David Dean, Carleton University |
Last year, cartoonist David Parkins re-imagined America’s Statue of Liberty as a Canadian. A maple leaf adorns her crown and she has a hockey stick tucked under her arm. American cartoonist Mike Luckovich...
Debbie Whelan, University of Lincoln |
Introduction
Fed-up action on litter, Taking back the city’s streets, Vagrants defile post office are all newspaper articles penned in recent years speaking of Pietermaritzburg, the City of...
Radhika Hettiarachchi |
The 26-year Sri Lankan war ended with a resounding military victory for the Government forces. At the end, the blitzkrieg saw indiscriminate shelling of a sliver of land in Mullaitivu district, where thousands of civilians...
Archit Guha |
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High‐Tech City. By Smriti Srinivas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City. By Ranjani Mazumdar. Minneapolis:...
Pithamber R. Polsani |
Artists are labourers who toil for their ideas
Suresh Kumar G.
In the morning slot on the second day of the ART Marathon, in the middle of the gallery on a green drop cloth, stood a 30-year-old bicycle. When the bell rang...
Histories of the Immediate Present series will cover biennales, art fairs, design exhibitions, literary festivals and performance art events of seminal importance in South Asia. The goal of this...
We invite, artists, designers, writers, academics and all those who are interested in writing about vernacular design to send us your ideas in form of an abstract of 350 words (1 Page) to...