Inverse Journal

Art

The Art and Politics of Ecology in India: A Roundtable with Ravi Agarwal and Sanjay Kak — by TJ Demos

Writer and professor, T.J. Demos, converses with contemporary artist and environmental activist Ravi Agarwal and documentary filmmaker and writer Sanjay Kak. Abstract: "This roundtable discussion with artist and activist Ravi Agarwal and film-maker and photographer Sanjay Kak, moderated by T J Demos

Ibn Khaldun's The Muqadimmah — Shuddhabrata Sengupta in Conversation with Jocelyne Dakhlia and Justin Stearns

A discussion on the importance of Ibn Khaldun's "The Muqadimmah" moderated by artist/curator/writer Shuddhabrata Sengupta in conversation with Jocelyne Dakhlia (Professor, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Justin Stearns (Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, New York Uni

Event: Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories and Visual Cultures — Chulalongkorn University and University of Sydney

"Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories and Visual Cultures Art, Design and Canon-making? A gathering of international researchers and creative practitioners This two-day symposium comprising of a series of workshops, film screening, public lecture and panel discussions, jointly supported by Chulal

Paintings like Postcards in Solidarity from Across the LOC — by Iram Razzaq

UK-based artist Iram Razzaq, who was born and raised in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (Azad Kashmir), presents eleven of her paintings inspired by the 2010 uprising in Kashmir valley where more than 112 civilians, most of them school children, teens and youngsters, were killed in the protests of tha

Exhuming the Ideological Corpse of Soviet Socialism: Marat Raiymkulov — by Maya Kóvskaya

Art critic, curator and theorist Maya Kóvskaya presents the Pol Pot series of drawings by Kyrgyz contemporary artist Marat Raiymkulov, providing a broad perspective into understanding the artist’s work in its post-Soviet Central Asian context. The article discusses the relevance of the Pol Pot set o

Massacres and Home: An Art Installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale — by Ahmed Muzamil

Ahmed Muzamil presents an introduction to his work exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018). The young artist prepared an installation to commemorate the anniversary of the Gawkadal Massacre where more than 50 people were shot by Indian soldiers during a peaceful protest. The installation invo

Black on Black — by Eugene Thacker

Should we consider black a colour, the absence of colour, or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Beginning with Robert Fludd’s attempt to picture nothingness, Eugene Thacker reflects* on some of the ways in which blackness has been used and thought about through the history of