Tamawuj
March Meeting 
March 10–14, 2017 

Sharjah Art Foundation 
Sharjah
UAE 

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce the opening week programme and full list of participating artists for Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj.

Friday, March 10

10:30am
Desiring Institutions
Panel discussion with Binna Choi, Ala Younis and Maha Maamoun, moderated by Charles Eschews

1:30pm
Five Feet High and Rising
Lecture performance by Mario García Torres

3pm
Step by Step
Film by Ossama Mohammed, followed by Q&A

4:30pm
Artist-led tours

10:30pm
Close to here
Theatre performance written and directed by Roy Dib

Saturday, March 11

10:30am
SB3: Interlocutors Conversation
Lara Khaldi, Zeynep Öz, Kader Attia and Christine Tohme

12pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (English)

1pm
Climavore
Lunch performance by Cooking Sections

3pm
Close to here
Theatre performance written and directed by Roy Dib

3pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (Arabic)

3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios 

9:30pm
A Present from the Past: 20 September
Film by Kawthar Younis

Sunday, March 12

10:30am
Rogue Planet
Lecture performance by Arjuna Neuman and Shahira Issa

12pm
Of Oil and Ice
Lecture performance by Design Earth (Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy)

2:30pm
The Necessity of Infinity
Performance by Raqs Media Collective (Urdu)

3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios

8pm
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
Film by Ahmed Ghoneimy

10:30pm
Music Concert by Kharkhana

Monday, March 13

10:30am
Desiring Institutions
Panel discussion with Lawrence Rassel, Francis McKee and Lina Attalah, moderated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

12pm
Book launch for Noor Abuarafeh

3pm
Bird Watching 
Lecture performance by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

3pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios 

8pm
Clean City 
Performance directed by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris

10:30pm
DJ Sets by Bedouin Records: Salem Rashid, SASA and uplow 

Tuesday, March 14

11am
Presentations by March Meeting correspondents

12pm
SB13 Boat Trip to Al Hamriyah Studios 

Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj includes works by:
A.S.T (Diann Bauer, Felice Grodin, Patricia M. Hernandez, Elite Kedan with Keller Easterling), Lawrence Abu Hamdan*, Abbas Akhavan*, Abdullah Al Saadi, Tamara Al Samerraei*, Allora & Calzadilla, Maria Thereza Alves*, Kader Attia, Tonico Lemos Auad, Ismaïl Bahri, Sarnath Banerjee, Yto Barrada, Abdelkader Benchamma*, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jonathas de Andrade, Mariana Castillo Deball, Roy Dib*, Vikram Divecha*, Barış Doğrusöz, Koo Donghee*, Mandy El Sayegh*, İnci Eviner*, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Harun Farocki, Fehras Publishing Practices*, Futurefarmers, Daniele Genadry*, Deniz Gül, Shadi Habib Allah*, Taloi Havini, Takashi Ishida, İz Öztat & Fatma Belkıs, Ali Jabri, Lamia Joreige, Christoph Keller*, Samir Khaddaje, Mahmoud Khaled*, Nesrine Khodr*, Basim Magdy, Metahaven*, Hind Mezaina*, Hana Miletić, Mochu*, Oscar Murillo*, Joe Namy*, Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Ashkan Sepahvand, Uriel Orlow, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Deborah Poynton, Khalil Rabah*, Jon Rafman, Rain Wu and Eric Chen, Raqs Media Collective*, Marwan Rechmaoui*, Stéphanie Saadé, Ghassan Salhab, Roy Samaha*, Massinissa Selmani*, Setareh Shahbazi*, Ross Simonini, Nida Sinnokrot, Walid Siti, Monika Sosnowska, Zhou Tao*, The Otolith Group*, Mario García Torres*, Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, Jorinde Voigt, James Webb, Paola Yacoub*, Fathallah Zamroud*
SB13 features over 25 commissions (noted with an * above). Artists Noor Abuarafeh, Iman Issa and Karine Wehbé will contribute with publications that will be released throughout the year.

Artists Christoph Keller, Metahaven and Zhou Tao have been commissioned to produce works which will be completed over the course of the year.
Note each SB13 Boat Trip has a limited capacity. Register by March 7, 2017 at rsvp [at] sharjahart.org.

Overview
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, extends beyond previous Sharjah Biennial formats in both space and time to encompass exhibitions, projects and education programmes in five locations. Curated by Christine Tohme, Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13) includes a public programme in two acts, one in Sharjah (March 10–June 12, 2017) and one in Beirut (October 19, 2017–January 19, 2018), as well as the SB13 School education programme in Sharjah. Off-site projects have been conceived by four interlocutors, each engaging with one keyword underpinning the conceptual framework of SB13. Kader Attia investigates water in Dakar (January 8–9, 2017), Zeynep Oz considers crops in Istanbul (opening May 13, 2017), Lara Khaldi studies earth in Ramallah (opening August 10, 2017) and Ashkal Alwan reflects on the culinary in Beirut (opening October 15, 2017). SB13 also features two notable components in the form of digital platforms: chip-ship, a data-rich source of research as well as the Biennial’s year-long publishing platform.