Symposium: Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Friday 19 February, 2010

Until 5pm If we were to consider the Indian Ocean as our gravitational centre, what would art history look like? How does partition offer territory for visual production? Investigating the misconceptions, absences and annotations that characterise written histories of photography, leading writers and curators address who is taking the picture and why.

Participants include Iftikhar Dadi, artist and Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Amna Malik, Lecturer, History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, Kobena Mercer, writer, critic and series editor of Annotating Art's Histories, published by Iniva, Hammad Nasar, curator and co-founder, Green Cardamom and Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.

In association with Green Cardamom.

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