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The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting To Be Born |
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Goethe Institut and NuktaArt Pakistan, cordially invite members of the media to attend a curtain-raiser for the Art Seminar ‘The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting To Be Born’, - an art dialogue of regional significance.
The Curtain Raiser: 22 Oct 2008, 3 - 4pm
Program of the Curtain Raiser
4:15pm
Brief Introduction of the Seminar by Markus Litz (Director, Goethe Institut)
4:30pm
Objectives of the Seminar by Niilofur Farrukh (Editor, NuktaArt)
4:45pm
Q&A Session
5pm
Refreshments
Objectives
- Forums on Art like this one highlight the deep connection between visual art and the concerns and aspirations of the people. When discussed in a spirit of shared legacy of South Asia it acknowledges the need for a space for harmony, multiculturalism and the legitimacy of multiple viewpoints.
- To discuss the ferment of new ideas developing in the field of visual art against the background of the successes and failures of 20th Century Modernist philosophies, the inclusive pluralism of contemporary art movements and the impact of technological tools and networks.
- To focus on the context in which art is created in South Asia, a region with some of the largest concentration of human population where domestic politics of power and poverty complicate lives with uncertainty and anxiety. When internalized into an expression these conditions weaves strands of optimism and pessimism into creative mythologies of a new age in Art that have begun to make a space for itself at art biennials, air fairs and art auctions.
- This seminar can be seen as a part of a collective art dialogue with the West, hopefully leading to an art event in Germany where South Asian scholars can take the lead to present the 21st century art discourse reclaimed from the historical distortions of colonialism with a comprehensive art exhibition from South Asian countries.
- A panel discussion supported by Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, will look at the challenges of building art archives and collective solutions with shared expertise.
The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born: a Seminar on Art Criticism
This event consisted of a two-day programme, span from 25 Oct - 26 Oct; its programme is listed as follows,
Day 1: 25 Oct 2008
9:30am - 10am
Registration
10am - 10:30 am
Inaugural Session
Welcome remarks by Markus Litz (Director of Goethe-Institut)
Welcome remarks by Niilofur Farrukh (Editor of NuktaArt)
Poem by Akhtar Hilal Zuberi (Visual artist)
10:30am - 11am
Keynote Address by Arif Hasan (Architect, planning consultant, author)
11am - 11:30am
Refreshments
11:30 am - 1pm
Session One - Canons of Control and Subordination (with Q&A Session)
Speakers: Nazish Attaullah (Pakistan), Ziaul Karim (Bangladesh), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Germany), Vidya Shivadas (India)
1pm - 2pm
Lunch
2pm - 3:30 pm
Session One (contd)
Speakers: Sumbul Khan (Pakistan), Christina Zuck (Germany)
Q & A session Chaired by Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran)
3:30pm - 5pm
Session Two - Art Market: An Uncertain Progress (with Q&A Session)
Speakers: Savita Apte (India), Michael Hübl (Germany)
Q & A session Chaired by Saquib Hanif (Pakistan)
5pm
Refreshments
Day 2: 26 Oct 2008
9:30am - 10am
Registration
10am - 12:30pm
Session One - Multiple Modernities: Reclaiming Cultural Space (with Q&A Session)
Speakers: Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran), Amra Ali (Pakistan), Abul Mansur (Bangladesh), Sasanka Perera (Sri Lanka)
Q & A Chaired by Michael Hubl (Germany)
12:30pm - 1pm
Launch of South Asia Journal for Culture by Sasanka Perera
1pm - 2pm
Lunch
2pm - 2:30 pm
Presentation by Maliha Noorani (AAA researcher in Pakistan)
2:30pm - 4pm
Panel Discussion on Art Archives in South Asia
(In collaboration with AAA Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong)
Moderator: Maliha Noorani
Participants: Sasanka Perera (Sri Lanka), Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran), Abul Mansur (Bangladesh), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Germany), Niilofur Farrukh (Pakistan)
4pm - 4:15 pm
Closing remarks by Rumana Husain (Senior Editor, NuktaArt)
4:15pm - 4:25 pm
Vote of Thanks by Kashif Peracha (Project Coordinator Goethe Institut)
Presentations by the NuktaArt Team and Director Goethe Institut
5pm
Refreshments
Venue:
Goethe Institut Auditorium,
2 Brunton Rd, Civil Lines,
( behind Hotel Sheraton), Karachi.
Pakistan
Tel: +92 21 5661 6336
Email: info@karachi.goethe.org
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22/10/2008 - 26/10/2008
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Goethe Institut Auditorium, Karachi
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Asia/South |
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Pakistan |
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