Theme: 8. Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances

(In) the Text of Negotiation

Panel Convenor(s)

• KI

  Kiranmayi Indraganti

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

Panel Chair(s)

• AD

  Anwesha Das

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Panel Discussant(s)

• AS

  Asmita Sarkar

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

Presenter(s)

• KI

  Kiranmayi Indraganti

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
• AD

  Anwesha Das

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
• AS

  Asmita Sarkar

  Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

This panel proposes to present a perspective on Asia-Africa negotiations of margins concerning representation and resistance using three representational modes of the text: the policy, film and the curated art-- to examine transnational flows around power and agency and their meaning-production. The objective here is threefold: firstly, to acknowledge the perception of ‘the other’ about the migrant African population, especially in contemporary India; secondly, to review how filmmakers subtly subvert the representational dynamic of ‘the other,’ in cinematic story-telling, with a close examination of Ousmane Sembene’s film Black Girl, and thirdly, to consider specific art forums such as the Biennale for their simultaneous support and critique of the Asian-African transnational flows and margins.

The three panellists (proposing this panel) come from India and from an Art and Design institute, where their pedagogy and practice have a conscious engagement with resistance politics and their narratives. The panel hopes to contribute to the ongoing debates around the threat of ‘homogenisation’ of societies. It draws on specific contexts of these texts in art and media practice. The panel seeks new ways of asking questions around common histories and traditions of our societies and perhaps develop a potential conversation around care and inclusivity.

Panel supported by: Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Bengaluru Campus, India and Humanities Across Borders

Presentations:

• 16:15 - 18:00 GMT

  Of Cinematic Representation of Migration and Women: A case of Ousmane Sembene
  

  Presenter: Kiranmayi Indraganti – Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
• 16:15 - 18:00 GMT

  Long Histories, New Realities: Trans-regional Encounters and African Migrants in India
  

  Presenter: Anwesha Das – Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
• 16:15 - 18:00 GMT

  The Asia Africa Connect at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
  

  Presenter: Asmita Sarkar – Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education