Conversation | Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
Artists in Dialogue
Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in conversation with artists of the exhibition
Oscar Murillo, surge (social cataracts), 2021 Courtesy: the artist, photo: Tim Bowditch and Reinis Lismanis
The Indian Ocean is a reservoir of memory keeping and coded legacies of the Afrasian Diaspora. Over an afternoon, artists of the exhibition summon various forms of relationality: in their stories of art-making and research, they recall water-borne affiliations marked in material cultures, navigation, gustatory, aural and literary practices.
Taking the Afrasian Sea (Indian Ocean) as a communal horizon, a common denominator and bridge, Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora explores manifold links between Asian and African worlds.
A conversation with the artists Jennifer Tee, Sim Chi Yin, Oscar Murillo, Jack Beng-Thi, M'barek Bouhchichi, Jeewi Lee and Rossella Biscotti, moderated by the curators Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
15:00—16:45
Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Jennifer Tee, Sim Chi Yin and Oscar Murillo
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17:00—18:30
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung in conversation with Jack Beng-Thi, M'barek Bouhchichi, Jeewi Lee and Rossella Biscotti