Participatory Art in South Asia: Painting with Bangladesh Foreign Workers in Singapore
When: Thursday,
November 2, 2017
5:15 PM
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6:30 PM
Where: Star Store, New Bedford Purchase Street, New Bedford
Cost: NA
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Description: This lecture explores Participatory Art as an education methodology and shows its capacity to transform racial stereotypes in South Asia. Professor Joan Marie Kelly of Nanyang Technological University will explain how her students in Singapore are given a design brief to compose engagement with Bangladesh and Indian foreign construction workers who often relocate for better-paid job opportunities in Singapore. Kelly will show how her students imagine and initiate engagements and experiences that grow from these participatory art practices. The lecture is organized by Professor Pamela Karimi in conjunction with her Grad Seminar II: On Creativity. The theme of this week's class is “The Artist as Cultural Critic. The lecture will take place at 5:15pm on Thursday November 02, 2017 at the Star Store Campus (room 144A).
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