Critical Discourse
Interview: Palestine Comic - Larissa Sansour & Oreet Ashery
A Cup of Tea With Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour
A documentary. interview around art and curatorial representation and crisis zones around a cup of tea
30 minutes documentary can be obtained on DVD from:
info@otherasias.com
Video Production and camerawork by Riffat...
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Interview with Shahidul Alam
Featuring Hamja Ahsan
Tursan (Pakistani Painter and Games designer from NCA)
Fatima Hussain (Pakistani artist, curator and theatre practioner)
Sara Bint Moneer Khan (Pakistani)
Camerawork & Video Production by Riffat Ahmed (Bangladesh-Bahraini diaspora video...
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Interview with Atteqa Malik in Karachi, Pakistan by Gemma Sharpe
Tea with Atteqa Malik from Mauj: 6th August 2009, Karachi, Pakistan. By Gemma Sharpe.
Main Mauj links:
https://sites.google.com/site/maujwiki/
https://maujmedia.blogspot.com/
https://www.transmediale.de/en/node/3149
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Write up on "Republic of Rumi"
By Atteqa Thaver Malik
The title Republic of Rumi evokes various images and indeed many themes are explored in this book full of poetry.One of them is the relationship between Maulana Rumis philosophy and the work of muslim philosopher Dr. Allama Iqbal.The...
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Ali Shariati - Art Awaiting the Saviour
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen:
YOU MIGHT feel that art, whatever form it may take, is a complex subject which requires proper specialization to speak about it and that one who attempts to talk about it must necessarily be an...
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Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought - Cemil Aydin
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency...
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Ashis Nandy - Towards a Dialogue of Asian Civilisations
First published as "Defining a New Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Dialogue of Asian Civilisations", in Kuan-Hsing Chen, ed., Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 142-9.]
Asia has known the West for about two millennia and has interacted with the West seriously for...
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Studio Visits
Studio Visit - Otolith Group - Stoke Newington - London, UK
Studio Visit 1: 2008
Location: Kitchen of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun
Studio Visit by Hamja Ahsan
Otolith Group
The members of Otolith Group would reside together for the period of editing work before an exhibition. It was mainly the combined ideas of...
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Introducing
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Public and Corporate Institutions
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Resources/ Downloads
Multiversity
A brave initiative to rid the continents of Eurocentric biases in university studies. The dependence on Western academia ensures intellectual slavery that is unending and unnatural. Multiversity challenges scholars, teachers and students to bring colour back into academic studies, design their...
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Ashis Nandy talk - Paranoia in Asia and America MP3
Duration: 17 minutes
https://www.asiapacificforum.org/downloads/audio/APF20070327_149_Politicsan.mp3
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Art and Exhibitions
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Chobi Mela
Chobi Mela was conceived in a nation far removed from the established capitals of photography. Bangladeshi photographers did not feature in the classical books on the medium. Images of Bangladesh seen worldwide were images produced largely by white western photographers. There had been no festival...
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Asian Arts Biennale in Bangladesh - 1st South Asian Biennale
Asian Art Biennale ‘08
The first South Asian Art Biennale was held in Bangladesh in 1981. Its establishment was not only to expose the public to the variety of art that is found in Bangladesh and internationally, but to support and develop young artists in their...
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Blogs
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Arise Asia - Perspectives on Pan-Asianism - Niraj Kumar
Arise Asia- Perspectives on Pan-Asian is a fantastic blog written by Niraj Kumar - author of the book Arise Asia: Respond to White Peril (2003) - authored under Niraj Kamal.
Niraj is author of two books,member Editorial Advisory Board of two magazines, Associate editor of a quarterly...
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Shahidul Alam (Dhaka/ Global)
Blog by Shahidul Alam (founder of DRIk and CHOBI MELA)
Covering Interational affairs and global art practices
A friend, hero, mentor and inspiration.
shahidul.wordpress.com/
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Questioning the European 'Crisis Of Multiculturalism' (Research)
multiculturality.wordpress.com/
Important research Centre by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
(This introdury article is taken from their blog - please follow link for podcast downloads and critical commentary)
Setting the scene
by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
The idea...
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Counterrealism (Berlin)
Other Asias works with Counterrealism reading circle based in Berlin.
Read about their meeting with Subaltern studies historian Dipesh Chakrabarty
counterrealism.wordpress.com/2009/05/
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Immanent Frame
The Immanent Frame is a collective blog established in conjunction with projects on religion & the public sphere at the Social Science Research Council.
Contributors to the blog include:
Howard Adelman
Juhn Ahn
Ateş Altınordu
Nancy Ammerman
Jon W. Anderson
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Suroosh Irfani - Let Us Build Pakistan
Suroosh Irfani is part of the Redo Pakistan (Lahore) symposium panel and serves as part of our advisory circle
letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.com/2009/02/allama-iqbal-bacha-khan-and-terrorists.html
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Curating a Continent
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Dispatches
Iraq: Post-Conflict or El Dorado? - Francesca Recchia
POST CONFLICT OR EL DORADO? (Francesca Recchia - November 2009)
Living in Northern Iraq makes the dimension of post conflict hard to escape. It is what determines the movement of people, the distribution of international economic support and recently also...
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India Art Summit 2009 - Gemma Sharpe
India Art Summit: Report
For any piece of writing that covers a social event it is expedient first, to ask the question ‘who is speaking here?’ A particularly important question to aim at an art fair, for among its many facets an art fair is essentially a social (or a sociological)...
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Other Asias in the Media
Redo Pakistan 2010 in "THE NATIONAL". Written by Anealla Safdar
Redo Pakistan in "THE NATIONAL". Written by Anealla Safdar.
www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100910/REVIEW/709099992/1008Redo Pakistan has sucessfully recieved a grant from Arts Council London.
Probably the most thoughtful article written on Fatima and I...
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Dossier Magazine Interview about Declaration of War Against the Present Times
Thomas: Do you think that it is possible to provoke political change through art?
Fatima: I wonder if it’s the possibility that I look at, when I am making such works. It is a natural response to my surroundings, which I feel becomes my responsibility. This project is a commentary on the art...
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Shanaakt Festival - DAWN
Images of the Shaanaakht Festival project 2009.
www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/entertainment/more-at-stake-than-art-ha
Almost a dozen PPP supporters wrecked up Shanakht Festival '09, The Identity Project organized by The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP). They...
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PRESS TV Interview on Palestine Project
Palestine projects:
Other Asias director Hamja Ahsan & camera woman/ editor Riffat Ahmed appeared on PRESS TV Remembering the Children of Palestine interviewed by Lauren Booth on 10 November 2009 talking of his work on the issue of Palestine with Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour...
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Radio Interview: Opitical Radio - on REDO Pakistan
Very insightful dialogue between Hamja Ahsan & Fatima Hussain on history, reception & impetus of REDO PAKISTAN. Must listen. 15 minute duration.
RADIO INTERVIEW WITH Fatima & I about REDO PAKISTAN
https://opticalradio.com/featuredsets.php
Click Feature no 6. in Feature Interview...
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Newsreport: Deptford X
A local newsreport during the Deptford X festival:
"AN ART exhibition featuring people's ideas for a better Pakistan was attended by more than 200 people.
The Redo Pakistan project gives people the chance to showcase their ideas for a more prosperous Pakistan through art and design.
Short...
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Review Redo Pakistan: White Wall Magazine 2009
"On the other hand a group called Other Asias, had a project curated by Fatima Hussain called ‘Redo Pakistan’ which called for artists, writers, poets and thinkers from around the world to contribute a piece that presents their answers to this question as posited by the curator – What if...
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Magazine and Journals
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Contact
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Art and Exhibitions
Charting the attempt to exhibit the continent of Asia in contemporary art...
Undoing the recieved timelines mappings of art history...
BLOGS
Which blogs have influenced Other Asias?
A window and portal into the world?
Which ideas and academic work animates and excites us?
Critical Discourse
Interviews, dialogues on curatorial representation...
Undoing the Eurocenticism of artworld bookshops, professional critique and outside secular immanent materialism?
Which thinkers inspired us?
Dispatches
Art reports from around the world... from Iraq to Indonesia...
Breaking the formats of Art writing & Art news
Fiction
Fiction which has inspired our art projects
Landmarks in Asian diaspora arts remembered
Honouring our heroes...
Magazines/ Journals
Entry points...
The world of publishing outside of London & New York
Public and Corporate Instituitions
A critical forum on public institutions which do things in our name...
Corporate enemies
Resources/Downloads
Free stuff, start here...
Time Line
Land Mark Dates in Global History
Alter the picture of the world-at-large
Timeline
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Campaigns
Visiting Artists & Academics Campaign, the Home Office's new points-based visa system
The following link is an audio recording of the public meeting, information below:
www.sendspace.com/file/flyur0
FORTRESS UK
A Manifesto Club and English PEN event, supported by Free Word Centre
Wednesday 17 March, 18:30 – 20:00hrs
FREE WORD CENTRE
60 FARRINGDON ROAD
LONDON EC1R 3GA
As...
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Fiction
When Memory Fails - A. Sivanandan
This book tells of the development of Sri Lanka, in particular the racial tensions which led to the Tamil uprising, over three generations of one family.
Product Description
The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this...
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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials - Reza Negarestani
Cyclonopedia is theoretical-fiction novel by Iranian philosopher and writer Reza Negarestani. Hailed by novelists, philosophers and cinematographers, Negarestani’s work is the first horror and science fiction book coming from and written on the Middle East.
Facebook group for readers...
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Come to Mecca - Farukh Dhondy
Pioneer of Blacks Arts
and multicultural childrens literature
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Mottled Dawn: Fifty Partition Sketches and Stories
A series of monlogues and theatrical pieces will be performed by Rez Kabir for REDO PAKISTAN (London)
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