The Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara at the “Riot"-exhibitions in Berlin this January!
The Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka is proud to have enabled the presence of the Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara at the “Riot: Slow Cancellation of the Future” and „Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures“ in Berlin this January!
Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future
Exhibition: 26.1.-1.4.2018
Location: art.ifa Gallery Berlin
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http://untietotie.org/#exhibition/chapter4
With John Akomfrah, Chto Delat, Dilip Gaonkar and Liam Mayes, Gauri Gill, Louis Henderson, Satch Hoyt, Jitish Kallat, Karrabing Film Collective, Glenn Ligon, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, SAHMAT, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Ala Younis
Curated by Natasha Ginwala
Assistant Curator: Krisztina Hunya
The riot is an extra-ordinary setting that has played a pivotal role in the permanent confrontation between dissent and power over centuries. The deeper crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tensions have convulsed us into “an age of riots”. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode and hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed only serves to reveal the cracks in governability, the exhibition Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future brings together artistic works and research positions from across the world in an endeavour to “sense” and chronicle recent riots and uprisings – evoking a phenomenology of the multitude.
„Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures“
Public Programme: 26.1. – 27.1.2018
Location: Acud Macht Neu (Studio)
with Vaginal Davis, Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Dilip Gaonkar, Dariouche Kechavarzi-Tehrani, Thomas Seibert, Benedict Seymour, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Ala Younis
Co-curated by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri
As a fear of the masses heightens amid communal divides, this public programme rethinks and reframes riots through conversations, performances, and screenings.
How may the revolutionary potential of rioters’ demands be read within the circuits of recent history and contemporary society? We will address how riots inhabit and renegotiate the status quo within global metropoles, while also becoming the testing grounds of militarised urbanism targeting vulnerable and racialised groups.
For detailed schedule please visit: http://untietotie.org/documentation/riots_riots_dissent_spectres_control_ruptures/
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