Art News:
Film Screening:
Sisters!
Petra Bauer and the Southall Black Sisters
Discussion:
Zehra Jumabhoy, Tejal Shah, Shaina Anand, and LABIA collective.
Curated by Natasha Ginwala
at Clark House
Friday 13 January 2012
5.30pm - 8.00pm
Image credit: Southall Black Sisters
Sisters! is a collaboration between Petra Bauer and the Southall Black Sisters — the radical, pioneering London-based feminist organisation, who since 1979 have politically engaged in the contemporary social and political conditions of black and minority women. Documenting one week in the life of the organisation, the film takes their daily activities as a springboard for a visual discussion on feminism, politics and aesthetics in today's society. Petra Bauer’s films explore the possibilities of storytelling through the form of documentary making. Her interest lies in film as a political practice, and the role of moving images in the construction, presentation and representation of histories. Through her work she demonstrates how moving images can be seen as a space where social and political negotiations can take place.
Sisters! is co-commissioned by The Showroom (London), Skogen Produktion (Stockholm), and Picture This (Bristol). It is funded by Bloomberg, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, IASPIS, Arts Council England, and The Showroom's Supporters Scheme. Made possible thanks to the generousity of Southall Black Sisters.
This screening in Bombay owes special thanks to Petra Bauer, Kate Stancliffe and Rupali Patil.
Image credit: Southall Black Sisters
Discussion: It will be followed by a discussion of how artistic gestures and collaborative structures may (re)view the contemporary relevance of radical Feminisms of the 70s. As performing, resisting and thinking through gender paradigms address the realm of affect, intimacy and provocation, we may jointly inquire the role of producing ‘collectivities’ and critical embeddedness in contemporary practice.
Zehra Jumabhoy is the author of
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today. She is a regular contributor to
Artforum International,
ArtAsiaPacific, and is the London Correspondent to
ART India magazine, and contributing Editor to
Architectural Digest India. She is presently completing her doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
http://vle.courtauld.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=334
Tejal Shah is a visual artist working with video, photography and installation. She has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and film festivals including, Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Brooklyn Museum (New York) and National Gallery of Modern Art (Bombay). In 2003, she co-founded, organised and curated Larzish – India’s 1st International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality.
http://www.ledimages.com/tejal/index.htm
Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and artist, a co-initiator of CAMP and Pad.ma - an online video archive. In 2001, she founded ChitraKarKhana, for experimental media. Her recent works continue to be informed by an interest in information politics, and by a critique of documentary film. Her interventionist projects have created new assemblies from within the terrains of operation of contemporary media: television, cable TV, surveillance infrastructures, video archives - towards further possibilities for the image and narrative.
camputer.org |
pad.ma |
chitrakarkhana.net
Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action (LABIA) formerly known as Stree Sangam, is a Bombay-based autonomous, non-funded, voluntary collective of lesbian and bisexual women and transpersons, with a focus on queer and feminist activism.
https://sites.google.com/site/labiacollective/
Natasha Ginwala is an independent art critic and curator based in Amsterdam, where she participated in de Appel Curatorial Programme 2010/11. She has completed her postgraduate studies at The School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU (New Delhi). Her research interests include histories of exhibition-making and artistic programming, cross-disciplinary engagement with colonial documents and the study of contemporary craft processes.
Venue:
Ground Floor, Clark House
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road)
opposite Sahakari Bhandar and Regal Cinema
in the Saakshi Gallery lane, Bombay 400039
Bus or Taxi from the nearest stations, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Central Railway) and Churchgate (Western Railway).
Bus Numbers from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus: 14, 69, 101,130
Bus Numbers from Churchgate: 70, 106, 122, 123, 132, 137
Contact: +919820213816 | info@clarkhouseinitiative.org
Clark House Initiative is a curatorial collaborative practice interested in freedom. It was established in 2010 by Sumesh Sharma and Zasha Colah.
http://clarkhouseinitiative.org/
