Visual exhibit and public events
These events will be organized in cooperation with Panos South Asia. Panos South Asia is part of a worldwide network of Panos Institutes that put cutting-edge research on conflict, globalisation, public health and the environment in the public domain. Panos works with mainstream and alternate media in an effort to ensure that there is a high quality of public debate.
Business meeting of the Asian Borderlands Research Network
The meeting aims to establish an organizational structure and define an agenda. How can the network create opportunities for scholars to share research interests and collaborate on projects? What efforts can we make regarding conferences, or panels at conferences, and to realize joint publications?
Northeast India
and
its Transnational Neighbourhood
Inner Lines: A Media and Art Event
January 16-19, 2008
ITA Auditorium, Machkhowa, Guwahati
Programme Schedule
January 16, 2008
1600-1730 hours: Opening of exhibition and Press conference - Conference Hall
- A S Panneerselvan, Director, Panos South Asia
- Sanjib Baruah, IIT Guwahati
- Mriganka Madhukaillya, Curator,Inner Lines
1730-2030 hours: Musical performances - Main Auditorium
- Rattle and Hum, (Naga Traditional Music with Vocals)
- Guru Rewben Mashangva, (Naga folk blues/indigenous instrumental)
- The Craft (Blues fusion with Adi Shamanic chants)
January 17, 2008
1000 hours: Exhibition/installations open to public - Art Gallery and Lobby
1000-1200 hours: Digital Borders: A workshop on Internet Literacy by Angad Chowdhry, (sacredmediacow.com) - Conference Hall
1000-1700 hours: Film Screening programme of Inner Lines - Main Auditorium
1400-1630 hours: Cultural Production in the Transnational Space in South and Southeast Asia: A Discussion (Moderator: Pooja Sood, Director, Khoj International artist workshop, New Delhi) - Conference Hall
- Desire machine media collective, Guwahati
- Visiting artists from Indonesia, France, UK, Bangladesh and India
1800-1930 hours: Northeast India and Transnational Neighbourhood - A Round Table Discussion. (Moderator: A S Panneerselvan) - Conference Hall
- Sanjib Baruah, IIT Guwahati
- Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam
- Thant Myint-U, Cambridge Centre for History and Economics
1930-2030 hours: Voices of Silence: A Mime Performance by Moinul Haque, Mime Academy - Main Auditorium
January 18, 2008
1000 hours: Exhibition/installations open to public - Art Gallery and Lobby
1000-1200 hours: Media and Borders: A Discussion (Moderator: A.S. Panneerselvan) - Conference Hall
- Akum Longchari, Morung Foundation
- Pradip Phanjoubam, Editor, Imphal Free Press
- Sanjoy Hazarika, Journalist and Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research
- Dilip Chandan, Editor, Asom Bani
- Sanat Chakravarty, Grassroots Options
- David Thangliana, Aizol Times
1100-1700 hours: Film Screening programme of Inner Lines- Main Auditorium
1400-1600 hours: Presentations from participating artists:
- Farhana Syeda, visiting artist - Conference Hall
- Bruce Allan, visiting artist - Conference Hall
- Zariyein, New Delhi - Conference Hall
January 19, 2008
1000-1300 hours: Exhibition/installations open to public - Art Gallery and Lobby
1000-1300 hours: Film Screening programme of Inner Lines- Main Auditorium
At 1300 hours, the event closes.
Inner Lines: a visual exhibit and film screening programme Curator: Mriganka Madhukaillya Date: 16-19 Jan 2007 Venue: ITA Centre, Guwahati, Assam, India
Organized by: Panos south Asia
Co-organized by desire machine collective@Khoj Guwahati Concept:
The main idea of the exhibition is definitely looking at borders as possible network space. The curation is going to be done by different artists and cultural activists looking at the possibilities and the other border realities and imaginations and dissolution of the dichotomy of these concepts and to liberation of plurality in terms of both identity and artistic practice. The exhibition is happening along with a international conference on transnationalism and borders along northeast India.The curation is divided into two parts :
1) A visual exhibit consisting of curation of works of : 1. Satomi matoba /Map of utopia (B1 size archival print of map) 2. Farhana Syeda/ migration series ( photo series) 3. Bruce Allan/ new work on personal memory around tea ( photographs and video) 4. Desire machine collective/ note book on geography(ies)--video 5. William van schendel/ photographs with text 6. Temsu Long kumer /photographs 7. Andreas &Paullina/ 2*3 borders/3 channel video/ video 2) A film screening from various parts of the world.
a) Kwang zu son
FRAGMENTARY LANDSCAPES (2007) DV(shot in 16mm), Experimental/Documentary, Color/B&W, Sound, 7:10 SYNOPSIS
FRAGMENTARY LANDSCAPES combines the artist's observations from the remote, intangible worlds and empty landscapes of the United States with a series of juxtapositions of different images and sounds. It becomes the practice of identification in which conveys the permanent unsettlement at different times and places.
THE THIRD TONGUE (2003)
16mm, Experimental, B&W, Sound, 14 min. SYNOPSIS
Through exploring the process of practicing English, the film THE THIRD TONGUE represents a fear engendered by a sense of loss of historical identity in post-colonial society.
b) Virtual borders/ Manu Luksch
c) Temporary loss of consciousness/ Monica Bhasin
Running Time: 35 Minutes /Year of Completion: 2005
'Temporary Loss of Consciousness' is a poetic essay speaking of longing and belonging, home and honour, loss and betrayal, boundaries and crossings. The film is shot in India and its shared borders of Pakistan and Bangladesh. It alludes to the recurring displacement of populations in the Indian subcontinent from the time of Partition (1947) to the present.
d) Himalayan Monogatari/ Shaina Anand
Documentary 34 mins.video. Japanese with English subtitles
A documentary on the physical and human landscape between the valleys of Kashmir and Ladakh, India. Encounter gods and demons, mystic mountains and lakes, contemporary fact and fiction in this journey through the Himalayas- accompanied by a genteel Japanese voice-of-godess. Structured as a televised 'serial' the film welcomes you back to another episode of Himalayan Tales, recapping the previous episode. What follows are a series of short vignettes that take you from Srinagar to Pahalgam, up the mountain route of the Amarnath Yatra, onwards to Kargil and Ladakh, the Nubra Valley and the great lakes Tso-mo-ri-ri and Tso-kar through recounting of tales and legends. The film ends in the 'pure' Aryan village of Da-hanu in Batalik, with a promise of more in the next episode. This simple structure and the use of Voice-of-God(dess) narration, with its naive and truncated sweeps across complex histories and civilisations, its calm and soothing belief in myth and beauty, and ultimately its reading as fact, all coupled with the slight and deliberate shifts in 'gaze' underlying the films progression allow for a meditative and transparent examinaton of documentary itself.
e) Aliyah/desiremachine collective:
2006, DV/documentary/sound/colour/26 mins
In a remote corner on the Indian- Burmese border, in Mizoram state, thousands live a suspended life. Most have left their jobs and schools, some have even left their families. They wait in silence to return to the promised land, Israel. The Mizos believe that they are one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, Bnei Menashe, descendants of Menashe, Joseph‘s son. The waiting unfolds as a religious ceremony, an endless ritual of prayers and a labyrinth of memories. In the midst of these lonely gatherings of the scattered people, their myths, imagination and experiences emerge as a historical fact of singular importance. The memories are explored through 3-4 characters.
Itzkhak Colney has already migrated to Israel and is serving in the Israel army. Rivka or Rebecca has come to Aizwal for her father-in- law's funeral. She has now to get a tourist visa and an inner line permit (required by all non-Mizos) to enter the state.
Peter has left his government job, as it did not give him time to practice his Jewish faith. Living on the nation‘s (India) margin they are migrants in exile, while in their imagination they are in exile from Israel.
f) PRAYERS FOR NEW GODS/ Moji Riba (2001)
An exploration of the indigenous religion of the tribal groups of Arunachal Pradesh, their adaptation to new religions and to a globalised notion of ‘God'.
\g) The Lightning Testimonies/ Amar kanwar(2007)
Duration - 1 hour 56 minutes, 2007, English and Hindi versions.
The Lightning Testimonies reflects upon a history of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through experiences of sexual violence. As the film explores this violence, there emerge multiple submerged narratives, sometimes in people, images and memories, and at other times in objects from nature and everyday life that stand as silent but surviving witnesses. In all narratives the body becomes central - as a sit for honour, hatred and humiliation and also for dignity and protest.
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