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Sharjah Biennial
Richard Priestley reports from the 6th Sharjah Biennial.
It was a blizzardy night in central London when I presented my biennial proposal to Sheika Hoor Al Quasimi and Peter Lewis, director and curator of the 6th Sharjah Biennial of the United Arab Emirates. I was just one of several others presenting plans over a few nights. Varying methods of selection were employed around the world, in twenty-seven different countries and over 120 artists were finally selected from over 4,000 applicants – some artists simply received a postcard asking them to come, and notifying them that all of their costs would be met by the King. Cell Project Space went to Sharjah as it's two independent component parts: Milika Muritu took a digital animation/ sculpture crossover piece and I took a curatorial experiment in anti-ownership involving my own installation enveloping pieces from four animators (Anthony Gross, Laurie Hill, Daniel Jackson and Milika Muritu). Curator Peter Lewis likes blurry edges, and Cell likes to blur edges – that's why we ended up with a space full of empty Tate shipping crates for a show he put together called 'concrete'. By April of this year, and close to the opening of the biennial, the USA and UK troops invaded Iraq. We...
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