"Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South" book launch followed by film screening & a talk at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7pm to 9pm on 28th August 2014
Time : 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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"Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South" book launch followed by film screening & a talk
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Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Event Description : "Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South" book launch.
Join us for the launch of the catalogue, Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South from the exhibition that took place at the School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, from November 16 – December 6, 2013, The exhibition aimed to connect artists active in countries across the Global South, through a discourse around gender. The exhibition included several thematic subdivisions, encompassing the diversity of mediums. The project discussed the dialectics of the social, political, and cultural considerations of gender and resulted in an exhibition catalogue carries texts by Professor Kavita Singh, Susan Hapgood and students of SAA.
Copies of the book will be available at the event, free of cost.
The launch of the catalogue will be accompanied by a screening of the film Difficult Love by Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid (South Africa, 2010 / 47:33min). The film is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait by South African photographer, Zanele Muholi, and her personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa today. The film discusses race, class and gender in parts of the global south.
The film will be followed by a talk by Professor Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Nivedita Menon is a Professor at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, JNU. She is the author of ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’ (2012). Nivedita has been active with non-funded, non-party citizens’ forums in Delhi on issues of secularism, workers’ and women’s rights, sexuality, and opposition to nuclear weapons.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : "Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South" book launch.
Join us for the launch of the catalogue, Mapping Gender: Bodies and Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South from the exhibition that took place at the School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, from November 16 – December 6, 2013, The exhibition aimed to connect artists active in countries across the Global South, through a discourse around gender. The exhibition included several thematic subdivisions, encompassing the diversity of mediums. The project discussed the dialectics of the social, political, and cultural considerations of gender and resulted in an exhibition catalogue carries texts by Professor Kavita Singh, Susan Hapgood and students of SAA.
Copies of the book will be available at the event, free of cost.
The launch of the catalogue will be accompanied by a screening of the film Difficult Love by Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid (South Africa, 2010 / 47:33min). The film is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait by South African photographer, Zanele Muholi, and her personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa today. The film discusses race, class and gender in parts of the global south.
The film will be followed by a talk by Professor Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Nivedita Menon is a Professor at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, JNU. She is the author of ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’ (2012). Nivedita has been active with non-funded, non-party citizens’ forums in Delhi on issues of secularism, workers’ and women’s rights, sexuality, and opposition to nuclear weapons.
Related Events : Movies | Talks | Books | Places for Books | Arts
"Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South" book launch followed by film screening & a talk at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7pm to 9pm on 28th August 2014
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