Saodat Ismailova in conversation with Daniel Blanga Gubbay

The Public Program of Pirelli HangarBicocca dedicated to the exhibition “A Seed Under Our Tongue”  by Saodat Ismailova, presents, on Thursday 7 November 2024 at 7 PM, a conversation inside the exhibition between the artist Saodat Ismailova and Daniel Blanga Gubbay, artistic director of Kunstenfestivaldesarts international performing arts festival in Brussels.

The conversation will explore some of the exhibition’s central themes such as: knowledge, nature and animals; the access to other worlds in Central Asian spiritual culture; the relation between textile and image making; and the fragility of the land.

The conversation will be held in English, simultaneous translation is provided in Italian.
Admission to the event is free. Places are limited and booking is recommended. BOOK HERE

Pirelli HangarBicocca Members are guaranteed admission by booking through the dedicated link.

 

 

DANIEL BLANGA GUBBAY

Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing arts curator and writer. Since 2018, he is at the artistic direction of  Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, a leading commissioning institution in the performing arts. He has worked as educator and independent curator of public programs, includingThe Telepathic School (Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg 2021), Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2021, in collaboration with Zeynep Öz), Four Rooms (online, 2020), Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo 2018), and The School of Exceptions (Santarcangelo, 2016). He co-curated Live Works at Centrale Fies from 2014 to 2018 and is currently a member of the artistic committee of the Beirut Art Centre. He graduated with Giorgio Agamben at Università Iuav di Venezia and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Palermo and Valencia. He was the head of the Arts and Choreography department at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 2015 to 2019, where he continues to teach. He regularly writes, recent articles appeared in South as a State of Mind, e-flux, Mada Masr, and Performance Journal.