• March Meeting 2024

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists, curators, scholars and arts practitioners from around the world to discuss issues in contemporary art focuses this time on collectives whose practice intertwines artmaking and community building in various forms of collaboration that [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Mohit Takalkar: Hunkaro

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    A second show for this performance piece, co-presented by Ishara Art Foundation, which invites the audience to practise the precious gift of attention through active, participatory listening. It interweaves three stories of human trials and tribulations, tied together by the [ ... ]

    Free
  • Mohit Takalkar: Hunkaro

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    In modern society, where listening to others is often replaced with the consumption of visual media, Hunkaro – meaning ‘verbal affirmation’ in Marathi – is an important counterweight. This performance piece, co-presented by Ishara Art Foundation, invites the audience to [ ... ]

    Free
  • Essia Jaïbi: Metamorphoses #2

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    A final performance of Essia Jaïbi's exploration of the memories seared into her mind since childhood – she locks her mother, Jalila Baccar, in the glass-walled dressing room of an imagined theatre and pressures her to address the audience. Devised [ ... ]

    Free
  • Essia Jaïbi: Metamorphoses #2

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    A second performance of Essia Jaïbi's exploration of the memories seared into her mind since childhood – she locks her mother, Jalila Baccar, in the glass-walled dressing room of an imagined theatre and pressures her to address the audience. Devised [ ... ]

    Free
  • Essia Jaïbi: Metamorphoses #2

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    In this performance piece, Essia Jaïbi revisits the memories seared into her mind since childhood – she locks her mother, Jalila Baccar, in the glass-walled dressing room of an imagined theatre and pressures her to address the audience. Devised as [ ... ]

    Free
  • Mohit Takalkar: Hunkaro

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    A second performance of this piece, co-presented by Ishara Art Foundation, which invites the audience to practise the precious gift of attention through active, participatory listening. It interweaves three stories of human trials and tribulations, tied together by the vital [ ... ]

    Free
  • Emmie McLuskey: Creative Practices and Curation in Sound Art

    Sharjah Art Foundation -- Calligraphy Square Sharjah

    Glasgow-based Emmie McLuskey works with sculpture, print, sound and performance to explore the physical embodiment of communication with a particular focus on systems of learning. McLuskey works across the roles of artist, programmer, writer and educator. She sees these as [ ... ]

    Free