Bay Area Conversations: The Arts of South Asia and its Diasporas
Panel Discussion | October 26 | 9:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Over the past several years, the Institute has built a comprehensive art program and promoted conversation around the visual cultures of South Asia through talks, conferences, and exhibitions.
With the inauguration of the South Asia Art Initiative, we are excited to move onto the next level with local, national, and international collaborations that combine creative energies with insights drawn from scholarly research. As we continue to shape the Initiative, we are eager to share our vision with you and to plan the future collaboratively.
By way of setting this in motion, we have organized a day-long symposium titled Bay Area Conversations: The Arts of South Asia and its Diasporas, with art historians, curators, and artists in the Bay Area, in part to celebrate what we see as a new beginning and in part to find points of intersections.
A G E N D A
Symposium: 10 Stephens Hall
9:30: I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Allan deSouza, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
10:00-11:00: M O B I L I T Y
Deborah Stein, Senior Lecturer at California College of Arts,
Talinn Grigor, University of California, Davis, Ancient Iran in Bombay
Padma Maitland, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Gandhi Superstar
Usha Iyer, Stanford University, Histories of the Ephemeral: Producing a Narrative of Film Dance through Song Booklets
Asma Kazmi, University of California, Berkeley, Cranes and Cube and Some Other Works
11:30-12:30: D W E L L I N G
Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced, Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State through Delhi’s Islamic Architecture
Pallavi Sharma, California College of the Arts, A Traveling Tale: My Recent body of Work
Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum, The Art of Sitting: Re-looking at Indian Paintings
Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker, Mills College, Home is a Foreign Place
Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley, Ecoaesthetics: On how to Live with Sentient Plants
1:30-2:30: F U T U R I T Y
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Artist, Heterosexual Hubris
Jisha Menon, Stanford University, Building Bangalore, and the Poetics of Dwelling in Sheela Gowda’s Artworks
Shalini Agrawal, California College of the Arts; Pathways to Equity, Diversity and Equity in Community-based Practice
Debashish Banerji, California Institute of Integral Studies, Hoppe's India, 1929: Colonialism and Modernity through Photographs
Sita K. Bhaumik, California College of the Arts, The Places Where the Answers Were
Atreyee GuptaAtreyee Gupta, University of California, Berkeley, Untitled
3:00-4:00; C U R A T I N G
Forrest McGill, Asian Art Museum, Cosmic and Earthly Dance in the Arts of India and Its Neighbors
Cho Rao, Independent Art & Museum Consultant, Emerging Art Center: Delhi
Karin G. Oen, Asian Art Museum, Forming and Reforming: Contemporary Art at the Asian
John Zarobell, University of San Francisco, Emerging Megacities in South Asia
Kathy Zarur, California College of the Arts, About Place
