Thu, Nov 14, 2019 3–6 pm Event closed: seating at capacity
Curator and writer Sarah Rifky leads a ProSeminar reflecting on her experiences co-founding and running state-independent art initiatives in Cairo and Alexandria.
The ProSeminar is an invitation to leading curators, designers, and researchers in contemporary art and design to host a conversation about the artworks, exhibitions and ideas that inform their practice. Less than 20 participants and spanning a condensed timeframe of three hours, the model is an opportunity for students, faculty and invited participants to engage in focused dialogue with guests.
Presented by CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice as part of Curatorial Research Bureau and 100 Books. This ProSeminar is made possible thanks to generous support from Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.
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Sarah Rifky is co-founder of Beirut, an art initiative in Cairo, and founder of CIRCA (Cairo International Resource Center for Art). She has served as artistic director of ArteEast in New York (2017–18), co-curator of Jogjakarta Biennale XII (2013), curator of Townhouse (2009–11), and curatorial Agent for dOCUMENTA(13) (2012). She is co-editor of Thresholds 47: Repeat, Positionen: Zeitgenössische Künstler aus der Arabischen Welt and Damascus: Artists, Tourists and Secret Agents. She is author of The Going Insurrection (2012). Rifky is a Ph.D. candidate in History, Theory and Criticism and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
