Lecture and Dialogue: Biological Variation and Art Practice
2014.01.25 18:00 - 21:00 | Talks
Wikipedia defines Bio Art as an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes.
Wikipedia defines Bio Art as an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes.
The RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
1992 marks a period of intense change in the making and reception of Indian art. The economic reforms initiated in India enabled an inward movement — of curators and critical thinking, and in turn saw the outward location of Indian art within geographical groupings of the global South. From Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and various biennales of the South such as those of Havana and Johannesburg, Indian art assumed certain positions.
Heidi Voet’s multi-disciplinary artistic practice is characterized by her playful and transformative use of objects to make critical social commentary about everyday life.
Li Jianhong is one of the most active Chinese noise / Improvisation artists in Mainland China of present days. His involvement in China’s experimental culture started since the late 1990s, being the founder of several groups such as the Second Skin, D!O!D!O!D! and members of groups such as Pisces Iscariots and VagusNerve.
Performance art was so active in 1960's, but it was only few countries in the world including Japan. Then it's almost disappear. But since 1990's, again performance art became active in the world. And it was not only few countries, so spread out in the world including all Asian countries, Latin America and Central/Eastern Europe. Today we can see so many festivals in the world. Mr Seiji Shimoda will show video and talk about today's new meaning of performance art.
The panel discussion will start off from the artworks of Bharti Kher at the core and move on to questioning contemporary art and its cross-cultural contexts. Ranging from the act of remapping space to the mutation of bodies, from the experience of identities to the practices of alterity, the panelists will debate how artists working in the contexts of India and China could extend and enrich the challenges of contemporary art.
Bhati Kher and Sandhini Poddar invite us on an exhibition walkthrough to explore the artworks in this survey and share their perspectives.