Heyman Center,
2nd Floor Common Room
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Fiction writer Sharmistha Mohanty will read from her work and be in conversation with poet Anne Waldman.
Artist Sudarshan Shetty will talk about his work as well as curating the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
The evening will be an opportunity to take a brief look at contemporary Indian artistic practice and thought through two of its leading practitioners.
Anupama Rao (History, ICLS) will moderate the event.
Bios:
Sharmistha Mohanty, the author of three books of fiction, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise, is among the most exciting and innovative writers of her generation. Mohanty is also a translator, and founding editor of the literary journal and publishing house Almost Island, and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues. Mohanty is currently on the International Faculty for the Creative Writing MFA at the City University of Hong Kong.
Anne Waldman is the author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics. She is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman, Marriage: A Sentence and the multi-volume Iovis project.
Sudarshan Shetty is one of the most original artists of his generation in India. His installations are developed around a rigorous grammar of materials, mechanical exposure and unlikely juxtapositions of things that may belong to culturally distinct spheres. Shetty has exhibited widely in India and around the world, and participated in numerous solo and group shows and biennales around the world. Currently Shetty is Curator and Artistic Director of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, the largest art biennale in India.
