Corruption: Everybody Knows
Moyra Davey, Assets, 1989. C-print, 30 x 40 in. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy. Corruption accesses the state body as both a natural and mystical corpus, eventually producing a third phantom body—corrosive and self-extending—emitting from an inside as techniques of social performance, bureaucratic desire, and conversion in the very terms of ethical life. A … Continue reading
on Afterall Online/ Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 1) / Natasha Ginwala
On Afterall Online: Geeta Kapur is India’s foremost art critic, historian and curator; throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century, she has both shaped and documented the emergence of a contemporary art scene in the subcontinent. Her essays on art, film, cultural theory in the context of Third World perspectives and avant garde artistic … Continue reading
Interview with Geeta Kapur for Art and Deal Magazine
Interview with Geeta Kapur for Art & Deal Magazine (Issue 32) – A revised version will be published on Afterall Online shortly (Excerpt) Natasha Ginwala: What are the possible reasons for a lack of institutional as well as extra-institutional discourse on curatorial practice in India thus far? Geeta Kapur: Any discourse on curatorship would be … Continue reading
Work in Progress: Dialogues on Curation (Part 1) in collaboration with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA)
Work in Progress is envisioned as a platform whereupon artists, critics, curators and cultural theorists gather to discuss contemporary trajectories of curatorial practice in the South Asian context, including the changing role of the curator and innovative shifts in exhibition making as well as Arts programming. From performing as a ‘caretaker’ of museum collections – … Continue reading
Natasha Ginwala: Work and Writing 