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Arts Forum | Ashmina Ranjit

Held on the 26th Jul 2019

at 12:30pm to
1:30pm


Add to Calendar 2019-07-26 12:30:00 2019-07-26 13:30:00 Australia/Sydney Arts Forum | Ashmina Ranjit

Performance still

Image credit: Dina Bangdel, Performance still, USA

Artivist

DAshmina Ranjit is an interdisciplinary Artivist who works internationally. Ashmina pushes the definitions of the post modern in contemporary Nepali Art. Her in-your-face installations and performances constantly interrogate, challenge and confront cultural stereotypes. Her art is an expression of her commitment as a social activist. As an Artivist she positions herself self-consciously as a Third World Artist, influenced to a certain degree by the cultural ‘otherness’ that is embedded in her works. Her subjects are located within such cultural specificity of South Asia so subversion of cultural stereotypes and politics of gender are critical expressions of her process-driven work.

Using a wide range of media - installations, performance, painting, printmaking, sound, and video - Ashmina’s work consistently engages with issues of cultural roles, social gendering, sexuality, human rights and other ever pressing socio political issues. Her subversive subjects and presentations aim towards a viewing experience that is not entirely aesthetic but meant to evoke a distinct sense of unease as a reaction to such represented bodies. Her recent experimentation as political activist critically interrogates the issues of being a citizen of the world. She has performed and executed various projects in USA, Europe, Australia and Asia.

School of Creative Arts and Media | Arts Forum 

Fridays 12.30 - 1.30pm

Dechaineux Lecture Theatre
School of Creative Arts and Media
University of Tasmania
Hunter St, Hobart