New Dialogues: Keynote by Pankaj Mishra
Writer Pankaj Mishra delivers the keynote address of the inaugural DBF-KMB Lecture Series, exploring South Asian art and culture in a contemporary context.
The New Dialogues: Contemporary Art From South Asia lecture series brings together diverse voices within the context of South Asian contemporary art to explore cultural, artistic and curatorial practices across South Asia and the diaspora.
Mishra’s keynote, ‘Imagination in the Age of Censorship’, considers entrenched regimes across politics and the media enforcing their own version of the truth, and cracking down on dissenters. He asks what reconfigurations of art and literature are needed to overcome this impasse.
Pankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He is the author of two books of history, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia (2012) and Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017). His new book, The World After Gaza, is due to be published early next year.
Presented by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
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This event is part of the DBF-KMB New Dialogues: Contemporary Art From South Asia lecture series. Also taking place at the Southbank Centre is Contemporary South Asian Art: Panel Discussions.
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