The Sharjah Art Foundation has released the schedule for its annual March Meeting 2022, which brings together artists, curators, researchers, and art practitioners for panels, talks, and performances that explore crucial problems in contemporary art.
‘March Meeting 2022: The Afterlives of the Postcolonial,’ which will take place from March 5 to 7, 2022, will study the legacies of colonialism and the contemporary implications of associated issues on cultural, aesthetic, and artistic practices around the world.
Participants will discuss current global concerns such as racism, settler colonialism, apartheid, new imperial wars, social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Indigenous rights, climate change, and looted artefact restoration and repatriation.
The curriculum will also look into theoretical frameworks like intersectionality, gendered identities, colonialism, and decolonization.
March Meeting will bring together key voices in art and academia whose work reflects postcolonial discourses, practices, theories, and critical perspectives and is focused on the late twentieth and early twenty-first century world and its present and future challenges to discuss the “afterlives” of the postcolonial.
The event takes place in conjunction with the opening of several exhibitions, including solo exhibitions by Abu Hamdan, Khalil Rabah, and CAMP, all of which open on March 4, as well as a retrospective of Gerald Annan-work, Forson’s which opens on March 7 and is organized in collaboration with The Africa Institute.
