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Rashid Rana | Present Elsewhere

15 Invitations for 15 Years

A special programme series featuring exhibitions, projects, written works, performances, a blog, and set of e-dossiers marking Asia Art Archive's 15-year anniversary.

 

I am writing to invite you to participate in a hypothetical exhibition that I'm curating. Participation entails developing a proposal for a work that need not be physically realised, thus the format for submission is flexible and open to interpretation. Imagine yourself in a time and space other than the one you currently occupy and respond to this constructed context; you may locate yourself in another era and geographical location with a partially or fully fictional backdrop of social, political and historical events (not to say that all versions of historical accounts are not fiction) and without having to explain the imagined context directly you envision a work/project; an imaginary physical-manifestation in response to the imagined context that you may choose to express in text, sketches or any other format of your choice.

—Rashid Rana


Present Elsewhere is a long-term collaborative project by Lahore-based artist Rashid Rana that seeks to examine the limitations of occupying a present that is assumed to be singular by imagining the intersection of history and fiction. The first manifestation of the project takes place as part of Asia Art Archive's 15 Invitations programme series in the form of a download-and-printable e-dossier.

Participants

Leeza Ahmady
John Akomfrah
Brook Andrew
Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi
Wes Janz
Tim Lee
Nadia Kaabi-Linke
Justine Ludwig
Hammad Nasar
Carsten Nicolai
Motohiko Odani
Santiago Sierra
Brinda Somaya
Risham Syed
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Fred Wilson
Karen Tei Yamashita


Special thanks to Christy Chow, Ingrid Chu, Natasha Jozi, Holly Leung, and Hammad Nasar.


15 Invitations for 15 Years is supported by the S. H. Ho Foundation Limited, the C. K. & Kay Ho Foundation, and The Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The programme is part of the ADC 20th Anniversary Celebration Series. Special thanks to Hani Charaf, Kemistry Design.

 

 

Part of series

15 Invitations

A special programme series featuring exhibitions, projects, written works, performances, and set of e-dossiers marking Asia Art Archive's 15-year anniversary

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Exhibition

Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan | Cabinet of Resistance I

The Jaffna-based visual artist and art educator draws parallels between methods of archiving and art making, while delving into the idea of 'home' within the context of ethnic conflict.

7 Nov 2016–2 Jun 2017

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Publication Project

Rashid Rana | Present Elsewhere

The Pakistan-based artist inquiries into the possibilities of fiction to construct multiple pasts through notes, images, and schematic representations of his collaborative work-in-progress.

Mar 2017

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Virtual Reality Experience

Nonny de la Peña | Passage: The Life of a Wall on Lin He Road

This pioneer of "immersive journalism" draws from AAA's Collection to create a new iteration of an earlier performance by New York and Beijing-based artist Lin Yilin that pushes the boundaries of virtual reality and digital technology.

Mar 2017

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Workshop

Solomon Benjamin & Wing Shing Tang | Framing Spatial Stories

Hong Kong and Bangalore-based scholars of critical geography and urban studies consider the politics of contested urban settings to form new understandings of art in Asia as a collage of multiple logics.

Jan 2017

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Exhibition

Wong Wai Yin | Talking Archive

The Hong Kong-based artist and 2011 AAA resident invites a psychic medium to uncover the "true opinions" behind the material in AAA's Collection by speaking to them, with his findings being shown as in the form of a video and site-specific installation.

Oct–Nov 2016