This DVD set features the two-day event 'The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born' held on 25 and 26 October 2008 at the Goethe Institut Auditorium, Karachi. It was co-organized by the Goethe Institut and NuktaArt Pakistan, with the support of Asia Art Archive.

25 Oct 2008 (Day 1, Discs 1-3)

Inaugural Session
Welcome remarks by Markus Litz (Director of Goethe-Institut)
Welcome remarks by Niilofur Farrukh (Editor of NuktaArt)
Poem by Akhtar Hilal Zuberi (Visual artist)
Keynote Address by Arif Hasan (Architect, planning consultant, author)

Session One - Canons of Control and Subordination
Speakers: Nazish Attaullah (Pakistan), Ziaul Karim (Bangladesh), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Germany), Vidya Shivadas (India), Sumbul Khan (Pakistan), Christina Zuck (Germany)
Q & A session chaired by Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran)

Session Two - Art Market: An Uncertain Progress
Speakers: Michael Hübl (Germany)
Q & A session chaired by Sasanka Perera (Sri Lanka)

26 Oct 2008 (Day 2, Discs 1-3)

Launch of South Asia Journal for Culture by Sasanka Perera

Session One - Multiple Modernities: Reclaiming Cultural Space
Speakers: Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran), Amra Ali (Pakistan), Abul Mansur (Bangladesh), Sasanka Perera (Sri Lanka)
Q & A chaired by Michael Hübl (Germany)

Presentation by Maliha Noorani

Panel Discussion on Art Archives in South Asia (In collaboration with Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong)
Participants: Sasanka Perera (Sri Lanka), Hamid Keshmirshekan (Iran), Abul Mansur (Bangladesh), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Germany), Niilofur Farrukh (Pakistan), Ziaul Karim (Bangladesh)
Moderator: Maliha Noorani

Closing remarks by Rumana Husain (Senior Editor, NuktaArt)

Vote of Thanks by Kashif Peracha (Project Coordinator Goethe Institut)

Video by AAA Researcher for Pakistan: Maliha Noorani

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2008

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