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AGM CONVERSATIONS Cairo, Egypt, 2010
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Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Cairo, December 2010
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Participants: Ahmed El Shaer (Egypt), Alfredo Cramerotti (Italy & UK), Aida Eltorie (Egypt & USA), Giuseppe Moscatello (UAE), Michael Thoss (Germany)
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During the upcoming Cairo Biennale, AGM will coordinate a recorded conversation between curators, artists and cultural producers on the 16th December 2010. This one day session will focus on social and geo-political topics relevant to the Mediterranean region, opening up to some tactics for producers and audiences to employ via modes of aesthetic journalism, ficto-criticism and political fictions. Having recently interrogated the nature of collective production and collaboration as part of Chamber of Public Secrets’ contribution to Manifesta 8, AGM wishes to expand on this to address the term “dialogue”. If, as in the realm of cultural diplomacy, dialogue is to be understood as a reciprocal act and as a prelude to collaboration/cultural understanding, then the session asks: who sets the terms of dialogue, where is it enacted, how does it function and what are its inherent asymmetries? More specifically, we hope to delve into the realm of questioning the instrumentalisation of “dialogue” in contemporary art and institutional practices as well as on the geo-political scale.
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“On Dialogue” will saw the participation of Alfredo Cramerotti (Italy & UK), Hannah Conroy (UK), Yesomi Umolu (UK), Khaled Hafez (Egypt), Aida Eltorie (Egypt & USA), Ahmed El Shaer (Egypt), Giuseppe Moscatello (UAE), Michael Thoss (Germany), Heike Mertens (Germany).
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Sponsors/Supporters: Allianz Stiftung
On Photography - 1. What do you look for in a photograph?, 2010
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Some *weighty* questions by Sam Barzilay, Director New York Photo Festival, upon my photography curatorial practice, in occasion of HumanKind, the New York Photo Festival juried photo exhibition, opening at the powerHouse Arena on December 17, 2010.
And self-recorded responses of mine for the festival website - to dazzle their audience :)
On Photography - 2. What lies behind your selection process?, 2010
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Some *weighty* questions by Sam Barzilay, Director New York Photo Festival, upon my photography curatorial practice, in occasion of HumanKind, the New York Photo Festival juried photo exhibition, opening at the powerHouse Arena on December 17, 2010.
And self-recorded responses of mine for the festival website - to dazzle their audience :)
On Photography - 3. What do you hope viewers will gain from this exhibition?, 2010
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Some *weighty* questions by Sam Barzilay, Director New York Photo Festival, upon my photography curatorial practice, in occasion of HumanKind, the New York Photo Festival juried photo exhibition, opening at the powerHouse Arena on December 17, 2010.
And self-recorded responses of mine for the festival website - to dazzle their audience :)
Curatorial concept video - Chamber of Public Secrets for Manifesta 8, 2010
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Video trailer of CPS curatorial concept for Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, 9th October 2010-9th January 2011.
With interviews and excerpts of talks by Alfredo Cramerotti, Khaled Ramadan, Khaled Hafez, Ivor Stodolski, Hannah Conroy, Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel, Yesomi Umolu, Prof. John Kennedy and others.