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Waqas Reena Saini APNA: RAQS MEDIA Khan OURS YOURS Kallat COLLECTIVE th th 30 September 2017 30 Sept 2017–25 Feb 2018 EVERYBODY’S –25 February 2018 TWILIGHT LANGUAGE 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 21 JANUARY 2018 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 25 FEBRUARY 2018 #NewNorthSouth Admission free newnorthandsouth.org manchesterartgallery.org Exhibition supported by the Henry Moore #NewNorthSouth Foundation and the Ernest Cook Trust. #NewNorthSouth #NewNorthSouth newnorthandsouth.org Proud to be part of newnorthandsouth.org Supported by Free entry The University of Manchester Image: Waqas Khan Tranquil Pool, 2017 (detail) Turban, 1880. Dhaka, Bangladesh, formerly India. Raqs Media Collective, Re-run, 2013 manchester.ac.uk/whitworth Courtesy the artist and Sabrina Amrani Gallery Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Courtesy the Whitworth manchester.ac.uk/whitworth manchester.ac.uk/museum Reena Saini Kallat Cleft, 2017 Courtesy the artist Mehreen Neha Murtaza Choksi 30 September 2017 – 4 February 2018 30 September 2017 –25 February 2018 Admission free manchesterartgallery.org Admission free #NewNorthSouth manchesterartgallery.org #NewNorthSouth Image: Mehreen Murtaza how will you conduct Image:yourself Mehreen in the company Murtaza of How trees will, 2015 you conduct yourselfCourtesy in the the artist company of trees, 2015 Image: Neha Choksi Untitled, 2017 (production still) Courtesy the artist and Project 88 Tentative SOUTH ASIAN Collective MODERNISTS Risham Hetain Patel 195363 30 September 2017 Syed –4 February 2018 30 September 2017 30 September 2017 2pm 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 15 APRIL 2018 Admission free – 25 February 2018 Admission free manchesterartgallery.org manchesterartgallery.org #NewNorthSouth #NewNorthSouth Admission free manchesterartgallery.org #NewNorthSouth #NewNorthSouth newnorthandsouth.org In collaboration with Amrita Jhaveri Anwar Jalal Shemza (19281985) Palace Gate, 1959. Image: Risham Syed History As Re-Present-ation III, 2016 (detail) Image: Hetain Patel The Jump, 2015 Image: The Tentative Collective, 2017 Private collection. © Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza manchester.ac.uk/whitworth Photography: Asif Khan Courtesy the artist Courtesy the artists South Asian Design RAQIB SOONI BEYOND SHAW TARAPOREVALA BORDERS 4 MARCH 2017 28 JANUARY 2018 24 JUNE19 NOVEMBER 2017 20 MAY 2017 3 JUNE 2018 #NewNorthSouth 19 May 2017–10 June 2018 newnorthandsouth.org #NewNorthSouth #NewNorthSouth newnorthandsouth.org Admission free newnorthandsouth.org manchesterartgallery.org Exhibition supported by Guest-curated by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, for Proud to be part of #NewNorthSouth John Ellerman Foundation Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts, with patronage from Dattaraj & Dipti Salgaocar. Arts Council England Heritage Lottery Fund Paul Hamlyn Foundation The Boy and the Bay, Mumbai 2015 (detail) After A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (detail) © The artist Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Unity of the Untitled, 2017 2017 © Raqib Shaw manchester.ac.uk/whitworth manchester.ac.uk/whitworth Image: Hand woven, cotton, muslin manchester.ac.uk/whitworth The Table That Almost Wasn’t 2016 Courtesy and copyright: Rubberband FINAL COLOUR GREY SCALE IN REVERSE / ON DARK BACKGROUND Welcome Across Manchester watch incredible performances, see extraordinary art and immersive films in a programme of South Asian art, culture and music. Marking the 70th anniversary of the independence of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, artists, designers, performers and musicians from South Asia and Britain have been invited to create new works for Manchester’s Contents art galleries and museums. Alongside 4 Manchester Art Gallery exhibitions, there are concerts, 11 Manchester Museum performances and events for families 15 The Whitworth 20 Museum of Science and Industry and adults celebrating the shared Home heritage of the North of England 21 Band on the Wall and South Asia. 22 Z-Arts 23 Venue information 24 Calendar #NewNorthSouth Travel information Image: Waqas Khan Kushamdeed I, 2017 Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani Gallery Specially commissioned series of neon works, Kushamdeed, which means welcome in Urdu, will be sited at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and the Whitworth. 3 Manchester Art Gallery South Asian Design Neha Choksi 19 May 2017–10 June 2018 30 September 2017 –25 February 2018 The Design Gallery focuses on craft and Neha Choksi sets up simple yet memorable fashion from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh situations to create poetic, absurd and and Sri Lanka spanning three centuries. psychologically engaging works. Her new Each country is famous for its vibrant multi-channel film installation features regional costumes, luxurious textiles and the artist and her friends. Exploring the intricately detailed ceramic, stone or metal relationship between herself and her ornaments. Colour and surface pattern community, she tests her belief that to are used with intensity inspired by subjects learn to be oneself, one always needs ranging from spirituality to food and from others. The film has been shot on the current affairs to kitsch. The exhibition construction site for an expansive and explores how the region’s traditional crafts modernising Jain ashram in India. Inventing are inspiring contemporary art, design and open ended and playful situations for fashion. International highlights include her participants, Choksi examines the contemporary art by Adeela Suleman, connections and tensions between solitude fashion by Tarun Tahiliani and Manish and collaboration. Arora and product design by Cobalt Supported by Arts Council England and the British Council. Studios, Rubberband and Tippoi. Supported by Arts Council England and the British Council. Image: South Asian Design installation show © Michael Pollard Featured designers, left-right Fashion: Manish Arora, Barbara Sansoni, Tarun Tahiliani, Image: Chandni Patel Neha Choksi Untitled, 2017 (production still) Wallpaper: Mandeep Mann Courtesy the artist and Project 88 4 Waqas Khan Mehreen Murtaza 30 September 2017 30 September 2017 –25 February 2018 –4 February 2018 Waqas Khan’s minimalist drawings Mehreen Murtaza will fill one of the resemble webs and celestial expanses. galleries with living plants for a new Inspired by patterns of biological organic work exploring plant communication and growth and also by the lives and literature consciousness. Through in-depth research, of sufi poets, his work is a meditation on Murtaza has developed a unique narrative life, togetherness and the universe. His and sound installation which blurs the contemplation is made visible in ink on boundaries between plant neurobiology, paper and his work invites our science fiction, philosophy and spirituality contemplation. In a carefully created to create a space that hovers between installation, the visitor is led around the fiction and non-fiction. space from small scale drawings, to a large Supported by Arts Council England. scale floor based work, to new drawings made especially for Manchester. Supported by Arts Council England. Image: Image: Mehreen Murtaza how will you conduct yourself in the Waqas Khan Tranquil Pool, 2017 (detail) company of trees, 2015 Courtesy the artist and Sabrina Amrani Gallery Courtesy the artist 5 Hetain Patel Risham Syed 30 September 2017 30 September 2017 –4 February 2018 –25 February 2018 Hetain Patel will exhibit two film Risham Syed’s exquisite postcard sized works, The Jump 2015 and Don’t Look paintings show the ever changing urban At The Finger 2017. Each film employs the landscape in Lahore, Pakistan. Instead of artist’s characteristic sense of humour and idealised postcard images for tourists, the scale of a Hollywood production. Syed depicts the construction work which Don’t Look At The Finger presents a transforms her home city. The recently wedding ceremony where the built houses in Lahore’s new residential protagonists seek human connection quarters have perfectly finished facades through ritual combat and signed but unfinished back walls. She reveals languages. The Jump features Patel’s these darker, neglected areas which are homemade replica Spider-Man costume not for public view. Other sculptural works, and connects the fantasy of action and shown amid Manchester Art Gallery’s superhero films with the domestic setting historic collection, include paintings of his British Indian family home in Bolton. inspired by newspaper images and diverse Don’t Look at the Finger is a new commission by Film and objects such as domestic ornaments and Video Umbrella with Manchester Art Gallery and QUAD. Victorian furniture. These works reference Supported by Arts Council England. historical and political shifts in education, Initial research supported by Jerwood Choreographic architecture and gender roles, exploring Research Project. Commissioned by Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA. Pakistan’s cultural inheritance, collective memory and colonial history. Supported by Arts Council England. Image: Image: Hetain Patel The Jump, 2015 Risham Syed Untitled Lahore Series 10, 2013 (detail) Courtesy the artist Courtesy the artist and Project 88 6 Manchester Art Gallery events We Make the City: Conversations about Manchester – Lahore – Karachi Friday 29 September, 1–2.30pm Manchester Art Gallery Saturday 7 October, 2–3.30pm The Lakeside Centre Platt Fields Park M14 6LA Booking required Please email Ruth Edson to book a place [email protected] / 0161 235 8877 Making conversation: South Asian Design Tuesday 26 September, 1–4pm Tentative Collective Free, no need to book 30 September 2017 Waqas Khan in conversation 2pm with