Memories, Archived: Contemporary Views from South Asia
Friday, 27 September 2024 | 6 pm
CONVERSATIONS
Memories, Archived
Contemporary Views from South Asia
Dale Luis Menezes
Leandré D’Souza
Susana Bastos Mateus
Editors, Memories, Archived: Contemporary Views from South Asia
in conversation with
Lina Vincent
Art historian
Please join us for Conversations on Dale Luis Menezes, Leandré D’Souza and Susana Bastos Mateus’ book, Memories, Archived: Contemporary Views from South Asia, together with Lina Vincent on Friday, 27 September 2024 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim.
Please join us for tea at 5:30 pm.
Memories, Archived
Contemporary Views from South Asia
Memories, Archived: Contemporary Views from South Asia provides new tools for engaging with the archives, especially for practitioners of contemporary art. It addresses themes of identity, belonging, power, representation, cultural heritage, environmental sustainability, and the politics surrounding these issues. The book is a contribution to the ongoing exhibition at Sunaparanta, ArQhive: Early-Modern-Contemporary Visions, a show that takes its inspiration from a collection of watercolours produced in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Goa.
Participating Artists
Asavari Gurav, Ashish Phaldesai, Keg de Souza, Leticia Alvares, Maria do Carmo Picarra, Nadia de Souza, Nishant Saldanha, Onkar Kshirsagar, Sahil Naik, Susana Bastos Mateus, Uriel Orlow, Vijay Bhandare and Viraj Naik
Exhibition
ArQhive: Early-Modern-Contemporary Visions
Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts
9 August - 2 November 2024
Dale Luis Menezes
Dale Luis Menezes is a historian at Georgetown University, Washington DC working on the importance of rice and coconut cultivation in the Portuguese empire, from 1500s till about 1800s. Currently on a Georgetown University Qatar Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Menezes is finishing his dissertation. His research closely observes society in one village in early modern Goa, zooming out to explain how empire and transoceanic systems slowly developed from the 1500s at the local, regional, and global levels. He is interested in understanding the motivation of locals who participated in the Portuguese empire.
Leandré D’Souza
Leandré D’Souza is the curator and creative director at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts. In 2023, she was invited as mentor to the two-year South Asia Incubator Programme at PhotoKTM (Kathmandu, Nepal). Leandré is the founder of ArtOxygen, a collective aimed at curating and producing art projects in open spaces. From 2010-2018, she organized [en]counters, a festival dealing with issues affecting the everyday life of Mumbai. She was invited to curate the participation of Indian and international artists at the biennial Haein Art Project in South Korea in 2013, and curated the 2015/16 & 2018 editions of Sensorium at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts. In 2014, she received an award for Culture and Change from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.
Susana Bastos Mateus
Susana Bastos Mateus is a researcher of the Alberto Benveniste Chair of Sephardic Studies at the University of Lisbon. She is a member of the international research group “History of the Inquisitions” and of the editorial board of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas. She is co-author of The Trial of Catarina de Orta by the Goa Inquisition (with Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço and Carla Vieira). Presently she is coordinating the project Praying to the God of Israel according to the Portuguese Tradition (16th–18th centuries), which is dedicated to studying the circulation of clandestine prayer books in the Iberian world during the early modern period. Her principal research field focuses on the dynamics of the Sephardic diaspora of the 16th century, studying the role of women, and questioning the importance of gender as an element of resistance and agency.
Lina Vincent
Lina Vincent is an independent art historian and curator with two decades experience in arts management. Since 2009, the focus areas of her research have extended to projects with arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions and folk arts in India, and environmental consciousness in the arts. Her ongoing engagements include ‘Goa Familia’, archival photography project, Serendipity Arts Foundation and ‘Sunaparanta Art Initiator Lab’, Goa (S.A.I.L) mentoring project, and ‘Travelling Plants’ a multi-phase exhibition in collaboration with Goethe Institute Chennai. In 2023, she concluded the virtual development of ‘Sandooka – The Living Museum of Kodava Culture,’ commissioned by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). She teaches visual and material culture as visiting faculty at DJAD Academy of Design (Coimbatore) and is Associate Curator with ARTPORT_making waves – global arts program for climate-action. She has curated numerous exhibitions with galleries across India and contributes to publications on art history and contemporary cultural practices. Lina has a BFA in printmaking from Bangalore University and MFA in Art History from the same institution.
Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts
63/C-8, Near Army House, Altinho, Panaji, Goa 403001
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Xavier Centre of Historical Research
B B Borkar Road, Porvorim, Goa 403521, India
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