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SUMMARY:Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art\, Digital
  Media\, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh - Lotte Hoek (University of
  Edinburgh)
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DESCRIPTION:What sort of space is the gallery under contemporary condition
 s of political authoritarianism and “too late” capitalism? In this pap
 er\, I use the profusion of engaged and politically committed art practice
 s on display in galleries across Bangladesh to think critically about what
  happens to progressive and socially engaged aesthetic forms\, their commu
 nities of practice\, and sites of display\, when the infrastructural\, fin
 ancial\, and technological transformations of the 21st century realign the
  relationship between politics and aesthetics so that they leave behind th
 eir familiar 20th century articulations. By tracing the working conditions
 \, formal qualities and digital extensions that mark contemporary aestheti
 c practice in Bangladesh\, I suggest that the reconvening of forms and com
 munities associated with the left in the expanded gallery is a consequence
  of our contemporary media and infrastructural conditions. These transitio
 ns are not unique to Bangladesh but part of 21st century reconfigurations 
 of the relationship between politics and aesthetics.\n\nLotte Hoek is Prof
 essor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a me
 dia anthropologist whose ethnographic explorations of the moving image are
  situated at the intersection of anthropology and film studies and are gro
 unded in theoretical debates emerging from South Asian contexts. She is th
 e author of Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Banglade
 sh (Columbia University Press\, 2014) and co-editor of Forms of the Left i
 n Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics\, Networks and Connected Histories (
 Bloomsbury\, 2021). She is one of the editors of the journal BioScope: Sou
 th Asian Screen Studies.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nLotte Hoek (University of Edinbur
 gh)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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