• Sebastian Mayer: Hannibaby and Zarafa

    Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, Sharjah

    A public artwork, performance and community project, Sebastian Mayer’s Hannibaby draws from an absurd family adventure. Structuring a life-size baby elephant puppet around his toddler’s carrier, the duo covered a 70km-distance from France into Italy through the Cottian Alps in [... more]

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  • Sebastian Mayer: Hannibaby and Zarafa

    Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi Arts Square, Sharjah

    Two further performances of Sebastian Mayer’s Hannibaby and Zarafa. Hannibaby manifests as a walkabout performance by a life-sized baby elephant puppet, alongside a workshop series instructing families in the art of creating and decorating their own 3D elephant masks. It [... more]

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  • Sim Chi Yin: Longings, Returns

    Khalid Bin Mohammed School Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Sim Chi Yen’s installation and performance speaks to the intersecting geographies of forced migration that came about as a result of the mass deportation of over 30,000 people from British-ruled Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) to China between 1948 and [... more]

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  • Sofiane Chalal: XXL

    Khalid Bin Mohammed School Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Sofiane Chalal's hip-hop dance performance XXL addresses the thorny issue of being seen as overweight in society. Rather than hide behind euphemisms and concealment, XXL centres ‘non-standard’ bodies to dismantle pejorative labels and celebrate a journey towards acceptance and recognition. [... more]

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