The event organised by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), will focus on “the future museum in the future city”
Residents, particularly Culture Pass members, will have the opportunity to take part in various virtual sessions and workshops as part of ‘The Visual Arts Studies Third Annual Conference, 2020-2021’, scheduled to take place from April 25 to 27, it was announced.
The event, organised by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), will focus on “the future museum in the future city”.
“In this edition of the conference, we look at the implications of the current pandemic on the futures of museums and cities. We expect the conference to be an open platform for a discussion of the questions concerning the various potential scenarios that are likely to come upon us in the foreseeable future,” Qatar Museums said in an e-mail to Culture Pass members yesterday.
QM noted that the first workshop was held on December 14, 2020 while the second is set to take place on April 25 from 8pm to 11.45pm via Zoom. The event will be held in English and Arabic. Simultaneous translation will be provided.
Mathaf director Abdellah Karroum and DI associate professor Ismail Nashef will be attending the opening. Session one on April 25, moderated by Mathaf’s researcher and curator Amal Alhaag, will focus on a ‘Critical Reading of the Urban Formative Forces of the Plagued City’ with Adham Selim, independent researcher, Speculative and Excessive: Of Finance, Architecture and Contemporary Museums in the Arab World; Mohamed Ouassit, lawyer and lecturer, Al Hassan II University, Mohammedia, Morocco; and Ali A Alraouf, professor of Architecture and Urbanism and head of Research and Development – Urban Planning Department, Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
Meanwhile, session two will focus on ‘Revising the History of the Modern Museum in Light of the Current Pandemic’, moderated by DI’s Issam Nassar. Panelists include Suaad Babakir from the Sudan Archaeological Society; Fadma Fangach from the Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco; and Abdellatif Khalki from DI.
On April 26, resource speakers will tackle Speculating and Foreseeing the Future Possible Relations of the Museum and the City; and The Possibilities of Visualising the New Bio-Political Regime(s), and the Invention of Ways of Resisting It, while The Positionality of the Viewer: The Southern Scene and its Deconstructive ChargeClaim’ is scheduled to be discussed on April 27, which will be moderated by DI’s Ayman A El Desouky.
“Traditionally, the modern city constructed the museum as its mirroring mechanism, narrating the story of the city via multi-mediums; visually, architecturally and socially. Today, both the city and the museum have been deeply implicated and radically transformed, as a result of the pandemic,” QM noted.
The event, organised by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), will focus on “the future museum in the future city”.
“In this edition of the conference, we look at the implications of the current pandemic on the futures of museums and cities. We expect the conference to be an open platform for a discussion of the questions concerning the various potential scenarios that are likely to come upon us in the foreseeable future,” Qatar Museums said in an e-mail to Culture Pass members yesterday.
QM noted that the first workshop was held on December 14, 2020 while the second is set to take place on April 25 from 8pm to 11.45pm via Zoom. The event will be held in English and Arabic. Simultaneous translation will be provided.
Mathaf director Abdellah Karroum and DI associate professor Ismail Nashef will be attending the opening. Session one on April 25, moderated by Mathaf’s researcher and curator Amal Alhaag, will focus on a ‘Critical Reading of the Urban Formative Forces of the Plagued City’ with Adham Selim, independent researcher, Speculative and Excessive: Of Finance, Architecture and Contemporary Museums in the Arab World; Mohamed Ouassit, lawyer and lecturer, Al Hassan II University, Mohammedia, Morocco; and Ali A Alraouf, professor of Architecture and Urbanism and head of Research and Development – Urban Planning Department, Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
Meanwhile, session two will focus on ‘Revising the History of the Modern Museum in Light of the Current Pandemic’, moderated by DI’s Issam Nassar. Panelists include Suaad Babakir from the Sudan Archaeological Society; Fadma Fangach from the Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco; and Abdellatif Khalki from DI.
On April 26, resource speakers will tackle Speculating and Foreseeing the Future Possible Relations of the Museum and the City; and The Possibilities of Visualising the New Bio-Political Regime(s), and the Invention of Ways of Resisting It, while The Positionality of the Viewer: The Southern Scene and its Deconstructive ChargeClaim’ is scheduled to be discussed on April 27, which will be moderated by DI’s Ayman A El Desouky.
“Traditionally, the modern city constructed the museum as its mirroring mechanism, narrating the story of the city via multi-mediums; visually, architecturally and socially. Today, both the city and the museum have been deeply implicated and radically transformed, as a result of the pandemic,” QM noted.
