Jerusalem-based curator Jack Persekian is the founder and director of the influential Gallery Anadiel and the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, and former director of the Sharjah Biennial. He curated Disorientation II: The Rise and Fall of Arab Cities at Manarat Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi; Never-Part, Bozar, Brussels; Dubai Next, co-curated with Rem Koolhaas at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; and The Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma'mal Foundation, Jerusalem. A Q&A moderated by Renaud Proch, deputy director of Independent Curators International (ICI), follows Persekian's lecture.