Updates from Critical Practice Programme 2016 - 2017

Water, Gas, Electricity, Rent: A reading group


Dubai artist Lantian Xie leads a reading group about hospitality, occupancy, homeliness, precarity, exception, and temporariness. Each session will take place inside a hotel somewhere in Dubai, the location of which will be disclosed to participants upon sign-up.

Sessions occur seminar-style with emphasis on conversation and discussion around materials assigned before each meeting. Materials to be covered include science fiction, critical theory, film, and popular music.

All sessions are free to attend. Sessions will take place from 3PM - 6PM on:

  • 13th January 2018
  • 20th January 2018
  • 3rd February 2018
  • 17th February 2018


Seats are extremely limited and offered on a sign-up basis. Participants are expected to commit to attending all sessions.

Successful sign-ups will be notified via email.

To sign up, please email readinggroup@tashkeel.org with your full name, mobile number, email address, and a brief outline of your expectations for the reading group (no more than 100 words).

Deadline: January 7, 2018