tonga (Curator of Contemporary Art, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand)
Moderator: Salwa Mikdadi (Professor of Practice of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and Director and Principle Investigator, al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art)

10 March 2023
11:00 am–1:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Building the Postcolonial Imaginary: The Early History of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) 1994–2004

Keynote

Gilane Tawadros (Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery)

10 March 2023
10:15 am–11:00 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Thursday 9.03.2023

Still We Rise (2022)

Sharjah Biennial 15 Film Programme

9 March 2023
8:30 pm–9:30 pm

Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square

March Meeting 2023: States of Exception and States of Emergency: Art and Visual Culture since the 1970s

Panel

Patrick Flores (Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines); Anthony Gardner (Professor of Contemporary Art History, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford); Atreyee Gupta (Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art; Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Art, Berkeley); and Anissa Rahadiningtyas (Assistant Curator, National Gallery of Singapore)
Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi (John H. Burris Professor in History of Art, Cornell University)

9 March 2023
3:00 pm–5:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Revisiting the Global 1960s

Panel

Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics); Zeina Maasri (Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University of Bristol); Jelena Vesić (Independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer); and Zoé Whitley (Director and Curator, Chisenhale Gallery)
Moderator: Christopher J. Lee (Professor of African History, The Africa Institute)

9 March 2023
11:00 am–1:00 pm

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

March Meeting 2023: Renewing African Art Discourse within the Postcolonial Constellation

Keynote

Terry Smith (Professor, European Graduate School; Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney and University of Pittsburgh)

9 March 2023
10:15 am–11:00 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Welcome remarks by Hoor Al Qasimi at March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960

Welcome remarks

Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)

9 March 2023
10:00 am–10:15 am

Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah

Wednesday 8.03.2023

IBA Stage: Sharjah Biennial 15

Talk

Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation); Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts, Art AS | Vanderbilt University); and Octavio Zaya (Art critic and curator)
Moderator: Christian Oxenius (Writer and curator)

8 March 2023
3:30 pm–4:30 pm

Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area