Contemporary talk

BANGALORE: GOETHE-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan will organise the next in the CoLab-Goethe Lecture Series: Practices in Contemporary Art & Architecture: The Little Museum - Artist’s Talk by Amar Kanwar on June 29, 6.30 pm.   About the speaker: Amar Kanwar Born in 1964 in New Delhi where he lives and works, Kanwar’s films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence, sexuality, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterised by a distinctly poetic approach to the social and political. In retracing history through images, ritual objects, literature, poetry and song, Kanwar creates lyrical, meditative film essays that do not aim to represent trauma or political situations as much as to find ways through them. Kanwar’s work looks deeply into the causes and effects and how they are translated into everyday life and cultural forms.  His recent solo exhibitions have been at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Stedilijk Museum, Amsterdam. He has participated in Documenta 11 and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and is also the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA. His films are also shown at film festivals where he has received awards like the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, the Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival and the Jury’s Award, Film South Asia, Nepal.About the lecture series: Practices in Contemporary Art & ArchitecturePractices in Contemporary Art & Architecture Lecture Series has been initiated by CoLab Art & Architecture, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore in collaboration with the Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore. Spread over a year with one lecture a month, the visual art series focuses on practitioners who look at both ‘reconstruction’ and the ‘historical turn’ from the perspective of contemporary artistic practice: the revisions and re-readings that take place when images, works or events from the past circulate in a changing set of configurations; the lectures on architecture will attempt to look at the radical shift in the imagining of the public space and the notion of spatial equity, and the questions thus raised.