Artworks

Experimenter Learning Program Module XXI 
Readings with Prof. Kavita Panjabi
Date: February 24 | 5 - 7 pm
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place
Number of participants: 15
Pre-registration required

Prof. Kavita Panjabi and artist Bhasha Chakrabarti will be leading an intimate session dedicated to the love for words and images. Bring along a poem or an excerpt from a favourite book that we can sit together, read and explore through candid discussions. The session will trace the personal connections with the piece and flow through shared reflections, over a relaxed spring evening.

Kavita Panjabi is an independent researcher, and an activist in the South Asian women’s and peace movements. She taught Comparative Literature for 33 years at Jadavpur University; is author of Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women’s Movement and a Pakistan diary, Old Maps and New: Legacies of the Partition; and loves poetry but chose never to “teach” it.

Bhasha Chakrabarti (b. 1991) is a visual artist based in New Haven, CT. By crossing many genres, she explores art-making as a mode of discourse and her work generates dialogues between subaltern tropes and feminine forms of labor from the global South and the agendas of resistance movements of marginalized communities in the global North. Bhasha's works have been written about in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artsy, Ocula, and The Art Newspaper. Her solo Skin to Skin is ongoing at Experimenter, Ballygunge Place until 31 March, 2023.