Research-led Curatorial Practices

• Days, dates and times: Saturday, 21 September, 1 - 8 PM and Sunday 22 September, 6 - 9 PM
• Price: 60 BD
• Type: Workshop
• Language: Arabic
• Venue: Co-working Space

Ala Younis uses her research-led practice to seek instances where historical and political events collapse into personal ones. In this workshop, we will examine some issues of the modern day as they inform visual and popular culture—nationalism, didactic projects, political alliances, social movements, the emergence of global capital and personal and collective loss. In small and big groups within the workshop, participants will outline their curatorial moorings and what they want to curate about, for and with whom.

About the Instructor:

Ala Younis is an artist with curatorial, film and publishing projects. She presented her work in solo shows in Amman, Dubai, Sharjah, New York, London, Seville and Prague. She also participated in group exhibitions, including the biennials of Venice, Istanbul, Gwangju, Ljubljana, Kaunas, Ural and Orleans. She curated the first Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2013), the collection and interventions of the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence (2012–2014), and co-curated the Singapore Biennale (2022). In 2012, Ala Younis co-founded Kayfa ta, an independent publishing initiative researching, exhibiting and publishing on and through independent publishing endeavors. She is co-section head of Berlinale's Forum Expanded, Artistic Director of Akademie der Kunst der Welt (Cologne), and Research Scholar at al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at New York University Abu Dhabi.

To know more about the Ala Younis, please visit her website: https://alayounis.art/