From more than 100 applicants my proposal for the interactive installation titled: The Fabric of al Bastakiya has been commissioned for production as a part of SIKKA Art Fair 2012, March 15-25 @ Dubai Heritage Area – al Bastakiya.
Here you can see a short excerpt from the video documentation: vimeo
The 2012 Selection Committee members were:
Ebtisam Abdul Aziz, Artist
Rami Farook, Curator, Publisher and Director of Traffic
Khalid Al Najjar, Architect and Founder of dxb.lab
with
Antonia Carver, Fair Director at Art Dubai
Salem Belyouha, Projects and Events Director at Dubai Culture
With my photographic work I am participating in an exhibition Mawtini in Dubai’s Tashkeel Gallery in Nad al Sheba. Tashkeel
Open Home
House on the Hill
Catalog cover
up side down catalog spread
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest” – Robert Montgomery
We are living in an increasingly complex world in which barriers and borders are being broken down and where conventional concepts of “homeland” and “belonging” are being challenged. This is of particular relevance in the United Arab Emirates, where almost 80% of the population is living away from their so-called home country, and yet for so many of these people, this is truly “home”.
Tashkeel invites you to the opening reception of the group show
Mawtini
(My home)
Selected works from a themed open call by 21 UAE based artists .
ِِAlaa Kahel
Alia Lootah
Ammar Al Attar
Bela Bhatt
Carrie Brummer
Christiana De Marchi
Debjani Bhardwaj
Fatma Al Mulla
Hamad Al Falasi
Hind Demithan
Maialen Dissard
Martin Budny
Naz Shahrokh
Nivedita Saha
Rasha Dakkak
Reem Falaknaz
Saba Qisilbash
Sam Faix
Shamma Al Amri
Tonya Sweet
Zlatan Filipovic
Opening reception, 7pm, Tuesday 13 of March 2012
Exhibition runs from 13 March 2012 to 30 April 2012
Location: Intersection street 5 and 20, Nad Al Sheba 1, Dubai
يتشرف تشكيل بدعوتكم لحضور افتتاح المعرض الجماعي
موطني
أعمال فنية مختارة مستوحاه من موضوع المعرض لــ 21 فنان مقيم بالإمارات
To mark the occasion of March 1st, the independence day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group exhibition by the artists who took part in the 47th session of the Artist Residence program in Pocitelj (June 2011) opened in the Gallery Roman Petrovic in Sarajevo. It is organized by the Society of Fine Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and will continue to tour in BiH.
Project:
INDIVIDUAL UTOPIAS NOW AND THEN –
Discontinuity of generation dialogue or what do we have in common?
Activity:
Narrative video workshop
Subject/title:
Memory Revealed
Lecturers:
Zlatan Filipović & Vedran Rešidbegović
Working framework – narrative video workshop (brief):
In order to personalize the contexts of the narrative topics a kind of swot analysis will be applied as an individual and later a group activity. This is aimed at producing a platform of “what do we have in common?” terms and opinions that will then be utilized for production of audio‐visual responses in a form of short clips.
A matrix/database of clips will be created by workshop participants that will provide raw material for re‐mixing and creation of narrative structures that will
provide creative response to the raised question from, more specifically, the sub‐ title of the Project ‐ INDIVIDUAL UTOPIAS NOW AND THEN – Discontinuity of generation dialogue or what do we have in common?
In turn this will provide for two outcomes of this workshop: group project, a collection of video clips; Individual critical/re‐mix = memory revived response to the framework of the Project.
Participants:
1. Adela Jušić, BH
2. Igor Bošnjak, BH
3. Marija Blizanac, BH
4. Naida Begović, BH
5. Lana Čmajčanin, BH
6. Gabor Ripli, SR
7. Marko Bokan, SR
8. Milan Jančirić, SR
9. Ana Daci, AL
10.Klodi Agostini, AL
11.Illir Kaso, AL
12.Sembie Gishto, AL
This project is a collaboration with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece and the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Greece.
The workshop took place from 12-14 June 2011, 6-9PM at the Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah with participation of 10 invited artists and other scholars.
An exhibition followed on 22 June.
This is a first event of a project which aims to re-define, through the use of images, their relation of the cultural heritage of the Arabic peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean region. This traveling project, will open first during the Thessalonoki Biennale on 18 September 2011 and will travel to other places in the Middle East.
MUBI
Underground Art: Chris Marker’s “PASSENGERS” Exhibit
Cocteau used to say that at night, statues escape from museums and go walking in the streets. During my peregrinations in the Paris Metro, I sometimes made such unusual encounters. Models of famous painters were still among us, and I was lucky enough to have them sitting in front of me. —Chris Marker
Organised by Fawz Kabra and Isak Berbic in the United Arab Emirates, BRIEF HISTORIES is a developing program with the initial event opened on March 17, 2011.
I have contributed my reactive installation work titled ENGAGE, CHANGE.
WINTER/SPRING 2011 BRIEF HISTORIES
Sarah Abu Abdallah
Tarek Al Ghoussein
Hala Ali
Abbas Akhavan
Brandon Alvendia
Tairone Bastien
Myron Beasley
Sema Bekirovic
Amir Berbic
Isak Berbic
Dunja Blazevic
Sofia Bytterbier
Jean Marie Casbarian
Nada Dada
Karee Dahl
Vincent Dermody
Nicolas Dumit Estevez
Renate Ferro
Zlatan Filipovic
Eric Fleischauer
Geissler/Sann
Khaled Hafez
Ibro Hasanovic
Samuel Jablon
Frans Jacobi
Emilia and Ilya Kabakov
Jeremiah Bendik Keymer
Wes Kline
Vincent Leow
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Laura Marks
Timothy Murray
Damir Niksic
Brian O’Doherty
Melentie Pandilovski
Zoran Poposki
Colin Reaney
Michael Robinson
Ben Russell
Shirin Sabahi
Larissa Sansour
Nebojsa Shoba Seric
Edgar Serrano
LeRoy Stevens
Deborah Stratman
Pelin Tan
Ubik
Lantian Xie
