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SUMMARY:Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime
DESCRIPTION:Amar Kanwar’s films and multi-media works explore the politics of power\, violence\, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a unique poetic approach to the personal\, social\, and political. In this talk\, Kanwar will present his learnings\, doubts\, and inadequacies in dealing with evidence of violence through artistic practice. He will demonstrate how\, as he navigates through various scenes of crime\, both in the context of India and internationally\, he responds to and comprehends traces of violence using images\, sound\, and text. \nImagine the morning newspaper\, headlines in couplets\, black and white but in verse. Imagine that constellation of words. Truth as told by the stars and birds. Translated by bread and transcribed by daughters. \n\nImagine the clash of silences\, the sting and honey of the bee\, and the lamenting obituary.  \nImagine night as day and day as night\, the moon as witness\, and the sun as a doctor. Nurses as editors\, poets as reporters\, and the village balladeer the week’s ombudsman. Imagine traitors as lovers\, outlaws as fathers\, and renegades as poets.\nImagine talking curtains and storyteller tiffin boxes. Imagine columns becoming cups and rows becoming dogs. Mountain dogs\, river dogs\, factory dogs\, gutter dogs\, tree dogs\, and kitchen sink dogs.  \nImagine the color of that grey.\nImagine the formal presentation of poetry as news of the day.\nImagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal.
URL:https://blogs.bard.edu/chra/event/amar-kanwar-the-scene-of-crime/
CATEGORIES:Talk,Talks Series
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