BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.2//EN TZID:Asia/Kolkata X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT UID:525@map-india.org DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20240723T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20240723T183000 DTSTAMP:20240718T044913Z URL:https://map-india.org/map-events/fieldnotes-from-begumpura/ SUMMARY:Fieldnotes from Begumpura DESCRIPTION:Family Vacation\, Rahee Punyashloka\n\n500 years ago Bhakti poe t Ravidas imagined a casteless city\, Begumpura– the first recorded utop ia in South Asian history. Today artist Rahee Punyashloka brings us his Fi ednotes from Begumpura\, a creative repository of communal and personal in quiries and histories. Join Rahee in this talk where he will engage in d iscussions around his work’s thematic concerns\, processes and the mediu ms that he works with. In his research-based\, multi-medium series\, Rahee  fashions himself as an ethnographer of Begumpura\, recording chronicles of its people and everyday life.\n\nIn another series\, Family Vacation\, he explores through the absence of photographs imagined memories that wer e never made. The series\, in the absence of bodies eludes to the experien ces of Dalit persons torn apart from their family through exile and displa cement\, shared grief and solitary hiding\, public censures and forced pro mises\, and the perpetual lack that makes family vacation impossible. Wash ed in shades of deep blue and full of motifs that commemorate the anti-cas te movement\, Rahee Punyashloka’s work speaks of the anti-caste struggle . He builds a creative repository that exposes us to both communal and per sonal inquiries and histories – one that challenges colonial ethnographe rs and archives aided by extant Brahmanical ideas around caste.\n\nThe art ist talk will be followed by a Q&\;A session. Join us to listen to and engage with the artist’s works and processes centred around social justi ce.\n\nThis event is conceptualised under our permanent exhibition VISIBLE /INVISIBLE: Representation of Women in Art through the MAP Collection. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://map-india.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07 /Rahee-talk-web-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kolkata X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20230724T183000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR