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.
Onsite
English
video art,  photography,  conceptualism,  installation,  group exhibition
2008
190
9783865605696
2
catalogue
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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