TBA21–Academy at Dhaka Art Summit
February 2 –
February 4, 2018
Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh
Ayesha Sultana, Threshold (2012-13). Image courtesy the artist and Experimenter, Kolkata.
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming
TBA21–Academy is proud to collaborate with the Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) 2018. DAS is an international, non-commercial research, and exhibition platform for art and architecture connected to South Asia. With a core focus on Bangladesh, DAS re-examines how we think about these forms of art in both a regional and an international context. Founded in 2012 by the Samdani Art Foundation, DAS is held every two years in a public-private partnership with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Ministry of Information of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the National Tourism Board, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), and in association with the Bangladesh National Museum.
Nabil Ahmed, one of the Fellows of TBA21–Academy The Current, will present the first stage of his two-year research commission INTERPRT (Inter-Pacific Ring Tribunal), an interdisciplinary project on environmental justice in the Pacific region at the intersection of spatial practice, international law, and artistic research. In the project’s conception, the Pacific ring – a contingent, geological force field rising from the depths of the Pacific ocean floor – inspired a fluid, geological imaginary of the Pacific region as a global commons, with the indigenous people of Oceania as its guardians.
The four geographically distributed sites for the project are in West Papua, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, and the Marshall Islands, where the project will investigate possible crimes against nature and propose alternative legal forums working with international lawyers and Pacific-centered groups. Towards these aims, a wide range of activities are proposed including performative public legal forums, exhibitions, drafting of laws, publications, symposiums, and interactive reports setting a new trajectory of artistic research on which to support key Pacific stakeholders.
Nabil Ahmed, one of the Fellows of TBA21–Academy The Current, will present the first stage of his two-year research commission INTERPRT (Inter-Pacific Ring Tribunal), an interdisciplinary project on environmental justice in the Pacific region at the intersection of spatial practice, international law, and artistic research. In the project’s conception, the Pacific ring – a contingent, geological force field rising from the depths of the Pacific ocean floor – inspired a fluid, geological imaginary of the Pacific region as a global commons, with the indigenous people of Oceania as its guardians.
The four geographically distributed sites for the project are in West Papua, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, and the Marshall Islands, where the project will investigate possible crimes against nature and propose alternative legal forums working with international lawyers and Pacific-centered groups. Towards these aims, a wide range of activities are proposed including performative public legal forums, exhibitions, drafting of laws, publications, symposiums, and interactive reports setting a new trajectory of artistic research on which to support key Pacific stakeholders.