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SUMMARY:VCUarts Qatar 2026 Graduation Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The VCUarts Qatar 2026 Graduation Showcase is now available online — explore the exceptional work of our graduating class and discover Qatar’s next generation of creative talent. \nVisit the site now.
URL:https://qatar.vcu.edu/event/vcuarts-qatar-2026-graduation-showcase/
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SUMMARY:VCUarts Qatar at La Biennale di Venezia 2026
DESCRIPTION:أغرب إدراك | Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perception is a collateral program consisting of an exhibition and symposium that explore perception\, mobility\, and cultural exchange as relational and situated modes of inquiry. Bringing together artists\, designers\, curators\, and researchers from VCUarts Qatar and international partner institutions\, the program considers how creative practice generates knowledge through sensory experience\, material investigation\, and interdisciplinary dialogue in public discourse. \nStructured as a sequence of spatial thresholds\, the exhibition invites visitors to move through environments shaped by light\, sound\, movement\, and material interaction. Meaning emerges gradually through sensory encounters\, spatial relations\, and changing conditions of perception. \nThe exhibition features projects from research labs within the Institute for Creative Research at VCUarts Qatar\, forming a landscape of intersecting approaches rather than a single narrative. Together\, the works reflect the Gulf region’s long histories of exchange\, mobility\, and layered cultural memory. The projects approach research not as fixed conclusions\, but as evolving propositions — experiential\, negotiated\, and emergent. \nExtending this ethos\, the symposium Relational Ecologies: Perception\, Mobility\, and Collective Form convenes artists\, designers\, curators\, and researchers from VCUarts\, VCUarts Qatar\, and Qatar Museums. Across multiple sessions examining collaboration\, perception\, and translocal circulation\, the symposium explores how practice and research generates knowledge through exchange and collective inquiry. Together\, the sessions position creative practice as an active mode of investigation shaped through relations between bodies\, materials\, histories\, technologies\, and environments. \nFor more information on the exhibition and symposium\, click here. \n  \n\n  \nأغرب إدراك | Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perception\nExhibition: June 1–November 22\, 2026 \nOpening Hours:\nTuesday–Sunday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.\nMondays: Closed\, except June 1\, June 22\, Sept. 7 and Nov. 16 \nInaugural event: June 22\, 6–8 p.m. \nLocation: Palazzo Cavanis at the Zattere \nLearn more. \n  \n\n\nFutures of Collectivity: Collaborative Practices in the Making\nJune 23\n1–3 p.m.\nArsenale\, Educational Space\, Sala Armi D \nLearn more. \n  \n\n\nRelational Ecologies: Perception\, Mobility\, and Collective Form Symposium\nJune 24 \nThresholds of Perception: Rethinking How We Know\n10 a.m.–12:20 p.m.\nThe Home of The Human Safety Net at the Procuratie\, 105 Piazza S. Marco\, Venice\n \nTranslocal Knowledge: Archives\, Diasporas\, and Circulations\n2–4:20 p.m.\nThe Home of The Human Safety Net at the Procuratie\, 105 Piazza S. Marco\, Venice\n \nLearn more. \n 
URL:https://qatar.vcu.edu/event/vcuq-at-la-biennale-di-venezia-2026/
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