Μeeting Points 6, the contemporary art festival from the Arab World, opens its gates to the Greek public for the first time at the Onassis Cultural Center of Athens from March 7 to 11.
With the subtitle “Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic”, the festival will offer visitors the unique chance to watch theatrical and dance performances, art exhibitions, screenings, conversations with artists from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Tunis, London and Paris. Many other events are also scheduled to take place during the weekend.
Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary bi-annual event organized by the Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF) in collaboration with regional and international partners. It takes place simultaneously in different cities, presenting contemporary artistic productions from the region and beyond.
Meeting Points 6 is curated by Okwui Enwezor, and the co-ordinator of the events in Greece is Katia Arfara. This year’s festival aims to perform an autopsy on civic imagination and politics by approaching identity and diversity issues, collective memory and history, political responsibility and social alienation in a highly important historical moment for the Arab World, the Arab Spring.
Meeting Points 6 travelled last April to Beirut and Amman, while in October it was hosted in Brussels. Before coming to Athens it paid a visit to Berlin.
Meeting Points started in 2004. The first four editions of Meeting Points were curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh and took place in Amman, Alexandria, Cairo, Tunis and Damascus. Meeting Points 5 2007/2008) was curated by Frie Leysen, assisted by Maha Maamoun. It presented forty contemporary artistic productions including theatre, dance, music, visual art, film and performance. Meeting Points 5 took place in eleven cities in the Arab World and in Europe.
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