We are delighted to host a public presentation and conversation with visiting artist Shuddhabrata Sengupta and prof. Rochona Majumdar on November 13th, 12-2p, Logan Center for the Arts' Performance Penthouse, 915 E. 60th St. 

Lunch will be served. We kindly ask that you RSVP by Thursday November 12 (so we know how much food to order).

Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry with support from the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, Department of Art History, and Department of Visual Arts.

About Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an artist and curator with the Raqs Media Collective, and a writer/political commentator with Kafila.org. Currently, Sengupta is the 2015-2016 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson. He lives and works in New Delhi.

About Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta.  The hybrid practice of the Raqs Media Collective sets itself apart through its insistence on occupying a ground that is as expressively poetic as it is rigorously analytical. Raqs follows its self declared imperative of 'kinetic contemplation' to produce a trajectory that is restless in terms of the forms and methods (sound, image, video, text, object, gesture) that it deploys even as it achieves a consistency of speculative procedures. Raqs enjoy playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. Typically, a work by the Raqs Media Collective pursues the textured experience of time, extends the horizons of reason and imagination and navigates the labyrinth of modernity with the lodestone of a consistent critique of power.

Their work has been shown at Documenta and the Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Sydney and Sao Paulo Biennales, amongst others. They have shown at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Delhi), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tate Britain (London), Art Unlimited (Basel), Mori Museum (Tokyo), SALT (Istanbul), CA2M (Madrid), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), Performa (New York) and at the Hayward and Serpentine Galleries (London).They have curated both in India and in Europe, including 'The Rest of Now' for Manifesta 7.  Raqs is the curator of the forthcoming Shanghai Biennale (2016)

About Rochona Majumdar

Rochona Majumdar is Associate Professor in the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. A historian of modern India, her interests span histories of Indian cinema, gender and marriage in colonial India, and Indian intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Currently Majumdar is writing a book on the history of art cinema and film societies in India from 1947- 1977.