[Reader-list] Mumbai, Dhaka, Zagreb

[NAEEM MOHAIEMEN]

1. Dec 15: "Fear Of Flying" @ "Fast Futures", Mumbai,
India
2. Dec 25: "Muslims or Heretics: My Camera Can Lie" @
LW Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
3. Until Jan 6: "Dataesthetics" @ Gallery Nova,
Zagreb, Croatia

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1. Dec 15: "Fear Of Flying" @ "Fast Futures", Mumbai,
India

Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts and Asia
Society India Centre
present
Fast Futures: Asian Video Art
Screening & Discussion by curator Johan Pijnappel
Friday, December 15, 2006, 6:30pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing
Arts (NCPA), Mumbai

Includes "Fear Of Flying" (Video, 9 min, 2005),
co-directed by Malhotra/Mohaiemen, edited by Golden,
music by Bald

The 12 cutting-edge single channel video works are by
young artists at the forefront of new media art in
China,
Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Iran, Afghanistan, Malaysia and
Thailand. ‘Video’ seems to suit artists who are
confronted
with the frantic fast-changing societies in the Asian
region. Created between 1999 and 2005, these works
range in
length from one minute to 20 minutes. This evening’s
presentation draws from the videos originally selected
by Asia
Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu, Independent
Curator Yu Yeon Kim and Museum of Modern Art Curator
Barbara London for the fourth annual Asian
Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) in New York earlier this
year.

Johan Pijnappel, an independent art historian and
curator from Holland was part of the opening programme
of the
ACAW. For two decades now his work has focused on art
that uses modern technologies such as video, computers
and the www. Johan will introduce the selection of
video-works for this evening, and speak on the new
media art
scene in Asia today.

http://www.ncpamumbai.com/facilities/litle.asp

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2. Dec 25: "Muslims or Heretics: My Camera Can Lie" @
LW Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 Hawthorne Effect and Muslims or Heretics: My Camera
Can Lie?

When part of an audience that refuse directed activism
("this is what you should care about") and limited
spheres of influence, the viewer becomes hyper-aware
of other, future audiences. The unfortunate
coincidence of screening this film at the same time as
a global media flap over the Abu Ghraib images turned
each screening into a referendum on US foreign policy.
A Dhaka audience refused to give an "authenticity"
blessing. Instead, their articulated counter-argument
was that issues internal to Bangladesh, specific to a
rightist Islamist agenda, could not be debated until
US human rights abuses were addressed and remedied.

LW Museum
http://www.liberationmuseum.org.bd/

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3. Until Jan 6: "Dataesthetics" @ Gallery Nova,
Zagreb, Croatia

Curated By Stephen Wright
In Association w/ WHW Collective

The Atlas Group, Jean - Pierre Aubé, Bureau d'études,
Center for Tactical Magic, IRWIN, Mark Lombardi,
Trevor Paglen, Marko Peljhan/I-TASC, Martha Rosler,
Bálint Szombathy, Mladen Stilinović, Visible
Collective/Mohaiemen, Roy, Nimoy, Lin, Huq

http://www.mi2.hr/index.php?page=news&id=258


 
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