March Meeting 2021: Unravelling the Present

Publication Details

March Meeting 2021: Unravelling the Present
Conference Guide
Paperback
206 pages
16.5 x 11.5 cm
English and Arabic
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation
2021

Overview

This publication is a record of the 13th edition of March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists and art practitioners to explore critical issues in contemporary art through panels, lectures and performances. It includes an introduction to the conference, a schedule of the programme and biographical information on the panelists.

March Meeting 2021 (MM 2021) examined the past 30 years of Sharjah Biennial as a model initiative for disrupting the power of artistic monolingualism and a horizon for developing another theoretical space for thinking historically in the present. Titled Unravelling the Present, MM 2021 brought together former Sharjah Biennial curators, artistic directors and artists as well as art historians and art critics to investigate the role, place and impact of the Sharjah Biennial in the region and the global contemporary art scene at large.

This edition of March Meeting speakers and participants included John Akomfrah, Mona Al Khaja, Hisham Al Madhloum, Noora Al Mualla, Hoor Al Qasimi, Yousif Aydabi, Sammy Baloji, Ute Meta Bauer, Zarina Bhimji, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Iftikhar Dadi, Catherine David, Omar Dewachi, Bongiwe Dhlomo–Mautloa, Manthia Diawara, Anita Dube, Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Ehab Ellaban, Reem Fadda, Coco Fusco, Elizabeth Giorgis, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Salah M. Hassan, Ryan Inouye, Eungie Joo, Geeta Kapur, Mohammed Kazem, Omar Kholeif, Adrian Lahoud, Peter Lewis, Arshiya Lokhandwala, Margarita Gonzalez Lorente, Amina Menia, Gabi Ngcobo, Otobong Nkanga, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Jack Persekian, Qudsia Rahim, Enrique Rivera, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Alex Dika Saggerman, Nada Shabout, Sadia Shirazi, Suha Shoman, Aisha Stoby, Alia Swastika, Rayyane Tabet, John Tain, Ming Tiampo, Christine Tohmé, Françoise Vergès, Andrea Wallace, Octavio Zaya, Tirdad Zolghadr.

On the occasion MM 2021, the Foundations also published a series of 11 essays, selected through the March Meeting open call, that expand on the theme of Unravelling the Present. March Meeting Papers are available to view on this link.