'A Question of Evidence' presents work by a selection of artists and cultural practitioners that engages with or comments upon the difficulty of creating, collecting, and disseminating evidence-based source material around issues such as identity politics, the suppression of human rights, democratic reform, and attempts to restrict free expression and representation. As 'narrations of urgency', the works in the exhibition often present multiple perspectives on conflicted or rapidly changing realities.

The exhibition incorporates a variety of artistic and cultural approaches - including moving image, still photography, text, archival material, installation, and theatrical performance-that encompass diverse viewpoints on the nature and function of representation in the face of 'real' events and sociopolitical circumstances. Some participants present a side of their practice that is interdisciplinary, collaborative, or hybrid, as in the case of Khin Khin Su, Marine Hugonnier, Raqs Media Collective, and Amar Kanwar. Most of them, in fact, regularly collaborate with grassroots collectives that, faced with restricted channels of communication, manage to conduct research and disseminate information through Internet-based networks, video and film databases, open-source initiatives, and other means. The works in the exhibition exemplify the transformation of the concept of visual art to one of visual-intellectual culture or knowledge production. While restricted in its geographical scope - most participants live in South or Central Asia - the exhibition does not overlook, but rather illuminates the essential differences in the role and presence of artists and practitioners within the public realm in their respective contexts.

Artist biographies are provided in the present catalogue.
Access level

Onsite

Location code
EX.AUT.QUE
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

190

ISBN / ISSN

9783865605696

No of copies

2

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Evidence of Doubt - Francesca VON HABSBURG

A Question of Evidence - Diana BALDON, Daniela ZYMAN

Embedded Scripts/Relational Grammars. Witnessing the Work of Amar Kanwar - Gabrielle CRAM

Khin Khin Su: We have to be very careful these days because... - Interview with Miss K. - Aung Myint Htet

Poetic Justice: On the Art of Evidence - T.J. DEMOS

Lens, Light Word and the Fecundity of Error - Raqs Media Collective

Scenes Gone Astray - Diana BALDON

First Information Report - Raqs Media Collective

On the 'Grammar of Witnessing' Considerations on the Example of Court Witness - Sybille KRAMER

Cybermohalla Hub - Monique BEHR

Thinking the Hub in a City - Jeebesh BAGCHI

History/Destruction/Paper Weights/Waits/Ghevra/Future/Mobile Aesthetics/Discussion - CyberMohalla

Decoding the future - Diana BALDON

Evidential Matters - Charles MEREWETHER

Lhasa is Far Away... - Daniela ZYMAN

Style excercises in self-identification - Diana BALDON

Freedom, Compassion and the Politics of Tibet - Tenzing SONAM

A Language to Come - Charles MEREWETHER

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A Question of Evidence