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Symposium: Beyond Borders

Saturday 6 March 2010
10am–5pm
Leeds City Museum

Beyond Borders is a symposium that will coincide with the opening of the Between Kismet and Karma: South Asian Women Artists Respond to Conflict exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, 6th March–8th May. The symposium and exhibition are part of the wider Between Kismet and Karma programme, which explores how women artists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka respond to conflict as it operates within different but interconnecting sites: Bodies / Cities; Borders / Nation; Artist / Artisan / Activist. This pioneering and multifaceted programme has been conceived through a curatorial partnership between Shisha, the international agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts, and the University of Leeds, and enabled by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Transfer Fellowship. Taking place nationwide between February and May 2010, it includes the symposium, the exhibition, an artist residency series and film festival. The symposium, Beyond Borders, will bring together academics, art critics, activists and South Asian artists to debate the themes and concerns that guide the exhibition’s curatorial agenda.

Selected speakers and panellists from South Asia, USA and the UK include: cutting-edge documentary filmmaker, Paromita Vohra (Bombay); cultural/arts advocate and researcher, Irna Qureshi (Bradford); acclaimed writer Aamer Hussein (London); leading and experimental artists Tayeba Begum Lipi (Dhaka), Naiza H. Khan (Karachi) and Priya Sen (New Delhi); Professor Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina; Dr Marta Bolognani, University of Bristol and Professor Kim Knott, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds.

Tickets* (inclusive of lunch):
£40 organisations
£20 individuals
£15 discounted rate (students, unemployed, disabled and senior citizens)

*An additional transaction fee may be charged depending on payment method

Delegates will be invited to a special view of the Between Kismet and Karma exhibition on Saturday 6 March from 5–6pm at Leeds Art Gallery.

To book please contact Pippa Kenyon-Leigh, Project Coordinator at Shisha:
pippa@shisha.net
0161 838 5253

Between Kismet and Karma is supported by Arts Council England, AGMA and Project Partners. For further information regarding the programme and participating venues please visit www.shisha.net/news.html for details.

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