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黑料社 Conference

Fugitive Forms Performance in South Asia

22 October 2022 at 10.30鈥17.30
Looking from above down at a woman sat on the floor with piles of wet sand around her in different shapes.

Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Lucid Sleep curated by HH Art Spaces, Serendipity Arts Festival, 2016, image credit: Dheer Kaku.

Explore the history of performance art across South Asia

This seminar explores the history of performance art and its relationship to forms of protests across South Asia. Instead of thinking of the region as a whole, the contributors present the unique political conditions and social forms under which performance practices emerged in each place and context.

Through modes and methods, frameworks and strategies, as well as the experiences and ambitions of artists and artist-run initiatives, the seminar seeks to recognise and learn from the uneven, adverse, and non-linear histories that shape the forms of performance we encounter in the region today.

Speakers include: Nikhil Chopra, Godwin Constantine, Mario D鈥橲ouza, Madhavi Gore, Sandev Handy, Salima Hashmi, Romain Loustau, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Jagath Weerasinghe.

Convened by: Nikhil Chopra (HH Art Spaces), Mario D鈥橲ouza (Director of Programmes, Kochi Biennale Foundation), Sook-Kyung Lee (Senior Curator, International Art, Tate), Devika Singh (Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art)

This event is part of Antibodies, a programme in partnership with The Tetley.

Organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and聽HH聽Art聽Spaces聽(supported by British Council鈥檚 India/UK Together Season of Culture)

10.30鈥11.00: Introduction

  • Sook Kyung-Lee, Senior Curator, International Art, Tate, and Nikhil Chopra, artist and co-founder HH Art Spaces

11.00鈥12.45: Panel 1

  • A Long History of Performance and Protest in South Asia
    • Mario D鈥橲ouza, Director of Programmes, Kochi Biennale Foundation
  • We Sinful Women
    • Salima Hashmi, artist, art educator, curator and contemporary art historian
  • Protesting Bodies and Performing Residues: The Afterlives of Contemporary Performance Art in Sri Lanka
    • Sandev Handy, Curator, co-authored with Sharmini Pereira, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka
  • Panel Discussion and Q&A
    • Moderated by Huma Mulji, artist and Lecturer, Plymouth College of Art and University of the West of England

12.45鈥14.00: Lunch

14.00鈥16.10: Panel 2

  • Against Despair: Performance Art and the 鈥90s Trend鈥 in Sri Lankan Modernist Art
    • Jagath Weerasinghe, artist and founding Chair of Theertha International Artists Collective
  • Performance Art and Protest in Sri Lanka
    • Godwin Constantine, artist and Chairman of the Theertha International Artist Collective
  • To Swim Against Water: New/Alternate structures for gathering bodies
    • Madhavi Gore, Nikhil Chopra, Romain Loustau, artists and co-founders of HH Art Spaces, and Shivani Gupta artist and partner at HH Art Spaces
  • Yasmin Jahan Nupur, artist and member of Britto Arts Trust
  • Panel Discussion and Q&A
    • Moderated by Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks

16.10鈥16.30: Break

16.30鈥17.30: Final presentation

  • Amol K Patil, artist

17.30: Closing

Download the full programme PDF

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