This catalogue accompanies the Sharjah Biennial 8 held from April to June 2007. Organised by Artistic Director Jack Persekian and a team of curators including Mohammad Kazem, Eva Scharrer, and Jonathan Watkins, the Biennial undertakes the 'exigent task of addressing some of the ecological challenges confronting the world today, from the perspective of art and through the involvement of artists in various areas and on several levels: environmental, social, political, cultural, individual, etc.'

Includes essays, artists' bios, artists' texts and images of works.

Note: Only Asian artists are indexed below.
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Onsite

Location code
EX.UAE.SHB.2007
Language

Arabic, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2007

No of pages

260

ISBN / ISSN

9948043286

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Directors

An Ecology of Choice... - Hoor AL QASIMI

(Not Deliverance) - Jack PERSEKIAN

Curators

Environmental Context - Mohammed KAZEM

Global Warming Ready? - Eva SCHARRER

Confessions of a Curator, 1 December 2006 - Jonathan WATKINS

Notes and Essays

(untitled) - Hisham Al Madhloum

Exhibition Design - Mona El-Mousfy

Editor's Preface: To Nurture Hope... - Serene HULEILEH

Arts and Perceptions - Munir FASHEH

Hope in the Era of Kalyug - Manish JAIN

Irreversibility, Dissipation, Chaos and Noise Machines - Francesco MANACORDA

Between Human Desire and the Law of Nature: Some Examples of Man's Relationship to the Planet in Current Artistic Practice - Akiko MIKI, 三木あき子

In Praise of our Limitations - Trevor SMITH

ECOlogical?: Reflections on the Relationship between Art and Environmentalism - Raimar STANGE

Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change
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Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change