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26.02.2024
March Meeting 2024: Tawashujat examines how art collectives interweave artmaking and forms of collaboration. The expanded format features more than 80 global artists, art professionals and academics who will gather for discussions of critical issues in contemporary art.
The 2024 edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March Meeting (MM 2024) explores the role of collective artistic practice and generates dialogue around collaborative efforts to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable futures. Taking place on 1–3 March at Khalid Bin Mohammed School in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the programme of talks, panel discussions, workshops, performances and readings is free and open to the public.
March Meeting 2024: Tawashujat examines how art collectives interweave artmaking and forms of collaboration. The expanded format features more than 80 global artists, art professionals and academics who will gather for discussions of critical issues in contemporary art.
Referring to the intertwining or meeting of thoughts and ideas, the Arabic word tawashujat, represents this year’s focus on collectively imagining more inclusive, equitable, sustainable and livable futures. The programme explores collaborative methods that reappraise artistic, curatorial and activist approaches to reconfigure the role of art and artists in our current times. It also looks at the myriad forms of coming together, such as learning platforms, activist movements and publishing, which can serve as toolkits for social justice, solidarity and political mobilisation.
In alignment with this theme, March Meeting 2024: Tawashujat offers participants multiple opportunities for active engagement, with breakout sessions and small group conversations built into the programming. Discussion topics include how collaborative work can enhance notions of artistic agency, especially in moments of global unrest, and how the mutual sharing of artistic and cultural resources can help navigate precarity, stimulate dialogue and encourage equity.
During and around March Meeting days, visitors will also have the opportunity to experience the Foundation’s spring exhibitions, including a survey of works by the late Pakistani artist and women’s rights activist Lala Rukh, a solo presentation by Ethiopian telsem artist Henok Melkamzer and a retrospective of works by South African artist Gavin Jantjes. Other exhibitions include a major museum exhibition of artists from the renowned Casablanca Art School in Morocco, as well as In the eyes of our present, we hear Palestine, a special exhibition of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection.
Additional details on MM 2024, including the programme and list of speakers and registration information can be found at sharjahart.org/march-meeting-2024
Click here to register. Registration is free.
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