Fareed Armaly: Shar(e)d Domains
- Wed, 04.12.2024, 2 pm
- Department Art and Time | Media
- Pavillon, 1st floor, I12b
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Semperdepot, Léhargasse 6-8, 1060 Vienna
Fareed Armaly will introduce themes and frameworks that inform his approach to artistic practice and the ways in which it converges into exhibition making, by discussing his multi-faceted 2007 museum project, Shar(e)d Domains. This project began with a unique invitation by the Dept. of Archeology of the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, to create a work by participating alongside their development of a large-scale exhibition, Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations. The exhibition proposed a future Gaza Archeological Museum, to be situated at one of Gaza’s most significant archaeological sites—the ancient port discovered at Gaza-Blakhiya.
Shar(e)d Domains negotiated between two different museums in mind: one already existing in Geneva, the other projected within the precarious conditions of Gaza. Within this layered construct of histories and futures, the project developed a position between the one in the other, charting a topology from fragments—shards, souvenirs, relics, mementos, and data. By examining the museological display of artifacts, the work extended its gaze to the discourse and networks of meanings, voices, and institutional legitimization structures shaped by oppression, conflicts and negotiations.
Biography
Fareed Armaly has exhibited internationally in distinguished platforms such as Documenta 11 and institutions such as the M.C.C. Saint-Etienne; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunstverein Munich; Foundation Tàpies, Barcelona; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva; NTU CCA Singapore; and mumok, Vienna. Parallel, the artist has held various roles and institutional positions, including in the formation of Galerie Nagel (1989-1994), curatorial collaboration with Ute Meta Bauer (? in NowHere, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 1995-6); “haus.0” program (1999–2002) as Artistic Director for Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; and later contracts/commissioned projects include: Shar(e)d Domains, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (2006-7); Ramallah Museum project (2013–15), NTU CCA, Singapore (2015); Empty Fields, SALT, Istanbul (2016). Armaly was also the 2011-13 Visiting Fellow at Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths. More recently, in 2021, he revisited his exhibition The (re)Orient (1989) for the mumok, Vienna.