August 16, 2016
This 5 Questions interview, featuring Samdani Art Foundation Artistic Director and Dhaka Art Summit Chief Curator Diana Campbell Betancourt shares her thoughts on Bangladesh’s art history being written out of the dominant narratives of South Asia on account of its once being East Pakistani (Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in 1971 after a bloody struggle).
Art historian and curator Atreyee Gupta discusses the particularity and situatedness of perspectives, and presents the national and the regional as possibly conflicting categories, challenging us to unlearn both Western and Indian art history.
Karin Zitzewitz discusses significant impulses and influences on art production in South Asia, between the artists’ immediate context and practices or discourses of feminism and globalization, which have dominated since the 1980s.
Film historian and curator Ashish Rajadhyaksha discusses the need for a canon, the year 1971, cracks in the bastion of the nation(al), the belated effects of censorship, and the pluralization of globalities
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