This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss critical perspectives on shared histories, ongoing exchanges and rich interconnections across cities in South Asia, the Gulf and the wider region. We will look at the rapid growth of the city and its impact on artistic practice through the work of artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers and scholars whose research encompasses urban development from the 20th century to the present. Participants will share regional perspectives on cities and the representation of urban space, particularly in the visual arts, and how these contribute to and reflect on the complex and on-going making of place and identity.
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Schedule
Friday, 1 November 2019
9.30-10AM
Registration at Alserkal Arts Foundation Project Space (Warehouse 50/51, Alserkal Avenue)
10.10-10.30AM
Welcome and Introductions
Panel One – Sentient Archives: Temporal Traces and Translocal Exchanges
10.30 – 10.40
Introduction
Devika Singh, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern
10.40 –11AM
Michele Bambling
Structures of Memory
11.00 –11.20AM
Rohan Shivkumar
Nostalgia for the Future: A meditation on Indian citizenship, modernity and the architecture of the Home
11.20–11.40AM
Ricardo Camacho
Architecture without the City: Pan-Arab Movement and Translocal Practice
11.40-12AM
Alia Farid
Acquiring Modernity
12.00 -12.30AM
Discussion and Q&A
12.30–2PM
Lunch Break
(A list of dining options in the vicinity will be available)
Panel Two – Securing Images: Mapping the City
2-2.10PM
Introduction
Nabila Abdel Nabi Curator, International Art, Tate
2.10-2.30PM
Mohammed Somji
Documenting the City
2.30-2.50PM
Nazgol Ansarinia
Tehran: the view at an altitude of 1,743 m
2.50-3.10PM
Randhir Singh
Modernity, Architecture and the Role of the Photographer
3.10-3.30PM
Marwan Rechmaoui
The Distinction Between the Municipal City and its sensorial and civic bodies
3.30-4PM
Discussion and Q&A
4–4.30PM
Tea/Coffee Break
Panel Three – Liquid Spaces: Negotiations in and Beyond the City
4.30 –4.40PM
Introduction
Maya Alison, Chief Curator and Executive Director, NYUAD Art Gallery
4.40 –5PM
Tausif Noor
Liquid Futures: Artistic Interventions, Urbanism, and Environmental Planning in South Asia
5-5.20PM
Abdul Halik Azeez
Becoming a World Class City: Impressions from Post-War Colombo
5.20-5.40PM
Ali Karimi (Civil Architecture)
Shared Waters
5.40-6PM
CAMP (Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
From Cut to Cut to Cut
6-6.30PM
Discussion and Q&A
6.45-7.30PM
Tour of the exhibition Body Building at Ishara Art Foundation with Nada Raza, Artistic Director and exhibition curator
Warehouse A3, Alserkal Avenue
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Note:
The documentary film Nostalgia for the Future by
Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar will be screened on
Thursday October 31
18.30 – 20.00 Cinema Room, A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue
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Image credit: Nazgol Ansarinia, Living Room, 2005, Video projection, colour, 6 min, Ed of 3+1AP