[Reader-list] [Announcements] fwd: AAA Lecture-Performance: As Transient as a Whale by Raqs Media Collective

[Iram Ghufran]

Subject: AAA Lecture-Performance: As Transient as a Whale by Raqs Media 
Collective
From: info at aaa.org.hk
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:01:49 +0800 (HKT)
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- AAA Lecture-Performance -  
 
As Transient as a Whale

Raqs Media Collective
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 6.30-8pm
Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
*Please note the new venue.

 
Hong Kong has had two curious visitors in this month, a lost humpbacked 
whale on a detour and the Raqs Media Collective at the Asia Art Archive. 
Humpbacked Whales, like memories in a city eager to live forever in the 
future, are an endangered species. While Raqs has not yet met the whale, 
they have spent time with some of Hong Kong's memories. They have also 
spent some time thinking about the place of memory in an archive. In 
their lecture-performance presentation - 'As Transient as a Whale' - 
Raqs will present their field notes, research and the images they have 
been working with as they travel in Hong Kong. The lecture performance 
will also present sketches of the in-situ installation that they will 
produce at the Asia Art Archive at the conclusion of their residency.

AAA welcomes Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta of 
Raqs Media Collective, Delhi based think-tank, curators and cutting-edge 
artist collective, as its first international residents.
 
Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica 
Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The Collective is based in Delhi and 
work at Sarai, a program of the Centre for the Study of Developing 
Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2001.Their work takes the 
form of installations, video, photography, image-text collages, media 
objects, performances, and encounters. They cross contemporary art 
practice with historical and philosophical speculation, research and 
theory. The Collective has been exhibited widely in major international 
spaces and events including Documenta 11 (2002), the Venice Biennale 
(2003, 2005), the Guangzhou Triennial (2005), and the Istanbul Biennial 
(2007). Their writings have also been published extensively. They 
curated 'The Rest of Now' in Bolzano/Bozen and co-curated 'Scenarios' 
for Manifesta 7, Italy. They are currently showing at 'Chalo! India', 
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and 'Indian Highway', Serpentine Gallery, London.
 
AAA's Residency Programme is the first offered annually by an arts 
organization in Hong Kong and one of the first in the world to take the 
art archive as its point of departure.

 
Event Details
Presented by: Asia Art Archive
Venue: Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, 
Hong Kong
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Language: English
Registration: chantal at aaa.org.hk or 2815 1112.
DVD of the talk will be available for viewing at the Archive.

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