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Regional Conference - Space, Identity and Representation: Reading Culture in Context

By ci ⋅ August 7, 2010 ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment

The Colombo Institute has been working for the last two years to organize a regional conference as part of its ‘Connecting South Asia Project.’ Its co-partner, Theertha International Artists’ Collective, will organize and curate an exhibition on South Asian Art in Colombo to coincide with the conference, which will broadly reflect the conference theme where selected artists from South Asia Network for the Arts will be invited to participate. The exhibition will open with the start of the conference and will continue for one month.

The conference is the main event of our effort. It will focus on the different and complex ways in which culture works in contemporary South Asia. The three day conference is divided into six sessions, and each session will be organized under the following themes: Who are we: Elasticity of identity; Signs, imaginaries and visualscapes: Art, politics and interrogations; Everything that surrounds: Places, spaces and geographies; Home away from home: Migration and Diasporas and Art of the everyday: Popular arts, taste(s) and anxieties.

As part of Colombo Institute’s overall project, edited versions of the papers presented will be published in the South Asia Journal for Culture and Sinhala and Tamil translations of selected essays will appear in Patithaand Panuwal, the local language journals published by Colombo Institute.

Dates: March 15 – 19, 2011

For further detail and updates, please visit http://spacecolombo.blogspot.com/

The principal funder for this event is the Prince Claus Fund