75 Years Post-Partition: Artist Pritika Chowdhry on her Partition Anti-Memorial Project
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, cosponsored by the Humanities Research Institute and The Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
- Location
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
- Date
- Nov 3, 2022 7:00 pm
- Speaker
- Pritika Chowdhry
- Contact
- Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
- csames@illinois.edu
- Views
- 16
Join Pritika Chowdhry in remembering the Partition through the lenses of visual arts, postcolonial feminism, post memory, and diaspora.
Chowdhry’s research-based art practice excavates the counter-memories of the Partition to create experiential art installations that are anti-memorials to the Partition. Chowdhry is a grandchild of the Partition and weaves her family’s experience of the Partition through postmemory. Her research is informed by postcolonial feminisms and her own diasporic (dis)location.