A discussion with Nora Razian (Head of Exhibitions at Art Jameel) about recent exhibition trends in museums and galleries, specifically how 'research based art' is presented and translated into a final piece of artwork.
The discussion includes questions about the proposition of the work and what are curators and artists demanding from an audience, works made for biennials compared to museum/gallery exhibitions, how best to present durational work like film and video and how can the layout invite and engage viewers to watch them in their entirety. We also discuss labelling, how to accommodate multi-lingual viewers, and how artists present works that challenge and contest dominant art narratives and histories.
Links to some of the works mentioned in the discussion:
Nepal Picture Library at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://www.nepalpicturelibrary.org/update/feminist-memory-project-at-istanbul-biennial/
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/feminist-memory-project-nepal-picture-library
Lamia Joreige at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/lamia-joreige
Christian Marclay - The Clock
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marclay-the-clock-t14038
A Word to Curators - about making exhibitions accessible
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/to-curators/
Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses at Sharjah Art Foundation
https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/watch-chill-2.0-streaming-senses
An Ocean in Every Drop at Jameel Art Centre
https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/an-ocean-in-every-drop/
About our guest:
Nora Razian manages the exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Centre, and contributes to curatorial thinking across the board. Previous roles include heading up programmes at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, and curating public programmes at Tate, London. She has an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths College, London, where she also designed and taught the MA course ‘Critical Pedagogy in Contested Space’ at the Centre for Arts and Learning.
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A discussion with Nora Razian (Head of Exhibitions at Art Jameel) about recent exhibition trends in museums and galleries, specifically how 'research based art' is presented and translated into a final piece of artwork.
The discussion includes questions about the proposition of the work and what are curators and artists demanding from an audience, works made for biennials compared to museum/gallery exhibitions, how best to present durational work like film and video and how can the layout invite and engage viewers to watch them in their entirety. We also discuss labelling, how to accommodate multi-lingual viewers, and how artists present works that challenge and contest dominant art narratives and histories.
Links to some of the works mentioned in the discussion:
Nepal Picture Library at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://www.nepalpicturelibrary.org/update/feminist-memory-project-at-istanbul-biennial/
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/feminist-memory-project-nepal-picture-library
Lamia Joreige at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/lamia-joreige
Christian Marclay - The Clock
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marclay-the-clock-t14038
A Word to Curators - about making exhibitions accessible
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/to-curators/
Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses at Sharjah Art Foundation
https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/watch-chill-2.0-streaming-senses
An Ocean in Every Drop at Jameel Art Centre
https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/an-ocean-in-every-drop/
About our guest:
Nora Razian manages the exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Centre, and contributes to curatorial thinking across the board. Previous roles include heading up programmes at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, and curating public programmes at Tate, London. She has an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths College, London, where she also designed and taught the MA course ‘Critical Pedagogy in Contested Space’ at the Centre for Arts and Learning.
Hind Mezaina invited Maryam Wissam Dabbagh for a conversation about her project currently on exhibit at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, part of its ongoing Library Circles series.
The commissioned project reflects on the conversations around belonging and revisiting relationships with our cities, topics many of us around the world have been thinking about since the pandemic started and apt themes themes to discuss for our 100th episode.
About the Library Circles commissioned project:
Library Circles feature research, talks and experimental interventions by UAE practitioners in the Jameel Library and Jameel Arts Centre. The programme explores alternative research methodologies and representations with a focus on ‘thinking in public’.
For the fall iteration of Library Circles, Jameel Library presents an audio piece by writer and researcher Maryam Wissam Al Dabbagh. The commissioned work reflects on the conversations around belonging; revisiting relationships with our cities through bureaucracy, administration and the long-prophesied age of retirement. Through personal narratives, Al Dabbagh examines complex round histories that continue to reimagine their beginnings and abruptly ending.
Accompanying the audio piece is a text installation. Meant for slow reading and chance encounters, the writing starts from the library and grows outwards across various spaces throughout the Jameel Arts Centre.
About Maryam Wissam Al Dabbagh:
Born and raised in the UAE, Maryam Wissam Al Dabbagh is an Iraqi writer, researcher, and cultural communications consultant.
She received a BA in Journalism, from the American University of Sharjah, and an MA in Global Media and Post-National Communications from SOAS, London. Her research is focused on the Arab Diaspora in the Gulf, and exile, especially through the lens of belonging and return.
Library Circles: Maryam Wissam Al Dabbagh is on until 31 December 2020.
https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/library-circles-maryam-al-dabbagh/
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A discussion with Nora Razian (Head of Exhibitions at Art Jameel) about recent exhibition trends in museums and galleries, specifically how 'research based art' is presented and translated into a final piece of artwork.
The discussion includes questions about the proposition of the work and what are curators and artists demanding from an audience, works made for biennials compared to museum/gallery exhibitions, how best to present durational work like film and video and how can the layout invite and engage viewers to watch them in their entirety. We also discuss labelling, how to accommodate multi-lingual viewers, and how artists present works that challenge and contest dominant art narratives and histories.
Links to some of the works mentioned in the discussion:
Nepal Picture Library at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://www.nepalpicturelibrary.org/update/feminist-memory-project-at-istanbul-biennial/
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/feminist-memory-project-nepal-picture-library
Lamia Joreige at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/lamia-joreige
Christian Marclay - The Clock
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/marclay-the-clock-t14038
A Word to Curators - about making exhibitions accessible
https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/to-curators/
Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses at Sharjah Art Foundation
https://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/watch-chill-2.0-streaming-senses
An Ocean in Every Drop at Jameel Art Centre
https://jameelartscentre.org/whats-on/an-ocean-in-every-drop/
About our guest:
Nora Razian manages the exhibitions programme at the Jameel Arts Centre, and contributes to curatorial thinking across the board. Previous roles include heading up programmes at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, and curating public programmes at Tate, London. She has an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics from Goldsmiths College, London, where she also designed and taught the MA course ‘Critical Pedagogy in Contested Space’ at the Centre for Arts and Learning.
