Showing at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 'Lines of Control' features videos, photographs, prints, paintings, sculptures, and installations by 33 international artists and groups that touch on issues arising from partitioned areas: India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, Sudan and South Sudan, Israel and Palestine, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Armenia and its diaspora, as well as questions of indigenous sovereignty in the United States. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by 14 contributors and artist biographies.
Please note that non-Asian participating artists are not included in the artist list: Francis Alӱs, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Duncan Campbell, DAAR, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Sophie Ernst, Emily Jacir, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Noa Lidor, Mario Mabor, Tom Molloy, Jolene Rickard, and Hrair Sarkissian.
Onsite
English
2012
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9781934260227
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catalogue
Lines of Control - Hammad NASAR
Partition and Contemporary Art - Iftikhar DADI
Midnight's Line - Sumathi RAMASWAMY
Sudan: The Tumultuous Road to Partition - Salah M. HASSAN
Who Enjoys the Fruit of the Tree of Paradise? - Raqs Media Collective
Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971 - Naeem MOHAIEMEN
Art and the Division of Korea - YOO Hyejong
Minds in Control - Jolene RICKARD
Zarina Hashmi and the Arts of Dispossession - Aamir R. MUFTI
Interview with Irit Rogoff - Hammad NASAR
No Man's Land/ Everybody's Land - Nicole WOLF
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition - Murtaza VALI
Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space
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