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Issue No. 20, February - May‘11

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Greetings colleagues and friends! With new collaborators joining Vasl, and the group extending its activities across , the pace and scope of our activi- ties quickens and extends. As ‘The Rising Tide’ exhibition at The Mohatta Palace Museum approaches its closing weeks, the title of this exhibition takes on changing resonances. Across the Arab world, history-challenging events have been taking place, with many of our colleagues in the arts among those joining protests against repressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East. Among them are -based Lara Baladi and Mohamed Abdelkarim, who both took part in the 2010 Vasl International Residency. Regretfully, Egyp- tian contemporary artist and teacher Ahmed Basiouny was among those tragi- cally killed during the protests in Cairo – protests that have bought monumen- tal changes to politics in and across the world. Adeel uz Zafar The manner in which protest movements have skipped from one terrain to from illustration work, (1998-2009) another across the Middle East, is testament to the power of strong networks led by personal meetings, cross-media communications and fraternal collabo- rations. In February, Vasl has hosted a ‘Knowledge and Skills Exchange’ resi- Artist In Focus Adeel Uz Zafar dency from Iranian artist Tooraj Khamenehzadeh. Tooraj is a coordinator of the This issue of the Vasl newsletter is the first to include a GS: Could you talk more about how working as an illustra- Rybon Art Centre in , (also part of the Triangle Network). As part of a featured artist, this time -based Adeel uz Zafar, tor has influenced the content of your imagery? Further, consolidating program that aims to secure the organizations which constitute whose largescale works on paper and canvas have been has illustration influenced the way that you produce your Adeel-uz-Zafar, ‘Mickey’ (detail), the Triangle Network, Triangle has initiated a series of residencies in which shown in group exhibitions through Pakistan since 2009 images? So how you decide to stage and render objects in Engraved-Drawing-on-Vinyl, 2011 coordinators share advice, troubleshoot their problems, and adopt new strate- when his first works of this kind were exhibited at the VM your work? gies for funding, organizing and sustaining activities. Gallery. Currently, Zafar’s work is on display at ‘The Rising Tide’, at the Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi, and it has AUZ: Working as an illustrator has helped me to investi- Since October, Vasl has hosted a run of ARTshares and ARTstudies at venues been featured in two group shows in Karachi this Febru- gate and experiment with different mediums and tech- across Karachi. Fahim Rao and Scheherezade Junejo have joined the Vasl team ary. For the newsletter, he has been interviewed by niques. I strongly feel that the linear quality of my work, to support these and other projects, and visiting on a coordinator’s residency, Gemma Sharpe. along with its intricacy, has a direct relation to how I pro- -based writer Gemma Sharpe is also working with Vasl. duced my illustrations. As an illustrator I also worked in a GS: Your work has become indentified for your method of 3D-animation post-production house. The way that the The next Vasl newsletter in June will include news on these and other upcom- ing activities, including the 2011 Vasl International Artists Residency, this year etching delicate lines into a black painted surface or pho- imagery in my work creates, on a two-dimensional sur- taking place in Islamabad in collaboration with Rhotas, and including artists tographic paper, and so revealing the white layer face, the illusion of a three-dimensional form, has a con- from Turkey, , South Africa and Pakistan. beneath. Your images are the culmination of these thou- nection with the knowledge I obtained working on sands of scratches. When and how was this method intro- assignments at that time. The practice of making a grid, Warmest wishes from Adeela Suleman, Gemma Sharpe, Scheherezade Junejo, duced into your practice? concentrating on the light source, and the texture and Ammad Tahir, Fahim Rao, Hassan Mustafa, Owais Khan and Javed Patras. surface of the image, are all important when you’re Adeel uz Zafar at work AUZ: In my college days I used to work in a very conven- making a character seem ‘alive’ within a moving image. In Please send your news and feedback to [email protected] tional way with oil paints. But after graduating from my work I am dealing all of these aspects of image pro- National College of Arts (NCA) in 1998 I became involved duction in my own way. in the work of creating illustrations for children’s story- books and reading materials. While working on these To make my recent works I have bandaged a stuffed toy, assignments I got a chance to live in the comparatively observed the object in detail, and under a constant studio remote and isolated Northern areas of Pakistan and it was light, tried to transform my investigation of the object here that I began producing images on photographic into an artwork by etching it onto a surface. While illus- paper. I was making drawings etched into paper with a trating professionally I would work on children’s story- knife because in that context conventional art materials books and I was dealing with projects full of fascinating were hard to come by. In the beginning however, my characters, creatures and animals. The content of this drawings on the sensitive drawing paper were rather imagery, and those characters, keeps returning to my more whimsical and imaginative than they are now. artwork and I’ve been influenced in this regard. Adeel uz Zafar at work

GS: You often use objects from a globalized ‘pop’ visual GS: Could you also talk about scale? You seem to be at Opportunities culture in your work – Mickey Mouse or King Kong, for your happiest when you're working on large surfaces. example. Despite their originating from a North American Participation: My City Stories visual culture, these objects can seem quite ‘neutral’ AUZ: I have been interested in working on a large scale Deadline: ongoing because of their global recognition. This leaves room for since my college days. Previously I would join small pieces In a series of participatory events, Vasl has teamed up with Faisal Anwar for the the interpretation of your work wide open. How impor- of work together in order to create large installations. Odd Spaces project that is taking place in various locations across North tant is it to you that a viewer recognizes that your Now I am reversing that process by zooming in on a small America and South Asia. As part of this ongoing project, Vasl collaborators are artworks also speak of a Pakistani culture and were object and rendering it on a large scale. There is a strong gathering narratives and anecdotes from across Pakistan to upload onto the created by a Pakistani artist? culture for making small artworks here – largely due to a ‘My City Stories’ website. The website is open for all to register and log their lack of space, commercial influences and institutional stories and images. Do take part in this extensive collaborative project! AUZ: Mickey Mouse and ‘The Kong’ are two fictional and limitations – so I do feel that in terms of display my works ageless characters that I have been familiar with since my are a visual treat for audiences. In production, every size For more information see: childhood. What they speak of history and the modern presents a challenge though working on a large scale http://www.vaslart.org/xhtml/artnow/events/My%20City%20Stories.html world in which I am living has provoked me to use them in involves such artistic and technical issues as surface ma- my work. Identity is important for me and I would like to nipulation, surface preparation, and the troubleshooting be viewed within the context of the historical, cultural, of physical logistics in the studio. While working on these social and political background that constitutes my origin larger images I literally have to do gymnastics! But these Workshop: ‘In conversation’, Wasanii International Artists’ Work- and the country in which I live. I cannot deny the fact that problems just make working on a large scale all the more shop, things are changing around us, and that we are living in a interesting for me! Deadline: 20th March, 2011 global and a metropolitan environment. It seems interest- ing, however, that if my work accepts ‘global images’ then GS: Where do you see the development of this work head- Artist Lara Baladi in Cairo, February 2010 From the 14th to the 28th August 2011, Kuona Trust Centre for Visual Arts will be it can also be looked at with a number of different per- ing now? holding its 11th International Artists’ Workshop. Applications are open for spectives. I am not orthodox or a fundamentalist and I’m artists and art writers working in all disciplines. Wasanii International Arists’ open to all new ideas. I can see a development in my work that is quite subtle, Workshop is part of the Triangle Network and this year’s theme is ‘In Conversa- and not perhaps obvious at first. The characters I repre- tion’. The emphasis this year is on discussion, dialogue and debate. Though Historically, Asian art has this tendency to demonstrate its sent are beginning to ‘unhide’ themselves – emerging artists will not be discouraged from making art, the goal of this workshop is to own craftsmanship, and it often has a linear quality – take from the bandages, for example. I don’t want to push encourage conversation around artists’ practice, and to document this artistic for example Chinese prints, Indian miniatures and mytho- things to change too quickly and I want a natural progres- exchange across cultures. logical , and Iranian calligraphy, etc. Art prac- sion to take place across the imagery. There are so many tices can be divided and differentiated according to possibilities to examine within this particular technique For more information see: different regions, but extracting something from your that I’m applying. I’m exploring its potential and its limita- http://www.kuonatrust.org/Activities/InternationalWorkshops/tabid/102/Default.aspx origin, and blending that with your understanding of glo- tions, while waiting for the right time to reveal new balization in the contemporary world is a way to step changes. ahead. http://www.adeeluzzafar.com/ GS: You practice from a studio at home. Aside from the Residency: Religare Art Gemma Sharpe is a writer from London, currently living in works that we know from group exhibitions here in Paki- Adeel uz Zafar Deadline: 24th March, 2011 stan, are there other experiments taking place in your Karachi. She has completed an MFA from Goldsmiths and illustration work, (1998-2009) studio? worked for the ICA in London, Afterall, Gasworks and the Religare Art announces the continuation of The Why Not Place Residency Pro- Triangle Arts Trust. She has published widely in Europe gramme for the year 2011. Applications for the program are now available on and South Asia. the Religare website. AUZ: Besides making these larger works I do sketch, and I teach O and A level art which means that I’m demonstrat- For more information see: http://www.religareart.com/ ing different techniques to the students and therefore playing around with other mediums and colors in the classroom. I also work with life drawing and I have been doing – recently participating in printmak- ing workshop at Indus Valley with Australian printmaker Award: Festival Images Michael Kempson. My hand-drawn etchings and my Deadline: 15th April, 2011 printmaking practice have a connection and I would love to investigate that further and I am planning for that. In The 8th Vevey International Photo Award is open to all artists, and profes- my studio I keep experimenting with how the etching sional or student photographers. An amount of CHF 40,000 (around EUR 30,000) is awarded for the development, realization and presentation of the works function on different surfaces. More recently I am winning project, and the 6th European First Film Award is solely open to film- experimenting digital printed canvasses. makers who are European film school graduates (2010, 2009, and 2008). The Award, which amounts to EUR 30,000 in total, is split equally between three It is a very painstaking technique, but making a drawing – Adeel uz Zafar, illustration work, (1998-2009) projects to begin a new film production. in any medium – through careful and technical marks, is far easier for me than scratching a surface. When you For more information see: http://www.images.ch/ scratch the surface like this the mark is irreversible and impossible to correct if you make a mistake. But I like to take that pain! It is a kind of meditation and it also gives me a chance to check my patience and tolerance.

VASL News

Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, coordinator residency Vasl International Residency, Islamabad

Iranian artist and Rybon Art Center coordinator Tooraj Khamene- Vasl’s International Residency will this year take place in Islamabad, hzadeh undertook a two week residency at Vasl as part of the extending the branches of Vasl to inaugurate a new collaboration. Triangle Network’s ‘Knowledge and Skills Sharing Programme’. The The residency is organised in collaboration with Rhotas and it will Triangle Network was established with the advent of the first inter- be held at the Rhotas Rawan farm outside the city. Throughout national artists’ workshop in New York State in 1982. Working Vasl’s history there has been a strong precedent for collaboration groups facilitating further workshops (such as Vasl Artists’ Collective with working groups outside Karachi – largely in – and we and Khoj in India) took on the model and developed it in their own hope that this pilot project in Islamabad will bring new and interest- regions, eventually expanding their activities, acquiring spaces and ing approaches to Vasl activities while strengthening our collabora- running long term programs. Over the last few years, Triangle has tive bonds across the country. The residency will take place started working with organizations such as Rybon Art Centre, between the 14th of March and the 19th of April, and will culminate Tooraj Khamenehzadeh at the Jinnah Mausoleum Puppet Run. A Rybon Art Centre Project, 2010 which, instead of growing out of Triangle activities, were estab- in a public open day. The participating artists include Basak Akca- lished independently of the network. Rybon now ‘fills a gap’ within kaya, (Turkey), Khanyisile Mbongwa, (South Africa), Debanjan Roy, Triangle, “completing the old route of the Silk Road” and linking (India), Muzzamil Ruheel, (Pakistan), Naqsh Raj, (Pakistan), and Iranian artists with others across the Middle East and internation- Syed Hassan Mujtaba, (Pakistan). ally. For more information see: Network and organization sustainability is highly important to http://www.vaslart.org/xhtml/artnow/residencies/2010/vasl_rohtas_r Triangle, particularly in the light of increased funding restrictions on all organizations after the recent global economic downturn. There- fore, the ‘Knowledge and Skills Sharing Program’ was initiated. Vasl Events Administrated from Gasworks in London, the program supports network coordinators in their activities. Coordinator residencies Since October , Vasl has hosted seven art ARTstudies and ARTshares, allow core working group members to visit other organizations bringing together friends and students to discuss artists’ works facing similar issues to their own, to gather vital information, secure within a gallery exhibition or at institutions in Karachi. An ARTstudy collaborative links and reconsider their approach to organizational for Quddus Mirza and Mohammad Ali Talpur’s exhibition, ‘SEE/SAW’ Saba Qizilbash, ARTshare at Art Chowk Gallery, January 2010 planning. Though Pakistan and Iran are geographical neighbors and at Canvas Gallery took place in November, with another ARTstudy at ARTshare with Tooraj Khamenehzadeh and Gemma Sharpe, February 2011 links are shared in Vasl and Rybon’s strategic approach to organizing the same gallery in February examining Ahsan Jamal and Madhia activities, there are many significant differences; particularly the Sikander’s group exhibition, ‘Two is a Company’. At the opening of restriction placed on Iranian nationals obtaining funds from foreign the IVS Thesis in December, an ARTstudy took place that organizations – an embargo that severely restricts their ability to critically examined the students’ work, and in January, on the occa- fundraise. Issues of fundraising, censorship, and undertaking artistic sion of her solo exhibition at Art Chowk Gallery in Karachi, Saba activities within volatile political regions were of importance in Qizilbash presented her work for a Vasl ARTshare. ARTshares have Tooraj’s discussions with Vasl coordinators and artists in Karachi. As also been held by Iranian artist and Rybon Art Center coordinator part of his residency Tooraj shared his work with the public and Tooraj Khamenehzadeh as part of his residency at Vasl – at the Indus students at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi Valley School of Art and Architecture, (and, with writer Gemma School of Art, and Karachi University. Sharpe), at the Karachi School of Art and Karachi University.

For more information see: For more information see: http://www.rybonartcenter.com/ http://www.vaslart.org/xhtml/artpublic/artshare/index.html http://www.vaslart.org/xhtml/artpublic/artstudy/index.html Ahsan Jamal and Madhia Sikander ARTstudy at Rhotas Rawan Farm, Islamabad 'Two is a Company’, Canvas Gallery Karachi, February 2011 Artists in the Network & Beyond \ In Diaspora

Remembering Nagori Sumbul Khan selected as one of five Forum Fellows at the 2011 Dubai Art Fair Born in 1938 in the Indian state of Junagarh, A.R. Nagori’s career as an artist in Pakistan was significant, urgent and at times, incendiary. In 2011, Art Dubai launches Forum Fellows as part of the Global Art Exhibiting widely in Pakistan and across the world, he not only Forum. The Forum Fellows is a program that aims to bring together made his mark as an artist, but also as a teacher and a social activist. a group of five exceptional young curators and artists from select His anti-dictatorship exhibitions that pressed against the Zia cities across the Middle East and Asia together with their colleagues regime, led to controversy and at times, show closures. Yet remain- from the Gulf. Invited to the UAE for the week of March 14-19, the ing in Pakistan and contributing to artistic and social life through his Fellows will be offered the opportunity to engage with speakers, efforts, Nagori also played a significant role within Pakistani culture themes and debates at the Global Art Forum, to attend a series of by setting up the fine arts department at University. workshops in curating, writing, and arts administration and to take part in all aspects of Art Dubai, artists’ projects, talks and perfor- He passed away on the 14th of January in Karachi and was remem- mances. The fellows were selected from the cities of Antakya, Kara- bered at a public event at the Foundation for the Museum of chi, Tehran, Jerusalem and Dhaka. Sumbul Khan is the curator of Modern Art (FOMMA) at Unicorn Art Gallery the following week. Poppy Seed Gallery in Karachi.

A comprehensive website dedicated to Nagori’s work can be For more information see: viewed here: http://www.arnagori.com/index.php http://www.artdubai.ae/Details.php?ref=YHGipHSlkpGZY2Q%YHGip

Triangle Network: new website and booklaunch at Rashid Rana’s solo show at London’s Lisson Gallery Gasworks, London 30th March - 30th April, 2011 Rashid Rana, ‘Off Shore Accounts’, 2006 Lambda print, site-specific installation at Asia House, London Rebranded and redesigned, the Triangle Arts Trust is now the At London’s prominent Lisson Gallery, established in 1967 by Nicho- Triangle Network and a new Triangle website is being launched at las Logsdail, Rashid Rana will exhibit in March. Lisson Gallery’s Cura- Gasworks in London as part of the event ‘Home and Abroad’. The torial Director Greg Hilty says that, “Rashid Rana’s work demon- event is combined with the launch of a publication documenting strates a powerful interplay between formal structure and highly the first Triangle Workshop in . The new website features charged content, creating a genuine hybrid of Asian and Western news on talks, workshops, residencies and exhibitions around the artistic traditions.” Rana will be presenting key works that utilize world, as well as opportunities from over thirty Triangle network photographic imagery, including photographs, installations and partners. large-scale photographic prints. A new monograph on the artist published by Chatterjee & Lal and Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, For more information see: will be available throughout the exhibition. http://www.trianglenetwork.org/ For more information see: ‘Fatah Jay Aassay Paassay: In the Milieu of Fatah http://www.lissongallery.com/#/exhibitions/2011-03-30_rashid-rana/ Halepoto’, nominated as one of twelve notable recent publications in the ArtAsiaPacific 2010 Alma- Green Cardamom collaborates with Abbot Hall Art nac. Gallery in Kendal, England, on the latest installment The Green Cardamom publication ‘Fatah Jay Aassay Paassay: In the of ‘Drawn from Life’. Milieu’ of Fatah Halepoto, (published in 2010 on the occasion of the 15th January - 26th March, 2011 exhibition of the same name at VM Gallery in Karachi), was featured in the ArtAsiaPacific’s ‘notable volumes for 2010’ – an achievement Bringing a selection of international artists to a rural part of Europe for publishing activities dedicated to Pakistani contemporary art. almost totally unexposed to displays of Pakistani contemporary art, Edited by Anita Dawood, the book features work by Imran Channa, this edition of ‘Drawn from Life’, brings together works by over forty Nizam Dahiri, Fakeero, Ayesha Jatoi, Arif Hussain Khokhar, Ahmed artists from a wide geographical spectrum. The exhibition uses Ali Manganhar and Mohammad Ali Talpur. Curated by Hammad drawing to explore questions of identity and history, creating a Nasar and Mohammad Ali Talpur, the exhibition explored the influ- dialogue between international contemporary artists and Abbot Green Cardamom exhibition, 'Drawn from Life', installation view at Abott Hall Gallery, Kendal. Works by Ali Kazim and Noa Lidor ence of Fatah Halepoto, renowned artist, teacher and writer from Hall's collection of 18th-20th century British art. ‘Drawn from Life’ is Sindh. The book is available at VM Gallery, the Mohatta Palace curated by Hammad Nasar, curator and co-founder of Green Carda- Museum and Koel Gallery in Karachi, and at The Last Word in Lahore. mom in collaboration with Helen Watson, Artistic Director of the Lakeland Arts Trust. The exhibition includes works from Hamra For more information see: Abbas, Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi, Ayaz Jokhio, Ali Kazim, Ahmed http://www.greencardamom.net/exhibitions/exhibitions_page.php?i Ali Manganhar, Rehana Mangi, Imran Mudassar, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Seher Shah, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Mohammed Ali Talpur, and Zarina and Muhammad Zeeshan. ‘Imag[in]ing Cities’, Sparck, (Space for Panafrican Research Creation and Knowlegde) at Amin Gulgee For more information see: Gallery, Karachi http://www.abbothall.org.uk/current-exhibitions http://www.greencardamom.net/projects/projects_page.php?id=19 In February, Amin Gulgee Gallery in Karachi hosted a major film, video and installation exhibition by Sparck, (Kadiatou Diallo and Dominique Malaquais), a pan-African initiative of experimental Pakistani artists featured as part of the Menasa multi-disciplinary residencies, workshops, symposia, exhibitions, Studio project, ‘Dispatches’, at Art Dubai publications and performances. Including artists from Pakistan and across the African continent, this two-day exhibition was an oppor- 16th -19th March, 2011 tunity to bring African film and video to Pakistan, and to initiate a South-South artistic dialogue. The MENASA Studio Dispatches are a series of sixty five-minute audio works, commissioned by The Island and Art Dubai Projects, by For more information see: artists working across the North Africa, Middle East and South Asia http://sparck.org/ regions. Each dispatch reflects the artists’ current work and they http://aminigulgee.com/gallery/gallery.html range in form the spoken word and music to abstract sound collages. As well as creating a living archive of artistic practice Haider Ali Jan on residency at Aberystwyth Arts across the region, the dispatches interrogate the contemporary notion of the ‘studio’ and the accelerated expansion of related tech- Centre, Wales nologies over recent years, which have transformed the way in Green Cardamom exhibition, 'Drawn from Life', installation view at Abott Hall Gallery, Kendal which knowledge is produced and disseminated. Supported by the Charles Wallace Trust, Lahore-based artist and Vasl collaborator is currently taking part in a three-month residency The artists’ work will be exhibited at ArtDubai between the 15th and in Aberystwyth in Wales. Haider says of his work, “I was brought up 19th of March via listening posts around the fair. The work will also in Lahore’s inner or old city, known for among other things, its be serialised on Art International Radio (artonair.org), and local celebration of Muharram. One of the rituals of Muharram is for men Dubai station Dubai Eye during the week of the fair. The works will to beat themselves with knives. As a child I used to dream of the day subsequently be archived and publicly accessible on-line at The I would become a part of the community, earning the respect of my Island’s website. The featured artists include: Hamra Abbas, Bani elders. My work is inquisitive; through it, I try to make sense of the Abidi, Leena Ahmed & Ian Fletcher (Mauj Media Collective), Faisal world around me…” Anwar, Faiza Butt, Iftikhar Dadi, Naiza Khan and Huma Mulji.

For more information see: For more information see: http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/information/jan.shtml http://theislandarts.org/exhibitions/menasa-studio-dispatches http://www.artdubai.ae/Details.php?ref=YHGipHSlkpGZY2I SPARK, Space for Panafrican Research Creation and Knowledge

A.R. Nagori, 'Missing Persons', Oil on Canvas (1938 - 2011)

Galleries & Exhibitions Timeline

Canvas Gallery IVS Gallery Raqs e Bismil Jewellery Show 8th -12th May, 2011 31st March - 2nd April, 2011 Solo Show Group Show Summiya Durrani Ambar Sami 1st -10th March, 2011 16th March - 2nd April, 2011 Ahmed Ali Mangangar. Curated by Quddus ‘Hamaari Kahaniyan’. Curated by Nafisa Rizvi Chawkandi Art Solo Show Mirza 7th -23rd April, 2011 Solo Show Aqeel Solangi Group Show David Alesworth, 'Gardens of Babel', Group Show 6th -15th April, 2011 22nd March, 2011 at Rhotas II, 2011 15th -24th March, 2011 ‘CHAIR’ Coordinated by Arshad Farooqui Atif Khan Solo Show Curated by Mohammad Ali Talpur 28th April - 14th May, 2011 Group Show Solo Show Uzma Sultan Solo Show 20th April - 14th May, 2011 5th April, 2011 29th March - 7th April, 2011 Curated by Zarmeene Shah Imran Mudassar Rohtas II Amjad Ali Talpur Solo Show Solo Show Group Show VM Art Gallery 19th April, 2011 9th - 17th March, 2011 Rabia Zuberi 12th -21st April, 2011 Nashmia Haroon Farooq Mustafa and Asad Husain Break the Silo Solo Show 9th - 23rd March, 2011 Solo Show Solo Show 3rd May, 2011 Saqib Mughal 21st - 2nd April, 2011 Mussarat Mirza 26th April - 5th May, 2011 Faiza Butt Tabinda Chinoy Group Show 28th March - 12th April, 2011 Solo Show Ahmed Ali Manganhar, ‘Shama Parwana’, 10th -19th May, 2011 Items of Dual Use Koel Gallery 6th - 6th April, 2011 Courtesy Canvas Gallery Durriya Kazi Curated by Waheeda Baloch Tahmina Ahmed Group show 24th May - 2nd June, 2011 Group Show 10th - 24th March, 2011 Solo Show Masuma Halai Khwaja 18th - 30th April, 2011 Body in 6’ x 3’ 18th - 30th April, 2011 The Family Curated by Usman Ghauri Imran Mudassar

Resources and Links Afterall Online Ubuweb DocuWatch An online journal edited by the team that run Afterall Journal, Ubuweb is a large web-based educational resource for avant Afterall Publishing and events, run out of Central St Martins in garde film and cultural material. Founded in 1996, it offers A free streaming website for thousands of documentaries Amra Khan, ‘Right here in my arms’, London, the Van Abe Museum in Eindhoven, and Universidad visual, concrete and sound poetry, along with film and sound across subjects and disciplines. at Silsila, Koel Gallery Internacional de Andalucía. art from across the world and throughout the 20th and 21st http://www.docuwat.ch/watch-documentaries/ century. http://afterall.org/ http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/film/

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