Fanoon Artist Talks: Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR)

Fanoon is a public lecture series and a university seminar—the kind of course we wish we had attended as students.

Bringing together four internationally renowned artists, it serves as an experiment in pedagogy, inaugurating a new collaboration between a museum and an arts university. The invited artists offer a unique introduction to research-driven artistic practices, with a particular focus on architecture and infrastructure. Their public lectures are open to all, while the accompanying seminar—led by writer and curator Tirdad Zolghadr—is open to students across Doha.

Moving between Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Painting and Printmaking programme (Department of Fine Arts) at VCUarts Qatar, the program establishes an active connection between museum and school, and in doing so, it creates a space for sustained dialogue around contemporary artistic practice while proposing a hopeful model for future arts education. All lectures take place at the Makan Auditorium at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

Participating Artists:

• Sandi Hilal

• Alessandro Petti

This lecture series is a collaboration between Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Painting and Printmaking programme (Department of Fine Arts) at VCUarts Qatar, presented as part of QC Talks