Kan yama kan #5: ‘All things tactile?’ Curating and Documenting Contemporary History

* Poster designed by Mariam

Kan yama kan is an initiative we created in collaboration with Unootha to highlight the stories of Khaleeji women and the way they tell their stories.

Our fifth guest in Kan ya ma kan is Munira Al Sayegh, an independent curator and cultural instigator based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Actively pursuing grassroots incubation, Al Sayegh is the co-founder of collecting-and-research platform Engage101 and founder of Dirwaza, the first curatorial laboratory in the Gulf. She is a published author and prominent voice in the region who, via talks and seminars, highlights the importance of non-institutional thinking to build regional art movements from the bottom-up. In this session, Al Sayegh will teach us the meaning behind curation, its different forms and practices, and how it’s used as a form of storytelling and documenting. She’ll be accompanied by Daniel H. Rey, an independent curator based in Abu Dhabi advocating for #YouthCuratingYouth and cross-pollination in the Global South. Rey is also the Contemporary Art Advisor at Dirwaza, as well as Curator and alumnus of Art Jameel’s Youth Assembly.

The event (presented in English) is on Monday (August 23, 2021) at 5:30 PM (KSA) / 6:30 PM (UAE) on Zoom. Kindly fill the form below to sign up. Seats are limited!