Online Partition Museum

Online Partition Museum The Online Partition Museum memorializes the partitions of the Indian subcontinent.

Call for Art - Partition in the Modern World: Transdiasporic PerspectivesSubmissions due: May 31, 2023 - Apply today!htt...
05/12/2023

Call for Art - Partition in the Modern World: Transdiasporic Perspectives

Submissions due: May 31, 2023 - Apply today!
https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/curatorialfellowship2022
Exhibition Dates: July 8 - August 13, 2023
Exhibtion Venue: Evanston Art Center
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 16 at 1-4 PM CDT

Hello all, is curating an exhibition at the Evanston Art Center in Chicago that explores partitioning countries as a recurring motif in modern politics. Just a few examples are the Partitions of Poland, Mexico, Ireland, India, Palestine, Bosnia, Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Cyprus, and more.

This inclusive exhibition seeks to poetically probe the reverberations of the Partition motif locally and globally, and make transdiasporic connections between disparate histories of partitions, and it’s aftermath through the lenses of cultural memories and diasporic locations.

There will be an exhibition catalog, artist panels and exhibition walkthroughs at the Evanston Art Center. Then it will transition to a virtual exhibition in the . Learn more and apply before May 31 -
https://www.partitionmuseum.online/partition-in-the-modern-world/

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is one of the founding board members of the Online Partition Museum.Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is a...
02/12/2023

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is one of the founding board members of the Online Partition Museum.

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Mehta works on the evolution and synthesis of modernity; nationalism, religious revival, cinema, and the post-global nation-state.

Her book on Indian cinema, "Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood" was published by the University of Illinois Press in June 2020. She has published two co-edited anthologies: "Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora" (Anthem Press, 2010) and "Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, Aesthetics" (Routledge, 2014).

One of the recipients of the University of Illinois’s first Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities, she is the creator of a Digital Humanities Project on Global Film History. She is currently a LAS fellow in the second discipline (2021-2023), studying Computer Science.

Her website https://go.illinois.edu/rinibmehta has an almost complete list of her publications; her digital visualizations are available at https://observablehq.com/, and she also has a nascent blog hosted by Medium at https://medium.com/culture-umbrella.

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas is a founding board member of the Online Partition Museum.Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, PhD, is an ...
02/10/2023

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas is a founding board member of the Online Partition Museum.

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Graduate Program of Museum Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Jacque is a critical museum and heritage studies scholar with research and teaching expertise on 9/11 memory and landscapes of terrorism, broadly defined. Her research program explores the evocative power of places of difficult heritage to cultivate public emotion (such as fear, empathy, and hope) and generate a collective sense of community in the wake of traumatizing events.

She is particularly interested in trauma-informed museum practices and the pedagogical power of heritage landscapes to advance or impede social change. Drawing on anti-racist, q***r, and feminist theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, her work on heritage landscapes critically interrogates dominant narratives of cultural memory and questions of historical justice.

Her book "Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum" was published by the Routledge Press in 2021. She has also published an edited anthology "Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage" (Routledge, 2021).

Learn more about her research at https://www.jacquemicielivoutsinas.com/

Pritika Chowdhry is a founding board member of the Online Partition Museum.Pritika Chowdhry is an Indian-born American a...
02/09/2023

Pritika Chowdhry is a founding board member of the Online Partition Museum.

Pritika Chowdhry is an Indian-born American artist, curator, and writer. She is known for her work in the socio-political domain. Pritika recently did her mid-career solo retrospective at the South Asia Institute in 2022.

Pritika has exhibited her works nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions in the Weismann Museum in Minneapolis, Queens Museum in New York, the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey, the Islip Art Museum in Long Island, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the DoVA Temporary in the University of Chicago, and the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University.

Pritika's works have been reviewed in the national press, and scholarship about her work has been published in peer-reviewed research publications and various exhibition catalogs.

She is currently based in Chicago, IL, USA. She has an MFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Culture and Gender Studies from UW-Madison. She has taught at Macalester College and College of Visual Arts, both in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Learn more about her art practice at https://www.pritikachowdhry.com/

We are inspired by the vision of Salima Hashmi, a renowned artist, curator, activist, and cultural leader based out of P...
01/30/2023

We are inspired by the vision of Salima Hashmi, a renowned artist, curator, activist, and cultural leader based out of Pakistan, who thoughtfully articulated the need for a virtual Partition museum in an interview –
“Where should a Partition museum be? It should be a virtual museum so that everybody can contribute, so you don't have to physically go to a place in one of these countries, because then always there will be the dominant narrative, and we don't want a dominant narrative. We want a balanced narrative which sees all aspects of all the partitions. And therefore, I like the idea of a virtual museum. That would be the museum to actually pursue, where you could have all of our stories in the virtual museum that spans the continents, and it does not acknowledge any divides.”

https://www.partition museum.online

Partition of India and Pakistan, 1947Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971
01/21/2023

Partition of India and Pakistan, 1947
Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

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