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Psychoanalysis and the Arts in India-8th Nov, 5:00pm onwards

Khoj International Artists' Association presents

Psychoanalysis and the Arts in India

A symposium on psychoanalysis and arts in India that brings together scholars, artists and psychoanalysts for a pubic discussion.

Khoj Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi
Tuesday, 8th November, 5:00pm onwards


This symposium consists of a series of 30 minute presentations by psychoanalysts and cultural theorists on topics of contemporary relevance to both psychoanalysis and artistic and cultural production and reception, together with presentations of artworks from artists. This shall be followed by a panel discussion between the symposium participants and the audience.
The symposium is especially interested in exploring the role of eros, desire, sexuality, trauma, recovery and the unconscious as they play out in the clinic and the cultural sphere and hopes to open up a space for discussion and reflection on the role of psyche in art and culture with a view towards renewing interest in the complex intermeshing of psyche with socius. 

About the Speakers
Dr Leon Tan (MBACP, UK) is a media art historian, cultural theorist and psychoanalyst based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was previously a tenured lecturer in psychotherapy and lecturer in art history in Auckland, New Zealand, and served as a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Lacanian Analysis.

Anita Dube is a New Delhi based artist who was initially trained as an art historian and critic. She works with a conceptual language that valorizes the sculptural fragment as a bearer of personal and social memory, history, mythology and phenomenological experience.

Angad Chowdhry is a cultural theorist whose PhD thesis [due] focused on ‘Representations of fear in contemporary India.’ He is the co-editor of Indian Mass Media and Politics of Change (Routledge, 2010), and is currently co-editor of the forthcoming issue of The International Journal of Zizek Studies on South Asia.

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