NYAF is thrilled to be part of Curating Performance, New York University's annual international symposium on performance and curating live art. Tune in for the opening panel Curating and Gatekeeping, curated by NYAF's founding curator, Adham Hafez.

Curating performance from contemporary Arab artists is often met with extremes. Whether fetishism or rejection, orientalism or xenophobia, curating Arab performance evokes multiple challenges that this panel will tackle. Gathering scholars who are equally specialists working in the fields of curation, education, and production, the panel will look at notions of canon and fetishism as proposed by Ismail Fayed, will look at migration and culture policy through the work of Mey Seifan, and the necessity for developing new economic and entrepreneurial structures to advance radical performance curation through the work of Sarah El Miniawy.

This event is in participation with the NYU Tisch School’s Department of Performance Studies, and can be joined through Zoom at this link.