Ep 18: Remembering the Present - The 1947 Partition

<p>On this Artalaap episode, I, Kamayani Sharma, speak to artist Pritika Chowdhry, whose solo exhibition 'Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories' featuring her anti-memorials to the Partition is currently on view at the South Asia Institute, Chicago.</p> <p>We talk about the politics of memorialising the 1947 South Asian Partition, the aesthetic challenge of representing collective trauma and the influence of feminist historiography on understanding the Partition.</p> <p>We also touch upon drawing parallels with other colonial divisions of territory as well as ongoing civil conflict in the global south, and the limits of testimony in the contemporary period.</p> <p>You can learn more about the exhibition here:</p> <p><a href="https://www.saichicago.org/exhibition/pritika-chowdhry-unbearable-memories-unspeakable-histories"><u>https://www.saichicago.org/exhibition/pritika-chowdhry-unbearable-memories-unspeakable-histories</u></a> or at the South Asia Institute, Chicago's Instagram page @southasiainstitute.</p> <p>Click here to access the Image+ Guide &amp; view the material being discussed in the podcast: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-16"><u>https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-18.</u></a></p> <p>For a time-stamped list of Contents, click here: <a href="//http:/bit.ly/3CeUTWz" target="_blank">http:/bit.ly/3CeUTWz</a></p> <p><strong>LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST HERE:</strong></p> <p>Pritika Chowdhry is a feminist and postcolonial artist, curator, and writer whose work is in both public and private collections. Chowdhry has exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions in the Weisman Art Museum, Queens Museum, Hunterdon Museum, Islip Art Museum, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, DoVA Temporary, Brodsky Center, and Cambridge Art Gallery. Her work has been written up in various scholarly publications, including the journals <em>GeoHumanities</em>, <em>Social Transformations Journal of the Global South</em>, and <em>Progre