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.
This episode is a recording of a talk titled Art Critique in the UAE which took place in Dubai on September 10th at Tashkeel. Thanks to Tashkeel for letting us share the talk with our listeners.
About the talk:
Can a Culture of Critique Exist in the UAE?
Why has the UAE seemingly resisted the culture of critique?
Who is contributing to changing the dynamic?
Do we even need to think critically about contemporary art?
Can a Culture of Critique Exist in the UAE?
Why has the UAE seemingly resisted the culture of critique?
Who is contributing to changing the dynamic?
Do we even need to think critically about contemporary art?
Moderated by Kevin Jones, arts writer, UAE Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific and founder of Juniper Mind, with a panel that included artists Afra Al Dhaheri and Rania Jishi, Umer Butt from Grey Noise Gallery, and Tea with Culture's Hind Mezaina.
The discussion addressed the presumed barriers to critique in the UAE arts ecosystem, the blossoming opportunities to cultivate critique, and a speculative leap into the future of local critique.
The panelists assessed the current state of “crit”—from burgeoning grassroots artist-run collectives to the complex feedback loop of the artist/gallerist tandem.
They decoded the critical landscape today in the UAE—who are the critics, what influence do they wield—before imagining the stakes of a fully matured culture of critique—how would this be different from what exists elsewhere, what would be the uniquely UAE inflection?
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http://junipermind.com
https://www.afraaldhaheri.com
https://www.greynoise.org
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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.