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UPDATES FROM BIDOUN PROJECTS:
Workshops 2010: Writing About Art
January 15–16, February 13, March 20, 2010
Shelter Dubai
Bidoun Projects, in partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), has launched a five-month series of seminars and workshops designed to encourage critical debate and help UAE-based curators, critics, artists and arts administrators develop and build on writing and reviewing skills in English and Arabic. Forty participants start the course on January 15, with the opening weekend taking place at Shelter, Dubai. Visiting tutors include Sasha Anawalt, Negar Azimi, Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, Clare Davies, Hassan Khan, Douglas McLennan, Kevin Mitchell, Murtaza Vali, Haytham El Wardany, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie. This "informal art school" provides an opportunity for discussion and facilitates links between writers and curators based in the UAE and beyond.
The call for applications has been closed but places may come available. For more information, please visit the Workshops Facebook page.
Art Dubai 2010
March 17–20, 2010
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
In 2010, Bidoun Projects becomes the curatorial partner for Art Dubai, taking on all non-commercial programming at the art fair. The Art Park will feature video programs curated by Bidoun and guest curators Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Aram Moshayedi, and Ozge Ersoy & Sohrab Mohebbi, plus a series of talks and performances co-curated with UbuWeb; a group exhibition looks at new and expanded formalist practices; and Bidoun has commissioned new performances and sculptural works that interact with the fabric of the fair. We will update you nearer the time, but hope to see you in Dubai this March!
NOISE
On view until March 2010
Sfeir Semler Gallery: Tannous Building, Beirut
From the din of cultural initiatives, exhibitions, symposiums, biennials, group shows, and surveys mounted to confront, mediate, meditate, cross pollinate, advocate, decry, valorize, deny, expose, represent, reconsider, reappraise, reify, or better yet, to re-unveil what it means to make, show and sell art in the Middle East, Bidoun responds with NOISE, an exhibition that opened December 11th at the Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut.
Vartan Avakian, Steven Baldi, Walead Beshty, Haris Epaminonda, Media Farzin, Marwan, Yoshua Okon, Babak Radboy, Bassam Ramlawi, Mounira Al Solh, Andree Sfeir, Rayyane Tabet, Lawrence Weiner, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck.
View installation images and detailed descriptions at Sfeir–Semler
BubuWeb: Recent additions
Some recent additions to BubuWeb, Bidoun's collaboration with the online avant-garde archive UbuWeb, include:
– Five films by Hamlet Hovsepian View
– The Red Army/PFLP by Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu View
– The complete films of Artavazd Peleshian View
– Parviz Khatibi's Seh Mullah View
The Portfolio Project at Shelter
Aisha Miyuki Ansari and Zeinab Hajian: January 10–February 10, 2010
Shelter Dubai
In November 2009, Bidoun launched a new, monthly exhibition project aimed at highlighting the work of photographers based in the UAE.
A wide range of images from the selected photographer's portfolio will be shown each month on two flatscreen lightboxes at Shelter in Al Quoz. Bidoun is selecting photographers based in the UAE, focusing on those working independently, without the support of an agency or gallery. The Portfolio Project aims to provide an outlet for the many particularly talented and dynamic artists working with photography; this will be their first solo project exhibition in the Gulf.
More information on current (Aisha Miyuki Ansari and Zeinab Hajian) and previous (Hind Mezaina, Mohamed Somji) artists on The Portfolio Project's page.
Bidoun Issue #19 NOISE
Out now!
Bidoun responds to the deafening gears of cultural production with NOISE, its own irreverent trespass through the worlds of art, celebrity, and culture at large. The portrait, the pull-out quote, the letter to the editor, the supposition that images necessarily need to correspond to the articles beside them—all of these magazine conventions are called into question as NOISE collapses all that preceded it, and all that is to come. The result is, very occasionally, an indiscernible babble.
NOISE features Kuwaiti car crashes, the Iranian Futurist FM 2030, Young Syrian Painters, Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls, Indian Whistlers' Association, Serhat Köksal, Alessandro Yazbeck and Media Farzin, essays on Alighiero Boetti's Afghan wanderings, the Persian dubs of John Wayne, channel surfing in Qatar, Omar Suleiman and the politics of authenticity, as well in-depth conversations as to how some of our favorite noise musicians and aesthetes from around the world developed their particular ears. A special feature in Bidoun's ongoing series on children's books, "Revolution for Kids," takes on the 70s-era publishing house Dar El Fata El Arabi. Reviews include Hito Steyerl/Made in Iran/Iran Inside Out/11th Istanbul Biennial/Nasreen Mohamedi/Rosalind Nashashibi/The Pick 4/Pages/Guy Tillim/Beirut Video Works.
Preview content from NOISE online at bidoun.com
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