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How are movement and dance be an integral part of artists’ practices? What are the variety of ways participating and capturing performance and dance makes us more human and attune to our bodies - in our gender and ethnicity? How do viewers interact with performance?
Step into a day in the life of Mid East Art! Check out this mini documentary on Suzy’s work an art researcher of the Middle East and specialist at Christie's.
How does daydreaming, fantasy, myth-making and childhood nostalgia impact creativity? In what ways does fantasy reinforce an understanding of our realities? How much of this impacts your artwork production? Is it a constant part of your thought process?
An interview with Suzy on The Wise Fool Podcast, hosted by Matthew Dols, covering her role as a specialist at Christie’s in Dubai and as founder of Mid East Art platform. Conversation shifted from Seinfeld, to the regional art history and market, and the Fulbright Program!
Art Dubai’s 14th edition was celebrated as the first in-person art fair to take place internationally between March 29th – April 3rd. Artmejo partnered up with Mid East Art’s Suzy Sikorski as she walked around the exhibition halls doing what she loves—collecting and sharing artists’ stories!
As part of a new series of online talks, two photographers discuss their similar styles, but different subjects. The pair were recently brought together again in a series called Artist Reflections, organised by Dubai art researcher Suzy Sikorski's online platform Mid East Art, on behalf of the UAE Embassy in the US. The programme, which is available online, features the American and Emirati speaking side by side.
Mid East Art takes on Spotify! Gallery Girl Meets Mid East Art. “In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast, we speak to Suzy Sikorski, founder of Mid East Art, an online platform that acts as both an art historical archive and periodical featuring a comprehensive coverage of interviews and exhibition reviews of artists from the Middle East.”
by Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer. “Mid East Art, the art platform founded and run by Dubai-based Suzy Sikorski that acts as both an art historical archive and periodical featuring a comprehensive coverage of interviews and exhibition reviews of artists from the Middle East, has announced that it will partner with the UAE Embassy’s Cultural Diplomacy Department in Washington DC on a series of digital programming.”
Suzy Sikorski was invited by the UAE Youth x Hub, an initiative by the country’s Ministry of Youth to introduce her Mid East Art platform in an online webinar presentation. Sharing the archival work she’s done since 2016 documenting in film and text the local pioneer art scene in the UAE, Suzy also touched upon her current research and writing projects during the quarantine, including her Artist in Quarantine series and Quarantine Files.
Suzy’s photograph was selected for an open call from UAE-based Gulf Photo Plus in their COVID-19 Artist Relief Print Sale. In an effort to support and celebrate the local freelancing creative community in the UAE, an unlimited edition of 10 x 15’’ prints from a select group of photographers and creatives in the country were available for purchase running for two weeks in mid-April.
This April, Suzy shared her ‘story on Instagram storytelling’ in promoting further Middle Eastern art education during Sultan Al Qassemi’s first online cultural majlis. Speakers included HE Noura Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development; Vilma Jurkute, Director of Alserkal Avenue; Manal Ataya, Director-General of the Sharjah Museums Authority; Suheyla Takesh, Curator at Barjeel Art Foundation; and Bill Bragin, Executive artistic director of The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi.
The International Exchange Office at the American University of Sharjah interviews Suzy on her early inspirations to study art in the Middle East and her junior year studying at AUS in Fall 2014.
Suzy was ranked on the list as part of a group of women in the UAE who are championing the arts —from artists and curators to gallerists and the founders of collectives for young and emerging artists from the region.
Fulbright Researcher, Suzy Sikorski, recounts her journey from AUS to starting the first online portal for Khaleeji artists. She first came to AUS as an exchange student, only to return two years later under a Fulbright US Student Scholarship.
How do we navigate finding and reinterpreting our identity within cross cultural contexts and interdisciplinary techniques? Farah Behbehani is a Kuwaiti visual artist and designer who explores this within traditional Islamic and historical elements found across literature, calligraphy and local history and customs. In what ways can we activate the past within the present, and how can this call for bridging cultural and inter-generational divides?