Archive for the ‘sharjah biennial 10’ Category
March 15, 2012
I’ll be speaking at the March Meeting, on a great panel [here] during 3 days of high calibre contributions/discussions [here]. I’ll be talking about writerly life on the ‘frontier’, using e.things -including IR,R’s crossing of disciplines/limits- not as models but as exemplary productions on the frontier.
I’ll also be writing about the MM and associated events as a further extension of Notes from a Fruitstore. Things change and -as an artist friend said to me while badly letting me down in public- shit happens. Although I have regrets about last year’s events, I welcome SAF’s new direction too [under Yuko Hasegawa here], towards the east [with clear implications] from its location close to the Indian Ocean.
There is a great archive of March Meetings [here] from which I quote Jack Persekian, not to be clever or contentious but because his words describe why I’m going to be part of the coming week in Sharjah [which compliments other rich programmes in Doha and Dubai here];
‘The March Meeting is a serious attempt to engineer strategies of discussion, networking and collaboration on topics of mutual concern and future possibilities… Our objective is to establish Sharjah as a permanent address for an annual gathering of artists, curators, institutions, writers, producers and art practitioners from around the world.’
Tags:global art forum, guy mannes-abbott, jack persekian, march meeting, notes from a march meeting, sharjah, sharjah art foundation, yuko hasegawa
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December 28, 2011
2011 Folkestone Triennial
VARIOUS VENUES, FOLKESTONE, UK
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[NB Collaborations are a particular, demanding and beautiful form of work which I seem to have developed a taste for, at least in a visual art context and since 1997!
2011 was a year of varying forms of artful collaboration, each very special but none quite so intimate as this one for me; how it came about, whom it involves and the result of our efforts. To avoid the obvious-but-hideous potential problems of collaboration, a certain more or less unspoken [else endlessly detailed!] but deeply-shared approach to all-things essential is elemental. (more…)
Tags:andrea schlieker, ashok sukumaran, CAMP, colin perry, folkestone, francis ponge, frieze, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, lighthouse in the sea of time, national coastwatch institution, richard wentworth, seashores, shaina anand, sharjah biennial, the country of the blind and other stories, zineb sedira
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July 12, 2011
Shumon Basar and Jack Persekian Wash Hands…
Jack Persekian’s performance of Nablus Soap at the ICA, as part of the Mathaf’s Interference weekend, was brilliant.
The work takes off from a show he put on with Mona Hatoum back in the early days in Jerusalem. It recounts that earlyness, the basic space, cold and uninviting and the process of arriving at the piece -Present tense [1996]- by Mona H., its installation and the historical context of a disastrous willingness to compromise with Occupation in the form of ‘Oslo’. An apologetic Abu Amar is scratched-in which raised a big laugh and the whole piece is damn fine, not least as testament to Nablus.
As Jack and Shumon talked, the film was paused on one of the many Occupation watchtowers that terrorise the Palestinian Hills, lest any of us forget the bloody stain it represents… (more…)
Tags:abu dhabi, alexandria, algiers, ashkal alwan, deena chalabi, doha, emily jacir, folkestone triennial, gregor muir, guy mannes-abbott, ICA, in ramallah running, interference, jack persekian, jerusalem, mathaf, mona hatoum, nablus soap, occupation, qatar, ramallah, shumon basar, tarek atoui, wael shawky, zineb sedira
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June 23, 2011
PV Friday 24th 8-Late
Opens to public Saturday 25th June – 25th September
ARTISTS
Don’t miss this at the NCI on the east cliff [best view in and of the town]:
CAMP (Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, Iyesha Geeth Abbas, with Guy Mannes-Abbott)
Title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
VISITING INFO
go, go , go…
Tags:ashok sukumaran, CAMP, folkestone triennial, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, shaina anand, the country of the blind & other stories
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June 13, 2011
Excellent piece/interview on The Young Man Was…: Part 1, United Red Army, Naeem Mohaiemen’s film that was first shown at Sharjah Biennial X -and which I wrote about ‘live’ here. Naeem has a page on the film/project here.
Don’t miss the film whenever/wherever it screens. Interesting to see in some relation to Assayas’s surprisingly good biopic Carlos, which is still a very different project obviously [read Jonathan Romney here]. (more…)
Tags:bangladesh, carlos, dhaka, guy mannes-abbott, JAL472, japanese red army, jonathan romney, naeem mohaiemen, olivier assayas, pflp, popular front for the liberation of palestine, sharjah biennial x, shumon basar, tank magazine, the independent, the young man was... part 1: united red army
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April 21, 2011
click IMAGE to link to notes from a biennial – appendix [i] in conversation with aisha khalid
Aisha Khalid & I
by Guy Mannes-Abbott
Conversation at Sharjah Art Museum Sharjah UEA March 2011
Guy Mannes-Abbott [gma]
Let’s begin with your piece hanging in the entrance foyer of the Sharjah Art museum, Kashmiri Shawl [2011]?
Aisha Khalid [ak]
There is a whole story behind this piece I did, this shawl. (more…)
Tags:aisha khalid, al raman al rahim, amna naqvi, bagh-i babur, bismillah, face it, gandara art, guy mannes-abbott, imran quereshi, in the name of the land of my love, indian occupied kashmir, kashmir, kashmiri shawl, lahore, mourid barghouti, pakistan, pattern to follow, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, sufism, suzanne cotter, the contained, the container, venice biennale, walid raad
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April 21, 2011
CAMP-Al-Jaar-Qabla-al-Daar The People From The Family of Abu Saoud Were Kicked Out [Ph. Guy Mannes-Abbott]
click IMAGE to link to notes from a biennial – appendix [i] in conversation with CAMP
CAMP & I
by Guy Mannes-Abbott
Conversation with Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran [CAMP] March 2011 Sharjah, UAE
Guy Mannes-Abbott [gma]
Tell me a little about your background and approach.
Shaina [Anand]
Broadly speaking my background is film. Actually documentary practice, and a lot of what we do as CAMP as well -Ashok’s background is architecture and “new media”… (more…)
Tags:al aqsa, al jaar qabla al daar, al quds, ashok sukumaran, CAMP, florian schneider, guy mannes-abbott, jerusalem, moroccan quarter, pad.ma, shaikh jarrah, shaina anand, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, silwan, the neighbour before the house
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April 21, 2011
I’m ‘hosting’ this update because I want to support all those who made Sharjah Biennial 10 such a particularly special, even unique event across a wide range of activities and forms.
I’m framing it because these are not my own words, however close I might feel to their plea. I understand and sympathise with the dismay and indignation as well as the urgent hopes expressed that some transparency about what happened, an articulation or plausible narrative will emerge soon. Often The How is as important as The What -something which an unrelated campaign I’m involved in at home in London reiterates strongly.
Credibility is everything; very hard to achieve, impossible to fake, priceless to possess, lost very quickly -and then really hard to recover if at all…
PR, on the other hand…
[continued below...]
[ENGLISH] Dear friends and colleagues,
Following the abrupt dismissal of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director, Mr. Jack Persekian (more…)
Tags:'ear to the other', ahdaf soueif, francis ponge, guy mannes-abbott, jack persekian, jacques derrida, mezzaterra, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, لائحة الاعتراض
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April 11, 2011
I know how discerning those of you that find your way to the Fruit Store are; please consider the strange disaster of this carefully [it's a shame, now, if you never made it to Sharjah, and especially if you didn't make it to the substantive triumph that this year's 10th Biennial represented] and do the right thing; (more…)
Tags:guy mannes-abbott, jack persekian, march meeting, sharjah, sharjah biennial 10, sharjah foundation, united arab emirates
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I’ll be speaking at the March Meeting, on a great panel [here] during 3 days of high calibre contributions/discussions [here]. I’ll be talking about writerly life on the ‘frontier’, using e.things -including IR,R’s crossing of disciplines/limits- not as models but as exemplary productions on the frontier.
