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Postsecular* plurality : Beyond the aesthetics of lost causes

As the logic of 'militarized technoscience in the epoch of infowar' (Virillio's definition of technologized communication) inflects the politico-cultural matrices of our time, one which is clearly manifested in the Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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Documenting plebian life

As one of the veterans who stepped into the art scene in the late 1960s, Rafiqun Nabi has always shown a definitive dedication to a highly stylized diction. Drawing his Read

writes TAKIR HOSSAIN

Glimpses of contemporary mainstream praxis: Group art exhibition at Galleri Kaya

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Galleri Kaya held a gala of an exhibition boasting a panoply of selected works by both eminent and emerging artists of the country. Entitled Read

writes TAKIR HOSSAIN

FORMAT 13: The 6th FORMAT International Photography Festival

Launched on 8 March, FORMAT13, the 6th FORMAT International Photography Festival, aptly torqued on the theme of Factory, to bring to view an amalgam of photographs, fresh and fervent, from across Read

Of fragility and human follies: Chobi Mela VII at a glance

Framed on and around the concept of 'fragility', the current edition of Chobi Mela (read chhobi mela) evidences a change in 'photographic thinking' – a way of making thoughtfully explicit an Read

writes SHARMILLE RAHMAN with MUSTAFA ZAMAN

Depart at Art Dubai

Depart was a media partner of Art Dubai 2013, the seventh edition of a mammoth event that saw its launch in 2007. The three-year old art quarterly based in Dhaka has been Read

A stopover at Tashkeel: the place for creation and interaction

A former supermarket turned into a site for research and making art where young artists get to contemplate their respective aesthetic goal amidst an ambience of cross-cultural exchanges, Tashkeel is Read

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Performances of the iconicized political leaders

The performance of any worldly leader depends on a continuous production of signs – worldly 'signs' that constitute a worldly 'show', claims Gilles Delueze, the French philosopher. Leaders around the world Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN

Socio-aesthetic genesis of performance art

[T]here is a general shift under way, equally affecting the arts and the sciences, in which the old classifications organizing the intellectual map into disciplines, media, genres and modes Read

writes SHAHMAN MOISHAN

Last man standing: Noor Hossain entextualized

What is it that turns art into a mode of dissension, or, looked at from another direction, transforms acts of subversion into art? When does this relational interdependence become a Read

writes MUSTAIN ZAHIR

Performing the Bengali nation: Munier Chowdhury's Kabar and Syed Huq's Payer Awaj Pawa Jaye

The success of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sri Aurobindo in inaugurating a populist narration of nation in the late nineteenth century South Asia, lay in their ability to coalesce a Read

writes SYED JAMIL AHMED

To embrace or not to embrace the new aesthetic paradigm(s): Freights from the 20th National Art Exhibition

Before we confront a tangle of issues that the current art scene compels one to delve into- only a tip of which has been visible in the recently concluded National Read

writes GOLAM MORTUJA

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The museum of fleeting moments: Imran Ahmed's unveiling of fringe life in UAE

The moment of capture is also the moment of uncertainty – and as we look at Imran Ahmed's images from the Sandlords series, we realize how the relay of a traditional Read

Salam Abdus : Seen through his psychic itinerary

Born in 1963 in Kishorganj, Salam Abdus made his auspicious entry into the Dhaka art scene with a solo exhibition in 1993. A steady stream of solo exhibitions at the Allaiance Read

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In this simple gesture...

We arrived in Masshad in the evening, just as the first snowfall of the season blanketed Iran's second city. No rivalries with the capital, no inferiority complexes plague Masshad, home Read

writes SLAVS AND TATARS

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The reflexive body at the centre of performativity: MAHBUBUR RAHMAN speaks to Depart's MUSTAFA ZAMAN and SHAHMAN MOISHAN

MAHBUBUR RAHMAN speaks to Depart's MUSTAFA ZAMAN and SHAHMAN MOISHAN about crucial moments of life, ideas and ethos that shaped his works of the last twenty or so years Read

Performing the self

Mustafa Zaman: As an artist when did you first try your hand at what we often refer to as 'experimental' work?Dilara Begum Jolly: Before I go on to shed Read

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Caught between the real and the empirical: Shishir Bhattacharjee's recent oeuvre

Shishir Bhattacharjee has long been concerned with the representation of the real. The 'real' takes on a nationalist political slant in his iconography as he examines the current social chaos Read

writes GOLAM MORTUZA

Back to the beginning

Seven printmakers on a campaign to distinguish their individual stratagem vis-à-vis printmaking from its traditional schema once reached a rare level of linguistic achievement way back in the early Read

writes ABUL HASNAT

The rhythmic osmosis between mind and matter: Hodgkin in Dhaka

Howard Hodgkin stepped into the British art scene in the swinging 60s with a palette of bold colours and a flourish of brushstrokes; with an acumen more akin to that Read

writes SHARMILLE RAHAMAN

In search of a homeland

An intense yet subtle play of different shades of red and black in the horizon dotted with twinkling stars evoke the tones and texture of a city. Slowly, the city Read

writes ZIAUL KARIM

Animism in the time consumerism

Joya Sherin Huq's latest coup, where she lets the portrayal of femininity share space with that of objects, attires and paraphernalia that make up the urban semiosis of appearance and Read