DHAKA ART SUMMIT 2018 THE OPENING CELEBRATORY WEEKEND FRIDAY – 2 FEBRUARY 2–4 FEBRUARY SUNDAY – 4 FEBRUARY Opening Performance of and Hong Kong discuss diverse forms Architecture Tour of Muzharul Islam’s Parliamentary Member of West Bengal), ‘A Utopian Stage; Below the Levels of institution building that are innovated SATURDAY – 3 FEBRUARY Dhaka with Architecture Historians Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director, Para Where Differences Appear’ from local needs and how they build local Nurur Khan and Aurelien Lemonier Site, Hong Kong), Eyal Weizman (Founder, 10–11:30am, entrance of Bangladesh expertise to protect and drive forward 9am–12pm, offsite tour Forensic Architecture). Shilpakala Academy art (historical) discourse. Reetu Sattar, Lost Tune, co-commissioned Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (Director-General, Can All Art Be Public? Furthering Non-Western Narratives by Samdani Art Foundation and Liverpool Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscapes 11am–12pm, Auditorium from Within the Institution Biennial, in association with Archaeology of and Settlements), Cosmin Costinas A discussion between curators 1:30–2:50pm, Auditorium the Final Decade (Executive Director, Para Site, Hong Kong), Dr. Helen Pheby (Senior Curator, Yorkshire Leading curators of contemporary A Utopian Stage… presents a series Koyo Kouoh (Founding Director, RAW Sculpture Park), Alexie Glass Kantor art and architecture discuss their recent of contemporary live performances Material Company, Dakar), Jeannette Plaut (Director, Artspace, Sydney), Ruxmini and upcoming work which challenges and film screenings that respond to (Founder, Constructo, Santiago), Zoe Butt Choudhury (Assistant Curator, Dhaka Art and furthers international understanding of the transcendental spirit of exchange (Director, The Factory, Ho Chi Minh City), Summit), Sally Tallant art outside of the Western canon between Asian and European/American Sharmini Pereira (Founder, Raking Leaves, (Director, Liverpool Biennial), and artists or international art fair circuits, speaking of expressions at the Festival of Arts, Colombo), moderated by Diana Campbell Rashid Rana and Munem Wasif about the ethics and responsibility of engaging Shiraz-Persepolis, between 1967 and 77. Betancourt (Samdani Art Foundation). how to rethink audience engagement locally and internationally A project of Archaeology of the Final beyond traditional formats. in increasingly nationalistic times. Decade, curated by Vali Mahlouji. Rising Oceans and Conflict: Shanay Jhaveri (Assistant Curator, From Bangladesh to Planetary Scale Vikram Sarabhai, Illustrated Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Every Kind of Sun by Neha Choksi 3:30–5:30pm, Auditorium Lecture by Matti Braun Sean Anderson (Associate Curator, Museum Installation with live interaction from Organised by TBA21–Academy and Reetu Sattar, Lost Tune, performance at 17th Asian Art Biennale, 12:30–1:20pm, Auditorium of Modern Art, New York), February 2-10, 10am-1pm & 5-8pm, 1st floor INTERPRT, this panel brings together Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 2016. Courtesy the artist This illustrated lecture examines Tarun Nagesh (Associate Curator, QAGOMA, The Opening Celebratory Weekend lobby. Daily performances from 4-8 pm artists, architects and curators, to locate the biography of Vikram Sarabhai Bribane), Eungie Joo (Curator Every Kind Of Sun presents an Bangladesh and the rising waters of the Louis Kahn Parliament Transnational Art and Architecture (1919–71), father of the Indian space of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, 2–4 February intergenerational obsession over the sun, world’s oceans at the frontier of global Architectural Tour Histories Rooted in Bangladesh programme, showing how his work San Francisco), moderated by Devika Singh without which none of us would exist. It is Climate Change. The panel will explore the 9am–12pm, offsite tour 4–5:20pm, Auditorium intersected with leading international (University of Cambridge) our powerful magic orb and a cursed ball of agency of cross-disciplinary research on Art historians and family members discuss modernist figures and cultural devel- fire, both energizing and overheating life on oceans and investigative tools of Forensic Rehearing the Witness: the importance of international exchange opments of 20th-century India. Total Anastrophes, earth. Architecture for gathering and presenting The Bhawal Court Case; and transnational networks and encounters 8th Volcano Extravaganza evidence on environmental destruction. A Performance by Zuleikha Chaudhari with Bangladesh in the work of Muzharul Diving deeper into Bangladesh, the 3–8pm, Auditorium Notes on a Film on Santiniketan closed-door workshop will follow this panel 10am–2:15pm, Auditorium Islam and Louis Kahn, Novera Ahmed, Sahid Oceans, the Pacific, and Forms of Illustrated Lecture by The Otolith Group in the Education Pavilion on Feb 3rd and a Using a historical trial, conducted Sajjad, Mohammad Kibria, and Pacita Abad. Justice Backstory, Illustrated lecture by Amie 11–11:50am, Education Pavilion special event with Eyal Weizman, Sugata in Dhaka about a possible impostor, Martino Sterli (Chief Curator of Architec- 112:30-1:30pm, exhibition space of a beast, a Siegel Since 2012, The Otolith Group have been Bose, Cosmin Costinas and Nabil Ahmed on to re-examine the enormous archive, ture, Museum of Modern Art, New York), god, and a line 5:30-6:30pm – Education Pavilion developing a work that engages with what Feb 4th. this performance from Bearing Points Rezaul Karim Sumon (Art Historian), This discussion between artist, architect, An associative talk on the speculative, Gayatri Spivak calls the aesthetic education is a means of rendering problematic Nurur Khan (Architect and Architecture academic, politician, and curator draws links imitative and extractive actions within of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. Total Anastrophes, 8th Volcano the notions of evidence, archive, and Historian), Mariah Lookman (Artist and between environmental and political design, art and auctions in connection to The lecture-performance by The Otolith Extravaganza identity, and is realised in collaboration Art Historian), Juneer Kibria (Artist), Jack violence connected to the exhibition a India— on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier, on Group will present scenes from the 6–8pm, Auditorium with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. Garrity (Fundacion Pacita Center for beast, a god, and a line and artist Nabil Pierre Jeanneret, John Pawson and Donald aesthetic sociality engendered in and by Transforming the inside of the auditorium the Arts, Baso, Philippines), moderated Ahmed’s research on Bangladesh and the Judd, on modernism, minimalism and Kala Bhavana at Visva Bharati. into the inner echo chamber of an active Reorienting Collections by Diana Campbell Betancourt (Samdani Art Pacific. This presentation is supported by marketing—how these iconographies, and volcano, performative interventions will and Rethinking the Canon Foundation). TBA21-Academy and the Harvard South the behaviors of design and art markets, Another Asia evoke themes of isolation and distance; 2:30–3:50pm, Auditorium Asia Institute. both mask and disclose the flow of capital. 12–1:50pm, Auditorium memory and mysticism; cosmic energy and Museum directors from large-scale Low Relief, Illustrated Lecture Nabil Ahmed (artist and researcher), Sugata This accompanies the artist’s film Art historians and curators discuss the violence of nature; improvisation and international art institutions in the UK, by Lucy Raven Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History presentations in the exhibition Planetary the past, present, and possible future theatre. Europe, USA, and Asia discuss how 5:30–6:15pm, Auditorium and Affairs at Harvard University and Planning. for inter-Asia artistic exchange and Curated by Milovan Farronato, with Artistic their museums are reorienting their Low Relief connects research into bas-relief the steps necessary to revive these vibrant Leader Runa Islam and a core group of Alex programming and collections to include art sculpture in both India and the United transnational histories. Cecchetti, Patrizio di Massimo, Haroon from South Asia. States to the illusion of depth created in Dr. Rustom Bharucha (JNU, New Delhi), Mirza, Tobias Putrih, Osman Yousefzada, Glenn Lowry (Director, Museum of Modern stereoscopic 3D films, and the globally- Dr. Siva Kumar (Visva Bharati, Santiniketan), with further participants to be announced. Art, New York), Frances Morris (Director, connected, labour-intensive processes of Suman Gopinath (Independent Curator), Produced by the Fiorucci Art Trust. Tate Modern, London), Doryun Chong post-production involved. Johnson Chang (West Heavens Project (Deputy Director, M+, Hong Founder, Co-founder Asia Art Archive), Announcement of Samdani Art Award Kong), Sebastian Cichocki (Deputy Director, Total Anastrophes, Dr. Yin Ker (NTU Singapore), Syed by Dr. Maria Balshaw Museum of Modern Art, 8th Volcano Extravaganza Jahangir (formerly director of Bangladesh 9pm, Offsite (By Invitation Only) Warsaw), moderated by Sabih Ahmed 7–8pm, Auditorium Shilpakala Academy), moderated (Senior Researcher, Asia Art Archive). by Mark Rappolt (ArtReview). dhakaartsummit.org instagram.com/dhakaartsummit Decolonising and Building Art @DhakaArtSummit Institutions in the Global South facebook.com/DhakaArtSummit 2–3:20pm, Auditorium DAS2018 Art professionals from Bangladesh, Ayesha Sultana, Threshold, 2012–13, solarised, scratched photographs with glue. # Courtesy the artist and collection of Prateek and Priyanka Raja Senegal, Chile,