International Art Festival
Separating Myth from Reality Status of Women
(October 30 - November 10, 2009)
Venues:
* Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited
* Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal
* Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre, Jhamsikhel
* Patan Museum, Patan Durbar Square
* Nepal Association for Fine Arts (NAFA), Naxal
* Imago Dei Cage Gallery, Gairidhara
SIDDHARTHA ART GALLERY
presents
A LECTURE SERIES
Date: 31st October to 2nd November 2009
Venue: Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre, Jhamsikhel, Sanepa
Moderator : Quixote’s Cove
31st October 2009
15:00 Introduction by Rekha Mody
15:10 Dr. Abhi Subedi (Nepal) Myths and Methods of Female Representation in Nepali Art
15:45 Dr. Geeti Sen (India) Women or Goddess? Representing Women in Indian Art
16:20 Maria Roosen (Holland) Tools for Feelings
1st November 2009
15:00 Introduction
15:10 Anoli Perera (Sri Lanka) Contemporary Sri Lankan Art – Art as a Narrative of Socio-Cultural and Political Anxieties
15:45 Maureen Drdak (USA) Transformative Potential of the Goddess Iconography of Nepal; A Call for Renewed Examination for Social and Cultural Transformation
16:20 Dr. Salima Hashmi (Pakistan) Problems of Representing Pakistani Art
2nd November 2009
15:00 Introduction
15:10 Dr. Leena Saraste (Finland ) Photographic in refugee camps. Discovering and interpreting
15:45 Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal) Cultural Body – The feminine in the political and socio-cultural context
16:20 Madan Chitrakar (Nepal) Concluding Remarks
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Participating Artists from Nepal: Uttam Nepali, Shashi Shah, Batsa Gopal Baidya, Durga Baral, Bipin Ghimire, Laya Mainali, Ragini Upadhyay-Grela, Ashmina Ranjit, Kalapremi Shrestha, Gyanmani Ray, Rajan Kaphle, Shreejan Rajbhandari, Erina Tamrakar, Pramila Bajracharya, Pradip K Bajracharya, Sudarshan Rana, Sunita Thapa Rana, Bhairaj Maharjan, Asha Dangol, Binod Pradhan, Sujan Chitrakar, Manish lal Shrestha, Kirti Kaushal Joshi, Sunil Sigdel, Govind Prasad Sah, Sangee Shrestha, Jupiter Pradhan, Saurganga Darshandhari, Kailash Shrestha, Sanjeev Maharjan, Sunita Maharjan and Gyanu Gurung, Meena Kayastha Mithila Artists: SC Suman, Sita Devi Karna, Rewati Mandal, Phulba Mandal Photographers: Kishore Kayastha, Deependra Muni Bajracharya, Min Ratna Bajracharya, Kashish Das Shrestha
Participating International Artists:
India: Anupum Sud, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Kanchan Chander, Seema Kohli, Satish Sharma, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Jaya Ganguly, Jayashree Chakravarty, Manjari Chakravarti, Paula Sengupta, Rima Kundu and Sukla Sen Poddar
Pakistan: Seema Nusrat, Mariam Abraaz, Ayesha Naveed, Amber Hammad, Nabila Yasmin and Saba Khan
Netherlands: Darja Vos, Joncquil de Vries, Maria Roosen, Margret Wibmer, and Desiree de Baar
Bangladesh: Mahabubur Rahman, Tayeba Begum Lippi, Rokeya Sultana, Shishir Bhattacharjee, Najmun Nahar Keya, Farhana Sayeda and G.M.B Akash
Sri Lanka: Menika van der Pooten, Niranjala Gunasinghe, Lakeesha Fernando, Anoli Perera and Veidehi Rajasingham
Syria: Randah Maddah
Palestine: Monther Jahwreb
Afghanistan: Sara Nabil, Fareeha Ghezal Yousufzai and Mariam Nabil Kamal
South Africa : Tracey Rose
USA: Maureen Drdrak, Jyoti Duwadi, John Collins, Thomas Kelly, Jason Horowitz
Mauritius: Krishna Luchoomun
Taiwan: Yachu Kang
China: Jang Yung, Pur Bu, Yi Liu, Liu Ye
Jordan: Hilda Hiary, Juman Al Nimri
Canada: Janet Cardiff
UK: Celia Washington, Loren Beven, Vanja Karas
France: Karl Knapp, Anne LeLong
Austria: Christian I. Peintner
Australia: Sally Bierman
Finland: Leena Saraste
Aruba: Osaira Muyale
Curacao: Tony Monsanto
Cuba: Glenda Leon
Iran: Tooraj Khamenehzadeh