A public programme presented by Emami Art, marking the closing of a thousand years of dreaming - A solo exhibition by Debashish Paul, Curated by Mario D'Souza.
Date: Saturday, 26 October 2024
Time: 5 - 6:30 pm (exhibition open till 7 pm)
Venue: Gallery 2 & 3, Emami Art (map)
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Prof Niladri R Chatterjee with his commendable grasp on discourses around queer history, politics, popular culture and academia will be in a conversation with Debashish Paul, whose debut solo exhibition: a thousand years of dreaming will draw a closure with this programme at Emami Art. The film, 'hazaro saalon ka sapna/thousand years of dreaming', around which the exhibition is centred will be screened exclusively at the beginning of the session.
'Queer Art of Dreaming' will be an unscripted conversation which will seek to draw in, among other things, Paul's artistic influences, his ideas about queerness, its visual representability, the tension of affirming a queer identity and yet seeking acceptance from the mainstream. The conversation will be complemented by an illustrated presentation of Paul's artistic journey.
Bio Notes:
Niladri R. Chatterjee is a Professor at the Department of English, University of Kalyani, West Bengal. His doctoral work was on the novelist Christopher Isherwood. A recipient of Fulbright Scholarship (for which he went to University of Texas at Austin) and the British Council- Charles Wallace Fellowship (University of Cambridge), Prof. Chatterjee has co-edited The Muffled Heart: Stories of the Disempowered Male (New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2005), contributed to The American Isherwood (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), www.glbtq.com (2007), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004), The Isherwood Century (Wisconsin: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001), and Reader’s Companion to Twentieth Century Writers (London: 4th Estate and Helicon, 1995). He has published in the journal American Notes and Queries (Taylor and Francis) and Intersections (www.intersections.anu.edu.au) and has reviewed for Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (US). He was also a member of the editorial board of the aforementioned ANQ. In March 2011 he served as Visiting Faculty at the Dept. of English, University of North Bengal. He has been teaching a course in gender studies at his university since 2009 and has contributed articles to The Wire. With Tutun Mukherjee, he co-edited Naribhav: Androgyny and Female Impersonation in India (Niyogi Books, Delhi. 2016). He has translated the fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick entitled Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick (2023) and is a recipient of Rainbow Literature Awards 2023.
Debashish Paul’s Overview, Monographs, Artworks
Watch Exhibition Walkthrough by Mario D'Souza