Fugitive Forms Performance in South Asia

10.30–11.00: Introduction

• Sook Kyung-Lee, Senior Curator, International Art, Tate, and Nikhil Chopra, artist and co-founder HH Art Spaces

11.00–12.45: Panel 1

• A Long History of Performance and Protest in South Asia
  • Mario D’Souza, Director of Programmes, Kochi Biennale Foundation
• We Sinful Women
  • Salima Hashmi, artist, art educator, curator and contemporary art historian
• Protesting Bodies and Performing Residues: The Afterlives of Contemporary Performance Art in Sri Lanka
  • Sandev Handy, Curator, co-authored with Sharmini Pereira, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka
• Panel Discussion and Q&A
  • Moderated by Huma Mulji, artist and Lecturer, Plymouth College of Art and University of the West of England

12.45–14.00: Lunch

14.00–16.10: Panel 2

• Against Despair: Performance Art and the “90s Trend” in Sri Lankan Modernist Art
  • Jagath Weerasinghe, artist and founding Chair of Theertha International Artists Collective
• Performance Art and Protest in Sri Lanka
  • Godwin Constantine, artist and Chairman of the Theertha International Artist Collective
• To Swim Against Water: New/Alternate structures for gathering bodies
  • Madhavi Gore, Nikhil Chopra, Romain Loustau, artists and co-founders of HH Art Spaces, and Shivani Gupta artist and partner at HH Art Spaces
• Yasmin Jahan Nupur, artist and member of Britto Arts Trust
• Panel Discussion and Q&A
  • Moderated by Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks

16.10–16.30: Break

16.30–17.30: Final presentation

• Amol K Patil, artist

17.30: Closing

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