Wednesday 24 June 2015

Representation - Escape and Enter | Premise and structure






 Understanding histories of representation and understanding the art-historical/ theoretical terminologies within their context.
· Engaging with debates around body, nation, desire, power and gaze
· Looking through the epistemological and ontological origins of the concepts and terms.   
· Cultural and material understanding representation in contemporary historical context
· Bridging the gap between theory and social/political/artistic practice.

The sessions are based on three broad thematic divisions: History - Philosophy - Politics 

O   25th June - Day 1 – Introducing the questions, concepts and metaphors
O   Session 1- the philosophical understanding of the word 'representation' and the multiple notions around it
O   Session 2- debating through images
O   Session 3 – Classical theories

O  27th June-Day 2  - 4- 8 pm - Looking at the representation , appropriation and re-appropriations in art and     popular culture across a historical timeline;
O   There will be 3 sessions focussing on case studies, activities and concept analysis
O   28th June - Day 3 - 11- 3 pm - Problematizing and politicizing representational strategies and its understanding.
O    Case studies from contemporary practices.
O   Case studies from contemporary imagery from popular culture and politics
O   Escape and Enter

 Special sessions – 
Day 2 | Ruchi Sharma will conduct a session on Body, women, morality, prostitution and public spaces.
Day 3 | Saher will present on – Social realism and Contemporary Cultural practices.
Day 3 | Aditi Chitre will Present on – Imagining a feminist narrative – Representing the past


Key concerns and key-words:
·        Classical theories: Mimesis and other stories;
·        The politics of representation: Non representational: is there anything that cannot be represented?
·        Absences: what is not represented: the subaltern and identity politics
·        Presences - representation and hegemony maintenance,
·        Representing our commonsense
·        Iconography; Propagandas; Subversion...

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