Lines of control
Subtitle: partition as a productive space
By: edited by Iftikhar Dadi, Hammad Nasar
Contributors: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Publisher: Green Cardamom; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781934260227
Subjects: South Asian Art; Exhibitions; Modern Art; Transnationalism
Description: Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space explores the creation and maintenance of borders, both physical as well as psychological, through the works of artists primarily from South Asia. These artists focus on the idea of partition as a productive space-where nations are made through forging new identities and relationships; reconfiguring memory and creative forgetting; re-writing history and the making of myths; and through the creation and patrolling of borders. Developed by the nonprofit arts organization Green Cardamom, Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space originated in London in 2009 as an exhibition focused on South Asian artists and the division of India in 1947. The project later expanded to a larger exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, incorporating works by artists from countries such as Mexico, Lebanon, and Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

This catalog accompanies an exhibition organized by Green Cardamom, London. Curated by Hammad Nasar, Iftikhar Dadi, and Ellen Avril, with assistance from Nada Raza, and presented at: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 21 - April 1, 2012 and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, fall 2013.