Publication Details

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber Guidebook
Paperback
341 pages, 82 visuals
23.5 x 16.5 cm
Arabic and English
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019

Overview

This publication accompanies Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons. It serves as a guide for Biennial visitors with a list of artists by location, artist project descriptions, Biennial opening week and March Meeting 2019 schedules, SB14 film programme and related education programmes. It includes a foreword from Sharjah Art Foundation director Hoor Al Qasimi and the platform introductions by the SB14 curators Butt, Kholeif and Tancons. The artist project descriptions are accompanied by unique visuals such as artist sketches, process documentation, fabrication details, film stills and proposal renders.

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

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Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

Butt, Zoe

Zoe Butt is a curator and writer based in Vietnam. Her curatorial practice centres on building critically thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among countries of the global south.

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

Kholeif, Omar

Omar Kholeif, PhD, CF FRSA, is an author and artist; a curator and cultural historian, and a broadcaster who has curated more than 100 exhibitions of visual art, architecture and digital culture.

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

Tancons, Claire

Claire Tancons is a curator and scholar invested in the discourse and practice of the postcolonial politics of production and exhibition.

Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

Al Qasimi, Hoor

Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.