[Reader-list] [Announcements] Performance 'Palestine' : 4th of March: MF Hussain ART Gallery

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear Aditya Raj Kaul,

There are a lot of people, not only in Jamia, not only in JNU, not  
only in Delhi, but all over the world who support the right of the  
people of Palestine to be rid of the conditions imposed on them by  
successive governments in the State of Israel. Many people in Israel,  
including Israeli citizens, also support the right of people in  
Palestine to live without the harrassment, indignity and suffering  
caused to them by the policies of the State of Israel. I would urge  
you not to make such glib generalizations about who supports whom and  
where. Fortunately, we do not as yet live in a world where  
solidarities are parcelled out according to the assumptions that can  
be made at the drop of a hat about the provenances of the people who  
express them

And, it would be perfectly reasonable for people anywhere in the  
world, be they in or from Delhi or Sri Nagar to express their  
solidarity with the people of Palestine, just as it would be  
perfectly reasonable for people anywhere in the world, be they in or  
from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Kiryat Shimona or Ramallah, Behtlehem or Nablus  
or Delhi or Bombay or Calcutta to express their solidarities with the  
people of Kashmir.

Finally, I can't quite understand how you can keep politics and art  
separate? Is there an 'a-political' expression of art? Have you ever  
come across such art? Can you give any examples of 'a-political' art?

best,

Shuddha

On 03-Mar-09, at 6:59 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul wrote:

> Even I was wondering how did this come up; almost out of nowhere.
>
> The invitation card I received of the same event yesterday at the  
> Kashmir
> Festival; didn't mention this as well.
>
> Maybe, this comes as part of some strategy to mix issues and even seek
> support from Jamia by igniting their emotions. It is interesting to  
> note
> that Jamia is one of the only places in Delhi which has support for
> Palestine; other being JNU (refer: recent protests).
>
> We shouldn't mix Politics with Art.
>
> On 3/3/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> wondering what PALESTINE has to do with Art from Jammu, Kashmir  
>> and Ladakh
>> ..... on the face of it as per 'made known' information, seems to  
>> be more
>> 'artifice' at work than 'art'
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Performance 'Palestine' :  
>> 4th of
>> March: MF Hussain ART Gallery
>> To: announcements at sarai.net
>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 11:08 PM
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> INVITATION
>>
>>
>> MF. HUSSAIN ART GALLERY, Jamia Millia Islamia, near Ansari  
>> auditorium New
>> Delhi
>>
>> presents 'Strains of Himalayan Spirits', an exhibtion of contemporary
>> Art from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
>>
>> on 4th of March to 16th of march, at 5.30 P.M. conceived by Mr.  
>> Keshav
>> Malik, eminent poet and art critic.
>>
>> opening performance 'Palestine '  by Inder Salim
>>
>>
>>
>> regards
>> inder salim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
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