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Untitled (Rest) 2018 Viewed Altogether, the Set of Drawings Watercolor on Paper with Sculpture Reveal Patterns and 11.7 X 8.3 Inches Punctuations in Thought GUIDE III CONTENTS 1 LBF 2 LB01 6 Sites Lahore Fort Mubarak Haveli & Tehsil Park Shahi Hammam Lahore Museum Alhamra Art Centre Bagh-e-Jinnah Canal 134 Academic Forum Academic Forum artSpeak Youth Forum 158 Acknowledgments IV V LAHORE BIENNALE FOUNDATION ﻻہور بینالے فاؤنڈیشن ایک غیر منافع (The Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF بخش تنظیم ہے ، جو فنی تجربات کے is a non-profit organization that seeks to لئے اہم سائٹس فراہم کرنے اور فن کی provide critical sites for experimentation ممکنہ صﻻحیت کو سماجی تنقید کے in the visual arts. LBF focuses on the لئے آلہ کار بنانے میں کوشاں ہے۔ many stages of production, display فاؤنڈیشن کی توجہ ِعصر حاضر میں and reception of contemporary بنائے جانے والے فن پاروں کی پروڈکشن ، art in diverse forms. It understands نمائش، اور پذیرائی کی متنوع صورتوں inclusivity, collaboration, and public کی طرف مرکوز ہے۔ اسکا مرکزی نقطہ engagement as being central to its نظر سماجی تبدیلیوں کے ایجنٹ کے vision and is committed to developing طور پر عوامی شمولیت، اشتراک ، اور the potential of art as an agent of social فنی صﻻحیتوں کو فروغ دینا ہے۔ اس .transformation مقصد کے لئے فاؤنڈیشن پاکستان بھر میں فنی منصوبوں کی اعانت کر رہی To this end, the LBF endeavors to support ہے خاص طور پر وہ جو تحقیق اور art projects across Pakistan especially تجربے پر مبنی ہیں۔ those critical practices which are based on research and experimentation. LBF ﻻہور بینالے فاؤنڈیشن نے مقامی طور پر ﻻہور بینالے فاونڈیشن is supported by government bodies, ِحکومت پنجاب، کمشنر آفس ﻻہور، پارکس اور ہارٹی کلچر اتھارٹی، اور والڈ and has developed enduring relations سٹی اتھارٹی کے تعاون سے ایک سے with international partners. These زیادہ کامیاب عوامی فنی منصوبوں کا partnerships at home and aboard will آغاز کیا ہے۔ فاؤنڈیشن نے بین اﻻاقومی hopefully bridge institutional gaps تنظیموں کے ساتھ مل کر کام کیا ہے ، between Lahore and the rest of the اور آگے بھی کام کرنے کا ارادہ ہے جس world. The Lahore Biennale Foundation میں برٹش کونسل ، گویتھ انسٹی ٹیوٹ has embarked on, and completed پاکستان اور دا نیو نورتھ اینڈ ساؤتھ multiple successful public art projects شامل ہیں۔ امید ہے کہ یہ اشتراک ﻻہور .in collaboration with various partners اور باقی دنیا کے درمیان ادارتی فاصلوں کو مٹانے میں مدد دے گا۔ The Board of Directors of the Lahore Biennale Foundation comprises of ﻻہور بینالے فاؤنڈیشن کے ڈائریکٹر ,Osman Khalid Waheed, Ali Naqvi عثمان خالد وحید، ]شریک چئیرمین[ Qudsia Rahim, Raza Ali Dada, Mohsin علی نقوی، ]شریک چئیرمین [ رضاعلی .Hamid, Rafay Alam, and Fawzia Naqvi دادا، رفیع عالم]بورڈ آف سیکرٹری[، قدسیہ رحیم ]ایگزیکٹو ڈائریکٹر[ ، محسن حامد اور فوزیہ نقوی ہیں۔ VI 1 LAHORE BIENNALE 01 Lahore constitutes a rich and complex Thoughtful regional and global this purpose, the LB01 will develop urban site for artistic intervention. contemporary art projects in the city art in public spaces and public The city has seen successive social, can serve to challenge and empower programs along with opportunities ideological, economic, and political the relatively secluded local publics for critical thinking and practice in its changes over its extended past; towards greater participation in Academic Forum. The frameworks of including the eras of the Mughals, contemporary cultural developments. engagement will be varied; and will the Sikhs, the British Raj and post- These engagements can energize include tapping into Lahore’s public Partition sovereignty. Although new relationships of residents and consciousness or collective memory, the city has been reconstructed visitors with the city, where the past conversing with existing institutions numerous times, both physically and can be reflected upon, the present that seek renewed participation, or ideologically, it has demonstrated debated in new ways, and the proposing new ways of community resilience and adaptability, and has future anticipated in a pluralist and involvement. emerged as a major agricultural, progressive direction. industrial, educational, and cultural Exhibitions and events for LB01 center in South Asia. The city today By virtue of its dense historical will be held at seven major venues consists of a palimpsest of various background and contemporary that engage with the city’s Mughal, communities, distinctive histories, cultural and social ferment, Colonial and Modern layers. The and diverse world views. As an significant artistic engagement inaugural Biennale recognizes increasingly transnational city that with Lahore can also offer a more the city in relation to its region, includes disparate migrant groups, complex view of the lived realities of as reflected in the presentation of Lahore’s modernization is proceeding Pakistan at large. Given the limited artists selected, and in the Biennale’s at a faster pace than ever. representation of Pakistan in global core and collateral programming. media, and the relative scarcity of Over 50 artists and collectives will With its multifaceted cultural regional dialogues within South Asia, participate, including artists based legacy and numerous educational there is a genuine need to foster a in Bangladesh, India, Iran, Pakistan, and cultural institutions, Lahore deeper and multifaceted exchange Turkey, Sri Lanka, as well as from has produced some of the most between Lahore, the region, and Europe and the United States. internationally acclaimed artists the rest of the world. The diverse of the region. Many of these artists and parallel realities of Lahore and The LB01 organizational team have come from urban and rural Pakistan have remained somewhat includes Director Qudsia Rahim, backgrounds from across Pakistan underground. It is time to project curating the public arts projects, and abroad. Although their work them on the national, regional, and Iftikhar Dadi who is developing has brought some regional and global stage via reflective, open- the academic program; Raza Ali global recognition to the city, this ended, and investigative cultural Dada advising on production and achievement is based primarily on projects. exhibition design whereas Ayesha the reputation of individual artists Jatoi is overseeing publications. and the pedagogy within selected In order to address the dynamics educational institutions. The city of “public engagement” in the arts, itself has not so far significantly LB01 will test the parameters of “art” featured as a space that consistently and “public,” and contextualize this engages artistic practice with diverse relation within the specificities of publics. Lahore and in a global context. For 2 3 ﻻہور بینالے ۰۱ ﻻہور بینال فاؤنڈیشن کے افتتاحی عﻻقائی عوام کو شہر کے ساتھ نئے دے گی تاکہ تنقید اور عمل کے ذریعے ایڈیشن کا اعﻻن کر دیا گیا ہے۔ ۱۸ سے تعلقات استوار کرنے میں مدد دے سکتا آرٹ کو مشق میں ﻻیا جائے ۔ اس طرح ۳۱ مارچ ۲۰۱۸ تک چودہ روزہ تقریب کا ہے جہاں ماضی کی بازگشت سنتے ہوئے کے فنی اشتراک کے ذریعے ﻻہور کی انعقاد کیا گیا ہے، ۱۱ ﻻکھ ِحاضرین ﻻہور حال کو کھوجنے کے در وا کیے جا سکتے مختلف عوام کی شعوری صﻻحیت پر کے لیے شاندار تغیراتی نمائش کا انتظام ہیں تب ہی ایک روشن مستقبل کی دستک دی جائے موجودہ ادارے جو کیا جائے گا۔ جس میں مختلف تخلیقی نوید سنائی دے گی۔ شمولیت کے خواہاں ہیں ان سے صﻻحیتوں اور فنی کاوشوں کا فروغ مشاورت کے ذریعے یہ مقصد تکمیل تک مقصود ہے۔ اپنے تاریخی پس منظر ،موجودہ ثقافت، پہنچایا جائے گا۔ بدلتی ہوئی سماجی قدریں اور اہم فنی ﻻہور کو فنی سرگرمیوں کے ارتقائی اشتراک کی وجہ سے شہر جیتی جاگتی معاونیت ﻻہور بینال فاؤنڈیشن کا ایک مراحل میں بھرپور اہمیت حاصل ہے۔ حقیقتوں کو وسیع پردے پر نمایاں کرنے ﻻزمی جزو ہے، شہر کے مختلف اداروں گزرتے ہوئے وقت کے ساتھ بڑھتی ہوئی کی ضرورت ہے۔ پاکستان کی میڈیا میں کے ساتھ مل کر کام کیا جائے گا مختلف سماجی، نظریاتی، اقتصادی اور سیاسی محدود نمائندگی اور جنوبی ایشیاء میں عوامی مسائل سے آگاہ کیا جائے گا، یہ تبدیلیاں اس شہر پر آشکار رہی ہیں نظریات کے پرچار کی کمی ﻻہور اور شراکت داری وسیع پیمانے پر عوام کے خصوصاََ ِدوران مغل ، سکھ، برطانوی، بیرونی دنیا میں کثیر تبادلہ خیال کی درمیان تبادلہ خیال کو رائج کرنے کے لئے اور بعداز تقسیم اقتدار ۔ اگرچہ یہ شہر ضرورت کو اجاگر کرتی ہے۔ اب ضروری راہ ہموار کرے گی۔ کئی با ر مسمار ہوا اور تعمیری مراحل یہ ہے کہ ثقافتی منصوبوں کے ذریعے سے گزارا گیا اس کے باوجود بھرپور انداز ایسی متنوع اور متوازی حقیقتوں کو ٹیم سے قائم و دائم ہے بڑھتی ہوئی نقل جو ﻻہور اور پاکستان کی زرخیز زمیں مکانی کے باعث شہر تہہ در تہہ نئی اور تلے نہاں ہیں عالمی اور عﻻقائی سطح ﻻہور بینال فاؤنڈیشن کی تنظیمی ٹیم پرانی قومی اقلیتوں و اکثریتوں کی پناہ پر اجاگر کیا جائے۔ میں ڈائریکٹر قدسیہ رحیم اور مشاورتی گاہ بن گیا ہے، جو دن بدن جدیدیت کی کمیٹی میں رضا علی دادا، افتخار ڈاڈی ، نئی راہیں ہموار کرنے میں اہم کردار ادا ﻻہور بینال فاؤنڈیشن کا مرکزی نکتہ عائشہ جتوئی ، اور محسن حامد پر کر رہی ہیں۔ نظر عوامی شمولیت اور اشتراک ہے ۔ شامل ہیں۔ افتخار ڈاڈی تعلیمی مختلف فنکاروں ، گروپس ، اور اداروں مباحثہ اور اشاعت کا کام عائشہ جتوئی کثیر ثقافتی میراث اور متعدد تعلیمی کو فاؤنڈیشن کی طرف سے دعوت دی کی زیر نگرانی ہے، فن پاروں کو نسب اور ثقافتی اداروں کی بدولت اس شہر گئی ہے ، فاؤنڈیشن کو حکومتی تعاون کرنے کا کام قدسیہ رحیم کی سرپرستی نے کئی قابل اور باصﻻحیت فنکار پیدا حاصل ہے ادارتی مہارت کے فقدان کو میں کیا جائے گا۔ کئے ہیں جن میں سے بیشتر ملک کے ختم کرنے کے لیے فاؤنڈیشن نے ﻻہور مختلف دیہی اور شہری عﻻقوں میں اور عالمی دنیا کے درمیان خوشگوار سے ہیں ۔ ان کی فنکارانہ صﻻحیت نے تعلقات قائم کیے ہیں۔ ﻻہور بینال شہر کو عﻻقائی اور عالمی سطح پر فاؤنڈیشن کی اولین ترجیح عوامی تسلیم کروانے میں مدد دی ہے۔ اس سرگرمیوں کے ذریعے نظریات اور تجربات کے باوجود بین اﻻاقوامی سطح پر کا فروغ ہے، پچھلے تین سالوں سے فنی نمایاں حیثیت حاصل کرنے کے لیے مزید منصوبوں کی ترقی کے لیے مزید کام کوشش کی ضرورت ہے۔ کرنا ہی فاؤنڈیشن کی اولین ترجیح ہے۔ عﻻقائی اور عالمی سطح پر عصر حاضر فن میں مختلف عوامی رحجان کو میں بنائے جانے والے فن پارے اس دور جانچنے کے لیے ﻻہور اور عالمی سطح پر کی ثقافتی ترقی میں مختلف عوام کو سیاق و سباق تیار کیا جائے گا۔ اس حصہ دار بنانے میں اہم کردار ادا کر مقصد کے لئے فاؤنڈیشن آرٹ کو سکتے ہیں ۔ یہ اشتراک شہری اور غیر مختلف عوامی سرگرمیوں میں تشکیل 4 5 SITES 6 7 ۱9 8 مکتب MAKTAB Miniature Painting Atelier The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Tahir Ali-Saddique Canada offers visitors a window into Ahmed Javed worlds unknown or unfamiliar: the Ramzan Jafri artistic, intellectual, and scientific Shah Abdullah heritage of Muslim civilizations Syed Hussain Shakila Haider across the centuries from the Iberian Muzammil Khan Peninsula to China.
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