Sounds Like U.A.E

Interviste a cura di Ilari Valbonesi

Sounds like Dubai (Al BASTAKIYA ART FAIR 2009)

Al BASTAKIYA ART FAIR 2009
Now in its third year, Al BASTAKIYA ART FAIR (BAF) took place in the houses of Bastakiya, the historic area of Dubai, 15 - 22 March 2009.

BAF 2009 is an independent fringe art fair which focuses international attention on Dubai's art and cultural agenda, provides a platform for young, innovative and emerging artistic talent. The fair opens up the unique environment of Bastakiya to contemporary art. Involving international, regional and local galleries, artists and curators, the program of events included a vernissage, daily exhibitions and lectures.

Welcome to Al Bastakiya Art Fair 2009
Interview with: Rodin Hamidi, Madid Asgari, Mahmoud Hamadani (Iranian artists)

Klavier poetry

(Goethe Institute. Under the patronage of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority)

Dr. Mohammed Khalifa, who teaches Arabic at the University of Hamburg, Germany, recites poems of famous Arabic authors such as Mahmud Darwish, Fuad Rifka and Gibran Khalil Gibran. Laura Feldmann, a piano teacher in Hamburg and Cairo, complemented the recitation with German and European romantic and impressionist music. The poems were recited in Arabic. Booklets with English and German translations were provided for non-Arabic speakers.

A cura di Ilari Valbonesi

Sounds like Dubai

On Biennials. Interview with Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Artistic Director, Athens Biennial

(photo : Minini Sisters, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Dr. Lamees Hamdan, Commissionaire, UAE Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Dubai).

On the Sofa by the sea. Conversation with Zakaria Ramhani (artist), Majida Khattari (artist) and Anil Bhimjiyani (emergingworldart.com).

Intervista a Francesca Minini - Booth B27 at Art Dubai .

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Sounds like Dubai (It’s Not You, It’s Me)

Giovedì 19 Marzo 2009 ore 14.00

Sounds like Dubai

Good Morning Russia

Interview with Joseph Backstein, Founding Director of the Moscow Biennale, Moscow

Discussing Museums

Interview with Mikhail Piotrovsky Director, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Press Announcement “Opening” by the UAE Pavilion for the 53rdVeniceBiennale

Featuring Tirdad Zolghadr, Curator of the UAE Pavilion and Dr. Lamees Hamdan Commissioner to the Office of the UAE Pavilion.

Special recognition for this event to Mishaal Al Gergawi and Christian Matthiesenof Jackson Pollock Bar.

It’s Not You, It’s Me

The UAE Pavilion will be titled “It’s Not You, It’s Me” a playful and provocative name for the country’s first pavilion at the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event. Built in a large and prominent location in the Arsenale—one of the two main areas of the Venice Biennale—the UAE Pavilion will combine scenographic elements and architectural design by the partnership of Rami Farook (founder of the UAE’s Traffic design gallery) and the Belgian architectural collective D’haeseleer & Kimpe & Poelaert, known for its collaborations with visual artists.

Emiratis and UAE residents are being recruited to welcome visitors at the UAE’s first national pavilion at the international Venice Biennale June 7-November 22 in Venice, Italy.

Volunteers will serve as gallery managers and assistants in the UAE Pavilion, working 21-day shifts beginning in May to help with the building of the Pavilion itself. Housing, meals and small stipends will be provided, and volunteers will participate in an arts and culture program that includes free admission to Venice’s museums and cultural attractions.

Sounds like Sharjah/Dubai

Giovedì 18 marzo 2009:

Sharjah Biennial Field Recording: Inaugural Speech by Jack Persekian. Interview with following artists: Reem Al Gaith, Giuseppe Moscatello, Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak, Firoz Mahmud.

Opening of Art Dubai: Abraj Capital Prize.

Interview with Sultan Al-Quassemi, Collector.

A cura di Ilari Valbonesi