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Reading List LeadersAuthor: Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Reading List Leaders is a four-part aural gathering recorded as a podcast series by visual artist and poet Vidha Saumya. In each of the episodes Vidha hosts conversations and readings with her invited Reading List Leaders: Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar, Kamla Bhasin, Paromita Vohra and Arvind Ramachandran.Reading List Leaders is an extension of Vidha Saumyas poem and wall mural Reading List, the first work in a series of artistic commissions at Frame Contemporary Art Finlands office space. Reading List proposes a list of 96 authors from India who should be in global reading lists. This list is potentially endless. The work was commissioned in the context of the Rehearsing Hospitalities public programme 2019-2023.As I read my way through list after list, helpfully extended towards me by institutions, visiting lecturers, and seminars in Finland, I encountered many silences. And to mend those silences, these names were my instinctual response. (Vidha Saumya, 2019).Reading List Leaders was initially planned as weekly gatherings for reading and listening in the Frame Contemporary Art Finland office. Restrictions on the act of gathering in Finland, India and throughout the world due to COVID-19 and political unrest have made weekly physical gatherings impossible. In the podcast series we can continue the project in a complimentary and meaningful way. Still a place to gather, the online podcast conversations and readings activate, archive and share both the under-celebrated Indian writers who appear on Vidhas Reading List, and the Reading List Leaders themselves. Reading List Leaders include co-founder of the Dalit Panther Archive Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar, Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist Kamla Bhasin, filmmaker, writer and founder of multi-media project Agents of Ishq Paromita Vohra, and co-organiser of the Feminist and Anti-Racist Night School Arvind Ramachandran, along with visual artist and poet Vidha Saumya.Each hour Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Reading List Leaders Podcast 4
Monday, 25 May, 2020
In the fourth Reading List Leaders podcast, Vidha Saumya hosts stand-up comedian, organiser and artist Arvind Ramachandran.Arvind Ramachandran and Vidha Saumya will discuss topics such as: 1) Expanding the reading list: How do we expand reading lists to include not just often ignored authors, but also often ignored forms of writing, or even non-writing forms of content. 2) Sharing the reading list: How does what one reads find its way to reach others? 3) Transplanting the reading list: We move. In an age of migration, how do our reading lists reflect our stories. Languages: Tamil, English About Arvind RamachandranArvind Ramachandran is a stand-up comedian, organiser and artist. His work focuses on confronting visible and invisible oppressive structures operating in contemporary society, especially as they affect those without class, caste, gender and race privileges. He currently co-organises the Feminist and Anti-Racist Night School and co-hosts PoC Open Mic in Helsinki. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
