LB02 Academic Forum
The Academic Forum is an integral dimension of the Lahore Biennale. It aims to foster broad and imaginative discussions on art, culture, and society by bringing comparative and cross-disciplinary perspectives from other locations to Lahore. The Academic Forum brings over a dozen distinguished international curators, critics, and scholars to give public lectures, participate in panel discussions, conduct workshops, and do studio visits with local artists. Topics selected have comparative relevance for the artistic, academic, and public context of Lahore. Highlighted in this edition’s Academic Forum are a series of lectures and workshops spread over the course of the Biennale. These primarily outline contemporary discourse surrounding left-leaning politics, cinema in Pakistan, food culture, anti-colonial movements, feminist transnational networks, and problems inherent to the historiography of Indian art criticism amongst others.
Lectures & Panel Discussions
January 27, 2020
Keynote speech delivered by writer and political theorist Tariq Ali during the inaugural weekend of the Lahore Biennale.
Location: ...
January 27, 2020
John Akomfrah in conversation with Salah Hassan
British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in conversation with art historian, educator, critic and curator Salah Hassan. Artist talk held ...
January 28, 2020
Keynote speech by Adrian Lahoud
Keynote speech delivered by architect and writer Adrian Lahoud during the inaugural weekend of the Lahore Biennale.
Location: National ...
January 28, 2020
Adrian Lahoud in conversation with Rafay Alam
Keynote speech delivered by Adrian Lahoud (Dean of Architecture, Royal College of London) followed by a conversation with Environmental Lawyer ...
January 28, 2020
Berlin-based, mixed-media artist Jeanno Gaussi discusses the process behind her artwork titled Peeran-e-Tombaan exhibited at the LB02.
Location: National ...
January 28, 2020
Artists’ Talk: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan and Hajra Haider Karrar
LB02 participating artists Hera Büyüktaşçıyan and Hajra Haider Karrar discuss their art practice and their collaborative film project titled ‘Infinite ...
February 3, 2020
Thinking with Unfinished Buildings – Between Construction and Ruination in Lahore by Chris Moffat
Location: Gurmani Center of Literature and Languages, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
This presentation navigates a construction site that has ...
February 13, 2020
Lecture by multilingual writer and scholar Adania Shibli
Location: Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts & Design, Beaconhouse National University (BNU)
February 20, 2020
The Populism of Piety by Maryam Wasif Khan
Location: College of Art & Design, Punjab University
By the second decade of the twenty-first century, seventy odd years in ...
February 25, 2020
Women on Aeroplanes: Editorial Meeting
Panel members: Annett Busch, Nida Kirmani, Sehr Jalil, Otolith Group
Location: College of Art & Design, Punjab University
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February 25, 2020
Fugitive Histories in Publications by Naila Mahmood
Location: College of Art & Design, Punjab University
Old Urdu books of all genres reflect their readership, and the cultural ...
February 26, 2020
Revolutionary Pasts and Decolonial Futures by Ali Raza
Location: Lahore Museum
In a moment where far right nationalisms are ascendant across South Asia, it’s easy to overlook a shared ...
February 26, 2020
From the dadis of Shaheen Bagh: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and the Poetics of Protest by Aamir Mufti
Location: Lahore Museum
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by clicking on the link provided
February 27, 2020
Jump Cut: Lahore Cinema 1960s/2010s by Iftikhar Dadi
Location: College of Art & Design, Punjab University
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by ...
February 27, 2020
Cinema Between Video and Film by Lalitha Gopalan
Location: College of Art & Design, Punjab University
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by ...
February 28, 2020
Film and Cinephilia in Pakistan: Beyond ‘death’ and ‘revival’ panel discussion
Panel members: Momina Masood, Gwendolyn S. Kirk, Zebunnisa Hamid, Ali Nobil (Moderator)
The complete talk can be accessed on ...
February 28, 2020
Approaching the Mughal Past in Indian Art Criticism by Devika Singh
Location: National College of Arts, Mall Road
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by clicking ...
February 28, 2020
Womanifesto Movements: a History of an Evolving Artist-Organized Biennial by John Tain
Location: National College of Arts, Mall Road
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by clicking ...
February 29, 2020
Afro-Asian Genealogies in Colonial Penang by Simon Soon
Location: Lahore Museum, Mall Road
The complete talk can be accessed on LBF’s YouTube channel by clicking on the ...
February 29, 2020
Location: Lahore Museum, Mall Road The complete talk can be accessed on LBF's YouTube channel by clicking on the link ...
The Academic Forum was organised by Iftikhar Dadi.
Iftikhar Dadi is professor in Cornell’s Department of History of Art. He is the author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (2010) and the edited monograph Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015). He has co-edited Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2012); and Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading (2001). Dadi serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Archives of Asian Art; BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies; and Art Journal (2007-2011). He is advisor to Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), and member of The Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. Dadi received his PhD from Cornell University.