Symposiums

Speakers: Nilima Sheikh, Sheba Chhachhi, Sonia Khurana, Kumkum Sangri
Moderator: Gayatri Sinha

In the second session of this panel, the discussion shifted its focus from the female body to the sexualized space. The talk progressed in the context of how the body is seen inhabiting and exploring a male discourse by assuming the position of a speaking subject. The sexualized space in India has to withstand and navigate through the challenges of the state, which is constantly in a state of flux, never fully formed and can be characterized as a space for trauma. 

This was Part II of the seventh symposium in the Museum Document series, curated by Gayatri Sinha. 

Speakers: T J Demos, Saloni Mathur

The symposium saw T J Demos address the relationship between art practice and environmental activism. He talked about the essential need for political ecology in order to approach the question of our relationship to nature in explicitly political way, which he saw lacking in Documenta but covered exhaustively in the Third Text issue, edited by him. He further delineated the four ways in which he has approached the term in the journal and then went on to identify the site of tensions between these approaches. Demos elaborated on his interests in areas of practice where artistic contributions of film, documentary photography and literature can be brought together and links are created to a larger social movement.

This was the sixth symposium in the Museum Document series by Gayatri Sinha.