[Reader-list] Conference: Fields of Legibility: disciplines and practices of art writing in India, 6 February, Kochi

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 *Fields of Legibility: disciplines and practices of art writing in India

Presented by Asia Art Archive, Co-hosted by Kochi-Muziris Biennale
6 February 2013, 10am-5pm
Casino Hotel, Conference room, Willingdon Island, Kochi-3, Kerala, India
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Asia Art Archive (AAA) will present a one-day public conference titled
Fields of Legibility: disciplines and practices of art writing in India on
6 February 2013. The event, co-hosted by Kochi-Muziris Biennale, is the
first in a sequence of such programmes that will inform AAA's research
towards a series of anthology publications dedicated to the history of
writing on 20th century visual art in India.

Having set up its first Indian research post in 2007, AAA has over the
years undertaken a number of research initiatives in the country, ranging
from awarding a research grant to Vidya Shivadas in 2009 to critically
survey the field of art criticism in India to a digitisation project of the
personal archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram in 2010. Currently, the
Archive is working on two more projects. The first involves the
digitisation of the personal archives of four important pedagogues in
Baroda, namely, Professors K G Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Ratan
Parimoo, and Jyoti Bhatt. Asia Art Archive is also compiling an extensive
bibliography of art writing in India since the late 19th century, across
English and regional languages. Our efforts towards an anthology series
build on these prior initiatives and seek to make a contribution to the
study of art history and practice in India.

The conference on 6 February hopes to set off this process by means of
interlocution, on how writing over the last decades has attempted to make
legible the changing field of art, its regional specificities, and in what
possible ways we may read those texts today and position them for the
future.

Prof. Susie Tharu, Geeta Kapur, Prof. Gulammohammed Sheikh, Saloni Mathur,
Raqs Media Collective, Sadanand Menon, and Prof. Parul Dave Mukherjee,
amongst others, will participate in the event.

The conference will be followed by an internal workshop (for invited
participants only) on 7 February that will serve as a point of departure
for testing the structures and parameters for the planned anthology.

This programme is co-hosted by Kochi-Muziris
Biennale<https://webmail.aaa.org.hk/owa/redir.aspx?C=35e8264accc94507869124363a212a57&URL=http%3a%2f%2fedm.aaa.org.hk%2flists%2flt.php%3fid%3dcE9XUVEAVwcETgcJV0paWVUF>(India).

Special thanks to Outset Carnoustie as venue partners.

Free registration on site
Seats are limited: first come, first served.
Enquiry: sabih at aaa.org.hk<https://webmail.aaa.org.hk/owa/redir.aspx?C=35e8264accc94507869124363a212a57&URL=mailto%3asabih%40aaa.org.hk>
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*PROGRAMME SCHEDULE *

*10am - 1:30pm**
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*Welcome address and conference introduction*

*Keynote lecture by Prof. Susie Tharu* (Professor of Eminence, Department
of Cultural Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University,
Hyderabad)

*Panel 1: Writing on the Nation | Writing in the Vernacular*
Chair: *Prof. Parul Dave Mukherjee* (Dean, School of Arts and Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Speakers:
*Saloni Mathur* (Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University
of California, Los Angeles)
*Prof. Gulammohammed Sheikh* (Artist and art historian, Baroda)

*2:30 - 5pm**
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*Panel 2: Sites of Discourse | Discursive Positions*
Chair: *Sadanand Menon* (Art critic, Chennai)
Speakers:
*Geeta Kapur* (Independent critic and curator, New Delhi)
*Raqs Media Collective* (Artist collective and curators, New Delhi)

*Summation by Prof. Parul Dave Mukherjee*
*Floor open for discussion

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