PhotoKTM4 - Opening Week Schedule 3-9 Dec 2020

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Dear friends, 

We are very happy to announce the schedule for the Opening Week of PhotoKTM4 and look forward to seeing you next week for some or all of this! Zoom registration links for each event are mentioned below. 

Thursday, 3rd Dec 2020 

3:00 – 5:00pm NST | Review Sessions 

Diwas Raja Kc, Fiza Khatri, Sunitha Kumar Emmart and Paroma Mukherjee will meet with Shwe Wutt Hmon, Su Cassiano, Yu Yu Myint Than, Vamika Jain, Rupesh Man Singh, Bunu Dhungana, Younes Mohammad and Sabrina Dangol. Registrations for this event are now closed. 

7:00 – 8:30pm NST | OPENING NIGHT PKTM4 

Opening Night will be a casual gathering of the festival community with a brief presentation of plans for the upcoming year by the festival director, followed by a Zoom party. Opening night is open to ALL! Please register here to join. 

Friday, 4th Dec 2020 

3:00 – 5:00pm NST | Review Sessions 

Meenakshi Thikukode, Kishor Sharma, Emma Bowkett, and Sumit Dayal will meet with Eleonore Sok, Michelle Chan, Muzamil Mattoo, Natthaya Thaidecha, Mahendra Khadka, Rojan Shrestha, Monika Deupala and Swarat Ghosh. Registrations for this event are now closed. 

7:00 – 8:30pm NST | Collective Thinking and Making: The Confluence Collective X Thuma Collective 

This conversation between The Confluence Collective from Sikkim and the Darjeeling Hills in India and Thuma Collective from Myanmar will discuss each of their work, and explore possibilities of collective thinking, making and being, and challenges and strengths of shared authorship. Please register here. 

Saturday, 5th Dec 2020 

9:00 – 11:00am NST - MIXER 1 

Please register here. 

7:00 – 9:00pm NST - MIXER 2 

Please register here.

Join us for casual meet & greets with new and old friends! These networking events are part of core PKTM4 programming. 

Monday, 7th Dec 2020 

3:00 – 5:00pm NST | Review Sessions 

Umer Butt, Emeka Okereke, 13 Jara, and Adil Hasan will meet with Uma Bista, Indu Antony, Jaisingh Nageswaran, Joe Paul Cyriac, Kai Yokoyama, Kunga Tashi Lepcha, Karma Tshering Gurung, and Pawan Joshi. Registrations for this event are now closed. 

7:00 – 8:30pm NST | Red is the Colour of Spring: Prasiit Sthapit in conversation with Aunohita Majumdar 

Kathmandu based photographer Prasiit Sthapit presents his latest project Red is the Colour of Spring in which he explores the promise of justice, and the hopes and heartbreak that shape revolution and reconciliation. He will be joined in conversation by senior Southasian journalist Aunohita Majumdar who has lived and worked in post/conflict societies including Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Please register here. 

Tuesday, 8th Dec 2020 

3:00 – 5:00pm NST | Review Sessions 

Sarker Protick, Frédéric Lecloux, Newsha Tavakolian, Kosuke Okahara and Candice Jansen will meet with Praveen Chettri, Jack Yong, Anupam Diwan, Ufaq Fatima, Nida Mehboob, Sathish Kumar Purushothaman, Soumyendra Saha, Alessandro Cinque, Ankur Yadav, and Gena Kagermanov. Registrations for this event are now closed. 

7:00 – 8:30pm NST | Queer Records: A South Asian Collab: Aziz Sohail, Sumitra Sunder, and Diwas Raja Kc 

PhotoKTM4 invites Aziz Sohail (Pakistan), Sumitra Sunder (India), and Diwas Raja Kc (Nepal) to bring together practitioners from across South Asia to open up new perspectives on queer art practice and posit them in a regional archive that serves as a site of collectivity, speculation, and creation. Through this collaboration, we project queerness as a category that is faithless to borders and boundaries. During this year-long initiative, writers, artists, and cultural practitioners will be invited to describe and document the broader South Asian region queerly. Nepal Picture Library will home these impressions on an online platform dedicated to the project. As a launch event for this engagement, this panel invites the three conveners/curators to present their work as well as their visions for the coming year. Please register here. 

Wednesday, 9th Dec 2020 

7:00 - 9:00am NST | Review Sessions 

Gwen Lee Dec, Chelsea Matiash and Noelle Flores Théard will meet with Chemi Dorje Lama, Senthil Kumaran, Rajendran Rahmad, Azhar Hutomo, Kishor Maharjan, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Tripty Tamang Pakhrin. Registrations for this event are now closed. 

7:00 - 9:00pm NST | Artist Talk: Monica Alcazar-Duarte 

In her projects Monica Alcazar-Duarte seamlessly mixes images and new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, to create multi-layered work. In recent years Monica has mainly focused on the human relationship with Nature and our current use of technology and science as an attempt to gain control over it. Through the use of interactive images Monica’s work engages audiences in the process of producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives. Alcazar-Duarte’s work confronts our obsession with speed, growth and a better future, and highlights our collective failure in accepting Nature’s evolutionary systems with its slow but incremental change. Please register here.