Alserkal Art Month: weekend 4

Here’s the schedule for the fourth weekend of Alserkal Avenue’s Art Month:

SATURDAY 9 MAY

4-5pm start at The Yard TOUR Slow Art Walk with Camilla Singh
Artist, curator, and cultural strategist Camilla Singh leads a tour of three selected galleries that offers an alternative way to engage with art, “taking the time to slow down and reflect rather than rushing to unpack or understand”. Register here.

6-7pm start at The Yard TOUR Slow Art Walk with Priyanka Mehra
Curator Priyanka Mehra (Ishara Arts Foundation) leads a tour of the Avenue, beginning with “the act of noticing how the Avenue unfolds through gestures of public art, quiet interventions and the spaces in between …” Register here.

5-6pm Common Room CONVERSATION From Fences to Facades: Typologies of all Types
Hussain AlMoosawi reflects on a visual language that shaped his practice and ongoing engagement with multiple urban landscapes through a show-and-tell followed by a conversation with Raz Hansrod. Register here.

7-8.30pm The Yard FILM Moon Is The Oldest TV: dir Amanda Kim (2023)
Kim’s documentary profiles the career of Nam June Paik and his pioneering contributions to video art. A timely meditation on the contradictory ways in which technology elicits both fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding, the film charts Paik’s artistic evolution with an extensive archive of performance footage, original interviews from Paik’s contemporaries and collaborators and a voiceover of Nam June Paik’s writings. Register here.

SUNDAY 10 MAY

11am Project Space KIDS WORKSHOP Create Your Own: Split Spin Animal Puppets
Medaf Creative Studio + Art Spaces Participants leads a fun hands-on activity that encourages creativity, storytelling, and imaginative play that creates jointed puppets from pre-cut paper animal pieces.

12-5pm Alserkal Arts Foundation MEET THE ARTISTS
Spend an afternoon at the Alserkal Arts Foundation studios – currently hosting artists Alla Abdunabi, Richi Bhatia & Hira Khan, and Maryam Abdulrahma, each navigating the tensions of materiality, memory and transformation. Register here.

5-6pm Common Room READING GROUP Here and Elsewhere
Can creative processes and togetherness help reaffirm a sense of sovereignty? Artist Chafa Ghaddar leads a programme of texts and images that move through poetry, drawing, writing, and speculative gestures. Register here.

7-9pm Project Space WORKSHOP An Evening with NOON and Their Music
More than just a performance, this session opens up a conversation around what it really takes for independent artists from the region to break into major music cities around the world. NOON (above) is Ratish Chadha (drums/percussion), Hosny (oud/vocals), and Steven Bedford (bass/electronics). Register here.