Kate Fowle, Garage Chief Curator, moderates STRANGERS, WELCOME: NEW INVISIBLE PUBLICS, international forum in Dubai

WEDNESDAY MARCH 18
15:15–16:00
DISCUSSION

STRANGERS, WELCOME: NEW INVISIBLE PUBLICS

Moderator: Kate Fowle (Chief Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art)

A new generation of institutions are figuring out ways to connect with far-flung, web-savvy publics that they may never meet in person. Gala Berger’s Buenos Aires-based La Ene is a pop-up, itinerant museum – currently located at Art Dubai -- courtesy of a usb; the Palestine Museum, directed by Jack Persekian, aims to embrace a diasporic public – via digital platforms and international partnerships – when it opens in 2016; the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, directed and curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, fosters international dialogue about Latin American art and ideas, as much through online debate and research as temporary exhibition-making. The discussion is chaired by Kate Fowle, Chief Curator at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, which opens in June 2015.

Participants: Gala Berger (Artist and co-founder of Museo La Ene, Galería Inmigrante and Urgente platform), Kate Fowle (Chief Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art), Gabriel Pérez-Barriero (Director and Chief Curator, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros) and Jack Persekian (Director and Head Curator, Palestinian Museum).

This year’s edition of the Global Art Forum takes on the theme of technologies and their impact on the world of art and culture. Titled Download Update?, the Forum is co-directed by Turi Munthe and Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, with Shumon Basar as Director-at-Large.

The Forum begins in Kuwait, March 14-15, and continues in Dubai March 18-20. The discussion Kate is moderating is the first panel of the day on Wednesday 18, the first day of the Forum in Dubai. It follows an introduction by the directors (3-3.15pm), and is scheduled to last 45 minutes.