How to Maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics.
Warehouse 421_ Mina Zayed_ Abu Dhabi_
10.12.2019 / 16.02.2020
‘How to reappear brings questions on power, access, and right to publish to the fore and explores the efforts to reclaim the agency to publish, focusing on publications that maneuver around restrictive publishing regimes’
Exhibition opening and live performances by Hussein Nassereddine, Sarah Huneidi and Jad Atoui
The concept proposal for this exhibition holds strongly to this curatorial idea and attempts to reflect it spatially through a bold architectural gesture representing independent publishing.
Given the transparency of Warehouse421 with its open galleries and courtyards, gave us the chance to create a wide platform that shifts from the existing architecture to link all the dispersed content within the space. With the neutrality of the colors and materials at the gallery, this platform pops up as a monochrome gesture that hosts all content – from books to screenings to displayed objects – and it creates space for bigger installations to cross the color limit and bleed into the negatives and courtyards. All together creating a holistic scene for the show, while maintaining flexibility of the content distribution and free ways of circulation depending on the curation.
Curator _Kayfa ta, Maha Maamoun, Ala Younis
Scenography _GHAITH&JAD
Participants:
3asal mag, Ahmad Makia, Al Tashkeel Magazine, Ali Eyal, Ali Yass, antoine lefebvre editions, Azim Al Ghussein, Bady Dalloul, Banat Collective, Barakunan, BAZAR Art Book Fair (featuring Shabahang Tayyari), Bernhard Cella, Bidoun, Brownbook, Center for Architectural Discourse, Display Distribute, Dubailand, Exhausted Geographies, Farah Khelil, Farside Collective, Fehras Publishing Practices, Ghadah Alkandari, Hala Bizri and Jana Traboulsi, Hassan Ali Alnajjar, Hessa Al-Ajmani, Hind Mezaina, Hundred Best Arabic Posters Competition, Hussein Nassereddine, IKREK Edições (featuring Thiago Honório and Marilá Dardot), Imane Ibrahim, Jaffat El Aqlam, Jad Atoui, Karima Al Shomely, Khaldoun Chichakli, Khalid Mezaina, Khawla Al Marri and Shahd Alshammari, Liane Al Ghusain, Mahall al-Maa, Mariam Alzarooni, MinRASY PROJECTS, Miti Ruangkritya, Moad Musbahi, Mohssin Harraki, Nasir Nasrallah, Raafat Majzoub, Rafael Domenech, Ryan Inouye, Samar Khalid, Sharjah Art Foundation, Silsilat Al Ramad, Shubigi Rao, Tara Books, Tehran Art Book Fair, The State, Thukral and Tagra, Tosh Fesh, Vikram Divecha, Wtd Magazine, Yadawia / Maher Sherif.