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Dear Guests, We are delighted to invite you as a VIP guest to the third edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, the world’s largest non-commercial research and exhibition platform for South Asian Art which we proudly host in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and the Bangladesh Tourism board, as well as over 50 international partners which range from the Centre Pompidou to the Harvard South Asia Institute. The summit takes place from Friday, February 5th to Monday, February 8th, and will feature nearly 300 leading artists, curators, and writers from across South Asia and the world. The full selection of the exhibition and talks programme can be found in this guide book, and we cannot wait for your visit where you can explore so many exhibitions all under one roof. Please invite your friends and family, the summit is a free and ticketless event, and this VIP pass will give you exclusive access to our Le Meridien VIP lounge. We have a series of film screenings, performances, guided tours, and children’s workshops which offer a wide range of activities for your whole family. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2016 edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, whose Lead Partner is Golden Harvest. Should you have any questions, please contact Nivriti Roddam, our VIP Relations in India on +91 98666 665508 or Tasmia Nehreen Ahmed, VIP Relations in Dhaka on +880 1730739295, or by email at vip@dhakaartsummit.org. If you would like a VIP pass please email us and we will keep a pass for you at the Summit. Best wishes,
Nadia Samdani
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The Dhaka Art Summit is organised in an official partnership with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, hosting the event for the 3rd time from February 5th-8th, 2016. Address 14/3 Segunbagicha, Segun Bagicha Rd, Dhaka, Bangladesh
hours Friday, February 5th 2016 General Hours: 10am - 9pm Venue: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
Saturday, February 6th 2016 General Hours: 10am - 9pm Venue: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
Sunday, February 7th 2016 General Hours: 10am - 9pm Venue: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
Monday, February 8th 2016 General Hours: 10am - 9pm Venue: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
The Dhaka Art Summit is free for everyone and there is no need for a ticket.
The Dhaka Art Summit is produced by the Samdani Art Foundation, who is hosting all of the artists and visitors and makes the exhibition free and accessible to any interested visitor. We are available to answer any of your questions. To find out more, please visit our website www.dhakaartsummit.org and www.samdani.com.bd, or you can get in touch with our staff directly: Nivriti Roddam, VIP Relations: nivriti@dhakaartsummit.org, +91 9866665508 Tasmia Nehreen Ahmed, VIP Relations: mancom@goldenharvestbd.com, +880 1730739295 Emily Dolan, Director of Operations and External Affairs: emily@dhakaartsummit.org, +880 1777-763433
Cover image: Ayesha Sultana, Outside the Field of View - VI, 2014 Courtesy: Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata
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DHAKA ART SUMMIT programme Friday, February 5th 2016
10am - 9pm (daily timings): Dhaka Art Summit Opens at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy 10am - 9pm (all day): Shifting Sands, Sifting Hands, Performance Pavilion curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, and Jana Prepeluh, 2nd floor 12pm - 3pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditorium, (see page 8) Cluster: III, VII, IX 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Anwar Jalal Shemza book launch, VIP Lounge
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Chandigarh is in India and Western Artists in India Book Launch, VIP Lounge 2:30pm - 3:30pm: Harvard South Asia Institute presentation, VIP Lounge 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Cross - Border Art Histories - Bangladesh and Pakistan, panel discussion, 3rd floor auditorium 5pm - 6pm: Art Initiatives off the Centre, panel discussion, 3rd floor auditorium 7pm - 9pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditorium, (see page 8) Cluster: II
Saturday, February 6th 2016
* 9:30am: Private Tour of Louis Kahn Parliament Building (pre-registration to vip@dhakaartsummit.org essential by January 10th as space is limited and government clearance is required) 10am - 9pm (daily timings): Dhaka Art Summit Opens at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy 10am - 9pm (all day): Shifting Sands, Sifting Hands, Performance Pavilion curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, and Jana Prepeluh, 2nd floor 10am - 1:30pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium (see page 8) Cluster: IV, I, VI 11:30am - 12:30pm: Protecting the Past and Building the Future: Legacy and Estate Building in South Asia, VIP Lounge 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Documenta 14 Reading of South, VIP Lounge
1:30pm - 2pm: Launch of TAKE on Art Magazine Photography - The Dematerialising Arc, VIP Lounge 2:30pm - 4:00pm: Collecting South Asian Art in a Non-Western Institutional Context, panel discussion, 3rd floor auditorium 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Can Culture Counter, panel discussion, VIP Lounge 4:30pm - 6:00pm: Navigating the Uneven Terrain of Regional Group Shows: A Field Guide, panel discussion, 3rd floor auditorium 6pm - 6:30pm: Arpita Singh book launch , VIP Lounge
6pm - 9pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium (see page 8) Cluster: V, VIII
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
*9:30am: Architectural highlights of Dhaka tour - pre-registration a must at vip@dhakaartsummit.org. Buses will be organised for guests. This is on first come first served basis and space is limited. 10am - 9pm: Dhaka Art Summit Opens at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy 10am-9pm (all day): Children’s Workshops with VAST Bhutan
10am - 9pm (all day): Shifting Sands, Sifting Hands, Performance Pavilion curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, and Jana Prepeluh, 2nd floor 10am - 4pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium (see page 8), Cluster: II, V, VII, III, VIII 10am - 12pm: Critical Writing Ensemble Presentations, the Political Unconsciousness of Art Writing, VIP Lounge 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Artist as Activist: Presentation by Shakuntala Kulkarni in association with the World Bank, VIP Lounge 2:30pm - 5pm: Critical Writing Ensemble Presentations, The Political Unconsciousness of Art Writing, VIP Lounge 4:30pm - 5:30pm: Bangladeshi Architecture Panel, 3rd floor auditorium 5:30pm - 6:30pm: Vasudeo Gaitonde Book Launch, VIP Lounge
5:30pm - 9pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium (see page 8) Cluster: VI, IX, IV
Monday, February 8th 2016
10am - 9pm: Dhaka Art Summit Opens at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy 10am-5pm: Shifting Sands, Sifting Hands, Performance Pavilion curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore, and Jana Prepeluh, 2nd floor 10am-5pm: Children’s Workshops with VAST Bhutan 10am-5pm: Guided Tours for Children
10am-9pm: Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium (see page 8) Full Programme 10:30am - 4pm: Critical Writing Ensemble Presentations, Entangling and Disentangling Printed Matter, VIP Lounge
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DHAKA ART SUMMIT programme Information “I came to understand place as a verb rather than a noun, which exists in our doings: walking, talking, living.” –Simryn Gill, Full Moon, 2012 The Samdani Art Foundation is pleased to send you the full programme of the 3rd globally-acclaimed Dhaka Art Summit (DAS), the largest non-commercial platform for art with relation to South Asia. DAS provokes reflections on transnationalism, selfhood and time with invited artists, curators and thinkers who have built exhibitions through commissioned research and experience within the region—without being prescriptive. It is recognised as the preeminent locus for art professionals with nearly 300 artists, curators, writers and others—mostly from Bangladesh—participating in new commissions, group exhibitions, talks, performances, film programmes and the Summit’s first historical exhibition, Rewind. Neither a biennial, symposium nor festival but somewhere in between, the unique format of the Summit transforms the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy into a generative space to reconsider the past and future of art and exchange within South Asia and beyond. Including loans from the Bangladesh National Collection; the Museum Folkwang in Essen; the Pinault Collection and public and private South Asian collections as well as partnerships with institutions such as the Centre Pompidou; Asia Art Archive and Harvard South Asia Institute, DAS considers South Asia from the view of doing and becoming rather than cartography, occupying the triplet planes of imagination, will and circumstance. 17 Solo Projects curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt: 13 new commissions and four works reconfigured within the Bangladeshi context celebrate pluralism and look at the experience of becoming an individual through the fluid continuum between birth and experience, bookended by Lynda Benglis and Tino Sehgal with Shumon Ahmed, Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu, Simryn Gill, Waqas Khan, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Prabhavati Meppayil, Haroon Mirza, Amanullah Mojadidi, Sandeep Mukherjee, Po Po, Dayanita Singh, Ayesha Sultana and Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Munem Wasif, and Mustafa Zaman. Rewind, advised by Sabih Ahmed, Amara Antilla, Diana Campbell Betancourt and Beth Citron: Illuminating the “alternative universe offered by transnational modernism” (Ifitkhar Dadi), Rewind highlights 12 artists active before the late 1980s, including Rashid Choudhury, Monika Correa, Germaine Krull, Nalini Malini, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Arpita Singh, Bagyi Aung Soe, and Lionel Wendt, among others. Rewind is generously supported by Amrita Jhaveri. The Missing One, curated by Nada Raza: Inspired by a Bengali sci-fi story by J. C. Bose (1896), the searching or enraptured gesture of looking toward the sky becomes a thematic device, navigating from a celestial modernist watercolour by Gaganendranath Tagore to cosmological enquiry and speculative visual exploration from the turn of the 21st century, with works by Ronni Ahmmed, David Alesworth, Shishir Bhattacharjee, Fahd Burki, Neha Choksi, Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi, Rohini Devasher, Marzia Farhana, Aamir Habib, Zihan Karim, Ali Kazim, Sanjeewa Kumara, Firoz Mahmud, Mehreen Murtaza, Saskia Pintelon, Sahej Rahal, Tejal Shah, Zoya Siddiqui and Janet Meaney, Himali Singh Soin, Mariam Suhail, and Hajra Waheed. Mining Warm Data, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt: Featuring artists from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bangladesh and their diaspora, the exhibition exposes subjective and emotional history radiating around Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh’s new chapter of the “Index of the Disappeared,” produced by the Samdani Art Foundation, Yale University Law School’s Schell Center for Human Rights and Creative Time Reports. Artists include Lida Abdul, Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Pablo Bartholomew, Neha Choksi, Hasan Elahi, Hitman Gurung, S. Hanusha, Maryam Jafri, Dilara Begum Jolly, Amar Kanwar, Nge Lay, Huma Mulji, Nortse, Tenzing Rigdol and Menika van der Poorten.
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Architecture in Bangladesh curated by Aurélien Lemonier (Curator of Architecture, Centre Pompidou): Featuring 19 Bangladesh-based architects, the exhibition honours “the humanistic modernity” of Muzharul Islam, key in Louis Kahn’s commission to create the masterpiece National Assembly. Featuring Jalal Ahmed, Nahas Ahmed Khalil, Raziul Ahsan, Rafiq Azam, Kashef Mahbood Chowdhury, Bashirul Haq, Mazharul Islam, Ehzan Khan, Nurur Rahman Khan, Enamul Karim Nirjhar, Mustapha Khalid Palash, Stephane Paumier, Salauddin Ahmed Potash, Uttam Kumar Saha, Chetana Society, Marina Tabassum, Saif Ul Haque, Urbana, and Shamsul Wares. Film programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri: Locating South Asian concerns within a transnational conversation, the programme explores colonial and post-colonial conditions through the lives and journeys of individuals but also the emotional narratives attached to objects, patterns and landscapes. See page 9 for more details. Performance Pavilion curated by Nikhil Chopra, Madhavi Gore and Jana Prepeluh: Shifting Sands, Sifting Hands approaches contemporary critiques of performance art within the institution and an object-orientated art world, considering everything—especially the body—as in a state of flux. Ali Asgar, Sanad Kumar Biswas, Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty, Manmeet Devgun, Sajan Mani, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Venuri Perera, and Atish Saha Samdani Art Award curated by Daniel Baumann: The Samdani Art Foundation has again partnered with the Delfina Foundation to award an outstanding young Bangladeshi artist the opportunity to attend a three-month residency at the Delfina Foundation in London as part of the bi-annual Samdani Art Award. Curator Daniel Baumann (Director, Kunsthalle Zurich) has selected 13 talented Bangladeshi artists from an applicant pool of over 300 Bangladeshi artists. This exhibition was realised in collaboration with Pro Helvetia-Swiss Arts Council, and Baumann mentored Ruxmini Choudhury and Ayesha Sultana who assisted with the exhibition. The jury panel for the award is comprised of Caroline Bourgeois (Curator, Pinault Collection), Cosmin Costinas (Director, Para/Site), Catherine David (Deputy Director, Centre Pompidou), Beatrix Ruf (Director, Stedelijk Museum), and chaired by Aaron Cezar (Director, Delfina Foundation). The award winner will be announced by Kiran Nadar at the opening dinner of the Dhaka Art Summit (by invitation only). The finalists of the Samdani Art Award are Ashit Mitra, Atish Saha, Farzana Ahmed Urmi, Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Muhammad Rafiqul Islam Shuvo, Palash Battacharjee, Rasel Chowdhury, Rupam Roy, Salma Abedin Prithi, Samsul Alam Helal, Shimul Saha, Shumon Ahmed and Zihan Karim. Critical Writing Ensemble, curated by Katya García-Antón (Office for Contemporary Art Norway) with Diana Campbell Betancourt from a collaboration led by Chandrika Grover (Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council); Garcia-Anton, Betancourt (Samdani Art Foundation) and Bhavna Kakar (Take on Art): Meeting the need to potentiate writing across histories and working from the context of South Asia, the project gathers writers, critics, poets, philosophers and curators including Nabil Ahmed, Belinder Dhanoa, Anshuman Das Gupta, Rosalyn D’Mello, Mariam Ghani, Nida Ghouse, Salima Hashmi, Geeta Kapur, Yin Ker, Quinn Latimer, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Rosa Martínez, Aunohita Mojumdar, Victoria Noorthoorn, Paul B. Preciado, Chantal Pontbriand, Sharmini Pereira, Filipa Ramos, Dorothee Richter, Shukla Sawant, Devika Singh, Mike Sperlinger and Mustafa Zaman. Critical Writing Ensemble-II follows a prelude in India, Critical Writing Ensemble-I that occurred in December 2015 in an official collaboration with MSU Baroda, convened by Bhavna Kakar. Panel Discussions: With over 50 speakers including Suhanya Raffel, Amar Kanwar, Omar Kholeif, Dayanita Singh, Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sharmini Pereira, Salima Hashmi and Vivan Sundaram the discussions will consider institutional collecting of art and archives from South Asia in a non-Western context, art initiatives on the periphery, the opportunities and landmines of curating regional group exhibitions, legacy building and artists’ estates, and the rich history of exchange between Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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; Soul Searching, curated by Md. Muniruzzaman: ;Soul Searching looks into the roots of Bangladeshi Art which started from a modern era influenced by Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, S.M Sultan, Qamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed. To discover their own identity within a new nation, they eventually relied on the cultural and environmental heritage of Bangladesh. According to Zainul Abedin, the river was his muse, SM Sultan’s search for his artistic self took him to the remote village of Narail. Qamrul Hassan discovered himself as a Potua (folk painter) and Shafiuddin Ahmed’s modern prints reflected the mixture of folk and urban approaches of abstracted fishermen’s landscapes. 51 Bangladeshi artists will consider the last generation’s approach, to discover themselves through artistic journeys in the contemporary and increasingly urbanised context of Bangladesh. The artists participating are Murtaza Bashir, Syed Jahangir, Samarjit Roy Chowdhury, Hashem Khan, Rafiqun Nabi, Monirul Islam, Shahid Kabir, Kalidas Karmakar, Mahmudul Haque, Abul Barq Alvi, Monsur Ul Karim, Chandra Shekhar Dey, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Abdus Shakoor Shah, Biren Shome, Jamal Ahmed, Ranjit Das, Mohammad Eunus, Ahmed Shamsuddoha, Sheikh Afzal, Nisar Hossain, Tarun Ghosh, K.M.A Quyyum, Dhali Al Mamun, Wakilur Rahman, Mohammad Iqbal, Ahmed Nazir, Anisuzzaman, Kazi Salauddin Ahmed, Biswajit Goswami, Hasan Mahmood, Khalid Mahmud Mithu, Rashid Amin, Golam Faruque Bebul, Naima Haque, Farida Zaman, Nazlee Laila Mansur, Rokeya Sultana, Nasreen Begum, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Maksuda Iqbal Nipa, Gulshan Hossain, Atia Islam Anne, Faraha Jeba, Najma Akhter, Hamiduzzaman Khan, Imran Hossain Piplu, Tejosh Halder Josh, Saidul Haque Juis, Shyamal Sarkar, and Dilruba Latif Rosy. Children’s Workshops with VAST Bhutan: VAST Bhutan will stage a children’s workshop for 2 days of the summit, working together with the youth of Dhaka to make an immersive installation from local waste products. These creative workshops will engage a new generation with the important topic of Climate Change, connecting it specifically to aquatic life and fish, a dietary staple that is central to Bengali identity. The workshops will happen all day from February 7-8, 2016. Asia Art Archive: In its ongoing effort to map and present the many histories of 20th-century art writing in the different languages of South Asia, Asia Art Archive will present its first Live Feed Station at DAS 2016. The Live Feed Station will be an on-site junction for viewing an array of some of the most interesting publications, art magazines, books and catalogues that have been published in the past century, and also an opportunity for visitors to explore the database and bring their own references to contribute to this expanding platform of shared knowledge. The Live Feed Station is part of Asia Art Archive’s ongoing Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Art Writing project and is hosted by the Samdani Art Foundation at the Dhaka Art Summit.
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FILM PROGRAMME SCREENING SESSIONS I - I Saw A God Dance, Ayisha Abraham, India, 2011, 19 minutes - Off White Tulips, Aykan Safoğlu, Turkey, 2013, 24 minutes - The Great Invisible (Excerpt), Leslie Thornton, United States of America, ongoing, 20 minutes Total Running Time: 63 minutes
VI - Persian Pickles , Jodie Mack, United States of America, 2012, 3 minutes - My Collections, Kohei Ando, Japan, 1988, 10 minutes - Blanket Statement # 1 - Home is Where the Heart Is, Jodie Mack, United States of America, 2012, 3 minutes - Taller (Workshop), Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1975, 11 minutes - Razzle Dazzle, Jodie Mack, United States of America, II 2014, 5 minutes - Mapas Elementares No. 3 (Elementary Maps No. 3), - Things, Ben Rivers, United Kingdom, 2014, Anna Bella Geiger, Brazil, 1976, 10 minutes 20 minutes - Speeches: Chapter 1 - Mother Tongues, Bouchra - Undertone Overture, Jodie Mack, United States of Khalili, France, 2012, 23 minutes America, 2013, 10 minutes - Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns), Mati Diop, Senegal/ Total Running Time: 61 minutes France, 2013, 45 minutes Total Running Time: 78 minutes VII - Before My Eyes, Mani Kaul, India, 1989, 26 minutes III Landscape Series # 1, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Vietnam, 2013, - Un Balcon En Afrique, Anita Fernandez, 5 minutes Guinea-Bissau, 1980, 17 minutes - Dangerous Supplement, Soon-Mi Yoo, South Korea/ - Patagonia, Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1970, United States of America, 2005, 14 minutes 10 minutes - Deep Sleep, Basma Alsharif, Greece/Malta/ - Phantom Foreign Vienna, Lisl Ponger, Austria, Palestinian Territory, 2014, 12 minutes 1991-2004, 27 minutes - Untitled 1997 -2003, Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, Total Running Time: 54 minutes 1997-2003, 8 minutes Total Running Time: 65 minutes IV - Les Statues Meurent Aussi (Statues Also Die), VIII Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, France, 1952-53, - A Ripe Volcano, Taiki Sakpisit, Thailand, 2011, 30 minutes 15 minutes - The Treasure Cave, Bahman Kiarostami, Iran, 2009, - Concrete Affection, Zopo Lady – Kiluanji Kia Hende, 43 minutes Angola, 2014, 12 minutes Total Running Time: 73 minutes - Afronauts, Frances Bodomo, United States of America, 2014, 13 minutes V - Sao Hoa Noi Day Gieng (Mars in the Well), Freddy - La Grammaire De Ma Granďmère (Grandma’s Nadolny Poustochkine and Truong Minh Quy, Grammar), Jean Pierre Bekolo, Cameroon, 1996, Vietnam, 2014, 19 minutes 9 minutes Total Running Time: 59 minutes - Silence’s Injuries, Kader Attia, Germany, 2014, 13 minutes IX - Occidente, Ana Vaz, France/Portugal, 2014, - Vadi Samvadi, Claudio Caldini, Argentina, 1981, 15 minutes 6 minutes - Faux Départ (False Start), Yto Barrada, Morocco, - Brouillard - Passage # 15, Alexandre Larose, Canada, 2015, 23 minutes 2014, 10 minutes - Noite Sem Distância (Night Without Distance), - Events in a Cloud Chamber (2016), Ashim Ahluwalia Lois Patiños, Portugal, 2015, and Akbar Padamsee, India, 2016, 15 minutes 23 minutes - Landfill 16, Jennifer Reeves, United States of Total Running Time: 83 minutes America, 2011, 9 minutes - Meer der Dünste (Sea of Vapors), Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2014, 15 minutes Total Running Time: 55 minutes
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DHAKA ART SUMMIT List of Speakers Mainul Abedin (Artist and son of Zainul Abedin, Dhaka) Nabil Ahmed (Artist and Writer, London) Sabih Ahmed (Senior Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong) Shawon Akand (Artist, Researcher and Curator, Founder of CRACK, Kushtia) Amara Antilla (Assistant Curator, Guggenheim, New York) Kazi Khaled Ashraaf (Architecture Critic, Dhaka) Pablo Bartholomew (Artist, New Delhi) Desire Machine Collective (Artists, Guwahati) Tentative Collective (Artists, Karachi) Kashef Chowdhury (Architect, Dhaka) Shehzad Chowdhury (Artist and founder of Longitude Latitude, Dhaka) Beth Citron (Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum, New York) Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director/Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong) Iftikhar Dadi (Artist and Art Historian, Cornell University, New York) Anshuman Das Gupta (Art Historian, Critic and Curator, Kalabhavan, Santiniketan) Catherine David (Deputy Director, Centre Pompidou, Paris) Farrokh Derakhshani (Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva) Belinder Dhanoa (Writer and artist, Ambedkar University, New Delhi) Rosalyn D’Mello (Writer, New Delhi) Kate Fowle (Chief Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York) Mariam Ghani (Writer and Artist, New York) Nida Ghouse (Director and Curator, Mumbai Art Room) Salima Hashmi (Visual Artist, Writer, and Founding Dean of Beaconhouse National University, Lahore) Camp.Hub (Artists, Nepal) Rina Igarshi (Curator, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum) Amrita Jhaveri (Art Collector and Gallerist, London and Mumbai) Shanay Jhaveri (Writer and Curator, London and Mumbai) Amar Kanwar (Artist, New Delhi) Geeta Kapur (Writer, Curator and Art Historian, New Delhi) Roobina Karode (Director and Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi) Yin Ker (Art Historian, NTU Singapore) Nurur Rahman Khan (Architect, Dhaka) Omar Kholeif (Manilow Senior Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) Aung Ko (Artist, Yangon) Quinn Latimer (Writer, Head of Publications, Documenta 14, Athens) Maria Lind (Artistic Director, 2016 Gwangju Biennale, Stockholm) Chus Martinez (Writer, FHNW Academy of Arts and Design, Basel, Switzerland) Rosa Martinez (Writer and Curator, Barcelona) Kerstin Meincke (Researcher and Curator, Museum Folkwang in Essen) Amanullah Mojadidi (Artist, Paris) Aunohita Mojumdar (Associate Editor, Himal Southasian, Kathmandu) Hammad Nasar (Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong) Victoria Noorthoorn (Director, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires) Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Galleries, London) Sharmini Pereira (Co-Founder and Director of the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design, Jaffna) Chantal Pontbriand (Writer and Curator, CEO, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto) Paul Preciado (Curator of Public Programmes, Documenta 14, Barcelona) Sheikha Hoor al Qasimi (Chairperson, Sharjah Art Foundation)
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Suhanya Raffell (Deputy Director and Director of Collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) Dorothee Richter (Curator, Director in Curating, Zurich University of the Arts, Publisher, OnCurating.org, Zurich) Beatrix Ruf (Director, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) Shimul Saha (Artist, Dhaka) Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam (Artists and Founders of Dharamshala International Film Festival) Shukla Sawant (Writer and artist, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi) Shaela Sharmin (Artist and Member of JOG, Chittagong) Dayanita Singh (Artist, New Delhi) Devika Singh (Writer, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, London) Farooq Sobhan (President and CEO of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Dhaka) Mike Sperlinger (Writer and Professor, Kunstakadamiet, Oslo) Mari Spirito (Founder, Protocinema, Istanbul) Ayesha Sultana (Artist, Dhaka) Vivan Sundaram (Artist, New Delhi) Joanna Warsza (Curator, Warsaw and Berlin) Mustafa Zaman (Writer and Artist, Editor in Chief of Depart, Dhaka) John Zarobell (Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Director of International Studies, University of San Francisco) Daniela Zyman (Chief Curator, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna)
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friday, 5th february 2016 time
other events
1st floor
Perforamance pavilion 2ND FLOOR
3rd floor
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Anwar Jalal Shemza book launch, VIP Lounge 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditorium Cluster: III, VII, IX 12pm - 3pm
Chandigarh is in India & Western Artists in India book launch, VIP Lounge 1:30pm - 2:30pm Harvard South Asia Institute presentation, VIP Lounge 2:30pm - 3:30pm
ALL DAY Cross - Border Art Histories - Bangladesh and Pakistan Panel 3rd floor auditorium 3:30pm - 4:30pm
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Art Initiatives off the Centre Panel 3rd floor auditorium 5pm - 6pm
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Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditorium Cluster: II 7pm - 9pm
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saturday, 6th february 2016 time
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other events * Private Tour of Louis Kahn Parliament Building (pre-registration to vip@dhakaartsummit.org essential by January 10th. Space is limited and government clearance is required) 9:30am onwards
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British Council Poetry Trail, 1st floor, The Missing One 2pm - 2:30pm
Take on Art Launch, VIP Lounge 1:30pm - 2:00pm
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British Council Poetry Trail, 1st floor, The Missing One 4pm - 4:30pm
Can Culture Counter Panel VIP Lounge 3:30pm - 4:30pm
5:30 Arpita Singh book launch, VIP Lounge 6pm - 6:30pm
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Collecting South Asian Art in a Non-Western Institutional Context Panel 3rd floor auditiorium 2:30pm - 4pm
Navigating the Uneven Terrain of Regional Group Shows: A Field Guide, Panel 3rd floor auditiorium 4:30pm - 6pm
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3rd floor
Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium Cluster: IV, I, VII 10am - 1:30pm
Protecting the Past and Building the Future: Estates Panel, VIP Lounge 11:30am - 12:30pm
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Perforamance pavilion 2ND FLOOR
Documenta 14 Reading of South, VIP Lounge 12:30pm - 1:30pm
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1st floor
British Council Poetry Trail, 1st floor, The Missing One 7pm - 7:30pm
Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium Cluster: V, VIII 6pm - 9pm
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sunday, 7th february 2016 time
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other events
1st floor
Perforamance pavilion 2ND FLOOR
3rd floor
* Architectural highlights of Dhaka tour – pre-registration a must at vip@dhakaartsummit.org Critical Writing Ensemble Buses will be organised. Presentations, the Political Space is limited. Unconsciousness of Art 9:30am onwards Writing, VIP Lounge 10am - 12pm * Children’s Workshops with VAST Bhutan Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy ALL DAY
Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium Cluster: II, V, VII, III, VIII 10am - 4pm
Presentation by Shakuntala Kulkarni in association with the World Bank, VIP Lounge 12:30pm - 1:30pm
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Critical Writing Ensemble Presentations, the Political Unconsciousness of Art Writing, VIP Lounge 2:30pm - 5pm
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Vasudeo Gaitonde Book Launch, VIP Lounge 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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Bangladeshi Architecture Panel, 3rd floor auditiorium 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditiorium Cluster: VI, IX, IV 5:30pm - 9pm
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Monday, 8th february 2016 time
other events
1st floor
Perforamance pavilion 2ND FLOOR
3rd floor
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* Children’s Workshops with VAST Bhutan Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy 10am - 5pm
Critical Writing Ensemble Presentations, Entangling and Disentangling Printed Matter, VIP Lounge 10:30am - 4pm
10am - 5pm
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Film Programme curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 3rd floor auditorium FULL PROGRAMME ALL DAY
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title sponsor
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Rewind benefactor
exclusive hospitality partner
vip outreach partner
bangladesh exhibition partner
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With Additional Support from The Polish Institute and Cam천es - Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi
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