{"id":58921,"date":"2024-11-19T21:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=58921"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:08:47","slug":"public-art-abu-dhabi-biennial-functionality-space-and-public-art","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/public-art-abu-dhabi-biennial-functionality-space-and-public-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Functionality, Space, and Public Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This conversation extends from artist Christopher Joshua Benton\u2019s <em>Where Lies My Carpet Is Thy Home<\/em> (2024), a vibrant, collaboratively made astroturf carpet developed with merchants from Abu Dhabi\u2019s carpet souq and inspired by their stories and lives. The audience can learn how the work was made and how it reflects a carpet\u2019s life cycle \u2013 from collecting wool to dyeing fibres to selling it in the souq.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Christopher Joshua Benton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Deepak Unnikrishnan<\/strong>, NYUAD Associate Arts Professor of Literature and Creative Writing<br \/>\n<strong>Katia Arfara<\/strong>, NYUAD Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance Studies<br \/>\nModerator <strong>Carmen Salah Hassan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial event will be at the Carpet Souq hub. The conversation will be followed by performances:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>6.45pm<\/em> Poetry reading by Banin Amini (Afghanistan)<br \/>\n<em>6.55pm<\/em> Poetry reading by Daniel Tajwer (Pakistan)<br \/>\n<em>7.15 &#8211; 8.15pm<\/em> Mohammad Paktiawal and Bakhti Jan Tappay (Afghan folk band)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This conversation extends from artist Christopher Joshua Benton\u2019s Where Lies My Carpet Is Thy Home (2024), a vibrant, collaboratively made astroturf carpet developed with merchants from Abu Dhabi\u2019s carpet souq and inspired by their stories and lives. The audience can <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/public-art-abu-dhabi-biennial-functionality-space-and-public-art\/\" title=\"Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Functionality, Space, and Public Art\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,292],"class_list":["post-58921","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-conversation","cat_art","cat_conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58921"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=58921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}