Posts Tagged ‘sharjah art foundation’
December 23, 2011
In Ramallah, Running due Feb. 28th 2012
Gertrude Stein didn’t think much of commas, you remember? I think a lot of Gertrude’s work and Gertrude herself, as Fruit Store regulars will know, but disagree with her about the comma.
Commas break-up, complicate, deepen, add dimension to statements and any prose that takes ‘sense’ for granted. They elucidate, make-difficult, render actual complexity. The comma in In Ramallah, Running does these and many other things for me…
Above is a graphic rendering of a tiny part of the cover-image of the book [actual cover image coming soon], in which the sticking-out comma sticks out!
Commas are inconvenient, never quite fit, force you to notice that which you might not, condense and disrupt [presumed, heh Adania?] sense, etc. They are abyss and peak, add crucial [a]rhythms and make for the elliptical.
Writing without these things is almost literally nothing…
Tags:adania shibli, artschool palestine, black dog, emily jacir, francis alys, gertrude stein, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, jananne al-ani, jean fisher, khalil rabah, mark titchner, najwan darwish, olaf nicolai, paul noble, samar martha, sharif waked, sharjah art foundation
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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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March 27, 2011
click IMAGE to link to notes from a biennial – on a day of words [two] with full set of images
Words also make up generative elements here; in the large, complex and beautiful installation by Amar Kanwar for example, and are properly at play in the work itself -in Slavs and Tatars brilliant ‘Friendship of Nations’. (more…)
Tags:79.89.09, amar kanwar, burmese dictatorship, friendship of nations, gandhi, guy mannes-abbott, Ko Than Htay, monir farmanfarmaian, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, slavs and tatars, tearing out the first page
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March 10, 2011
I’m abandoning the Fruit Store for the [warmer] Biennial, where I’m invited to be art critic in residence during a genuinely exciting opening week. Check the contents of it on the Biennial’s webpage.
My project is to restage Notes from a Fruit Store for the opening week and you’ll find the button -Notes from a Biennial- on Sharjah’s header very soon. For highlights and much more check here from about the 12th March through the 20th. For my part, I can’t wait…
Tags:aisha khalid, alfred jaar, CAMP, emily jacir, eyal weizman, guy mannes-abbott, hans haacke, http://www.sharjahart.org/, imran qureshi, jane and louise wilson, khalid hourani, khalil rabah, luc sante, march meeting, naeem mohaiemen, notes from a biennial, notes from a fruit store, rosalind nashashibi, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, yazan khalili, yusef lateef
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