Episode 01: The Diasporic Imagination

Morad Montazami elaborates on the significance of Volcanique (1985) by Mohamed Melehi, and explains how the artwork manifests the ethos of Casablanca Art School through its mateirality, its imagery and its context. Backstory is available in both audio and video formats. To view t ...  Show more

What role have artists played in dismantling colonial infrastructures? In what ways have they contributed to creating new platforms in the postcolonial era? What can we learn about forging solidarities through art from past generations? In this episode, Hoor Al Qasimi speaks with ...  Show more

What happens to a Black body when it stops being weighed down by forces of oppression and is freed from gravity? Can the result be Black rhapsody? To find out, listen to Kambui Olujimi in conversation with SB15 curator Hoor Al Qasimi At Sharjah, Olujimi installed an immersive, si ...  Show more

Biennial Bytes Season 2 kicks off with a roundtable between the five curators of Sharjah Biennial 16: Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz. During the conversation, moderated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, the cu ...  Show more

What are the ways in which identity gets stereotyped and commodified in visual media? Can art draw on diverse histories to express solidarities in the present? To find out, listen this episode, recorded before Sharjah Biennial 15 opened, where Hassan Hajjaj is in conversation wit ...  Show more

How does the use of irony undermine oppressive modes of representation? How can art draw attention to the ways in which historical ways of seeing continue into the present? To find out, listen to this episode recorded on the occasion of Sharjah Biennial 15, where Joiri Minaya is ...  Show more