Excited for this year’s Sharjah Biennial. It all starts with the Public Programme on Thursday:
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 7 MARCH
10:00 am–12:00 pm Official opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14) by HH Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Federal Supreme Council, Ruler of Sharjah.
Al Mureijah Square
2:00 pm–2:45 pm tagatanu’u
Performance
Léuli Eshrāghi
Al Hamriyah Studios
3:00 pm–3:30 pm house of MAKEdbA
Performance
Neo Muyanga
Al Hamriyah Studios
4:30 pm–6:30 pm Eslabón
Performance
Carlos Martiel
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
10:30 pm–12:30 am Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Film screening
Kidlat Tahimik
Mirage City Cinema, Al Mureijah Square
FRIDAY, 8 MARCH
Sharjah Biennial 14 offsite: Kalba and Umm Al Quwain
* Part of March Meeting 2019: Look for Me All Around You. Performance programme curated by Claire Tancons, speakers
series convened with Diego del Valle, Terremoto magazine
11:00 am–11:30 am Blida – Joinville
Installation
Mohamed Bourouissa
Kalba Kindergarten
11:45 am–1:00 pm Imminent movement *
Talks
Yarimar Bonilla, Fabian Villegas, Dr Aisha Bilkhair and Michael Marder
Fen Cafe and Restaurant, Kalba
1:00 pm–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm–2:00 pm I Belong to the Distance
Performance
Dark Adaptive (Torkwase Dyson with Zachary Fabri and Andres L. Hernandez)
Kalba Ice Factory
2:00 pm–2:45 pm Untitled (juice, inwardness, natures)
Hosted occasion with Aya African Drum and Dance, Reemaz AlOqbi, Ziad Baig,
Nagham Debal, and Lydia Shepherd
Isabel Lewis with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and HACKLANDER / HATAM
Kalba Ice Factory
2:45 pm–3:15 pm Sympoiesis Observatory
Site activation
Nikolaus Gansterer
Kalba Ice Factory
3:15 pm–3:45 pm Land of Zanj
Performance with Thembekile Komani and Aphiwe Mpahleni
Mohau Modisakeng
Kalba Ice Factory
4:30 pm–5:15 pm Land of Zanj
Processional performance with Thembekile Komani and Aphiwe Mpahleni
Mohau Modisakeng
From Kalba Ice Factory to Kalba beach
6:45 pm–9:00 pm The Trans-National
Performance, site activation with Astral LXXXII, FREEK and Monster Crew
New Orleans Airlift
Site of abandoned airplane in Umm Al Quwain
SATURDAY, 9 MARCH
March Meeting 2019: Look for Me All Around You. Performance programme curated by Claire Tancons, speakers series
convened with Diego del Valle, Terremoto magazine
9:15 am–10:00 am Registration
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
9:45 am–9:50 am Welcome remarks
Hoor Al Qasimi
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
10:00 am–10:45 am Sabor a Lágrimas
Performance
Carlos Martiel
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
11:11 am–ongoing Suntitled
Sun activations
Hannah Black and Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
11:15 am–12:15 pm Patakí 1921
Performance with Karime León Barreiro, La Trinchera, Sara Cruz and Rafael Maya
Ulrik López
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
1:00 pm–2:30 pm Evocation of inheritance
Talk
Adrienne Edwards, Hannah Black, Jace Clayton and Suchitra Mattai
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square
2:45 pm–3:45 pm Perruques Architectures Émirats Arabes Unis
Processional performance
Meschac Gaba
Arts Square
4:30 pm–5:00 pm No prey, no pay
Presence of special guest: Johnathan Lee Iverson
Peter Friedl
Gallery 1, Al Mureijah Square
5:00 pm–7:00 pm To pay and repair?
Talks
Felwine Sarr, Alexandre Kazerouni, Imani Brown and Philippe Rahm
Discussion with Claire Tancons and Diego Del Valle with participating artists
Bait Khalid Ibrahim Square, Al Mureijah Square
7:20 pm–7:40 pm Time Travel
Live stream projection
Caline Aoun
Gallery 1&2 Courtyard, Al Mureijah Square
8:15 pm–9:15 pm The Filipino Superwoman Band
Performance with Bunny Cadag and Cathrine Go
Eisa Jocson
Al Hamdan bin Mousa Courtyard, Al Mureijah Square
9:30 pm–10:30 pm Any Way the Wind Blows
Performance
Tracey Rose
Sharjah Ladies Club, Al Qulaayaa
SUNDAY, 10 MARCH
March Meeting 2019: Journey Beyond the Arrow—From the Multiple, in Process, with Flexibility and Adaptation.
Convened by Zoe Butt with Lee Weng Choy
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
9:15 am–10:00 am Registration
10:00 am–10:20 am An introduction on time and clocks and time zones—how the mapping of time
instructs mobility: how a commitment to time can never be quite finished
Introduction
Lee Weng Choy (co-convenor)
10:30 am–11:30 am On kapwa, bathala na!, and the art of never finishing
Conversation with performance
Kidlat Tahimik with Zoe Butt
11:40 am–12:30 pm On relation—beyond fixed gender
Relay
Anis Chouchene –> Lisa Reihana –> Neo Muyanga
Moderated by Zoe Butt
12:30 pm–2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm–2:20 pm The palimpsest of historical memory—on the misnomer of the ‘origin’
Reading
Shubigi Rao
2:30 pm–3:00 pm On militancy, truth and the shifting of normalising violence
Conversation
Khadim Ali and Meiro Koizumi with Lee Weng Choy
3:00 pm–3:15 pm Performance
Fazil H Mousavi (part of Khadim Ali’s project Flowers of Evil)
3:20 pm–3:40 pm On movement and the potential of thinking diasporically
Reading
Léuli Eshrāghi
3:45 pm–4:15 pm Coffee break
4:15 pm–5:15 pm On counter memory and the doubling of its recall
Conversation
Ho Tzu Nyen and Tuan Andrew Nguyen with Lee Weng Choy
5:15 pm–5:30 pm Performance
Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Serigne Ousmane Mbacke Noreyni Seck
5.30 pm–6.30 pm Moderated discussion with all speakers
Lee Weng Choy and Zoe Butt
9:30 pm–12:15 am Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux (1980–)
Film screening
Kidlat Tahimik
Mirage City Cinema, Al Mureijah Square
MONDAY, 11 MARCH
March Meeting 2019: Create Dangerously. Convened by Omar Kholeif
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
9:30 am–10:15 am Registration
10:15 am–10:30 am A poem, a context or a dream
Welcome remarks
Omar Kholeif
10:30 am–12:00 pm Africa is not a country; the Middle East is not a continent
Panel
10:30 am–11:00 am
Otobong Nkanga and Koyo Kouoh in conversation
11:00 am–11:30 am
Hannah Feldman and Akram Zaatari in conversation
11:30 am–12:00 pm
Roundtable with Otobong Nkanga, Koyo Kouoh, Hannah Feldman and Akram Zaatari
Moderated by Sofia Victorino
12:00 pm–1:00 pm Holding time: history, fiction, experience
Keynote
Tarek El-Ariss
1:00 pm–2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm–4:00 pm What does it mean to make new time?
Panel
Aram Moshayedi, Zoe Butt, Koray Duman, Todd Reisz and Reem Fadda
Moderated by Sarah Perks
4:00 pm–4:20 pm Coffee break
4:20 pm–4:40 pm A manifesto
Reading
Douglas Coupland
4:40 pm–5:00 pm A summoning
Reading
Yasmine El Rashidi
5:00 pm–6:00 pm The imagination in the thought of Ibn Al Arabi
Closing keynote
Fatima Al Qasimi
6:30 pm–7:00 pm house of MAKEdbA
Performance
Neo Muyanga
Al Hamriyah Studios
Artwork activations
Gudskul for their tool kit, Speculative Collective, will be taking place during the opening days in the following locations:
Collections Building, Arts Square (7, 10 March), Khorfakkan Art Centre (8 March) and Al Madam Art Centre (9 March).
Suitable for all ages and abilities, activations are free and open to the public. Please check sharjahart.org for timings.
Optimal viewing times for Suntitled by Hannah Black and Ebba Fransén Waldhör: 11:11 am; 12:12 pm; 2:14 pm; 3:15 pm;
4:16 pm; 5:17 pm [daily] in Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square.
Specters of Noon by Allora & Calzadilla is activated daily at 12:28 pm [for 4 mins] in Gallery 1, Al Mureijah Square.
Time Travel by Caline Aoun will be live streamed daily at 7:18 pm [for 20 minutes] in Gallery 1&2 Courtyard, Al Mureijah Square.
Optimal viewing times for Rainbow Serpent flows in free rivers by Aline Baiana is from 2:20 pm until 5:00 pm [daily] in Al Mureijah Square.
All outdoor film installations can only be viewed after sunset.
Food and Beverage
Food vendors will be availabale in Al Mureijah Square and Arts Square for the duration of the opening week programme.
Transportation to Kalba and Umm Al Quwain on Friday, 8 March
Buses to Kalba Ice Factory, Kalba Kindergarten and Umm Al Quwain will depart from Sharjah Art Foundation’s Al Mureijah Square at 9:30 am and return there at 9:30 pm.
To book a seat on the bus, please email rsvp@sharjahart.org
For directions to each location, please use the following coordinates:
Kalba Ice Factory: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qTGgm
Kalba Kindergarten: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aLbLN
Site of abandoned airplane in Umm Al Quwain: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rbyX5
General transportation
Buses to Sharjah Ladies Club for the perfromance on Saturday, 9 March will leave Al Mureijah Square at 9:10 pm and
return there after the performance. To book a seat on the bus, please email rsvp@sharjahart.org
Buses depart every hour from Al Mureijah Square Information Centre to go to Al Hamriyah Studios. Please check schedule
at the Information Centre for exact timings and locations.
Buses to Kalba Ice Factory, Kalba Kindergarten and the site of the abandoned airplane in Umm Al Quwain depart daily at
10:00 am from Al Mureijah Square Information Centre.
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