Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Sharjah Art Foundation has announced new details of Sharjah Biennial 11 (SB11), which takes place from March 13–May 13, 2013, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. That is the major art event in arabic world. Inspired by the courtyard in Islamic architecture—in particular the historical courtyards of Sharjah, where elements of both public and private life intertwine—SB11 curator Yuko Hasegawa proposes a new cultural cartography that reconsiders the relationships between the Arab world, Asia, the Far East, through North Africa.

Japanese curator Hasegawa, who was part of the 1999 Venice Biennial curator team, has begun to look at artworks and practices that resonate with strands of the SB11 theme: complexity and diversity of cultures and societies; spatial and political relations; notions of new forms of contact, dialogue, and exchange; and production through art and architectural practices of new ways of knowing, thinking, and feeling.

Yuko Hasegawa has invited artists to create commisioned works, including Saadane Afif, Tiffany Chung, Yang Fudong, Runa Islam, Nasir Nasrallah, Otobong Nkanga, Anri Sala, Wael Shawky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Seigen Ono and Shiro Takatani, and Brazilians Lucia Koch e Ernesto Neto. Cinthia Marcelle, Angelica Mesiti and Pablo Lobato, who participated of 17th Videobrasil (2011), are also among the guest artists. Lobato's selected work, Bronze Revirado, was shown in that Videobrasil Festival edition.

A film programme curated by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will feature programming by leading figures in the film industry, including Steve Anker, Dean of the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles; Tilda Swinton, Scotland; Alcino Leite Neto, editor, Sao Paulo; Ali Jaafar, Executive Director, Independent Film Division, Quinta Communications, London.

Source: E-flux.

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