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Daule Daule: Through the Tharu Lens

Alfa M. Shakya Apr 16, 2024

The Daule Daule exhibition gives the viewer a glimpse into the lives of the Tharu community of Nepal. It shows us moments from their everyday lives and also dives into their rich repository of indigenous knowledge.

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Show of Hands

John Xaviers Arackal Apr 13, 2024

This week on ASAP Fiction we are pleased to publish "Show of Hands", a short story by John Xaviers Arackal, inspired by an encounter with a photograph by Homai Vyarawalla.
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Circumambulating Space-Time: The Bicyclist Who Fell Into the Time-Cone

Kamayani Sharma Apr 12, 2024

Part annals, part poetics, The Bicyclist Who Fell Into the Time-Cone combines fact with fantasy, recalling mediaeval annual calendars illustrated with “labours of the months,” the vignettes located in the same visual field as the inscription of the year’s timeline. In the course of the film, various historical events, occurrences and figures from the year 1980 are inventoried, identifiable through tantalisingly oblique descriptions.

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Other Worlds Within: Arhant Shrestha’s Between Space and Memory

Alfa M. Shakya Apr 11, 2024

Arhant Shrestha’s photographs construct, through an almost childlike wonder and mysticism, an identity of the city he inhabits and what it means to him. This album includes selections from his series Between Space and Memory (2021–), presenting a coming-of-age through the interiority of family and the discovery of a city.
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Constructing Worlds: Ruwangi Amarasinghe’s Fantastical Forests

Pamudu Tennakoon Apr 09, 2024

Drawing from a lifelong interest in the natural world and an affinity with animals, Ruwani Amarasinghe explores the world we live in through non-human counterparts.
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Collective Medias, Narrative Futures: Reading the Egaro Photo Festival

Ankita Ghosh Apr 06, 2024

Egaro (which translates to eleven in Bengali) spotlights work by eleven artists from the South-Asian region at each edition of the India Art Fair. Over the last few years, Egaro has garnered praise and have made an incredible mark towards visibilizing art practice from north-eastern India.
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Rituals for the Dead on the Seashore: Cassie Machado’s Afterlife

Pramodha Weerasekera Apr 04, 2024

Cassie Machado's series Afterlife (2011-16) is a haunting reminder of the deaths and disappearances that occurred throughout the Sri Lankan Civil war, purely through remnant belongings as survivor objects.
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A Fantasy Collaboration: When Colours Return Home to Light by Cassie Machado

Pramodha Weerasekera Apr 02, 2024

Cassie Machado's new series When Colours Return Home to Light (2024) considers how one can build on Sri Lankan modernist pioneer Lionel Wendt’s ideologies and practices by adding more nuance through content as well as material and technical change.
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Do Kavitaayen (Two Poems)

Ishant Sharma Mar 23, 2024

This week on ASAP Fiction, we are pleased to publish our first set of poems in transliteration, "Do Kavitaayen" by Ishant Sharma, emergent from the cross-generational, migrational liminality of a queer urban digital native in a poetic encounter with their mother.

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Shooting Sri Lanka: Abby Robinson on Sri Lankan Film Production

Ankan Kazi Mar 22, 2024

Approaching film production as a site of labour, “experience and infrastructure”, Abby Robinson's photo essay follows the complicated trajectories of several Sinhalese films as well as Tamil ones, noting their discourse of difference (hardened by the brutal reality of war) that percolates into their narrative styles, shooting methods and uses of landscape.

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Ecology, Crime and the State: The Sovereign Forest

Shranup Tandukar Mar 20, 2024

Encompassing documentary film and multimedia works, the exhibition chronicles the resistance movements of Odisha’s indigenous and local communities against government entities and corporations.
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The Infinite Companion: Bombay Tilts Down by CAMP

Ankan Kazi Mar 18, 2024

Shot during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bombay Tilts Down (2022), a seven-channel film by the collaborative studio CAMP presents vertical landscape views, encompassing the sky and sea to land and its varied details. The work is a profound exploration of Mumbai's urban landscape through the lens of working-class perspectives.
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Weather(ing) Crisis: On 28° North and Parallel Weathers

Mallika Visvanathan Mar 15, 2024

The exhibition 28° North and Parallel Weathers presents an intervention that constitutes a long term seasonal preoccupation with water and its myriad conceptual possibilities.
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Expanded Cinemas, Archival Possibilities: Josef Wirsching and Early Film Histories

Arundhati Chauhan Mar 13, 2024

The archive presents larger questions around the photographic image, the visual influences in the staged images of the actors on set to the mise-en-scene captured by Wirsching, as well as questions of infrastructural archive building.
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Memes Beyond Borders: A Bangladeshi Meme Icon in India

Sagorika Singha Mar 11, 2024

Hero Alom became a sensation as a meme icon, which in this day and age is arguably a desirable social currency. Through the figure of Alom, one can consider the dichotomies of “good” and “bad” art and transnational/intertextual media.
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