Global House: Video Screenings and a Dialogue with Sumbul Khan
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Thursday, 8th February 2012 | 6:30 pm
GLOBAL HOUSE is a co-production of the 25 participating curators of the 3rd edition of the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course and Kunsthalle Gwangju, where it was first shown in August 2011. GLOBAL HOUSE presents video works by young and established artists from across the world, giving insights into various artistic approaches to contemporary societies and art production itself. The curators are from 19 countries and are led by Ute Meta Bauer of Documenta 11.
Since its first screening at the Kunsthalle Gwangju, the programme has also been showcased at the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, South Korea. It consequently toured at the Latvia Center for Contemporaty Art in Riga (Latvia), Flat Space (Chisinau), and Open Archive (Melbourne). Future screenings will be at Art Sonje Center (Seoul), St Paul Gallery (Auckland), Wiels (Brussels), and Center for Visual Introspections (Bucharest).
Artists: Ivan Agrote (Colombia), Stuart Bailey (Australia), Aline Bouvy and John Gillis (Luxembourg & Belgium), Anna Byskov (France), Eduardo Chachucho (South Afrika), Chen Chenchen (China), Hugo Hopping (USA), Ise Parking Project (Malaysia), Joan Jonas (USA), Leila Michelle Khastoo (USA), Shigeyuki Kihara (New Zealand), Jihoi Lee (South Korea), Lilly McElroy (USA), Naeem Mohaiemen (Bangladesh), Ciprian Muresan (Romania), Katrina Neiburga (Latvia), Kurt Ralske (USA), Sebastian Stumpf (Germany), Abdullah M. I. Syed (Pakistan), Edward Thomasson (UK), Diego Tonus (Italy), Xu Wang (China), Zeeshan Younis (Pakistan)
Curators: Hamja Ahsan, Rodolfo Andaur, Devrim Bayar, Fabienne Bideaud, Caroline Dumalin, Johanna Ferrer Gukdager, Rosemary Forde, Susanne Husse, Tianyue Jang, Sumbul Khan, Leila Khastoo, Snejana Krasteva, Stephen Matijcio, Ute Meta Bauer, Vera Arunee Mey, Maya Mikelsone, Yujin Min, Isabelle Le Normand, Pietro Rigolo, Anca Rujoiu, Nana Seo Eun A, Boliang Shen, Stephanie Sykes, Guy Trangos, Jeonsung Yang.
Date: Thursday, 8th February, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm
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Venue: PeaceNiche | T2F
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In contrast to various dominant representational themes through which Pakistan’s history is rendered intelligible to many (Islam, Muslim Nationalism), the conversation will focus on debates surrounding the question of morality (“pure or perverse literature”) connected to a text of short stories on the partition of British India by the author, Sa’adat Hasan Manto.
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Join us at T2F for an evening with renowned artist, 
Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) was the heir apparent to the throne of Shah Jehan, when the crown was usurped by Aurangzeb, and Dara Shikoh was executed on charges of heresy. A great scholar of Sufism, Dara Shikoh also had sacred Hindu texts, including the Upanisads, translated into Persian. Dr. Munis Faruqui will explore the political-theological implications of Dara Shikoh’s scholarly work on the Upanisads in the endgame of imperial succession, especially in relation to the religious and political ideology of Aurangzeb.
Dr. Munis Faruqui is an Assistant Professor at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on the Muslim experience in South Asia. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley, he taught in the Department of History at the University of Dayton. His teaching and research specializations include Islam in South Asia, pre-modern South Asia, Mughal India and Urdu. He has recently completed a book, Princes of the Mughal Empire: 1504-1719, that uses the figure of the Mughal Prince to explore questions of Mughal state formation, imperial power, and dynastic decline in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Asia.
Using images of selected artists and her own work, 
In this centenary year of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s birth, a great deal has been said about Faiz as a Pakistani poet, a mazaahimati sha’ir (poet of resistance), and as an internationalist writer of the Third World. All of these characterizations are partially true, but they do not come close to describing what is essential about his verse. The core concern of his work seems to be the nature of the human self as always a collective entity – the fact that human selves only ever exist in societies. He explores the complex and elusive relationship of self to society, including the type that is the political norm in our times, the nation-state, whose very establishment in the subcontinent meant the ‘partition’ of society into two and then three parts. Paradoxically, Faiz the Marxist turns to the Sufi masters for their ethics of the self – that is, for an understanding of how we connect with others in order to create a shared collective life.
Aamir Mufti teaches comparative literature at UCLA. He did his PhD in literature at Columbia University under the supervision of Edward Said. He is the author of Enlightenment in the Colony: the Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007), a comparative study of the so-called Jewish Question in nineteenth-century Europe and the crisis of Muslim identity in colonial India. The book includes chapters on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Saadat Hasan Manto and Maulana Abulkalam Azad. A second book, titled Edward Said in Jerusalem: Secularism, Criticism, Exile is now near completion.
Art Moments is privileged and excited to have Marjorie Husain as its November speaker. As an art critic, curator, and close friend of a number of important artists, she has seen the country’s art scene evolve over several decades. This Thursday, Marjorie will share her memories and observations about Pakistani art and artists with the audience.
