"alternative narratives of history and exploration of memory through art"
Submissions Call
Curatorial Project
"alternative narratives of history and exploration of memory through art"
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The impetus of curating this exhibition springs out of a perceived lack of acknowledgment and understanding of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh (known in Pakistan as a civil war and/or Indo-Pak war), its roots and aftermath, among Pakistani artists - both contemporary and modern.
The expectation is a dialogue from visual arts perspective of a civil unrest, hegemony & genocide; unprecedented in the art community to my knowledge.
We believe in the power of art to bring on social change. An initiative as ambitious as this cannot be a commercial enterprise as a group show - of course individually the works in the project will have a much broader appeal. A submission call can become an essential piece within the project by highlighting the controversial aspects and accelerating its onset.
This project will seek out provocative, visually powerful, and politically telling works from a relatively Pakistani perspective. All media will be included - many ways to tell the story.
The Exhibition lends itself to several sections.
Documentary: actual experience
War Propaganda
Research: Libraries, archives and google
Inheritance: this is the person that is living the experience through the memory of their parents.
Questions: In 1971, How old were you.... when did you know this happened to you family how much did you have to experience through research books oral tabloids.
Answers: What we need to know, why we need to know. The importance of remembering the stories lived through experience.
The Apology\Art\War\Crime\ personal\human
1, Actual stories, remembering the horrors of our past. (that links us to our parents past)
2, visual art component,
3, sound bites, visual, footage\ archives
4, what the papers said
5, memorial
6, the colonial side effects
7, orientalists
8, manipulation - (War propaganda)