About
Ryan Inouye, Sharjah Art Foundation’s curator held his Zoom lecture, ‘What Going On?” on September 5, 2020. Inouye’s discussion begins with the topic of informality in curatorial spaces. He discusses how there has always been an interest in the role of the informal or informal conversation. Inouye divulges into how there is a need for institutions to make space for more informal works and how these institutions should adapt these informalities as a generative mode of guiding programming in a curatorial aspect. Inouye addresses the question of ‘What’s Going On?’ as the basis of his lecture. He reflects upon the invitation of pondering over the present moment during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has changed a lot for people, such as the order of the way curators will now have to work, structure exhibitions, how we think, conceptualise and understand ourselves to be in conversation with one another. However, this lecture also delves into the idea that, it can also be said or assumed for some that nothing has changed. The pandemic could have just intensified or accelerated existing inequalities, injustices or structures.
Participants
Ambereen Siddiqui, Amna Hashmi, Maha Minhaj, Natasha Malik, Rahul Gudipudi, Saira Danish Ahmed, Seher Naveed, Shaheen Jaffrani, Sophia Balagamwala & Veera Rustomji.
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