Shaheen Merali (curator, researcher & artist) introductory remarks to pax praxis symposion 2023

Shaheen Merali on his personal background, the political Black Art Movement in the UK and the relationship to anti-racism on the occasion of his Visiting Professorship at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 29 March 2023. He convened and curated the pax praxis symposion. The title pax praxis alludes to acts as a counterforce, framing and conceptualising de-globalisation and de-colonising understanding in the multiple locations in which art and education reside. Enacting on the place of continuous breakdown provokes a more comprehensive reading by artists, and scholars, enabling discussion of the processes of undoing, and re-making, defining themselves by separation from the inherited homology.
pax praxis events:
three online presentations (30 March-June 2023) moderated by Shaheen Merali
All online presentations require registration on Eventbrite:
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Shaheen Merali (born in Tanzania, lives in Britain) is a curator, critic, and artist of Asian ancestry. He was the curator for the inaugural Uganda Pavilion, Radiance - They Dream in Time, for the International art exhibition for the 59th Venice Biennale. At the Golden Lion Ceremony the pavilion was presented the special mention award. He was the co-curator of Berlin Heist or the enduring fascination of walled cities for the 4th Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (2014) and co-curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2006).
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