Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts

In conjunction with the international conference in Delhi titled ‘Elective Affinities, Constitutive Differences: Contemporary Art in Asia’, we will host presentations by international scholars Shaheen Merali on March 7, 2007 at 6.00 pm at the Max Mueller Auditorium and Lu Jie and Marian Pastor Roces will present on March 14, 2007 at 4.00 pm and 6.30pm respectively at the Audio Visual Room, National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. This program is organized by the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts in association with the Biennale Society, The School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Open Circle and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai.

We will host a presentation and discussion titled ‘The Oeuvre of Somnath Hore: wounds that refused to heal/wounds that he refused to heal’ by art historian Sanjoy K. Mallik on January 24, 2007 at 6.30 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is free and open to all.

We will host a presentation and discussion titled ‘Fast Futures: Asian Video Art’ by art historian and curator Johan Pijnappel on December 15, 2006 at 6.30 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is organised in association with the Asia Society India Centre and is free and open to all.

We will host a presentation and discussion titled ‘Taking Place: Acts of Survival for a Time to Come’, by art historian and curator, Charles Merewether, on November 24, 2006 at 6.30 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The presentation will be moderated by art critic and writer, Girish Shahane.

The program is organised in association with the Biennale Society, Delhi and is free and open to all.