Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates, UAE) organizes the eight annualMarch Meeting, a six-day symposium featuring presentations by artists, art professionals and institutions on the production and dissemination of art in the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia) region and internationally. Launched in 2008, the Meeting was conceived as a forum to encourage regional art professionals to connect, to share ideas and expertise, to network and form partnerships for future projects.
A vital component of Sharjah Art Foundation‘s annual programming, March Meetingexamines several pertinent issues in contemporary culture, addressing institutional formation, exhibitions, and artistic production as well as consideration of how to develop education and research initiatives.
March Meeting 2015 will take place May 11-16 and is organized by Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti and Eric Baudelaire.
On May 11, Khouri and Salti will organise three sessions, including a presentation on their ongoing research on the International Art Exhibition for Palestine (1978), based on interviews with artists, filmmakers and journalists associated with this project, as well as a keynote address by the scholar W.J.T. Mitchell.
On May 12 and 13 Eric Baudelaire’s Sharjah Sessions considers the question of statehood through the prism of the stateless state of Abkhazia. In addition to the Anembassy of Abkhazia staffed by Maxim Gvinjia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and daily screenings of the feature length film, Letters to Max, this discursive programme includes sessions with artists and scholars.
From May 14 – 16, Joo continues the discussion through a series of presentations, conversations and screenings which are still under development.
- Open:
Monday, 11 May 2015 - Close:
Saturday, 16 May 2015 - Address:
Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Shuwaiheen Arts Area, Sharjah - Mail:
marchmeeting@sharjahart.org - Phone:
+971 6 568 5050 - Web:
Sharjah Art Foundation - Photo credits:
March Meeting 2014; Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
