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The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) and Mathaf: Arab Museum for Modern Art will host the 3rd Annual Conference of Visual Arts virtually from April 25 to 27.
The conference will examine the implications of the current pandemic to the future of museums and cities.
“The conference’s conceptual framework mentions that there are turning points in history that we understand in retrospective, in a deferred insight. The current crisis, the pandemic, seems to act differently, for it contains an acute awareness that it is a major disjuncture between two eras, two regimes of human existence. Inherent to this tragic experience of a ‘major break’ is the orientation towards the future, loosely defined,” said the organisers of the conference in a press statement.
“The cultural fields of production are doubly bounded in this tragic experience. They are one of the most affected domains of this tragic experience which has deep and lasting effects on it. And, those most affected fields are expected to tell the story of this transition between the two regimes of existence,” the statement added.
The DI and Mathaf have invited artists, intellectuals, practitioners and curators to send proposals to participate in the conference -- up to 500 words -- in accordance with one of the following topics: Critical reading of the urban formative forces of the plagued city; Cevising the history of the modern museum in light of the current pandemic; Foreseeing the future possible relations of the museum and the city; The possibilities of visualising the new bio-political regime(s), and the ways of resisting it; and The positionality of the viewer: The Southern Scene and its deconstructive chargeclaim.
The abstracts should be sent to the email [email protected] before March 20.
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