Of Restless Cities and Ingenious Characters

10.08.2019 / 11:30 – 19:30
With Bani Abidi

This symposium opens an interdisciplinary dialogue around the artistic practice of Bani Abidi and the contemporary context of Pakistan through the lens of fiction, sonic memory, security infrastructure, South Asian history and Islamic philosophy. Participants present their accounts from the fields of history, anthropology, architecture, literature, and visual art, many of whom have been interlocutors to the artist over several years. The auditory and literary contexts presented in the programme are not only tools of sensing but also establish
new contours to comprehend cultural practice within an uneven societal infrastructure.

With Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, Adnan Madani, Omar Kasmani, Brandon LaBelle, Adania Shibli, Niloufar Tajeri, Simone Wille

Program:

11:30 – 13:30
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Adnan Madani
Moderated by Natasha Ginwala

Lunch break

14:30 – 16:30
Omar Kasmani
Brandon LaBelle
Moderated by Natasha Ginwala

16:30 – 18:30
Adania Shibli
Simone Wille
Moderated by Niloufar Tajeri

Organised by Bani Abidi, Natasha Ginwala, Associate Curator Gropius Bau and Melanie Roumiguière, Head of Visual Arts of DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

The exhibition Bani Abidi: They Died Laughing is currently on view at the Gropius Bau.

Bani Abidi was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2011.

Program_Symposium_Bani Abidi.pdf

Installation view Bani Abidi: They Died Laughing, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2019