Category: In Focus
A Strange and Sublime Address: The Artist’s Studio
Initially, the word studio was used to describe the work itself rather than the workplace. Derived from the Latin word for zeal, it connotes the passi [...]
Notes from My Journal: A Visit to Bangladesh
Feb 4th to 9th, 2016.
I prepare for my first visit to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Art Summit at Shilpakala Academy. I am traveling to Dhaka to pre [...]
From Another Perspective
In its third edition, the Dhaka Art Summit challenged itself by producing a four day exhibition of art from varying disciplines across most of South A [...]
The Body is Present
The body is in the eye, the body is in the sound, the body is in the movement, the body is in the tactile. The body is a point of reference to the beg [...]
Performance Art
In the discovery of the self, you adhere to commonsense social semantics of the self in order to comprehend the meaning behind which you are. Where th [...]
On Performing: Re-telling of two moments
Many years ago in Lahore, in an unassuming backwater spread of the city a little drive off the airport road, I walked in on a performance. It was fall [...]
Questions of Scale
With artworks getting bigger and new, huge spaces for the showing of works becoming more and more common, it is pretty easy to say that as far as tren [...]
Does Scale Matter?
Let's talk about scale. One hundred and seventy-five pounds of candy in Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Félix González-Torres. A seventy-five f [...]