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ART DUBAI VIP PROGRAMME 2012

Art Dubai is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai Art Dubai, the leading international contemporary art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), is the central meeting point for the region’s vibrant and fast-growing contemporary art community. The sixth edition of Art Dubai takes place March 21-24, 2012, at Madinat Jumeirah, UAE, featuring 75 leading galleries and dynamic young spaces from 32 countries. In addition, Art Dubai features an innovative programme of artists’ and curators’ residencies; commissioned artists’ projects and performances; the unveiling of the 2012 Abraaj Capital Art Prize; and the critically lauded Global Art Forum, now expanded to six days. Opening Times

Tuesday March 20 *

19.00 – 21.30 | Jumeirah Patrons’ Preview

Wednesday March 21

11.30 – 14.00 | Art Dubai Ladies’ Day

14.00 – 17.00 | Global Art Forum_6

16.00 – 21.30 | Opening Night

Thursday March 22


16.00 – 21.30 | Art Dubai Public Day

Friday March 23



Saturday March 24



Global Art Forum_6 opens at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, March 18-19, and continues at Art Dubai,

Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, March 21-24.

*You are invited to an exclusive preview of the fair. Please RSVP by visiting artdubai.ae/login or emailing

[email protected] by Saturday, March 10.

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SUNDAY MARCH 18

Doha Doha, Qatar is a 45-minute flight from Dubai, UAE

10.00 – 12.30 | Tour | Katara Cultural Village

Tour of Katara Cultural Village with Dr Emad Sultan, Cultural Director at Katara and Managing Director of Katara

Arts Centre, Tariq Al Jaidah

Access: VIP Card

Location: QMA Gallery, Katara Cultural Village

Transport: Bus leaves Sharq Hotel for Katara Cultural Village at 9.30

Tour | Louise Bourgeois: ‘Conscious and Unconscious’

Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the exhibition is the first survey in the Middle East to feature the work of Louise

Bourgeois dating from 1947 to 2009.

Access: VIP Card

Location: QMA Gallery, Katara Cultural Village

Tour | Faraj Daham | Solo Exhibition

Curator-led tour with Sidonio Costa. The exhibition presents new work by Qatari artist Faraj Daham, one of the

most conceptually engaging artists based in Doha, influential on young Qatari artists developing and producing

work today.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Katara Art Center, Building 5, Katara Cultural Village

Tour | Edge of Arabia Projects, 'Bending History'

Edge of Arabia Projects supports a new generation of Middle Eastern artists, refining artwork production and

increasing interest in contemporary art from the Arab world with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia. Artists

included in the exhibition: Ahmed Mater, Abdulnasser Gharem, Saeed Salem and Sara Al-Abdal.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Katara Galleries, Katara Cultural Village

12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch in one of the restaurants at Katara Cultural Village

14.00 – 15.00 | Tour | Cai Guo-Qiang: ‘Saraab’

Curator-led tour with Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Director of Mathaf. This major exhibition showcases Cai Guo-Qiang’s

diverse body of work, ranging from signature gunpowder drawings to large-scale site-specific installations, and

includes 16 new commissions. As Cai’s first solo exhibition in the Middle East and the first single-artist exhibition

presented by Mathaf, ‘Saraab’ opens new avenues of dialogue for the Arabian Gulf as the region explores its historic

and contemporary links across Asia.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

Transport: Bus leaves from the restaurant for Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art at 13.30

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15.00 - 18.00 | Global Art Forum_6 (Day 1)

Access: Open to all


Transport: Bus leaves for Museum of Islamic Art 18.15

15.00 Welcome address by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

15.10 ‘The Medium of Media’ introduction by Global Art Forum_6 director Shumon Basar

15.15 Report or Upload: News and the Arab Awakening

Discussion

Demotix founder and CEO Turi Munthe hosts Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry Khane, Gulf News columnist

Mishaal Al Gergawi and Cairo based writer/journalist Yasmine El Rashidi to measure how and why

events in the Arab world over the past year challenged traditional and new news media.

16.15 Some Medium Stories

Introduction & Readings

Michael Vazquez has edited a specially commissioned publication for Global Art Forum_6 entitled

Some Medium Stories (TL; DR). Includes satellite TV in Afghanistan, Iraq on YouTube, Syria on

Facebook, art world gossip, plus more, from writers Emily Dische-Becker, Tom Francis, Kristine

Khouri, Nicholas Sautin, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, among others. Also available to read in the Forum-

Forum.

16.30 The Social Media Spring?

Lecture

Commentator Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi describes the ways in which the medium of social media

has played an instrumental role in the ‘Arab Spring’, and whether history will over- or under-

emphasise its political significance.

17.00 PowerPointingTM Your Creative Medium Potential (CMP)

Presentations

PowerPoint is omnipresent -- from bored boardrooms and continuing education seminars to

military briefings at the Pentagon and in Kabul, with art fairs in between. Editor/art historian

Victoria Camblin has curated a special series of PowerPoints, created collaboratively by

contemporary artists, writers, creative entities and duos, which celebrate, critique and creatively

exploit the medium’s strange, story-telling familiarity. Featuring Douglas Coupland (Keynote),

Ayshay + Kari Altmann, Goldin & Senneby, LuckyPDF and Alexander Provan (Triple Canopy). Also

available to browse in the Forum-Forum.

17.15 The Word is Flat

Conversation

Having studied sculpture in the early 80s, novelist Douglas Coupland was drawn into writing by the

text-works of artists Andy Warhol and Jenny Holzer. After a decade of writing best-selling books like

Generation X, Microserfs and JPod, Coupland returned to making art—in a multitude of shapes,

sizes, and dizzying colours. Here, with Serpentine Gallery Co-director of Exhibitions and

Programmes and Director of International Programmes Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar,

Coupland discusses words, images and what it means to be ‘post-media’ today.

18.15 End of programme

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19.00 | Preview | ‘Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving’

Presented by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), ‘Gifts of the Sultan’ explores Islamic art through the universal tradition of gift giving and includes over 225 works from three continents, spanning from the 8th to 19th centuries.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Islamic Courts, Museum of Islamic Art Transport: Bus leaves for Sharq Hotel at 21.00

Dubai

From the Art Week Programme

Art Week, the umbrella initiative that includes Art Dubai, Design Days Dubai and Sikka, showcases the broad programme of cultural events taking place across the UAE and beyond in March 2012. Art Week positions the Gulf – regionally and internationally – as a place of artistic production and home to numerous cultural centres. From expansive new museum projects in Doha to the thriving Dubai gallery scene, from one-off happenings, projects and installations to festivals and fairs, Art Week serves to demonstrate the dynamism and progressive spirit at large throughout the Gulf’s cultural scene.

SIKKA

12.00 – 19.00 | SIKKA Public Day A Dubai Culture initiative, SIKKA is an artist-led fair that features an entirely commissioned programme of new work by Emirati and local artists, plus an open-studio exhibition from the Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai. Exclusive events include live music, research areas, interactive food gatherings and educational activities. SIKKA offers a unique moment in Dubai’s cultural calendar, introducing an alternative element to Art Week’s flow of artistic thought and endeavor. 14.00 Tour of SIKKA with curators and artists Access: VIP Card Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai

Design Days Dubai 16.00 – 22.00 | Design Days Dubai Public Day 2012 marks the launch of Design Days Dubai, the first major contemporary design fair in the Middle East and South Asia. Dedicated to collectible and limited-edition design, Design Days Dubai hosts a select group of regional and international galleries and features a programme of talks, workshops and educational seminars. 16.00 Tour with Fair Director Access: VIP Card Location: Emaar Boulevard, Downtown Dubai

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MONDAY MARCH 19

Doha

10:00 – 13.30 | The Museum of Islamic Art

10.00 | Tour | ‘Murakami – Ego’

Takashi Murakami’s first solo exhibition in the Middle East, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, features more than

60 works from 1997 to present as well as new works created especially for this show. This exclusive tour will be

led by Jean Paul Engelen, Director of Public Art Programmes, Qatar Museums Authority.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Al Riwaq, Museum of Islamic Art

Transport: Bus leaves Sharq Hotel for Museum of Islamic Art at 9.45

11.00 | Tour | Richard Serra Sculptural Commission

Tour of Richard Serra’s new sculpture commission led by Jean Paul Engelen, Director of Public Art Programmes,

Qatar Museum Authority. Richard Serra’s vertical steel sculpture titled 7 - his first public work in the Middle East

– marks the opening of the new seafront MIA Park.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Museum of Islamic Art Park

11.15 | Tour | The Museum of Islamic Art

Tour of the permanent collection of the Museum of Islamic Art with Michelle Walton, Chief Curator and William

Greenwood, Curator.

12.15 | Welcome by Ed Dolman, Executive Director, Office of H.E. Chairperson, and Aisha Al Khater,

Director of Museum of Islamic Art Access: VIP Card

Location: The Museum of Islamic Art

12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch | Hosted by the Museum of Islamic Art

Access: RSVP essential, limited availability

Location: The Museum of Islamic Art

Transport: Bus leaves for Mathaf at 13.30

(Please contact Lela Csaky [email protected] should you wish to join an alternative tour of Katara Cultural Village

instead of MIA. Please see Sunday’s programme for details.)

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14.00 – 18.00 | Global Art Forum_6 (Day 2)

Access: Open to all


Transport: Bus leaves for Sharq Hotel at 19.00


Presentations (continued)

Victoria Camblin

14.15 Long Form: Artists and Cinema

Discussion

Critic and writer Sukhdev Sandhu hosts artist Shezad Dawood, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of

LACMA Michael Govan and film-producer Anna Lena Vaney to find out why so many contemporary artists

have turned to the medium of feature-film lately. What are the historical precedents of art moving

towards cinema, and vice versa? And what drives this durational tendency?

15.15 The GCC: Gulf Colloquy Compendium

Introduction and Readings

Commissioned by Global Art Forum_6, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al Maria has written a ‘lexicon’ of the

Gulf, a 'vernacular digest of new words from the past and archaic phrases from the future'. Also available

to read in the Forum-Forum.

15.30 Arabic Art Glossary Project

Launch and Talk

Curator Lara Khaldi leads a new collaboration between Art Dubai and Mathaf: an interactive Arabic

Art Glossary platform. Over the course of a year, a database of art terms and definitions in Arabic

will be built up, providing arts practitioners, institutions, students and translators with an

unparalleled resource.

16.00 Refreshment break


Readings (continued)

Michael Vazquez


Lecture and Presentations (continued)

Victoria Camblin

17.00 Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Film Screening

This unique film-portrait of Anselm Kiefer, directed by Sophie Fiennes, visits the personal universe the

artist built at his hill studio estate in the South of France. Fiennes enters into direct contact with the raw

materials Kiefer employs to build his paintings and sculpture—lead, concrete, ash, acid, glass and gold—

during his last days at La Ribotte before his move to Paris.

19.00 Closing remarks & programme ends

Transport: Bus leaves for Sharq Hotel at 19.00

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Dubai


SIKKA

12.00 – 19.00 | SIKKA Public Day Access: VIP Card Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai

Design Days Dubai

16.00 – 22.00 | Design Days Dubai Public Day 16.00 Tour with Fair Director Access: VIP Card Location: Emaar Boulevard, Downtown Dubai

12.00 – 14.30 | Artists’ Studios | Bastakiya & SIKKA followed by lunch

In 2012, Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and Tashkeel launched an annual residency

programme for artists and curators based in Bastakiya, Dubai, in the lead-up to and during Art Week 2012. As part of

the residency, international artists Faycal Baghriche, Magdi Mostafa and Deniz Uster are commissioned to make new

performative or site-specific work for Art Dubai Projects. Alongside UAE-based artists Hadeyah Badri, Zeinab Al

Hashimi and Nasir Nasrallah, they are also invited to make work for Open Studios exhibitions that run as part of

Sikka Art Fair during Art Week. The curator in residence is Alexandra MacGilp.

Tour | SIKKA

A Dubai Culture initiative, SIKKA is an artist-led fair that features an entirely commissioned programme of new

work by Emirati and local artists, plus an open-studio exhibition from the Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai.

Exclusive events include live music, research areas, interactive food gatherings and educational activities. SIKKA

offers a unique moment in Dubai’s cultural calendar, introducing an alternative element to Art Week’s flow of

artistic thought and endeavour.

13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch | Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding

The Bastakiya walking tour will be followed by a traditional Emirati lunch hosted at the Sheikh Mohammed

Centre for Cultural Understanding, housed in one of Dubai’s historic wind towers.

Access: VIP Card Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai Transport: Bus leaves the Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai at 11.30

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Art Week Galleries Night | Al Quoz and DIFC

On Monday March 19, coordinated late-night openings of new exhibitions accompanied by local musicians’

performances take place across Dubai’s 40-plus galleries, located in the industrial quarter of Al Quoz and at Gate

Village in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

Access: VIP Card Transport: Buses leave from the Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai for Al Quoz at 17.30 and 18.00. There will be shuttle buses between Alserkal Avenue and DIFC Gate Village leaving outside Alserkal Avenue at 19.00, 19.30,

20.00, 20.30 and 21.00 Buses also leave from the Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai directly for DIFC at 19.00 and 20.00, Buses return to

Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai at 22.00

18.00 – 21.00 | Al Quoz Galleries Night

Opening receptions at Al Quoz galleries include 1x1 Art Gallery, Art Sawa, Meem Gallery, thejamjar, The Third

Line, Toby Art, Total Arts and Traffic. Alserkal Avenue Galleries include Ayyam Art Center, Carbon 12, Courtyard

Gallery, Etemad, Gulf Photo Plus, Green Art Gallery, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Lawrie Shabibi, Mojo, Salsali

Private Museum, Satellite. The evening also sees the launch of five new galleries in AlSerkal: Fayez Barakat, Grey

Noise, La Galerie Nationale, Showcase Gallery and FN Designs.

Location: Al Quoz

18.00 – 21.00 | Magic of Persia

Opening of Magical Nights, an exhibition of 2012 charity art auction highlights.

Location: Salsali Private Museum, Al Quoz 1, Alserkal Complex, Dubai

RSVP: [email protected]

19.00 – 22.00 | DIFC Galleries Night

Opening receptions at galleries in DIFC including Ayyam Gallery, Art Sawa, Artspace, Cuadro, Opera Gallery, The

Empty Quarter, The Farjam Collection and XVA.

Location: Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Gate Village

20.00 | Canvas Dinner

Access: By invitation only

Location: Madinat Jumeirah

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Sharjah

10.00 – 18.00 | March Meeting 2012

The March Meeting is an annual gathering of artists, art professionals and institutions concerned with the production and dissemination of art in the region and internationally, organized by Sharjah Art Foundation. Now in its fifth year, March Meeting 2012 will thematically explore the present realities, future outlook and dynamics between artists and institutions in the context of artistic commissions and residencies. The March Meeting takes place from March 17-19.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Dar Al Nadwa, Heritage Area, Heart of Sharjah


20.30 – 2.00 | Tarek Atoui: Revisiting Tarab Lebanese sound artist Tarek Atoui returns to Sharjah to present the Middle East premiere of ‘Revisiting Tarab’, an

evening of performances inspired by classical Arab music. ‘Revisiting Tarab’ will incorporate elements of the world’s

largest collection of Classical Arab music as interpreted by a range of musicians and sound artists. Produced by

Sharjah Art Foundation, this performance follows last autumn’s New York premiere of Atoui’s ‘Visiting Tarab’ as a

Performa Commission with the Sharjah Art Foundation.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area, Heart of Sharjah


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TUESDAY MARCH 20


SIKKA 12.00 – 19.00| SIKKA Public Day

Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai

Design Days Dubai 12.00 – 18.00 | Design Days Dubai Public Day Location: Emaar Boulevard, Downtown Dubai

10.00 – 11.00 | Artists’ Studios | Bastakiya & SIKKA

In 2012, Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and Tashkeel launched an annual residency

programme for artists and curators based in Bastakiya, Dubai, in the lead-up to and during Art Week 2012. As part of

the residency, international artists Fayçal Baghriche, Magdi Mostafa and Deniz Üster are commissioned to make new

performative or site-specific work for Art Dubai Projects. Alongside UAE-based artists Hadeyah Badri, Zeinab Al

Hashimi and Nasir Nasrallah, they are also invited to make work for Open Studios exhibitions that run as part of

Sikka Art Fair during Art Week. The curator in residence is Alexandra MacGilp.


Transport: Bus leaves the Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai at 9.30

Tour | SIKKA

A Dubai Culture initiative, SIKKA is an artist-led fair that features an entirely commissioned programme of new

work by Emirati and local artists, plus an open-studio exhibition from the Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai.

Exclusive events include live music, research areas, interactive food gatherings and educational activities. SIKKA

offers a unique moment in Dubai’s cultural calendar, introducing an alternative element to Art Week’s flow of

artistic thought and endeavour.

11.30 – 14.00 | Brunch | Design Days Dubai

2012 marks the launch of Design Days Dubai, the first major contemporary design fair in the Middle East and South

Asia. Dedicated to collectible and limited-edition design, Design Days Dubai hosts a select group of regional and

international galleries and features a programme of talks, workshops and educational seminars.

Access: VIP Card Location: Downtown Dubai, Emaar Boulevard

19.00 – 21.30 | Jumeirah Patrons’ Preview The exclusive Jumeirah Patrons’ Preview celebrates the opening of Art Dubai 2012.

Access: VIP Card


RSVP: Required to RSVP

20.00 – 21.00 | Performance | Köken Ergun

Commissioned as part of Art Dubai Projects, Istanbul-based artist Köken Ergun’s new work involves nightly

shows at the fair with a surprise element, combining easy listening with commentary on the fair itself. The

project is produced in collaboration with The Fridge and features UAE-based singer-pianist duo Melisa Le Rue

and Stoyan Stoyanov.

Access: Open to all

Location: Madinat Ballroom Terrace

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 21

Dubai



14.00 Tour of SIKKA with curators and artists Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai

Design Days Dubai 14.00 – 20.00 | Design Days Dubai Closing Day 16.00 Tour with Fair Director Location: Emaar Boulevard, Downtown Dubai

10.00 – 11.00 | Collection | U.S. Consulate American artist Suzanne Kanatsiz leads a guided tour of the U.S. Consulate General’s Art in Embassies collection,

which focuses on bringing the USA and the UAE together through an ongoing artistic dialogue. Works by

contemporary Emirati, American and regional artists are juxtaposed throughout the Consulate. Ebtisam Abdul-Aziz,

Maryam Al Qassimi, and Sheikha Bin Dhaher are three of the contemporary Emirati artists that will be on view in the

collection.

Access: VIP Card

Location: US Consulate, Dubai Creek, Bur Dubai


10.00 – 11.30 | Tour and Reception | Alserkal Avenue

The morning in Alserkal Avenue features a reception hosted by the Alserkal family and includes a major

announcement regarding current and future plans for one of the city’s main arts hubs. Alserkal Avenue is currently

home to over twenty creatives including art galleries, a private art museum and others, all within one avenue, located

in Al Quoz 1, Dubai. There will also be a tour of Alserkal galleries including Green Art Gallery, Carbon 12, IVDE, Lawrie

Shabibi, Satellite, Mojo, Gulf Photo Plus, Ayyam Gallery & Auctions, Salsali Private Museum, Etemad and The Third

Line.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1


12.00 – 13.00 | Artist’s Studio | Hassan Sharif at the Flying House

A guided tour of The Flying House (TFH), a non-profit organization promoting contemporary Emirati artists, with

founder Abdul-Raheem Sharif, in the presence of the artist Hassan Sharif, regarded as the ‘father of conceptual art’,

making installations and performance work in the UAE since the 1970s. TFH is not an art gallery, nor it is a museum;

it aims to preserve national art and bring it nearer to the people. An intriguing villa based studio and exhibition

space.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Al Quoz 1, Dubai


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11.30 – 14.00 | Art Dubai Ladies’ Day

Held Under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President

of Dubai Women Establishment, Wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and

Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE.

An exclusive preview for women featuring tours by curators and art experts.

Access: VIP Card


12.00 – 15.00 | Tour | ‘Cartier Naturellement’

For its first participation at Art Dubai, Cartier presents a unique high jewellery creation, ‘Cartier Naturellement’,

designed in an enchanted setting inspired by nature by the landscape artist Christophe Ponceau. Cartier and the

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain also present ‘Aquarium’, a mobile of precious stones by the Brazilian artist

Beatriz Milhazes.

Access: VIP Card (Ladies only)

Location: VIP Desk, Madinat Jumeirah

13.00 | Ladies’ Lunch | Cartier


Location: Abraaj Capital Lounge


Access: Open to all

Location: Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah

14.00 ‘The Medium of Media’ introduction by Shumon Basar

14.05 Marshall, Media & Me

Lecture and Conversation

Novelist and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Microserfs and JPod) explains how we ‘know

nothing’ of the work of Canadian media-theorist Marshall McLuhan, who, in the 1960s, coined the

phrases ‘the medium is the message’ and ‘the global village’. Coupland discusses the unknown

nuances of McLuhan’s legacy with Serpentine Gallery Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes

and Director of International Programmes Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar....


Presentations

PowerPoint is omnipresent -- from bored boardrooms and continuing education seminars to military

briefings at the Pentagon and in Kabul, with art fairs in between. Editor/art historian Victoria

Camblin has curated a special series of PowerPointsTM, created collaboratively by contemporary

artists, writers, creative entities and duos, that celebrate, critique and creatively exploit the

medium's strange, story-telling familiarity. Featuring Douglas Coupland (Keynote), Ayshay + Kari

Altmann, Goldin & Senneby, LuckyPDF and Alexander Provan (Triple Canopy). Also available to

browse in the Forum-Forum (located in the Ballroom Foyer).

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15.15 Cabaret Crusades: History through the Eyes of Film and Literature

Discussion and Screening

Hans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich ObristHans Ulrich Obrist talks with legendary Lebanese author Amin Maalouf, whose book, The Crusades

through Arab Eyes, was an inspiration for Egyptian artist (and Abraaj Capital Art Prize-winner) Wael

Shawky’s film Cabaret Crusades. What are the strategic differences in depicting the Crusades

through Western and Arab eyes, between word and image, history and present, literature and

puppetry?



Michael Vazquez has edited a specially commissioned publication for Global Art Forum_6 entitled

Some Medium Stories (TL; DR). Includes satellite TV in Afghanistan, Iraq on YouTube, Syria on

Facebook, art world gossip, plus more, from writers Emily Dische-Becker, Tom Francis, Kristine

Khouri, Nicholas Sautin, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, among others. Also available to read in the Forum-

Forum.

16.30 Arabic Art Glossary Project

Launch and Talk

Curator Lara Khaldi leads a new collaboration between Art Dubai and Mathaf: an interactive Arabic

Art Glossary platform. Over the course of a year, a database of art terms and definitions in Arabic

will be built up, providing arts practitioners, institutions, students and translators with an

unparalleled resource.


Presentations

Victoria Camblin

17.15 Program Ends

16.00 – 21.30 | Opening Night | Art Dubai

Art Dubai’s Opening Night features commissioned performances, projects and talks.

17.00 – 18.00 | Children’s Workshop | From Morocco to the Moon by Yto Barrada and Zid Zid Kids For her project at Art Dubai, renowned artist Yto Barrada has collaborated with Marrakesh-based designers Zid Zid Kids to create an interactive installation and series of workshops, inspired by a 1950s sci-fi universe of astronauts, aliens and space robots. Supported by Louis Vuitton. Location: Water Terrace Access: Limited capacity; RSVP to book a place for your child

17.00 – 17.45 | Terrace Talks | Artist Zhang Huan in conversation with LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan West Asia/East Asia: From the vantage point of China, Indonesia or Pakistan, Dubai is part of a region increasingly referred to as ‘West Asia.’ These conversations between renowned artists, curators and collectors shed light on art practices and developments across the dynamic arts scenes within Asia, with the aim of nurturing budding relationships between the Gulf and our partners located East of the East.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace

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18.00 – 18.45 | Lekha Poddar, President and Co-Founder of the Devi Art Foundation, in conversation with Art Dubai Co-Director Savita Apte Access: VIP Card Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace

18.00 – 18.30 | Tour | Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 An exclusive tour of ‘Spectral Imprints’, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 by Guest Curator Nat Muller. Winning artists are

Taysir Batniji, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Wael Shawky, Risham Syed and Raed Yassin. Book a place on

the tour at any of the information desks.

Access: Open to all

Location: VIP Desk, souk entrance of Madinat Jumeirah

18.00 – 19.00 | Performance | Carlos Celdran Carlos Celdran’s performative tour of the fair, commissioned as part of Art Dubai Projects, features seven acts in seven different parts of the fair, performed each night. The selected locations trigger an entertaining and engaging narrative, at the intersection of where geopolitics meets contemporary art. Book a place on the tour at any of the information desks. Access: Open to all Location: Meeting point in the Madinat Arena Foyer

18.30 – 19.00 | Tour | Marker Marker, the curated section of concept stands launched in 2011, this year turns its focus to the dynamic Indonesian

arts scene. Yogyakarta-born curator Alia Swastika, who has selected five Indonesian galleries – Ark Galerie, Biasa

Artspace, Galeri Canna, D’Gallerie and Jogja Contemporary - leads this exclusive tour.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Marker desk, Arena Foyer, Madinat Jumeirah

19.00 - 19.30 | Performance | Köken Ergun

Commissioned as part of Art Dubai Projects, Istanbul-based artist Köken Ergun’s new work involves nightly shows at

the fair with a surprise element, combining easy listening with commentary on the fair itself. The project is produced

in collaboration with The Fridge and features UAE-based singer-pianist duo Melisa Le Rue and Stoyan Stoyanov.

Access: Open to all


19.00 – 21.00 | Cocktail Reception | Zhang Huan

Cocktail reception in honour of artist Zhang Huan


20.00 - 20.30 | Performance | Köken Ergun




Access: Open to all Location: Madinat Ballroom Terrace

20.00 | Dinner Reception hosted by Klaus Ranner, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany Access: By invitation only Location: Consul’s Residence, Dubai

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20.00 | The Fridge Concert Series

The Fridge, in partnership with local songwriter Harrison Rice, stages the Songwriters Showcase featuring a lineup of

artists playing their own original compositions. The aim of this monthly event is to foster the growth of an organic

songwriter community in Dubai.

Access: VIP Card Location: Bastakiya


Sharjah

10.30 – 11.30 | Exhibition | The Barjeel Foundation and Maraya Art Centre

The Barjeel Foundation is home to Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi’s personal collection, which includes more than 500

works by established and emerging Arab contemporary artists. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is the Chairman and Partner

of Meem Gallery, the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a well-known commentator as well as a member of Art

Dubai’s Advisory Board. The Maraya Art Centre is a non-profit art space and cultural platform with the aim of

promoting young artists from the Arab and international art scenes. ‘Migrasophia’ is curated by Sara Raza and

features works by 18 artists from the post-Soviet terrain of Central Asia, Caucasus and the Caspian region and its

subsequent diaspora.

Access: VIP Card

Location: Sharjah

Transport: Bus leaves the Mina A’Salam entrance of Art Dubai at 9.30

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THURSDAY MARCH 22

Dubai



14.00 Tour of SIKKA with curators and artists Location: Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai

10.00 – 11.00 | Curator-led Tour | ‘Living with Video’

Curator-led tour by Chantal Crousel. ‘Living with Video’, is an exhibition at the not-for-profit public arts centre, The

Pavilion. Artists included in the exhibition are; Mona Hatoum, Anri Sala, Gabriel Orozco, and Hassan Khan. The

programme includes the launch of the Annual Banner Project with artist Lara Baladi and curator Juan A. Gaitán; and

Radio Apartment 22, a collaboration between Art Dubai and The Pavilion.

Access: VIP Card Location: The Pavilion, Emaar Boulevard in Downtown Dubai Transport: Bus leaves the Mina A’Salam entrance of Art Dubai at 9.30

11.30 | Presentation | Gwangju Biennale

A brunch hosted by Yongwoo Lee, President of the Gwangju Biennale, featuring a presentation by the artistic

directors of Gwangju Biennale 2012 and previous directors. The Gwangju Biennale 2012 (Sept 7 - November 11, 2012)

takes ‘Roundtable’ as its theme, exploring the possibility of democratic and non-hierarchical exchange concerning

global cultural production, through various forms of collective endeavour, research into historic entanglements

among societies, and the exploration of diverse contexts of belonging. Co-artistic directors of the Gwangju Biennale

2012 are Carol Yinghua Lu, Nancy Adajania, Mami Kataoka, Sun-jung Kim, Alia Swastika and Wassan Al-Khudhairi.

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14.00 Valued: News and the Markets of Art and Finance

Conversation

Georgina Adam (Financial Times art market correspondent and Editor-at-Large of the Art

Newspaper) and geo-strategist/author Parag Khanna discuss how the movement of news and

information shapes value in globalised art and financial marketplaces.

15.00 Power Less: Art vs. Media

Polemic (1)

Journalist and Bidoun senior editor Negar Azimi asks ‘What’—if anything—‘is to be done’ by artists in

the face of turbulent historical times when it’s the media, arguably, that possesses today’s power to

shape our imaginations and ideologies the most.

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15.15 The Breakup

Presentation and Conversation

Artist Michael Rakowitz presents his 2010 multi-medium project, The Breakup, which considered

the intricacies of The Beatles’ 1969 breakup as an example of a collaborative phenomenon that

stops functioning. Negotiation fails, communication halts. The Breakup originally aired as a ten-

part radio program on Ramallah’s Radio Amwaj, and was commissioned by Al Ma’mal Foundation

for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem. Its director, Jack Persekian, talks to Rakowitz about the many

media dimensions of this public-work.


Polemic (2)

Cairo based artist and historian Huda Lutfi delivers the second reflection on media’s powerful role in

recent and current political upheavals.


Lecture and Presentations

Victoria Camblin

17.00 Programme Ends

16.00 – 21.30 | Art Dubai Public Day 16.30 – 17.00 | Performance | Köken Ergun




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17.00 – 18.00 | Children’s Workshop | From Morocco to the Moon by Yto Barrada and Zid Zid Kids Location: Water Terrace Access: Limited capacity; RSVP to book a place for your child

17.00 – 17.45 | Terrace Talks | A conversation with Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and Vice President of the Society's Global Arts Programming Access: VIP Card Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace

18.00 – 18.45 | Terrace Talks | A conversation with Indonesian collector and patron Deddy Kusuma Access: VIP Card Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace




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18.00 – 19.00 | Book Launch | Edge of Arabia Join the Edge of Arabia team and artists, including Ahmed Mater, Abdulnaser Gharem, Manal AlDowayan, Maha Malluh, Ayman Yosseri, Hala Ali, Noha AlSharif, Jowhara AlSaud and Sami AlTurki, to celebrate the launch of Edge of Arabia: Contemporary Art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, published by Booth-Clibborn Editions. Showing the work of 12 pioneering artists and milestone Edge of Arabia exhibitions in London, Venice, Berlin, Istanbul, Dubai, and Jeddah, this new publication offers an inspiring window into the contemporary life of a Kingdom in transition. Access: Open to all Location: Fort Island, next to the Global Art Forum





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19.00 – 21.00 | Private Reception hosted by U.S. Consul General, Justin Siberell Access: By invitation only

Location: US Consulate, Dubai Creek, Bur Dubai

20:00-00:00 | Performance Night at Art Dubai Co-produced by Art Dubai Projects and Traffic, the inaugural Performance Night at Art Dubai features an eclectic line-up of artists, poets, musicians, academics, curators, and collectors most of whom are based in the UAE, including Hala Al Ali, Isak Berbic, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Anahita Razmi, Lantian Xie and WolfPakistan, plus the return to Dubai of musician Bunty with a late-night set.

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Location: Fort Island

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Sharjah

11.00 – 13.30 | Welcome address by Manal Ataya, Director General of Sharjah Museums

Department, followed by guided tours of major exhibitions

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Location: Sharjah Art Museum


Tour | Ziad Antar | ‘Portrait of a Territory’ Guided tour of exhibition by Yassmeen Tukan, Project Coordinator. Curated by Christine Macel, Chief Curator at

Musée National D’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou Paris. This solo exhibition by Lebanese photographer Ziad

Antar features photographs of the UAE coastline taken between 2004 and 2011. ‘Portrait of a Territory’ will be

launched during the exhibition opening reception.

Location: Collections Building, Arts Area, Heart of Sharjah

Tour | Basma Al Sharif | ‘Farther Than The Eye Can See’

Guided tour of exhibition by Yassmeen Tukan, Project Coordinator. ‘Farther than the Eye Can See’, a new four

channel video installation, engages its viewer in a visceral experience of information through the intersection of

image and sound within space. This project was developed during Alsharif’s 2011 residencies at the Sharjah Art

Foundation and co-produced by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.

Location: Bait Al Shamsi, Arts Area, Heart of Sharjah

Tour | Retrospective of ‘Ibrahim El- Salahi: A Visionary Modernist’ Guided tour of exhibition with Exhibition Coordinator Noora Al-Mualla. ‘Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist’

is organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, and supported in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for

the Visual Arts. The exhibition traces El-Salahi’s journey of five decades, from his time in Sudan to his self-

imposed exile in the United Kingdom and Qatar, and later time in the United States.

Location: Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah

Tour | Owen Jones: ‘Islamic design, Discovery and Vision’ Guided tour of exhibition led by Curator Aisha Deemas. This exhibition draws upon treasures from the V&A

collections to tell the unique story of Owen Jones (1809-1874), a highly versatile architect and designer whose

explorations of Islamic design contributed to the reshaping of 19th century British design.

Location: Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization

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FRIDAY MARCH 23

Dubai


SIKKA

16.00 – 22.00 | SIKKA Public Day


10.00 – 12.30 | Walking Tour | Discovering Al Quoz

This is a rare opportunity to see a side of Dubai tucked away from the glitz and glamour so commonly associated

with the city. The tour will be guided by artist Joshua Watts and is hosted by Tasmena, an international not-for-

profit design organization based in Dubai. Discovering Al Quoz activities are part of a larger and more comprehensive

curatorial project entitled MENAseries Dubai; and the chosen route and information presented derives from

workshops and meetings with the local arts community.

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Location: Al Quoz 1, Dubai





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14.00 Arshafa E3lamiya: Middle East News Archive

Presentation

In this archive of the present, writer and researcher Mariam Wissam Al Dabbagh collects, compares and

critiques the different way in which current events in the Arab world are narrated by Arabic and English

speaking news media. A project commissioned by Global Art Forum_6. Also available to browse in the

Forum-Forum (located in the Ballroom Foyer).

14.15 Net Art 1: An Accelerated History

Conversation

The 1990s are a world away. Dial-up Internet connections. AOL. And burgeoning ‘Net Art’. Journalist and

author of Nettitudes Josephine Bosma talks with curator Nat Muller about the early adopter artists who

decided that being online was a new medium frontier for the nearing millennium.


Readings

Michael Vazquez

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15.15 (It’s Not) Net Art 2: Emancipate the Medium!

Discussion

The second 'Net Art' session fast forwards to the present moment, and browses through a younger

generation of artists for whom the medium of the internet is as much as part of the world as water or sky.

Victoria Camblin and Triple Canopy co-editor Alexander Provan converse with artist Constant Dullaart

about the misconceived divide between digital and sculptural, mouse and muse.

16.00 The GCC: Gulf Colloquy Compendium


Commissioned by Global Art Forum_6, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al Maria has written a ‘lexicon’ of the

Gulf, a 'vernacular digest of new words from the past and archaic phrases from the future'. Also available

to read in the Forum-Forum.


Discussion

Delfina Foundation director Aaron Cezar hosts a discussion with Negar Azimi and Huda Lutfi that

expands on their polemical statements from earlier on. Media — particularly rolling news — has come to

define how we are informed about political change. Media is also the dominant sphere of today's visual

culture. Against this backdrop, can contemporary art aspire to political agency? Or has art's potential to

'speak truth to power' been silenced by media's more potent coverage?

17.00 Programme Ends


16.00 – 17.00 | Collection & Studio | Shaqayeq Arabi and Dariush Zandi

Private viewing of the highly creative home of Iranian artist Shaqayeq Arabi and architect Dariush Zandi including an

exhibition of Iranian artist Fereydoun Ave. Zandi has made significant contributions to major design and planning

projects in the Middle East. He is the mind behind The Courtyard, an artistic hub, which builds on various

architectural traditions and sits at the heart of Al Quoz. Shaqayeq Arabi was born in Iran and started painting and

calligraphy in the early 1990’s. She trained in graphic design at Al Zahra University and later moved to Paris, where

she studied Fine Arts at the Sorbonne.

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17.00 – 17.45 | Terrace Talks | A conversation with patrons Aliya and Farouk Khan, founders of the Malaysia-based Aliya and Farouk Khan Collection

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Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace

18.00 – 18.45| Terrace Talks | Curator/writer Hammad Nasar and critic Niilofur Farrukh, (editor of NuktaArt) on contemporary art and cultural critique in today’s Pakistan Access: VIP Card Location: Abraaj Lounge, entrance from water terrace

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Abu Dhabi

16.00 – 17.00 | Tour | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque followed by tour of ‘Saadiyat Story’

The mosque is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nayhan, the late ruler and founder of the United Arab Emirates. It is a building of extraordinary dimensions: it is the third largest mosque worldwide, and features the largest dome of a mosque in the world. Access: VIP Card Locaiton: Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi Transport: Bus leaves the Souk Madinat Jumeirah entrance of Art Dubai at 14.45

17.30 – 18.30 | Tour | ‘Saadiyat Story’

‘Saadiyat Story’ explores the vision behind the Saadiyat Cultural District and its future museums including the

Zayed National Museum, Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

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SATURDAY MARCH 24

Dubai


SIKKA 11.00 – 22.00 | SIKKA Public Day


12.00 – 17.30 | Art Dubai Public Day 12.30 – 13.30 | Live Review | Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012

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Artspace, Galeri Canna, D’Gallerie and Jogja Contemporary leads this exclusive tour.

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14.00 Forum Fellows: Deadline Drama (Writing Against the Present)

Discussion

Critics Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Murtaza Vali with the 2012 Forum Fellows Rayya Badran, Jyoti

Dhar, Rijin Sahakian and Shahira Issa report on a week of daily deadlines, and discuss the imperatives

and impediments of writing with and against the tide of present history.

15.00 Mass Medium: Emirati TV on Home Video

Presentation

Blogger Hind Mezaina presents highlights from Aqeel al Showab’s 10,000-hour VHS/Betamax archive of

Emirati TV from the 1970s to the 1990s. A private individual’s passion becomes de facto national archive.

Excerpts on show in the Forum-Forum (located in the Ballroom Foyer).

15.30 Narrating the Broadcast

Artist’s Presentation

‘Avalanche in Kosovo. Syrian conflict in Lebanon. Whitney Houston no more. Fighting escalates in

Athens’. Artist Isak Berbic presents his recent works: Narrating the Broadcast, an online performance in

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which Berbic reported on the reporting on Egypt and Libya; the related video The Battle for Petra (on show

in the Forum-Forum) and Brief Histories, a curatorial project in collaboration with Fawz Kabra.

16.00 Dubai Art World Cartography

Presentation and Conversation

Brusselssprouts have produced a dynamic, cartographic visual exploration of the Dubai art world,

distilling more than 2500 entries spanning from galleries, exhibitions, fairs, artists, curators, patrons and

any art event produced in U.A.E. since 2005. They explain to Shumon Basar how the map came about and

what it reveals. Also displayed in the Forum-Forum (located in the Ballroom Foyer).

16.30 Programme Ends & Closing remarks

Also on show in the Forum-Forum (located in the Ballroom Foyer) are artworks by artists Hala Ali and

Banu Cennetoglu as well as multi-media resources related to ‘The Medium of Media’.



Al Ain

11.30 – 15.00 | Tour | Al Ain followed by lunch

A rare opportunity to see Al Ain through the eyes of one of the key residents. Al Ain is often called the ‘Garden City of

the Gulf’; given its many oases. Continuously inhabited for more than four thousand years, the city is the birthplace

of HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president of the United Arab Emirates. This day out in the oldest

city in the Emirates includes Al Ain National Museum, archaeological parks, oases, the Al Jahili Fort – built in 1989 by

Sheikh Zayed The First and featuring an exhibition on Wilfred Thesiger – and 1249-metre mountain Jebel Hafeet.

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Location: Al Ain


Lunch | Residence of HE Zaki Nusseibeh A member of Art Dubai’s Honorary Board, Zaki Nusseibeh has been active in UAE Government service and

interpreter for the President of the United Arab Emirates since 1968. As Advisor in the Ministry of Presidential

Affairs, he was also the Vice Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage 2006-2012 and sits

on a number of Boards that include the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, the UAE Archives Centre

and the Paris Sorbonne University of Abu Dhabi. Zaki Nusseibeh was formerly the personal interpreter and

adviser for the late Sheikh Zayed and is a long-time patron of the arts. He started his career as a journalist,

editor and broadcaster, worked as Director of Information for the Abu Dhabi and later the UAE Governments,

before becoming adviser to the Presidential Court, where he is still active in the same capacity.

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