Art as Migrant
- Free
- Talks
- Visual Art
The Old GMC Complex
Talks Corner
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Drawing upon displacement as a critical node or experience to understand adaptive personal positions and states of being, this panel comprises of the artists showcased in the exhibition, Displacement, in conversation with the curator, Rahaab Allana.
The discussion engages with ongoing, and at times latent or subconscious, internal and external shifts in their lives, work and through their social commitments. It suggests that the moment of untethering—from land, history and time—leads to expanded forms of self-representation. It leads to a hybrid culture born of non-mainstream/counter-institutional/anarchival imperatives, which articulate a reality, no less palpable than the one we see every day. It also explores the growing interpollination, multilinguality and re-imagination of home, geography and spatiality to probe the lesser-known principles of the documentary, the quotidian, the local, as well as the archival.
The ‘popular’ as a critical filter and genre contributes to this emergent language—a resistance to realism and majoritarian history—and can now be read through new media practices guided by interdisciplinary approaches in arts discourse. In this world, interstitiality, liminality, slippage, seepage, arbitrariness and ambivalence immerse both viewer and maker. The discussion, aligning with the exhibition, re-thinks the dimensions of location as a stable variable and addresses networks of art that may interweave the South Asian and the Arab world as inextricably connected, through overlapping histories, and the artist/art as the migrant figure.
Moderator: Rahaab Allana
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