About
Tarun Nagesh, curator at Asian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery was Modes of Curation’s second guest lecturer. His online lecture, ‘Shifting Contexts for Asian & Pacific Art: From Field to Institution’ discussed various topics such as the formulation of the Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT) which began in 1993 as a series for 3 exhibitions. The Asia-Pacific Triennial was initiated into order to make cultural and artistic links with the Asia-Pacific region. Nagesh mentions history and colonisation, how it brought strong feelings or links to the western world. This was a major shift in pushing economic, business and cultural policies. He brings up how APT’s shows are political in a sense where artists are presenting works that represent political issues. These artists give the opportunity of political contexts and histories to be explored by a diverse audience. In ‘Shifting Contexts for Asian & Pacific Art: From Field to Institution’, Nagesh makes our participants realise the importance of questioning, how artists and curators, in a meaningful way, deal with subjects regarding political sensitivity or trauma in contemporary art exhibitions.
Participants
Ambereen Siddiqui, Dania Shah Khan, Dr. Furqaan Ahmed, Maha Minhaj, Natasha Malik, Rahul Gudipudi, Saira Danish Ahmed, Shaheen Jaffrani, Sophia Balagamwala, Veera Rustomji, Zahabia Khozema & Zena Khan.
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