{"id":18865,"date":"2025-02-10T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=18865"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:11:32","slug":"amar-kanwar-the-scene-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/event\/amar-kanwar-the-scene-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amar Kanwar&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine 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. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine the clash of silences, the sting and honey of the bee, and the lamenting obituary.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine 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\u2019s ombudsman. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine traitors as lovers, outlaws as fathers, and renegades as poets.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine the color of that grey.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as news of the day.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amar Kanwar&#8217;s films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence, and justice. 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