Field Trip: March Meeting 2018 (Day 1)
By Ysabelle Cheung
March Meeting 2018 aimed to discuss the ways in which artists, curators and other practitioners use the forms of organizations or institutional spaces as modes of resistance. In the very first session, ABIR SAKSOUK (pictured far left), an architect at Public Works in Beirut, explained her various projects at the firm, including one which sought to preserve public play areas for children. Also pictured (left to right): curator ZEYNOP
In times as troubling as ours, how do we organize strategies for survival and resistance against overwhelming forces that are historically dominant? This year’s edition of March Meeting—Sharjah Art Foundation’s (SAF) annual convening of artists, curators and other practitioners since 2008—followed this line of inquiry, revealing the ways in which contemporary art and culture’s modes of organization provide not only channels for discussion, exchange and healing, but also propositions of emancipation from post-colonial traumas in order to forge new narratives.
