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Indian Ocean current : six artistic narratives : Shiraz Bayjoo, Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, Hajra Waheed

Title
  1. Indian Ocean current : six artistic narratives : Shiraz Bayjoo, Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, Hajra Waheed / Prasannan Parthasarathi, editor.
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  1. [Boston] : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2020.
  2. [Chicago] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, [2020]
  3. ©2020

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Additional authors
  1. Parthasarathi, Prasannan
  2. Bayjoo, Shiraz, 1979-
  3. Gupta, Shilpa, 1976-
  4. Hlobo, Nicholas, 1975-
  5. Wangechi Mutu
  6. Waheed, Hajra, 1980-
  7. McMullen Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
  1. 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 26 x 26 cm
Summary
  1. "The rich history of the Indian Ocean has been much explored, though its present-day manifestations remain less studied. This catalog for an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, curated by Prasannan Parthasarathi and Salim Currimjee, brings together essays that contextualize the work of six contemporary artists from the region. Through a variety of mediums and forms - including watercolors, videos, collages, sculptures, and photographs - Shiraz Bayjoo, Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, and Hajra Waheed grapple with the past, present, and future of the Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean Current provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of these six artists, with essays drawn from environmental studies, postcolonial studies, literature, and history. Contributors trace the connections that spanned the Indian Ocean, the movement of peoples, and the evolution of plural societies. From the mid-twentieth century, decolonization led to the creation of new nation-states, and hastily erected borders divided many. Today, the rising waters of the Indian Ocean, a consequence of climate change, strip these borders of their power. Indian Ocean Current opens up an artistic, historical, cultural, and political conversation about an area of the world famed for its cosmopolitanism but threatened by nationalism and global warming."--Taken from publisher description
Subject
  1. Climatic changes
  2. Indian Ocean Region
  3. Art, Modern
  4. History
  5. Exhibition catalogs
  6. 2000-2099
  7. Waheed, Hahra, 1980- > Exhibitions
  8. Siopis, Penelope, 1953- > Exhibitions
  9. Wangechi Mutu > Exhibitions
  10. Hlobo, Nicholas, 1975- > Exhibitions
  11. Gupta, Shilpa, 1976- > Exhibitions
  12. Bayjoo, Shiraz, 1979- > Exhibitions
  13. Climatic changes > Indian Ocean Region > Exhibitions
  14. Indian Ocean Region > History > Exhibitions
  15. Indian Ocean Region > In art > Exhibitions
  16. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs
  2. History
Contents
  1. Introduction / Salim Currimjee & Prasannan Parthasarathi -- The Indian Ocean world / David Northrup -- Shiraz Bayjoo -- Slavery and histories of unfreedom in the Indian Ocean / Pedro Machado -- Shilpa Gupta -- What the ocean gives us to think / Kalpana R. Seshadri -- Nicholas Hlobo -- Colonialism's afterlives and invocations of oceanic history / Sana Alyar -- Wangechi Mutu -- The Indian Ocean after 1945 / Bérénice Guyot-Réchard -- Penny Siopis -- Climate change and the future of the Indian Ocean / Sunil Amrith -- Hajra Waheed -- The state of the Indian Ocean: a scientific perspective / Zara Currimjee.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Published in conjuction with an exhibition held January 27-May 31, 2020 at McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.