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E-Issue 06 –– DXB/SHJ
Spring 2023

April 12th, 2023



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in the UAE
  3. Pop(Corn): Jumairy
  4. Rapport: Art Dubai 2023
  5. Highlights from Sharjah Biennial 15
  6. Is Time Just an Illusion? A Review of "Notations on Time" at Ishara Art Foundation
  7. Saif Mhaisen and His Community at Bayt AlMamzar

 




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Chronological Archive ––

    Selected Archive

Artist Interview November 18th, 2016
 AUH Raed Yassin in Abu Dhabi

Editorial March 1st, 2018
 AUH Abu Dhabi Is The New Calabasas

Exhibition Listing May 22nd, 2018
 DXB Christopher Benton: If We Don't Reclaim Our History, The Sand Will

Artist Interview June 15th, 2018
 TYO An Interview with BIEN, a Rising Japanese Artist

Artist Interview July 17th, 2018
 TYO Rintaro Fuse on Selfies and Cave Painting

Artist Interview August 28th, 2018
 BER Slavs and Tatars: “Pulling a Thread to Undo The Sweater”

Artist Interview September 1st, 2018
 NYC Shirin Neshat In Conversation with Sophie Arni and Ev Zverev

Artist Interview September 1st, 2018
 PAR Hottest Spices: Michèle Lamy

E-Issue 01 –– AUH/DXB
Summer 2020

August 1st, 2020



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in the UAE
  3. Pop(Corn): Hashel Al Lamki
  4. Tailoring in Abu Dhabi
  5. Rapport: Dubai
  6. Michael Rakowitz From the Diaspora


E-01++
Fall/Winter 2020-21


Artist Interview August 23rd, 2020
LHR/MCT Hanan Sultan Rhymes Frankincense with Minimalism

Artist Interview August 24th, 2020
DXB Augustine Paredes Taking Up Space

Artist Interview August 26th, 2020
AUH Sarah Almehairi Initiates Conversations

Market Interview August 28th, 2020
AUH/DXB 101 Pioneers Ethical and Curious Art Collecting

Exhibition September 1st, 2020
DXB Alserkal Arts Foundation Presents Mohamed Melehi

Market Interview September 4th, 2020
DXB Meet Tamila Kochkarova Behind ‘No Boys Allowed’

Artist Interview September 7th, 2020
 DXB Taaboogah Infuses Comedy Into Khaleeji Menswear

Artist Interview September 10th, 2020
 LHR/CAI Alaa Hindia’s Jewelry Revives Egyptian Nostalgia

Curator Interview September 14th, 2020
UAE Tawahadna Introduces MENA Artists to a Global Community

Exhibition Review September 24th, 2020
MIA a_part Gives Artists 36 Hours to React

Artist Interview September 27th, 2020
AUH BAIT 15 Welcomes New Member Zuhoor Al Sayegh

Market Interview October 14th, 2021
DXB Thaely Kicks Off Sustainable Sneakers

Exhibition Review October 19th, 2020
DXB Do You See Me How I See You?

Exhibition October 22nd, 2020
TYO James Jarvis Presents Latest Collages at 3110NZ

Exhibition Review October 22nd, 2020
AUH Ogamdo: Crossing a Cultural Highway between Korea and the UAE

Book Review October 28th, 2020
DAM Investigating the Catalogues of the National Museum of Damascus

Exhibition Review November 13th, 2020
DXB Kanye Says Listen to the Kids: Youth Takeover at Jameel Arts Centre

Exhibition Review November 16th, 2021
DXB Melehi’s Waves Complicate Waving Goodbye

Exhibition Review November 19th, 2020
DXB Spotlight on Dubai Design Week 2020

Exhibition Review November 21st, 2020
DXB 101 Strikes Again with Second Sale at Alserkal Avenue

Exhibition Review
November 23rd, 2020
AUH SEAF Cohort 7 at Warehouse 421

Exhibition Review December 9th, 2020
SHJ Sharjah Art Foundation Jets Ahead on the Flying Saucer

Curator Interview January 25th, 2021
DXB Sa Tahanan Collective Redefines Home for Filipino Artists

Exhibition Review February 21st, 2021
 GRV MIA Anywhere Hosts First Virtual Exhibition of Female Chechen Artists  

🎙️GAD Talk Series –– Season 1 2020


November 1st, 2020
 1. What is Global Art Daily? 2015 to Now

November 16th, 2020
2. Where is Global Art Daily? An Open Coversation on Migration as Art Practitioners

November 29th, 2020
 3. When the Youth Takes Over: Reflecting on the 2020 Jameel Arts Centre Youth Takeover

December 20th, 2020
 4. Young Curators in Tokyo: The Making of The 5th Floor

January 27th, 2021
5. How To Create Digital Networks in The Art World?

E-Issue 02 –– NYC
Spring 2021

February 21st, 2021



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in NYC
  3. Pop(Corn): Zeid Jaouni
  4. You Can Take The Girl Out Of The City
  5. Rapport: NYC
  6. Kindergarten Records Discuss The Future of Electronic Music
  7. Sole DXB Brings NY Hip-Hop To Abu Dhabi
  8. Wei Han Finds ‘Home’ In New York
  9. Vikram Divecha: Encounters and Negotiations

E-02++
Spring/Summer 2021

Exhibition Review March 3rd, 2021
DXB There’s a Hurricane at the Foundry

Exhibition Review March 7th, 2021
AUH Re-viewing Contrasts: Hyphenated Spaces at Warehouse421

Curator Interview March 21st, 2021
DXB Permeability and Regional Nodes: Sohrab Hura on Curating Growing Like a Tree at Ishara Art Foundation

Exhibition March 28th, 2021
DXB Alserkal Art Week Top Picks

Exhibition Review April 1st, 2021
DXB A ‘Menu Poem’ and All That Follows

Exhibition Review April 5th, 2021
DXB A Riot Towards Landscapes

Exhibition April 16th, 2021
RUH Noor Riyadh Shines Light on Saudi Arabia’s 2030 Art Strategy

Artist Interview April 26th, 2021
CTU/AUH/YYZ Sabrina Zhao: Between Abu Dhabi, Sichuan, and Toronto

Exhibition Review April 27th, 2021
TYO BIEN Opens Two Solo Exhibitions in Island Japan and Parcel

Artist Interview April 28th, 2021
DXB Ana Escobar: Objects Revisited

Exhibition May 9th, 2021
LDN Fulfilment Services Ltd. Questions Techno-Capitalism on Billboards in London

Artist Interview May 11th, 2021
BAH Mihrab: Mysticism, Devotion, and Geo-Identity

Curator Interview May 20th, 2021
DXB There Is A You In The Cloud You Can’t Delete: A Review of “Age of You” at Jameel Arts Centre

Market Interview May 26th, 2021
TYO Startbahn, Japan’s Leading Art Blockchain Company, Builds a New Art Infrastructure for the Digital Age

Exhibition June 11th, 2021
TYO “Mimicry of Hollows” Opens at The 5th Floor

Exhibiton Review June 20th, 2021
AUH “Total Landscaping”at Warehouse 421

Artist Interview June 30th, 2021
OSA Rintaro Fuse Curates “Silent Category” at Creative Center Osaka

Exhibition Review August 9th, 2021
 DXB “After The Beep”: A Review and Some Reflections

E-Issue 03 ––TYO
Fall 2021

October 1st, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in TYO
  3. Pop(Corn): Nimyu
  4. Ahmad The Japanese: Bady Dalloul on Japan and Belonging
  5. Rapport: Tokyo
  6. Alexandre Taalba Redefines Virtuality at The 5th Floor
  7. Imagining Distant Ecologies in Hypersonic Tokyo: A Review of “Floating Between the Tropical and Glacial Zones”
  8. Ruba Al-Sweel Curates “Garden of e-arthly Delights” at SUMAC Space
  9. Salwa Mikdadi Reflects on the Opening of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Arab Center for the Study of Art

E-03++
Fall/Winter 2021-22


Market Interview October 6th, 2021
RUH HH Prince Fahad Al Saud Discusses Saudi Arabia’s Artistic Renaissance

Exhibition October 7th, 2021
RUH Misk Art Institute’s Annual Flagship Exhibition Explores the Universality of Identity

Curator Interview October 15th, 2021
IST “Once Upon a Time Inconceivable”: A Review and a Conversation

Exhibition Review October 16th, 2021
AUH Woman as a Noun, and a Practice: “As We Gaze Upon Her” at Warehouse421


Exhibition Review February 11th, 2022

Artist Interview February 26th, 2022
TYO Akira Takayama on McDonald’s Radio University, Heterotopia, and Wagner Project

Artist Interview March 10th, 2022
DXB Prepare The Ingredients and Let The Rest Flow: Miramar and Zaid’s “Pure Data” Premieres at Satellite for Quoz Arts Fest 2022

Exhibition March 11th, 2022
DXB Must-See Exhibitions in Dubai - Art Week Edition 2022

Exhibition Review March 14th, 2022
DXB Art Dubai Digital, An Alternative Art World?

E-Issue 04 –– IST
Spring 2022

March 15th, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in IST
  3. Pop(Corn): Refik Anadol
  4. Rapport: Istanbul
  5. Independent Spaces in Istanbul: Sarp Özer on Operating AVTO

E-04++
Spring/Summer 2022


Curator Interview March 21st, 2022

Market Interview March 28th, 2022
DXB Dubai's Postmodern Architecture: Constructing the Future with 3dr Models

Exhibition April 23rd, 2022
HK Startbahn Presents “Made in Japan 3.0: Defining a New Phy-gital Reality”, an NFT Pop-Up at K11 Art Mall

Exhibition May 6th, 2022
IST Istanbul’s 5533 Presents Nazlı Khoshkhabar’s “Around and Round”

Artist Interview May 13th, 2022
DXB “We Are Witnessing History”: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian On Their Retrospective Exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

Artist Interview June 13th, 2022
DXB “Geometry is Everywhere”: An Interview and Walking Tour of Order of Magnitude, Jitish Kallat’s Solo Exhibition at Dubai’s Ishara Art Foundation

Exhibition June 21st, 2022
DXB Art Jameel Joins The World Weather Network in a Groundbreaking Response to Global Climate Crisis

Exhibition June 27th, 2022
UAE What’s On in the UAE: Our Top Summer Picks

Curator Interview July 9th, 2022
IST Creating an Artist Books Library in Istanbul: Aslı Özdoyuran on BAS

E-Issue 05 –– VCE
Fall 2022

September 5th, 2022



  1. Editor’s Note
  2. What’s On in VCE
  3. Pop(Corn): UAE National Pavilion
  4. Rapport: Venice
  5. Zeitgeist of our Time: Füsun Onur for the Turkish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
  6. GAD’s Top Picks: National Pavilions
  7. Strangers to the Museum Wall: Kehinde Wiley’s Venice Exhibition Speaks of Violence and Portraiture
  8. Questioning Everyday Life: Alluvium by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at OGR Torino in Venice

E-05++
Fall/Winter 2022-23


Market Interview June 28th, 2022
HK How Pearl Lam Built Her Gallery Between China and Europe

Exhibition November 11th, 2022
TYO “Atami Blues” Brings Together UAE-Based and Japanese Artists in HOTEL ACAO ANNEX

Exhibition December 2nd, 2022
TYO Wetland Lab Proposes Sustainable Cement Alternative in Tokyo

Artist Interview December 9th, 2022
DXB Navjot Altaf Unpacks Eco-Feminism and Post-Pandemic Reality at Ishara Art Foundation

Artist Interview January 8th, 2023
TYO Shu Yonezawa and the Art of Animation

Artist Interview January 19th, 2023
NYC Reflecting on Her Southwestern Chinese Bai Roots, Peishan Huang Captures Human Traces on Objects and Spaces

Exhibition Review February 9th, 2023
DXB Augustine Paredes Builds His Paradise Home at Gulf Photo Plus

Artist Interview February 22nd, 2023
DXB Persia Beheshti Shares Thoughts on Virtual Worlds and the State of Video Art in Dubai Ahead of Her Screening at Bayt Al Mamzar


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Prepare The Ingredients and Let The Rest Flow: Miramar and Zaid’s “Pure Data” Premieres at Satellite for Quoz Arts Fest 2022


By Latifa El Jubouri

Published on March 10th, 2022

        The last weekend of January marked the most recent iteration of Quoz Arts Fest by Alserkal, a two-day activation of the creative neighborhood of Dubai’s Al Quoz and celebration of homegrown creatives from the region. The truest sense of this celebration came from no other than Satellite, the multipurpose gallery started by Rami Farook. Satellite has been nurturing Dubai’s creative scene since its opening on Alserkal Avenue, giving opportunities to talented young talent, keeping the artistic process sacred and communal. As a space, it’s home to people’s many firsts - first exhibition, first DJ gig, first curated exhibition - and as a place, it will forever remain in Dubai’s contemporary art history.

This is where Pure Data, a duo led by mural painter Miramar and sound artist Zaid (1800s Internet), decide to premiere their first audio-visual performance. On the evening of January 29th, the Jordanian pair, who share a studio space in Amman, blew our minds and awakened our visual and auditory senses with a three-hour long painting and sound improvisation. I caught up with Miramar and Zaid a few weeks later in Dubai Design District.

Latifa El Jubouri: How did this performance at Satellite come about?

Miramar: I connected with Rami online and met him when I came to Dubai for the first time to paint a mural for ICD Brookfield. We discussed ideas revolving around a live mural in Satellite and possibly creating a piece for Quoz Arts Fest. When I went back to Jordan, where I share a studio with Zaid, I reflected on how we co-exist in the space expressing ourselves through different mediums. I recognized the influence we have on each other as I’m always hearing him processing sounds and he’s always witnessing my pieces in progress, and we started conceptualizing how we can translate this into a performance.


“I’m always hearing him processing sounds and he’s always witnessing my pieces in progress, and we started conceptualizing how we can translate this into a performance.”

- Miramar

Zaid (1800s Internet): We didn’t have much time to prepare, so to lean into the spontaneity of the whole situation, we decided to do an improvised performance and expose the invisible threads connecting everybody present during the process of creation. Rami approved the concept and within a week we were in Dubai performing.

1. Pure Data, performance at Satellite, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. 29 January 2022. Photo: Amir Hazim


“Rami [Farook] approved the concept and within a week we were in Dubai performing.”

- Zaid (1800s Internet)


L.J: How did you two meet?

Z.: We met in 2020, we followed each other on Instagram and Miramar just messaged me very straightforwardly saying “we need to meet”. We became close friends and in early 2021 we rented out a strange red house in downtown Amman, where we currently operate from.

L.J.: The whole performance is an improvisation.

M.: Yeah, it was a new experience for me because I usually plan out painting a mural, there is no improvising in my process. However I noticed from experience working within the public sphere that there is always an observer, and being able to feel that and absorb my surroundings influences my original plan, and I end up adapting my ideas to the space. Improvising a painting in a performative setting, while also trying to communicate with Zaid while interpreting his sounds was very enlightening on my process and how the presence of others plays a role.


“I noticed from experience working within the public sphere that there is always an observer, and being able to feel that and absorb my surroundings influences my original plan, and I end up adapting my ideas to the space.”

- Miramar


Z.: I was slightly limited with the equipment I could travel with, and I didn’t want to only rely on musical ideas and instruments. I thought it would be more interesting to create atmospheres that contrast with the space we would be performing in, incorporating sounds I recorded in different spaces and binaural sounds I designed to emulate certain environments. I prepared a lot of generative patches processing all these recordings and improvised how and when I fade in or trigger them, while also using my voice as an instrument. When you’re improvising, everybody present becomes involved. Reactions from the crowd could influence me to do something differently, and vice versa. There are lots of feedback loops being generated between Miramar, myself and the audience. We decided not to practice before the performance because risk is a part of improvisation.


“I thought it would be more interesting to create atmospheres that contrast with the space we would be performing in, incorporating sounds I recorded in different spaces and binaural sounds I designed to emulate certain environments.”

- Zaid (1800s Internet)




“When you’re improvising, everybody present becomes involved. We decided not to practice before the performance because risk is a part of improvisation.”

- Zaid (1800s Internet)


2. Pure Data, performance at Satellite, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. 29 January 2022. Photo: Amir Hazim

Latifa El Jubouri is a producer, curator, DJ, and arts practitioner based in Dubai. She is the founder of Kenz Studioz and one of the leading forces behind Shabab Intl. 

Miramar is a mural painter based in Amman, Jordan. Previous commissions include those by ICD Brookfield, Sattelite and North Face. 

Zaid (1800s Internet) is a sound artist and producer based in Amman, Jordan. 

All photos were taken by Amir Hazim at Satellite, Alserkal Avenue on January 29th, 2022.
Video by Ayar Rasool.

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