Field Trip: March Meeting 2018 (Day 3)
By Ysabelle Cheung
HAJRA WAHEED performing Hold Everything Dear at March Meeting 2018, Sharjah. All images by Ysabelle Cheung for ArtAsiaPacific.
What is March Meeting for? After meeting ArtAsiaPacific's long time UAE desk editor, Kevin Jones, yesterday for a brief chat, I began to ponder on the value of the annual symposium in Sharjah, a city cross-roaded by the commerce of Dubai and the forthcoming museum island being constructed in Abu Dhabi. Digging into our online archives, I found a recap by Jones of the 2015 March Meeting, in which he already expressed a sense of nostalgia for a previous format of the event. He wrote fondly: “At the time the format had already evolved from the Meeting’s inaugural year (2008), when a single table sufficed for regional artists and institutions . . . to huddle together under the banner of connectivity, and participants shared projects, hurdles and plans, and then jointly explored potential future collaborations.”
