[Reader-list] Pause at Kashmir | 5th November | Saturday | rafiki workspace | 4:30 - 7:00 pm

[francesca recchia]

For those of you who are in Bangalore


As a part of Pause-in times of conflict, maraa invites you to :

Pause at Kashmir

5th November from 4.30 pm to 7 pm at the rafiki workspace, K. K. Foundation and Public Charitable Trust,Opposite Al Ameen Hospital , Miller’s Tank Bund Road, Off Cunningham Road

In a participatory form, Pause in Kashmir is constructed around the performance and talk by Delhi-based artist Inder Salim. Inder Salim engages with the bodily dimension of experiences of fear and socio-political constraint and oppression.
Visual excerpts of the graphic novels by Malik Sajad and a performative reading of passages from Mirza Waheed’s debut novel The Collaborator (2011) accompany the event. The evening concludes with an exchange with Abhishek Majumdar and an open discussion with the audeince. 



Pause: In Times of Conflict, is a monthly forum for reflection on creative practices in countries of conflict - viewing films, learning about artists’ works, listening to poetry from these spaces, discussing the role of memory and forgetting, comparing similarities and differences to our own context. 


For more information please contact info at maraa.in or call 8105675350.
 
PAUSE IN KASHMIR | 5th November |
Saturday | 4:30-7:00 pm | *rafiki | 
maraa presents PAUSE:
In Times of Conflict, a monthly forum for reflection on creative practices
in countries of conflict. So far we have paused at Palestine, Iraqi Kurdistan
and Afghanistan - viewing films, learning about artists’ works, listening to
poetry from these spaces, discussing the role of memory and forgetting,
comparing similarities and differences to our own context. 
 
As part of Pause maraa on November 5th,
2011 maraa hosts an evening of discussion and exchange on Kashmir through the
perspective of different forms of cultural production. 
 
Kashmir appears and disappears from the
news – from cancellation to a literary festival to discovering of over 2000
unmarked graves, to illegal killings and police firings. In a valley of people
where an estimated 600,000 soldiers and
paramilitary police are stationed one can only imagine the climate of fear and
repression. Being caught between conflict and resistance, the people of Kashmir
have often expressed their struggles through art, which hardly finds its way in
the mainstream media. We are pausing to meet just a few of them, to remind
ourselves that the story of Kashmir gets more complex and layered with every
new perspective, to remind ourselves that the story of Kashmir is not black,
white, or grey, it's all the shades in between.
 
In a participatory form, Pause in Kashmir is
constructed around the performance and talk by Delhi-based artist Inder Salim,
whose engagement with experimental forms of art and commitment to the cause of
Kashmir has been well known for more than two decades. Inder
Salimengages with the bodily dimension of experiences of fear
and socio-political constraint and oppression. 
 
The event is
accompanied by visual excerpts of the graphic novels by Malik
Sajadwhose work intends ‘to give a voice and texture to
the desolation left behind by the war, which is referred to as “normalcy.”‘ (http://kashmirblackandwhite.com/) 
 
The event also
includes a reading of passages from Mirza Waheed’s debut novel The
Collaborator (2011). The evening will continue with an interaction with Abhishek
Majumdar, director of Rizwaan. This will be followed by an open discussion with
the audience.
 
About the contributors
Born in Kashmir, Inder Salim has been
practising as a conceptual/performance artist for over 25 years. He resides in
Delhi, with a regular employment in a bank as his support. He is a mentor of
City-as-Studio program of Sarai/CSDS for performance work. Inder organized the Art
Karavan International 2010, with support from a range of friends, the Lalit
Kala Academy, Universities and other institutions. Art Karavan travelled over
two and a half months through nine cities in North India with 30 odd
participants from India and aboard to experiment with an open-ended interactive
process. Inder was a Sarai Independent Research fellow in 2006-07 for
documenting performance practices in India. Presently, he is working on a
Project: KASHMIR.POINT.CHARLIE in collaboration with Silke Kastner in Berlin. 
 
Mirza Waheed
was born and brought up in Srinagar, Kashmir. He moved to Delhi when he was
eighteen to study English Literature at the University of Delhi and worked as a
journalist in the city for four years. In 2001 he went to London to join the
BBC's Urdu Service, where he now works as an editor. Waheed attended the Arvon
Foundation in 2007. He has written for The Kashmir Observer and the
BBC’s Urdu and English websites and appeared on BBC radio and TV as a
commentator. His first novel, The Collaborator is being
published by Viking, Penguin in February 2011
 
Malik Sajad was born, and grew
up, in Srinagar, Kashmir. He started making
graphic novels in 2005 and documented stories about ‘encounter killings’, the
experience of being a Kashmiri in India, Internet crackdowns and the 2010 mass
uprising in the valley. He studied Fine Art at the Institute of Music and Fine
Art in Srinagar, and is currently pursuing an MA in Image and Communication at
Goldsmiths, University of London on a 2011 Inlaks Scholarship. He is using his
artwork to review lost Kashmiri cultural heritage, such as its storytelling
tradition and school of miniature art. Mallul Meeras (Precious Heritage) is a project aimed at resurrecting
the artists’ community in Kashmir.
Abhishek Majumdar is a theatre director,
playwright, actor and performing arts teacher. He is an alumnus of the London
International School of Performing Arts and has also trained under the guidance
of Mahesh Dattani, Adishakti Theatre Lab and Yatrik.In 2010 he directed a
Hindi and English play "Rizwan", based on Agha Shahid Ali's
collection of poems 'The country without a post office'. At one level, Rizwaan
was the poignant tale of a young Kashmiri boy and his experience of losing his family
due to the insurgency and the military occupation. At another level, Rizwaan
looked at the very fundamental understanding of the loss of loved ones. The
play was also a fundraiser for the ‘PeaceWorks’ initiative for Seagull books,
which is an initiative to enable workshops, lectures and performances with
students in Kashmir. The initiative uses the arts to enable peaceful
engagements in areas under conflict.
 
Details
Date/Day: 5th November, Saturday
Time: 4.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Venue: rafiki, K K Foundation and Charitable
Trust, Off
Cunningham Road, right after Sigma mall
Contact: 8105675350 for any clarifications
 
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