Fatal Love : Where Are We Now?
June 30th, July 1st and 2nd 2017
Asia Society and Queens Museum of Art
Free and open to the public.

A three- day convening of established and mid career South Asian American artists, academics and curators in conjunction with LUCID DREAMS DISTANT VISIONS South Asian Art in the Diaspora on view at the Asia Society from June 27th to Aug 6th 2017.

Fatal Love: Where Are We Now? examines contemporary art production by artists, academics and curators in the South Asian American diaspora. Although we have had a strong presence in the New York art world for the last two decades, we have yet to engage in a nationwide dialogue. A lack of institutional support and scarcity of full time contemporary art South Asian curators employed in any local museums have prevented generations of artists from forming networks that go beyond the local to a national scale.

In 2005 the Queens Museum hosted Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now – a groundbreaking exhibition that made visible the artistic community that had grown in NYC since the inception of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective in 1997. Fatal Love responded to the times, as post 9/11 there were major shifts in the perception and policing of our community; artworks specifically addressed these issues. Since 2005, there have been shifts in the art world with the closing down of spaces such as Bose Pacia gallery that previously served as a nexus – but more importantly within the community. There is a much larger and diverse pool of artists now coming of age and functioning within the art world, along with newer migrants.

Fatal Love: Where Are We Now? examines contemporary art production by artists, academics and curators in the South Asian American diaspora. Although we have had a strong presence in the New York art world for the last two decades, we have yet to engage in a nationwide dialogue. A lack of institutional support and scarcity of full time contemporary art South Asian curators employed in any local museums have prevented generations of artists from forming networks that go beyond the local to a national scale.

With the presence of social media there has been a re- birth of artistic community and conversations that mimic what happened in the 90’s. This convening supported by the Smithsonian APAC allows us to bring an unprecedented national focus to a much – needed face to face dialogue amongst various generations of practitioners and theorists who have been working as peers often on an international level, but with no organised national platform.

Fatal Love : Where Are We Now? June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd 2017 Asia Society and Queens Museum of Art

Day 1 (Friday) June 30th 2017 Asia Society

4-6.00 pm: Exhibition Walk through at Asia Society for attendees, in particular academics and curators invited to write about Lucid Dreams, Distant Visions

6.30 – 6-45 pm Introductions to involved institutions and agenda of weekend Lisa Sasaki, Boon Hui Tan, Lawrence – Minh Bui Davis, Prerana Reddy, Jaishri Abichandani

6.45 –7.45 pm. Double Duty: Agency and Cultural Production
Examining strategies to address the invisibility of South Asian artists through cultural production.
Jaishri Abichandani, Swati Khurana, Jaret Vadera, Asha Ganpat, Allan DeSouza, Naeem Mohaiemen
Moderator: Anuradha Vikram

Galleries open from 11-9 pm

Party for attendees at Aicon Gallery from 10pm onwards.

Public Reception 6-9 pm.

Day 2 (Saturday) July 1st 2017 Queens Museum

10 – 11.00 am Creating Visual Patios: Extending regional forms to conceptual ones. Ambreen Butt, Mahwish Chishty, Shahzia Sikander, Khalil Chishtee
Moderator: Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel

11.15– 12.15 Curators Panel: Anuradha Vikram, Jasmine Wahi, Leeza Ahmady, Jaishri Abichandani, Namita Gupta Wiggers
Moderator: Sheetal Prajapati

12.30- 1.30 p.m Concerning Sculpture
Rina Banerjee, Avantika Bawa, Romy Scheroder, Ruby Chishti, Palden Weinreb Moderator: Dr. Sunanda Sanyal

Lunch 1.30- 2.30 pm (Served on site) Performance by Baseera Khan

2. 45 – 3.45 pm Photography Document and Archive
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Neil Chowdhury, Gautam Nikolai Kansara, Asma Kazmi, Leena Jayaswal
Moderator: Santhi Kavuri Bauer

4.00 – 5 pm. Installation 2 Public and Academic Address:
Rit Premnath, Mariam Ghani, Chitra Ganesh, Hasan Elahi, Brendan Fernandes, Vandana Jain
Moderator: Aruna D’Souza

5-5.15: Coffee Break

5.15 – 6.15 pm Academics Panel: Dr. Rakhee Balaram, Santhi Kavuri Bauer, Dr. Sunanda K Sanyal, Vanita Reddy, Dr. Asma Naeem
Moderator: Dr. Rashmi Vishwanathan

Day 3 July 2nd 2017 Queens Museum

10.00 – 11.00 am Projects in the Public Sphere
Kanishka Raja, Shagun Singh, Shahzia Sikander, Chitra Ganesh, Diya Vij, Tom Finkelpearl
Moderator: Prerana Reddy

11.15 – 12.15 Painting Panel: Metaphor and Allusion – Formal Inquiries. Panelists: Shahzia Sikander, Kanishka Raja, Sandeep Mukherjee, Mequitta Ahuja, Tara Sabharwal Moderator: Aruna D’Souza

12.30 – 1.30 pm Photography: Conceptual Horizons: Yamini Nayar, Allan DeSouza, Fariba Salma Alam, Pradeep Dalal, Priyanka Dasgupta, Hasan Elahi
Moderator: Bakirathi Mani

Lunch 1.30 -2.30 pm

2.30 –3.30 Graphic Artists Panel:
Pardon My Hindi, Meera Sethi, Ayqa Khan, Mojuicy, Atif Toor
Moderator: Dr. Ronak Kapadia

3.45 –4.45 pm The (Faith)ful Triangle: Naeem Mohaiemen, Baseera Khan, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Vivek Bald, Ambreen Butt

5.00- 6.00 pm Queer Theorists Panel: Dr. Alpesh Patel, Natasha Bissonauth, Dr. Ronak Kapadia, Allan DeSouza
Moderator: Kareem Khubchandani

6-6.30 Performances by Kareem Khubchandani and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Zulfikar’s performance sponsored by 12 Gates Gallery)

6.00 – 7.00 pm Open Forum for feedback and strategy.