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Thu 18 Feb, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Courtauld Asia, Event Recording, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum
[ONLINE] The Mood of a Place: A Sensible History of India...
The art of sensing moods mattered in precolonial South Asia. The eighteenth-century painters of Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, suggest that the moods of pleasure and prosperity mattered even more. The moods of grand-scale paintings, larger in size than manuscripts and portraits, which could be held in…
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Wed 4 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum
[ONLINE] After Vienna, 1683: A Portuguese Prophet of Otto...
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Fri 13 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Event Recording, Research Forum, Word and Image
[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Moderni...
Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian and Urdu) letters and script into abstract visual forms across North Africa, West Asia and South…
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Fri 6 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Event Recording, Research Forum, Word and Image
[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Moderni...
Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian and Urdu) letters and script into abstract visual forms across North Africa, West Asia and South Asia…
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Tue 17 Mar, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Research Forum
[POSTPONED] Where Dragon Veins Meet: Book Launch
In the interest of public, staff and student safety, we have taken the decision to cancel a number of our upcoming events in light of the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. This event has been postponed a new date will follow soon. Book launch for Dr Stephen Whiteman’s Where Dragon…
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Mon 9 Mar, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
[CANCELLED] SLAVS AND TATARS: Régions d’être
Please note that this event has been cancelled. This is the third lecture in a series hosted by Dr Sussan Babaie and co-organised by Iran Heritage Foundation with The Courtauld Institute of Art. For a little more than a decade, Slavs and Tatars have shown a keen grasp of polemical…
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Thu 27 Feb, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
Inarticulate Depths: Victoria Sin in conversation with Ko...
Artist Victoria Sin discusses desire, identification, agency and strategies of queer resistance with curator and art historian, Kostas Stasinopoulos. This conversation aims to provide an insight into Sin’s practice, focusing on speculative ideas surrounding the body, gender, and methods of decolonisation, using drag as a means of engagement and a…
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Thu 7 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
DMZ Revisited: Nikolaus Hirsch and Kyong Park in Conversa...
The Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) is one of the world’s most heavily militarised border, located between South and North Korea. On the occasion of the opening of an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK), titled Negotiating Borders, which incorporates contemporary art practices that offer unique insights into the…
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Tue 5 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
Sussan Deyhim: Performance and Practice
This is the second lecture in a series hosted by Dr Sussan Babaie and co-organised by Iran Heritage Foundation with The Courtauld Institute of Art, and in association with independent curator Vali Mahlouji Sussan Deyhim will present an audio-visual compilation of her recent and early works in media stage production,…
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Mon 4 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
Worldbuilding for 2065
Interlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative fiction, Lawrence Lek’s CGI films and virtual worlds explore the geopolitical impact of automation and simulation. His universe is populated with dreamers – intelligent satellites, freedom fighters, fading superstars – all searching for autonomy in a future dominated by data. For this lecture…
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Wed 6 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
Myths, Memories and Miniatures: The Art of Shahzia Sikander
The New York-based Shahzia Sikander will speak about her multi-media artworks. Sikander’s pioneering practice takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media. Trained as a miniaturist at the…
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