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Post Natyam Collective - February 2006
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One of the ways in which we have been trying to contribute to building and expanding this community is by sharing information with you about events and resources, as you can see in the information compiled at the end of each newsletter. We want to spread the news about selected progressive South Asian art events that happen in all the different places that our friends reside - primarily North America, Europe and India. If you find the kind of information we have listed in our pointers below useful, please consider joining the Post Natyam Network where you will get such notices almost daily, and can post your own as well. To join, send a blank e-mail to postnatyam-net...@googlegroups.com . Spread the word!
Thanks to all of you for being a part of our community and giving your support, interest, and inspiration!
Sandra, Shyamala, Anjali and Sangita
Post Natyam
Post Natyam Performance:
Los Angeles:
Post Natyam Pointers :
Short listings:
Events:
1. New Delhi: Screening of the documentary Waiting..., 1 February 2006
2. New York : Screening of Bollywood Terror, 9 February 2006
3. Mumbai: Via Mumbai - Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World, "International Conference, 13-15 February 2006
Calls for Submissions/Grants/Workshops
1. The Voices Writing Workshops, early deadline 1 February 2006
2. GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM, CANADA, deadline 10 February 2006
3. Kathak at the Crossroads, conference, overseas postmark deadline 10 February, North America deadline 15 February 2006
4. ArtWallah Festival Call for Submissions, deadline extended to 15 February 2006
5.Book project on the Aesthetics of Failure, deadline 15 February 2006
Detailed Listings:
Events:
1. New Delhi:
SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY Waiting...
Date: Wednesday, 1 Feb, 2006
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Womens Press Corps. 5 Winsdor Place, (at the Janpath Ashoka Road round-about), New Dehi
Waiting...a documentary on disappearances in Kashmir has been refused a certification by the Revising Committee of the CBFC on the grounds that "the film does not deal with the complex and poignant situation in Kashmir in a comprehensive manner (letter dated 13.12.05. from CBFC to Atul Gupta)." The Revising committee did not give any hearing to the producer/director who was present and available, which is legally untenable.
Just a year back another documentary, Final Solution, was meted a similar treatment but the government had to buckle in under public pressure and grant the film a certification without a cut when a few months earlier the film was judged by the CBFC as not fit for public exhibition. And now it is the turn of this new film that takes a close look at the phenomena of the disappearance of people in the conflict ridden state of Kashmir.
Waiting... is directed by Shabnam Ara and Atul Gupta and produced by Delhi Biscope Company Pvt. Ltd.
Synopsis:
This is a story of missing people, boys and men who were picked up by security forces and then simply disappeared. Sandwiched between India and Pakistan , Kashmir is the battleground for both. Since the men are missing, not declared dead their wives are not widows but 'half widows.' The women and children tell their own stories. As the years have gone by, many have learnt to survive while others are still caught in conflicts with their in-laws, the state, religion and daily livelihood. These women are true survivors of a cruel period in the history of this 'paradise on earth'.
2. New York:
Bollywood Terror will be screening as part of the opening of the Documentary Fortnight
Thursday, February 9, 6pm
Saturday March 11 at 4:00pm
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
Click here for ticketing info http://moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html
And here for directions. < http://moma.org/visit_moma/directions.html>
3. Mumbai
"Via Mumbai - Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World"
International Conference organised by the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts.
Convenor: Prashant Parikh
February 13,14 and 15, 2006 from 9.00am - 6.30pm
Admission free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
At the Godrej Dance Academy Theatre, National Centre for the
Peforming Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai.
The contemporary visual arts today literally span the entire globe and for the first time perhaps have begun to address global themes (or themes of global import) rooted in local forms. This conference takes this exciting development as a starting point to see what artists and others in the present-day art world have to say about one of the central concerns of the planet today.
The conference will address the question of how people from different cultures and with different values both within a country and across countries can coexist and live together peacefully and productively. Today, as perhaps always, both collaboration and conflict are present in large measure; one essential difference from the past may be that of scale. So the theme of the conference, a little more pointedly expressed, is: how can groups with potentially incompatible values live together productively? How does our contemporary visual art reflect this aspect of the human condition today?
Twelve speakers - critics, art historians, philosophers, political thinkers etc. - together with six visual artists, from many different parts of the world, will address this problem of multiple cultures in a globalizing world. As many as a hundred other persons from all over India, many from its art world, have also been invited and will participate as observers.
Monday, February 13, 2006
speakers: Homi Bhabha, Ales Erjavec, Neeladri Bhattacharya, Jale Erzen, Ellen Harvey, and Mohamed Elbaz
chairs: Parul Dave Mukherji, Gayatri Sinha, and Dominic Willsdon
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
speakers: Theirry de Duve, Kumkum Sangari, Geeta Kapur, Amra Ali, Marco Kusumawijaya, and Virginia Mackenny
chairs: Manas Ray, Girish Shahane, and Dominic Willsdon
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
speakers: Wolfgang Welsch, Rajeev Bhargava, Noel Carroll, Lee Weng Choy, Shahzia Sikander, and Laurie Anderson
chairs: Rahul Srivastava, Kavita Singh, and Dominic Willsdon
Admission free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
MOHILE PARIKH CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
National Center for the Performing Arts
Dorabji Tata Road Nariman Point
Mumbai 400021
tel.: (+9122) 2283 8380
telefax: (+9122) 2283 8381/ 2288 1080
email: ma...@mpcva.org
website: www.mpcva.org
Calls for Submissions/Grants/Workshops
1. The Voices Writing Workshop
Deadline: early applications February 1, 2006
Workshops: Week One: June 25-July 1, 2006 and Week Two: July 2-July 8, 2006
http://www.vona-voices.org/index.php?A=3918
The Voices Writing Workshop is a special gathering of writers of color who spend 1-2 weeks working with well known authors and performers. Held on the campus of University of San Francisco, the Voices Workshop creates an intimate and interactive community with an atmosphere of sharing and engaging.
2. GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM ON TORONTO ISLAND, TORONTO, CANADA
Deadline: February 10, 2006.
http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp
---
Artscape is currently accepting applications for the seventh term of the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program, taking place May 19 - June 17, 2006. The program is open to Canadian and international artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participating artists.
3. "Kathak at the Crossroads: Innovation within Tradition" an International Kathak Festival and Symposium, CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadlines:
North America: February 15, 2006.
Overseas: February 10, 2006
*please note the extended deadlines!*
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
September 28-30, 2006
Sponsored by: the Chitresh Das Dance Company/Chhandam School of Kathak Dance (CDDC/Chhandam) with the Chhandam Nritya Bharati Institute, India
in collaboration with Chhandika, Boston
Calling dancers, teachers, choreographers, musicians, dance scholars and students. We invite proposals for papers and presentations on topics of relevance to Kathak dance (outlined below). Through three days of panel discussions, paper presentations, lecture demonstrations and public performances, this festival and symposium intends to enable the international Kathak community and larger performing arts field to discuss the history, evolution and current ecology of Kathak in its artistic, cultural, local, and transnational contexts.
"Kathak at the Crossroads" emerges from the need for a forum in which all those who belong to, or have an impact on the field of Kathak may assemble to focus on the past, present and future of the art form. Kathak is clearly at a crossroads. Steeped in a long and rich tradition, the history of Kathak is intrinsically linked to the history of North India, reflecting artistic, cultural and political developments in that region. However, (and particularly within recent decades), other influences are undeniable. An increasing number of artists are performing abroad and establishing Kathak centers outside of India, and a growing number of non-native dancers have developed proficiency in the dance form. This cross-cultural contact has resulted in the development of a diverse Kathak audience and has influenced the borrowing (intentional and otherwise) of movement vocabularies and aesthetic preferences.
This festival and symposium will celebrate Kathak's vitality while examining its history, discussing the ways in which it is currently presented and taught, and exploring avenues of future development. Each of the symposium's three days will comprise of alternating
panels, workshops and showcases. Evening concerts will include performances by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Smt. Kumudini Lakhia, Chitresh Das, Bachhanlal Misra, Saswati Sen and Rajendra Gangani as well as other established and emerging Kathak artists and musicians.
Panels will include several 15-20 minute presentations focusing on the following topics:
I. The Cultural Context of Dance in India and Abroad
-Who is teaching, studying, watching, judging, buying, and supporting Kathak in India and abroad? And how have changes to these factors (for example, changing systems of patronage and sponsorship) impacted Kathak performance?
-How do Kathak dancers negotiate differing expectations of dance
performance by audiences in India and abroad? And for the South Asian
diaspora audiences and non-South Asian audiences?
II. Gender Portrayal and Courtesans in the History of Kathak
(See www.kathak.org for the call for performances/lecture-demonstrations.)
Proposal Submission Information
Abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words. Submissions via email are preferred. If submitting electronically, attachments should be sent in a common electronic format (Word, PDF, etc.) to mor...@fas.harvard.edu by February 15th, 2006. Be sure to include relevant information (name, contact info, institutional affiliation [if relevant], title of paper) in the email but not in the attachment; this ensures anonymous evaluations. Hard copy submissions are also accepted. Please send three copies of your abstract, omitting your name (or any other identifying marks), along with a cover letter providing your relevant information to:
Sarah Morelli
Music Department, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
U.S.A.
Further Information:
For further information, please email: fest...@kathak.org or mor...@fas.harvard.edu.
A call for performances/lecture-demonstrations can be found at www.kathak.org.
Additional festival and symposium details will be available at www.kathak.org early in 2006.
4. 7th ANNUAL ARTWALLAH - Arts Festival South Asian Diaspora www.artwallah.org
DANCE . FILM . LITERATURE . MUSIC . SPOKEN WORD . THEATRE . VISUAL ART
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15, 2006
The ArtWallah Festival is seeking innovative and original works from artists that address political, personal, or cultural celebrations or struggles related to the South Asian diasporic experience. We strive to showcase established and emerging artists of the highest quality with ties to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The 2006 ArtWallah Festival will take place June 22-25, in Los Angeles, CA. Artists from any part of the world are encouraged to submit - travel assistance will be granted to all accepted artists.
For more information and complete submission guidelines, please visit www.artwallah.org
5. Book project on the aesthetics of failure, submission call
Deadline: February 15, 2006
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will be producing a unique book project whose topic is the aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this projects call for submissions.
FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY
Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, to be published in conjunction with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (www.joap.org). We're interested primarily in those historical and aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, if sometimes na�ve, idealism, out of step with their own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or illogical) conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war Japan). The question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, artistic moments is inevitably an exploration of the relationship between an act and its historical moment, and bringing that relationship into the present. While a success may seem to be something that determines the
shape of history, failures on a colossal and spectacular scale are often those things that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into relief.
We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments that deal with the topic of failure and its relationship to idealism and history. Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and tragedy, failed political movements (including Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans, The first truly original disaster of modernism), the failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism, specific theorists relationship to failure (e.g., Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), technology and failure, the history of failure, failure and architecture, alternative psychology movements, failed public art (e.g., Tilted Arc).
Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdi...@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. Notification for selected work will be February 28, 2006, and completed works will be due no later than June 1, 2006.
--
www.postnatyam.net
To receive the Post Natyam monthly newsletter, please join our Googlegroup: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/postnatyam ; postnatyam...@googlegroups.com
If you would like to be informed about the activities and events of South Asian artists/activists and post your own activities and events, please join the Post Natyam Network: postnatyam-net...@googlegroups.com ; http://groups-beta.google.com/group/postnatyam-network
Dear Friends,
This month, Shyamala will be performing at the benefit for the ArtWallah Festival, the LA-based South Asian Arts Festival that we always love to be part of, and where we have made so many new friends amongst the artists, cultural activists and arts supporters that the festival attracts. Community involvement and collaborations with other artists are an important part of our lives as Post Natyam artists and so we are happy to support the ArtWallah community!
This month, Shyamala will be performing at the benefit for the ArtWallah Festival, the LA-based South Asian Arts Festival that we always love to be part of, and where we have made so many new friends amongst the artists, cultural activists and arts supporters that the festival attracts. Community involvement and collaborations with other artists are an important part of our lives as Post Natyam artists and so we are happy to support the ArtWallah community!
One of the ways in which we have been trying to contribute to building and expanding this community is by sharing information with you about events and resources, as you can see in the information compiled at the end of each newsletter. We want to spread the news about selected progressive South Asian art events that happen in all the different places that our friends reside - primarily North America, Europe and India. If you find the kind of information we have listed in our pointers below useful, please consider joining the Post Natyam Network where you will get such notices almost daily, and can post your own as well. To join, send a blank e-mail to postnatyam-net...@googlegroups.com . Spread the word!
Sandra, Shyamala, Anjali and Sangita
Post Natyam
Post Natyam Performance:
Los Angeles:
Thursday February 16, 2006, doors open 9:30 pm
Shyamala is performing
in "Rouge Affair" to benefit the ArtWallah Festival
There will be DJs, Visual Artists, and all sorts of artistic
experiences, including an dance experiment Shyamala is participating in
with other Los Angeles artists and dancers: Shaheen Sheik and Soumya
Sundaresh.
At Fais Do Do
5257 West Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
$13 advance from www.groovetickets.com
$18 at the door
$15 if you're dressed in red
Doors open at 9:30pmPost Natyam Pointers :
Short listings:
Events:
1. New Delhi: Screening of the documentary Waiting..., 1 February 2006
2. New York : Screening of Bollywood Terror, 9 February 2006
3. Mumbai: Via Mumbai - Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World, "International Conference, 13-15 February 2006
Calls for Submissions/Grants/Workshops
1. The Voices Writing Workshops, early deadline 1 February 2006
2. GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM, CANADA, deadline 10 February 2006
3. Kathak at the Crossroads, conference, overseas postmark deadline 10 February, North America deadline 15 February 2006
4. ArtWallah Festival Call for Submissions, deadline extended to 15 February 2006
5.Book project on the Aesthetics of Failure, deadline 15 February 2006
Detailed Listings:
Events:
1. New Delhi:
SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY Waiting...
Date: Wednesday, 1 Feb, 2006
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Womens Press Corps. 5 Winsdor Place, (at the Janpath Ashoka Road round-about), New Dehi
Waiting...a documentary on disappearances in Kashmir has been refused a certification by the Revising Committee of the CBFC on the grounds that "the film does not deal with the complex and poignant situation in Kashmir in a comprehensive manner (letter dated 13.12.05. from CBFC to Atul Gupta)." The Revising committee did not give any hearing to the producer/director who was present and available, which is legally untenable.
Just a year back another documentary, Final Solution, was meted a similar treatment but the government had to buckle in under public pressure and grant the film a certification without a cut when a few months earlier the film was judged by the CBFC as not fit for public exhibition. And now it is the turn of this new film that takes a close look at the phenomena of the disappearance of people in the conflict ridden state of Kashmir.
Waiting... is directed by Shabnam Ara and Atul Gupta and produced by Delhi Biscope Company Pvt. Ltd.
Synopsis:
This is a story of missing people, boys and men who were picked up by security forces and then simply disappeared. Sandwiched between India and Pakistan , Kashmir is the battleground for both. Since the men are missing, not declared dead their wives are not widows but 'half widows.' The women and children tell their own stories. As the years have gone by, many have learnt to survive while others are still caught in conflicts with their in-laws, the state, religion and daily livelihood. These women are true survivors of a cruel period in the history of this 'paradise on earth'.
2. New York:
Bollywood Terror will be screening as part of the opening of the Documentary Fortnight
Thursday, February 9, 6pm
Saturday March 11 at 4:00pm
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
Click here for ticketing info http://moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html
And here for directions. < http://moma.org/visit_moma/directions.html>
3. Mumbai
"Via Mumbai - Multiple Cultures in a Globalizing World"
International Conference organised by the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts.
Convenor: Prashant Parikh
February 13,14 and 15, 2006 from 9.00am - 6.30pm
Admission free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
At the Godrej Dance Academy Theatre, National Centre for the
Peforming Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai.
The contemporary visual arts today literally span the entire globe and for the first time perhaps have begun to address global themes (or themes of global import) rooted in local forms. This conference takes this exciting development as a starting point to see what artists and others in the present-day art world have to say about one of the central concerns of the planet today.
The conference will address the question of how people from different cultures and with different values both within a country and across countries can coexist and live together peacefully and productively. Today, as perhaps always, both collaboration and conflict are present in large measure; one essential difference from the past may be that of scale. So the theme of the conference, a little more pointedly expressed, is: how can groups with potentially incompatible values live together productively? How does our contemporary visual art reflect this aspect of the human condition today?
Twelve speakers - critics, art historians, philosophers, political thinkers etc. - together with six visual artists, from many different parts of the world, will address this problem of multiple cultures in a globalizing world. As many as a hundred other persons from all over India, many from its art world, have also been invited and will participate as observers.
Monday, February 13, 2006
speakers: Homi Bhabha, Ales Erjavec, Neeladri Bhattacharya, Jale Erzen, Ellen Harvey, and Mohamed Elbaz
chairs: Parul Dave Mukherji, Gayatri Sinha, and Dominic Willsdon
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
speakers: Theirry de Duve, Kumkum Sangari, Geeta Kapur, Amra Ali, Marco Kusumawijaya, and Virginia Mackenny
chairs: Manas Ray, Girish Shahane, and Dominic Willsdon
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
speakers: Wolfgang Welsch, Rajeev Bhargava, Noel Carroll, Lee Weng Choy, Shahzia Sikander, and Laurie Anderson
chairs: Rahul Srivastava, Kavita Singh, and Dominic Willsdon
Admission free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
MOHILE PARIKH CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
National Center for the Performing Arts
Dorabji Tata Road Nariman Point
Mumbai 400021
tel.: (+9122) 2283 8380
telefax: (+9122) 2283 8381/ 2288 1080
email: ma...@mpcva.org
website: www.mpcva.org
Calls for Submissions/Grants/Workshops
1. The Voices Writing Workshop
Deadline: early applications February 1, 2006
Workshops: Week One: June 25-July 1, 2006 and Week Two: July 2-July 8, 2006
http://www.vona-voices.org/index.php?A=3918
The Voices Writing Workshop is a special gathering of writers of color who spend 1-2 weeks working with well known authors and performers. Held on the campus of University of San Francisco, the Voices Workshop creates an intimate and interactive community with an atmosphere of sharing and engaging.
2. GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM ON TORONTO ISLAND, TORONTO, CANADA
Deadline: February 10, 2006.
http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp
---
Artscape is currently accepting applications for the seventh term of the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program, taking place May 19 - June 17, 2006. The program is open to Canadian and international artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participating artists.
3. "Kathak at the Crossroads: Innovation within Tradition" an International Kathak Festival and Symposium, CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadlines:
North America: February 15, 2006.
Overseas: February 10, 2006
*please note the extended deadlines!*
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
September 28-30, 2006
Sponsored by: the Chitresh Das Dance Company/Chhandam School of Kathak Dance (CDDC/Chhandam) with the Chhandam Nritya Bharati Institute, India
in collaboration with Chhandika, Boston
Calling dancers, teachers, choreographers, musicians, dance scholars and students. We invite proposals for papers and presentations on topics of relevance to Kathak dance (outlined below). Through three days of panel discussions, paper presentations, lecture demonstrations and public performances, this festival and symposium intends to enable the international Kathak community and larger performing arts field to discuss the history, evolution and current ecology of Kathak in its artistic, cultural, local, and transnational contexts.
"Kathak at the Crossroads" emerges from the need for a forum in which all those who belong to, or have an impact on the field of Kathak may assemble to focus on the past, present and future of the art form. Kathak is clearly at a crossroads. Steeped in a long and rich tradition, the history of Kathak is intrinsically linked to the history of North India, reflecting artistic, cultural and political developments in that region. However, (and particularly within recent decades), other influences are undeniable. An increasing number of artists are performing abroad and establishing Kathak centers outside of India, and a growing number of non-native dancers have developed proficiency in the dance form. This cross-cultural contact has resulted in the development of a diverse Kathak audience and has influenced the borrowing (intentional and otherwise) of movement vocabularies and aesthetic preferences.
This festival and symposium will celebrate Kathak's vitality while examining its history, discussing the ways in which it is currently presented and taught, and exploring avenues of future development. Each of the symposium's three days will comprise of alternating
panels, workshops and showcases. Evening concerts will include performances by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Smt. Kumudini Lakhia, Chitresh Das, Bachhanlal Misra, Saswati Sen and Rajendra Gangani as well as other established and emerging Kathak artists and musicians.
Panels will include several 15-20 minute presentations focusing on the following topics:
I. The Cultural Context of Dance in India and Abroad
-Who is teaching, studying, watching, judging, buying, and supporting Kathak in India and abroad? And how have changes to these factors (for example, changing systems of patronage and sponsorship) impacted Kathak performance?
-How do Kathak dancers negotiate differing expectations of dance
performance by audiences in India and abroad? And for the South Asian
diaspora audiences and non-South Asian audiences?
II. Gender Portrayal and Courtesans in the History of Kathak
(See www.kathak.org for the call for performances/lecture-demonstrations.)
Proposal Submission Information
Abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words. Submissions via email are preferred. If submitting electronically, attachments should be sent in a common electronic format (Word, PDF, etc.) to mor...@fas.harvard.edu by February 15th, 2006. Be sure to include relevant information (name, contact info, institutional affiliation [if relevant], title of paper) in the email but not in the attachment; this ensures anonymous evaluations. Hard copy submissions are also accepted. Please send three copies of your abstract, omitting your name (or any other identifying marks), along with a cover letter providing your relevant information to:
Sarah Morelli
Music Department, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
U.S.A.
Further Information:
For further information, please email: fest...@kathak.org or mor...@fas.harvard.edu.
A call for performances/lecture-demonstrations can be found at www.kathak.org.
Additional festival and symposium details will be available at www.kathak.org early in 2006.
4. 7th ANNUAL ARTWALLAH - Arts Festival South Asian Diaspora www.artwallah.org
DANCE . FILM . LITERATURE . MUSIC . SPOKEN WORD . THEATRE . VISUAL ART
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15, 2006
The ArtWallah Festival is seeking innovative and original works from artists that address political, personal, or cultural celebrations or struggles related to the South Asian diasporic experience. We strive to showcase established and emerging artists of the highest quality with ties to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The 2006 ArtWallah Festival will take place June 22-25, in Los Angeles, CA. Artists from any part of the world are encouraged to submit - travel assistance will be granted to all accepted artists.
For more information and complete submission guidelines, please visit www.artwallah.org
5. Book project on the aesthetics of failure, submission call
Deadline: February 15, 2006
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will be producing a unique book project whose topic is the aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this projects call for submissions.
FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY
Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, to be published in conjunction with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (www.joap.org). We're interested primarily in those historical and aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, if sometimes na�ve, idealism, out of step with their own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or illogical) conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war Japan). The question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, artistic moments is inevitably an exploration of the relationship between an act and its historical moment, and bringing that relationship into the present. While a success may seem to be something that determines the
shape of history, failures on a colossal and spectacular scale are often those things that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into relief.
We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments that deal with the topic of failure and its relationship to idealism and history. Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and tragedy, failed political movements (including Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans, The first truly original disaster of modernism), the failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism, specific theorists relationship to failure (e.g., Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), technology and failure, the history of failure, failure and architecture, alternative psychology movements, failed public art (e.g., Tilted Arc).
Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdi...@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. Notification for selected work will be February 28, 2006, and completed works will be due no later than June 1, 2006.
--
www.postnatyam.net
To receive the Post Natyam monthly newsletter, please join our Googlegroup: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/postnatyam ; postnatyam...@googlegroups.com
If you would like to be informed about the activities and events of South Asian artists/activists and post your own activities and events, please join the Post Natyam Network: postnatyam-net...@googlegroups.com ; http://groups-beta.google.com/group/postnatyam-network
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