CONSTITUTIONS

with artists Birender Yadav, Sohrab Hura,
Rajyashri Goody, Sajan Mani, and Prajakta Potnis

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November 3, 2021 to January 22, 2022

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curated by Swapnaa Tamhane

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Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery

Concordia University, Montreal 

http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/?lang=en

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Public Programs

CONVERSATION: RAJYASHRI GOODY, SAJAN MANI, SWAPNAA TAMHANE, BIRENDER YADAV

Monday, January 10, 2022, 12:30 PM EST
In English
Free, online
Zoom, YouTube

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Focusing on the emergence of Dalit literature and poetry, artists Sajan Mani, Rajyashri Goody, and Birender Yadav, along with curator Swapnaa Tamhane, will delve into the histories of access to literacy, the life and work of early activists such as Poykayil Appachan and Jyotirao Phule, and the poetry issued from the Dalit Panther movement. Further, this conversation will expand on the implications of caste as violence in consideration of histories of labour and the colonial imprint.

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CONVERSATION : SOHRAB HURA, PRAJAKTA POTNIS, SWAPNAA TAMHANE

Friday, November 12, 2021, 12:30 PM EST
In English
Free, online
Zoom, YouTube

Join artists Sohrab Hura and Prajakta Potnis and curator Swapnaa Tamhane for a conversation on the disembodied and overburdened state of the body in the Indian social and political landscape. Considering the respective role of photography and painting in Hura’s and Potnis’s work, this exchange will examine image-making, as well as the production and circulation of “fake” images through Whatsapp. With Potnis accounting for the traces left by labour within the body and Hura primarily documenting people who live along India’s coastline, the body in this conversation will be approached as a protagonist, a membrane, and a vessel for politics.

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