[curatorial.net] New Networks: Contemporary Art in the Arab World Seminar, Friday 13 July 2007

[Nicola Hood]

Dear List

I thought the following seminar might be of interest........

New Networks: Contemporary Art in the Arab World seminar
Friday 13 July 2007 - 10.30-17.00

Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool

Admission free - reservations 0151 7027400

Over the last five years we have seen the emergence of regional
collaboration between artists, curators, critics and institutions in the
Middle East and North Africa. This seminar looks at the impact of these
collaborations on the practice of a new generation of artists. Of course,
these collaborations are riddled with political, cultural, social, economic,
ethnic or religious connections and divides of the region ­ but nevertheless
introduce a certain mobility into rigid definitions of place and identity.

The impact of the magazine Bidoun cannot be underestimated and the Sharjah
Biennial has done much to put the Middle East on the map but other more
local initiatives operate both within and without the notion of the region
as a place. What is the role of imagination and fiction in the constitution
of these new identities?

Speakers:
Tirdad Zolghadr (Curator/writer, Teheran/Berlin), Monika Borgmann
(Artist/Umam Productions, Beirut), Reem Fadda (Curator/International Academy
of Art. Ramallah), Issa Touma (Artist/curator, Women's Art
Festival/International Photography Gathering, Aleppo), Mahita El Bacha
Urieta (curator, London), Paul Domela (Programme Director, Liverpool
Biennial).

Organised in collaboration with Mahita El Bacha Urieta, as part of a series
of seminars on new sites of artistic production for Liverpool Biennial 2008.
New Networks: Contemporary Art in the Arab World coincides with Liverpool
Arabic Arts Festival 2007. Please see www.arabicartsfestival.co.uk for more
information.
www.biennial.com

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