+ Exhibition Proposals for a Memorial to Partition 12G | Twelve Gates Arts 106 N 2nd Street Philadelphia, PA, US August 4 - October 28, 2023 Curator: Murtaza Vali In the aftermath of British colonial rule, a few crucial weeks in 1947 initiated complex and still-unresolved processes of nation-building across the South Asian subcontinent. The violence of the resulting displacement, fragmentation, and geopolitical conflict endures today, shaping the societies and peoples there and in the diaspora. Proposals for a Memorial to Partition is a peripatetic curatorial platform that solicits, collects, and presents proposals by artists, writers, and other cultural producers for an imagined memorial to the partitions that produced the region’s modern nation-states... Proposals for a Memorial to Partition features works by Saira Ansari, Abdul Halik Azeez, Nihaal Faizal, Rajyashri Goody, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Huma Mulji, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Fazal Rizvi, Suneil Sanzgiri, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Prarthna Singh, Jaret Vadera and Munem Wasi. for more information _______________________________________   + Review Proposals for a Memorial to Partition Aruna D’Souza, 4Columns, 09.29.23 A flag for three mothers (2023), by Montreal- and Brooklyn-based Jaret Vadera, hangs just outside the gallery’s entrance. If colonialism operated according to a bureaucratic logic of classifying populations, counting and dividing them into subcategories of otherness, Vadera uses such information as a kind of algorithm... click for full review __________________________________________________   + Artist Talk / Panel Asian Futurisms Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, PA, US  Saturday, November 05, 2022, 11am Futurisms can refer to science fiction, aesthetic movements meant to liberate art from Western and colonial paradigms, or speculative fiction and imagined visual realities. Asian Futurisms is a difficult movement to define, if it can even be described as on movement. This discussion will explore the queerness of time, the othering of Asian lifestyles, the drag of history, and how these ideas are all depicted, addressed, and complicated. This event is free for more information __________________________________________________ + Exhibition Hungry for Time: An Invitation to Epistemic Disobedience Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Vienna, Austria October 9, 2021–January 30, 2022 One of the conceits of empire has been a division of space on the basis of time. This assumption has it that those located in ex/post-imperial centres such as Vienna have a head-first advantage, as well as a finger on the trigger of the starter gun, in time’s marathon run. The world, however, has never been entirely attentive to this narrative of the starter gun. Generations may have worked to move into the story, but they have equally struggled to abort or pause the race, or to take this story apart. Hungry for Time works with images and objects in the historical art collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, interpolating responses to them, as an opportunity to call in and praise acts of epistemic disobedience by which many protagonists of the world dis-order and dis-assemble ways of seeing and acting.  Some of the artists included: Hieronymus Bosch, Ali Cherri, Albrecht Dürer, Abhishek Hazra, Egon Schiele, Dayanita Singh, Jaret Vadera and many others Curators: Raqs Media Collective Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta for more information __________________________________________________ + Exhibition Kafala: Migrant Labor in the Arabian Peninsula apexart, New York, NY, US September 9 - October 22, 2022 The Kafala sponsorship system is creating a migrant worker crisis in the Arabian Peninsula, which attracts workers from impoverished nations across Africa and Asia. Such workers regularly endure unconscionably long shifts, scorching heat, inhumane living conditions, and abuse. Employers regularly confiscate their passports, trade their visas to the highest bidder, and force them into crowded dormitories. This exhibition surveys art and creative activism that bring attention to this exploitative system, and calls for its reform. Artists:   Khalid Al Baih and Aparna Jayakumar Todd Ayoung and Jelena Stojanović | Hanna Barczyk Jonas Bendiksen | Clark Clark | Molly Crabapple | Noah Fischer |Mariam Ghani | Matt Greco and Gregory Sholette Ryan Inzana | Pedro Lasch | Dread Scott  | Jaret Vadera  Curator: Clark Clark for more information __________________________________________________   + Artist Talk On Slow Images and Multivalent Objects MIT Open Documentary Lab Tuesday, March 09, 2021, 12 to 1pm In this talk, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his transdisciplinary practice. Vadera’s work explores how different technologies shape and control the ways that we see the world around and within us. He hacks, reconfigures, and reimagines images – that commonly serve as proof, document, or evidence – to reveal embedded ideologies hidden in plain sight, and to open up other spaces, and new narratives.​ This event is free for more information __________________________________________________ Jaret Vadera, A Flag for No Country, 2014, from the Pangea series, flag, 5' 9 3/4” x 3' 5 1/2" + Exhibition THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS: The New Beginning Lakeeren Gallery Mumbai, IN March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022 Artists like shamans have always been visionaries of the future. Lakeeren Gallery is proud to introduce our participating artists and co-conspirators for The Dawn of Aquarius: A New Beginning who believe that change is possible, and the Aquarian vision for a new world order is realizable. Their works inspire us to look deep within ourselves, aspiring for harmony, a greener planet, and by pushing our potential ever further with intelligence, intuition, and integrity. Lakeeren Gallery’s first online exhibition will open on March 1st with 25 noteworthy artists from India and the US: Alke Reeh | Asim Waqif | Chitra Ganesh | Dannielle Tegeder | Darshana Vora | Fariba Alam | Jaret Vadera | Mithu Sen | Nikhil Chopra | Palden Weinreb | Raqs Media Collective | Renate Ferro | Rithika Merchant | Sharmistha Ray | Samanta Batra Mehta | Shelly Bahl | Shambhavi Singh | Shaurya Kumar | Thukral & Tagra | Vandana Jain | Yamini Nayar Curator Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala click for more information __________________________________________________   + Artist Talk / Conversation Field Trip: Jaret Vadera in conversation with Josh Heuman The Power Plant Toronto, CA Saturday, April 17, 2021 The Power Plant Presents: Jaret Vadera in conversation with Josh Heuman The Power Plant’s Curator of Education and Public Programs. Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose fascinating work examines the implications of images and how they colonize the ways we see the worlds around and within us. In his work, Vadera hacks visual systems, and rewires them to rupture and open up parallel ways of seeing. His work is influenced by decolonial theory, science fiction, and the study of impossible objects. This event is free for more information __________________________________________________   + Artist Talk / Conversation On Diasporic Aesthetics: Jaret Vadera and Tairone Bastien Conversations in Contemporary Art Concordia University Montreal, CA Thursday, November 4, 2021 Conversations in Contemporary Art welcomes artist Jaret Vadera and curator Tairone Basitien for a conversation about creative methodologies, relational meanings, and diasporic aesthetics. Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work examines how images colonize the ways we see the worlds around and within us. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and reconfigures them to rupture, self-destruct, or open up parallel ways of seeing. His work is influenced by decolonial theory, science fiction, and the study of impossible objects. Tairone Bastien (he/him) is an independent curator based in Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice program at Ontario College of Art and Design University. Tairone co-curated the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art in 2019 and is collaborating on the second edition in 2022. Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. This event is free for more information __________________________________________________   + Exhibition DIASPORIC RHIZOME South Asia Institute 1925 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60616 MARCH 2021 - MAY 2021  Diasporic Rhizome is a virtual exhibition that explores how the future of our present - one that derives from our past - manifests itself through a South Asian lens. The artists in Diasporic Rhizome reexamine our histories, comment on current social issues, and dream of new realities. This collective work uses innovation and the imagination as change agents where the digital space becomes the apparatus for community building, challenging the world around us to transform and address our growing needs Curators Faisal Anwar, Ambia Trasi, and Brendan Fernandes. click for more information __________________________________________________ Jaret Vadera, FIG. 110-113, Diseases of the Eye, 2017, mixed media, (detail) + Exhibition EYESHADOW Essex Flowers 19 Monroe St, New York, NY 10002, United States January 9 - 31, 2021 Essex Flowers is pleased to present Eyeshadow, a group exhibition exploring costume and obfuscation. These collected documents of adornment can be interpreted as permeable shields- protecting, constricting, augmenting, or erasing. aricoco / Danielle Deadwyler / Erica Magrey / Justine McGrath / Yali Romagoza / Jaret Vadera Curator: Karen Azoulay click for more information __________________________________________________   + Artist Talk JARET VADERA IN CONVERSATION WITH ATIF F. SHEIK 12Gates IG Live @12gates 6pm on Thursday, August 13th, 2020 __________________________________________________ ~ Interview Q&A WITH ARTIST & EDUCATOR JARET VADERA BY DIANA MCCLURE Duggal Art Scene 20 July 2020 There is no question that the world as we’ve known it is at a pivotal moment of change. What that transformation might look like is anybody’s guess. What we do know is that technology, from the scientific to everyday digital tasks, is at the center of it. For a deep dive into the technical and social implications of images in contemporary culture, we reached out to artist and educator Jaret Vadera, Assistant Professor of Practice in New Media at Cornell University. Read on to hear his thoughts on automation bias, Generation Z, the subjectivity of photographs, and the intersection of politics, technology and images.... Click to read full interview __________________________________________________ beyond, from the all that glitters series, 2018, duct tape, mixed tapes and discarded shoe, size 10 1/2 + Artist Talk Code-Switching and Fugitive Image-Making Concordia University Monday, February 10, 2020 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 1515 St. Catherine W. Room EV 3.655 Jaret Vadera explores how different technologies shape and control the ways that we see the world around and within us. For the past 20 years, Vadera has been using collage, photography, video, sculpture, and installation as a means to examine the ways that power, technology, and ideology intersect in images. Working across media, Vadera reconfigures and reimagines representational modes that commonly serve as proof, document or evidence. Photographs, maps, infographics, and x-rays are hacked and redeployed to decolonize ways of seeing embedded within Enlightenment rationalism, and to open up other spaces. Vadera's practice is influenced by cognitive science, post/de-colonial theory, science fiction, Buddhist philosophy, and the study of impossible objects. This event is free for more information __________________________________________________ + Screening Ascent @ Mui Ho Fine Arts Library Cornell University September 6, 2019 - March 31, 2020             Ascent is from a series of video experiments based on footage of sunlight reflecting on the surface of water. It is part of an ongoing investigation into visual representations of consciousness. Mui Ho Fine Arts Library 921 University Avenue, Ithaca, NY __________________________________________________ + Screening The Charon Cycle VIDEODROME PARIS @ TICK TACK Antwerpen, Belgium August 18-September 15, 2019             Curator: Prisca Meslier The Charon Cycle video program investigates the essence of the film medium, its capacities to transcend narrative and become a « Carrier » of sensorial and cognitive experiences. This program takes its name from the Ferryman Charon, the mythological « carrier », bringing souls to the other side. Omnipresent from the origin of narration, the figure of the « Carrier » a vector of messages and guide of men, is the archetype of the film medium, a conductive body, the signal of communication, the circulation of information and exchange. The Gamepad Alexandre Bavard Benjamin Seroussi Emo de Medeiros Sophie Clement Jill Taffet Jaret Vadera ​Laura Gozlan Tick Tack Mechelsesteenweg 247 2018 Antwerpen click here for more information __________________________________________________ + Artist Talk Aliens, Code-shifters, and Rude-Mapping SAP Seminar Series Cornell University Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6pm             In this artist talk and conversation, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his practice. Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores how different social, technological, and cognitive processes shape and control the ways that we understand the world around and within us. Vadera's practice is influenced by cognitive science, post/decolonial theory, science fiction, Buddhist philosophy, and the study of impossible objects. Rockefeller Hall  374 Central Campus click here for more information __________________________________________________ + Artist Talk JARET VADERA @ Concordia University Friday, February 15, 2019 at 6:00pm                 Presented in collaboration with EAHR/Media (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research in Media) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)  Admission for all Conversations in Contemporary Art events is free and open to the general public. Seating is first come, first serve. The lectures will be held in English. Concordia University, de Sève Cinema McConnell Library Building, LB-125 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.      click here for more information __________________________________________________ “all that glitters" installation, (detail) 2018 + Exhibition Queens International 2018: Volumes @ Queens Museum October 7, 2018 - February 24, 2019 Curators: Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan Since its inauguration in 2002, Queens International has highlighted the contemporary cultural production of Queens in a single major group exhibition approximately every two years. Queens International 2018: Volumes forms a dialog among forty-three Queens-connected artists representing 15 neighborhoods and several generations, including, for the first time, artists who have exhibited in earlier Internationals. In 2018, also for the first time, Queens International includes a partnership with the Queens Library. The subtitle Volumes encompasses many historical and current meanings of the word. Artists respond to the entire museum and select Queens Library branches, questioning and expanding systems of knowledge production and their effects on how we become and order who we are. What aspects of the past are constructed within and because of libraries and museums? What limits and possibilities do they present spatially, temporally, and virtually, today? Artists in QI 2018 are working through abstraction, chance operations, the transformation of found materials, and the construction of new archives along with other strategies to pose profound and multiple questions about centuries- or decades- old human systems, algorithmically-generated realities, and possibilities for selfhood. While Volumes marks an expansive presence in both the Queens Museum and Queens Library branches, its interventions are largely non-monumental, positioned rather for speculation and dialog with these sites, its publics, and beyond. Together, they form a complex array of contemporary artistic thought and conversation with which the visitor is invited to engage. Damali Abrams, Haley Bueschlen, Gabo Camnitzer, Emmy Catedral, Camel Collective (Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats), U. Kanad Chakrabarti, Jesse Chun, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Chris Domenick, Brian Droitcour and Christine Wong Yap, ray ferreira, Christina Freeman, Milford Graves, Janet Henry, Camille Hoffman, Kim Hoeckele, Heidi Howard and Liz Phillips, Qiren Hu, Juan Iribarren, Paolo Javier and David Mason, Peter Kaspar, Patrick Killoran, Ernesto Klar, Essye Klempner, Mo Kong, Ani Liu, Umber Majeed, Emilio Martinez Poppe, Gloria Maximo, Asif Mian, Wardell Milan, Beatrice Modisett, Arthur Ou, KT Pe Benito, Gabriela Salazar, Raycaster (Ziv Schneider and ~shirin anlen), Jaret Vadera, Mary A. Valverde, Cullen Washington, Jack Whitten click here for more information __________________________________________________ + Exhibition where the ocean meets the sky @ Project for Empty Space    September 5 - October 12, 2018 Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 5th, 6 - 8pm  where the ocean meets the sky is an exhibition of work by transdisciplinary conceptual artist Jaret Vadera. Through a constellation of immersive installations, projections, and mixed media work the exhibition explores different spaces that lie just “beyond.” “Beyond” in Vadera’s work is posited as a space of possibility- beyond language, images, and social constructions. where the ocean meets the sky makes a poetic reference to the offing, the furthest place in the distance we can see with the naked eye. The horizon line becomes a zone that is imagined, but also real. Blurring the borders of both the ocean and the sky, and alluding to stories of travelers, wayfinders, and migrations across different kinds of borders. His work exposes the charged interstitial grey areas that lie just beyond binaries of us and them, this and that. Vadera decolonizes visual aesthetics hidden in everyday culture, while weaving together a constellation of multivalent stories about aliens, rude maps, and unreliable narrators. PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE | 2 GATEWAY CENTER GALLERY, NEWARK, NJ 07102 | 973 818 2452 for more information __________________________________________________   + Exhibition aliens, dead zones and beyonders @ Good Children Gallery 4037 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA April 12 - June 3, 2018 Curator: Scott Andresen aliens, dead zones, and beyonders explores the spaces that lie just beyond our vision. Artist Jaret Vadera brings together works in photography, collage, sculpture, video, and projection to weave together a constellation of stories about migration, time travel, and unseeable elephants.  Good Children Gallery is pleased to present Jaret Vadera’s first solo exhibition in New Orleans. aliens, dead zones, and beyonders is curated by Scott Andresen. click for more information __________________________________________________ No Country, 2014, from the Pangea Series, black marker on world map, 30" x 20" + Exhibition BEYOND TRANSNATIONALISM: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India April 8 - June 19, 2018 Amina Ahmed | Annu Palakunnathu Matthew | Bari Kumar | Chitra Ganesh | Hamra Abbas | Jaret Vadera | Krishna Reddy | Mariam Ghani | Priyanka Dasgupta | Ranu Mukherjee | Rina Banerjee | Shaurya Kumar | Shahzia Sikander | Sreshta Rit Premnath | Vandana Jain | Shelly Bahl | Zarina Hashmi The exhibition ‘Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia’ undertaken at the cusp of India's 70 years of independence seeks to understand the many positions of artists of South Asian descent living in the United States. The artists in this show assert new and complex aesthetic and geopolitical propositions that question, complicate and travel far beyond conventional notions of home, nations, and belonging. This exhibition seeks to question the relevance of the terms diaspora and transnationalism and their attendant significations. The term diaspora - derived from a Greek word meaning ‘to disperse’ or ‘to scatter’ its geography, or its complex geopolitics - has been a default frame used to understand and signify the mass migrations, and exoduses. But today, a new generation has come of age, and another, since the term was first being used widely. And with the onslaught of globalization and migration now, in every direction, a new framing, or no framing needs to be considered, that calls this default into question. The exhibition unravels the multiple subjectivities of each of the individual artists as palimpsests of varied lived experiences, interactions and relationships no longer unnecessarily tied only to nations. ‘Beyond Transnationalism’ doesn't seek to answer, but rather to ask timely questions. The experiences and journeys lived by each of these artists is immeasurably varied, which makes it impossible and unnecessary to address the complex issue of home, belonging and identity within a single reductive meta-narrative. All of the artists have moved past the oversimplified notion of diaspora as scattered, or somehow incomplete, and were arguably never there. They travel through multiple narratives of different nations, and feel at home in the world moving in relation to, and often beyond their transnational roots. They can be viewed as fluid, multi-local and transient, working through a liberated space that they are constantly shaping. This exhibition asks questions about new ways to articulate this new beyond. Curator: Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala click for more information __________________________________________________ + Exhibition Unleashing @ Columbia University 525 West 120th Street • New York, NY 10027  April 1 - May 31, 2018   Unleashing is a site-specific multi-media art exhibition across the hallways of Teachers College highlighting concepts of the American philosopher Maxine Greene, whose idea of “social imagination” provides the ground for the works on display. Unleashing features the work of 28 international artists, and is accompanied by an audio-video guide leading visitors to each of the 21 sites of the exhibition, as well as by special public programming, a video screening series, and artist talks. Fanny Allié | Nadav Assor | Brandy Bajalia | Burçak Bingöl Jean Marie Casbarian | Gregory Climer | Rafael Lozano Hemmer | Steffani Jemison | Ebru Kurbak | Jacob Olmedo Bernd Oppl | Şener Özmen | Elisabeth Molin | Yasmin Jahan Nupur | Rafael Pagatini | Rit Premnath + Avi Alpert Macon Reed | Saša Tkačenko | Hurmat Ul Ain + Rabbya Naseer Jaret Vadera | Marion Wilson + Cathy Leibowitz | Caroline Woolard + Jeff Warren | Chelsea Knight | (c) merry Unleashing is directed by Richard Jochum  Curated by Livia Alexander and Işın Önol click for more information __________________________________________________ “On Kings and Elephants," 2015, video, 6 minutes + Exhibition Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post Independent Art from South Asia AIFACS Gallery | Raza Foundation February 10 - 21, 2018 1 Rafi Marg, New Delhi - 110001 Amina Ahmed | Annu Palakunnathu Matthew | Bari Kumar Chitra Ganesh | Hamra Abbas | Jaishri Abichandani Jaret Vadera | Krishna Reddy | Priyanka Dasgupta Ranu Mukherjee | Shaurya Kumar | Shelly Bahl Sreshta Rit Premnath | Vandana Jain | Zarina Hashmi Under the auspices of the 70-year legacy of India and Pakistan’s independence, Beyond Transnationalism showcases artists living in United States of South Asian descent. The works in this exhibition assert new and complex aesthetic and geopolitical propositions that question, complicate and travel far beyond conventional notions of home, nations and belonging. Beyond Transnationalism questions the relevance of the terms diaspora, and transnationalism and their attendant significations. The exhibition considers subjectivity as a palimpsest of lived experiences, interactions and relationships no longer unnecessarily tied to nations and locations alone. Curator: Arshiya Lokhandwala Catalog: Beyond Transnationalism __________________________________________________  + Event hyper / slow Atlantis Helipad, Dubai, UAE December 8, 2017   On 8 December, Alserkal Resident Jaret Vadera will lead a group of participants on a curated 25-minute silent experience of Dubai and the World Islands by helicopter. It has been said that Dubai is a city designed to be seen from above. But who has access to this perspective? And does zooming out provide a sharper focus or create a deeper abstraction? Is it possible to synchronize with a capitalist frequency of time, and then speed it up, in order to slow it down? Participants are invited to join in this collective experiment by engaging in silence during the helicopter flight, by turning off cell phones, and by refraining from taking any pictures. In an effort to see if we can hack a tourist interface and reprogram it as an artistic or meditative one. __________________________________________________    “Chronomad," 2017, c-print, 12x16" + Exhibition the closer i get, the further i find @ 12G 106 N 2nd Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 8 - 30, 2017 Curators: Aisha Z. Khan and Atif F. Sheikh Conversation w Artist: Friday, September 22nd, 6 - 8pm 12G | Twelve Gates Arts presents a solo-show by Jaret Vadera, a transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose multivalent work challenges viewers to explore the dynamic relationships between power, memory and representation. Catalog Essays: Spectral Signs and Fugitive Images | Murtaza Vali Constellations, Triangles and Middle Spaces | Livia Alexander Ghosts In The Discarded Machine | Naeem Mohaiemen Download Full Catalog: V.1       V.2 __________________________________________________ No Country, 2014, from the Pangea Series, black marker on world map, 30" x 20" + Exhibition CRAFTED STRANGERS @ The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design 67 Broadway, Asheville, NC September 15th, 2017 - January 6th, 2018 Curators: Quizayra Gonzalez and Cass Gardiner Artists: Indira Allegra | Joi T. Arcand | Laura Anderson Barbata | LeighAnn Bogner Winslow | David Antonio Cruz | Jeneen Frei Njootli with Tsēma Igharas | Rose Luardo | Amy Malbeuf | Joiri Minaya | Sage Paul | Wendy Red Star | Daisy Quezada Ureña | Hiba Schahbaz | Jaret Vadera | Amy Wong | Arjan Zazueta Crafted Strangersis a visual exploration of how craft is used as a tool for alienation and self-making, framed within the Native American and immigrant experience. The exhibition will present artists that problematize, challenge, and reinvent notions of self through their artistic practice. click for more information __________________________________________________   “FIG. 5., Diseases of the Eye,” 2017 + Exhibition HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists Aga Khan Museum 77 Wynford Drive Toronto, ON, Canada July 22, 2017 - January 1, 2018 Curator: Swapnaa Tamhane Artists: Derya Akay | Sharlene Bamboat | George Elliott Clarke | Sameer Farooq | Brette Gabel | Babak Golkar | Osheen Harruthoonyan | Jamelie Hassan | Sukaina Kubba | Khan Lee | Harkeerat Mangat | Nahed Mansour | Nadia Myre | Dawit L. Petros | Nujalia Quvianaqtuliaq | Dorothea Rockburne | Nep Sidhu | Shaan Syed | Jaret Vadera | Zadie Xa | Elizabeth Zvonar https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/here __________________________________________________ + Exhibition LUCID DREAMS AND DISTANT VISIONS: SOUTH ASIAN ART IN THE DIASPORA Asia Society Museum 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, NYC June 27 - August 6, 2017 Jaishri Abichandani | Anila Quayyum Agha | Mequitta Ahuja | Rina Banerjee | Khalil Chishtee | Ruby Chishti | Allan deSouza | Chitra Ganesh | Mariam Ghani | Vandana Jain | Gautam Kansara | Annu Palakunnathu Matthew | Naeem Mohaiemen | Kanishka Raja | Tenzing Rigdol | Shahzia Sikander | Jaret Vadera | Palden Weinreb | Zarina. The exhibition Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, organized by Asia Society Museum with the support of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, considers the work of nineteen contemporary artists from the South Asian diaspora who explore notions of home and issues relating to migration, gender, race, and memory across mediums and aesthetics. Organized by Tan Boon Hui Calvin, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, and Jaishri Abichandani. Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, NYC __________________________________________________ + Keynote Panel DOUBLE DUTY: AGENCY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION @ Asia Society Museum 725 Park Avenue, NYC Friday, June 30, 2017, 6:30–8pm Featuring Swati Khurana, Jaret Vadera, Asha Ganpat, Allan deSouza, and Naeem Mohaiemen Moderator: Anuradha Vikram Fatal Love: Where Are We Now? is a three-day symposium organized in conjunction with the Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions exhibition bringing together mid career South Asian American artists, academics and curators. Fatal Love: Where Are We Now? is co-organized by the Queens Museum and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center __________________________________________________ + Artist Talk / Panel Discussion ARCHIVAL RESISTANCE @ Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street New York, NY 10002 May 7, 2017: 3 – 7pm Priyanka Dasgupta | Heather Hart (Black Lunch Table) Baseera Khan | Jaret Vadera (Art+Community) Moderated by Saisha Grayson Archival Resistance will feature artists who use historically resonant materials to rethink identity configurations, community-building and narratives past, present and future, while creating structures for the preservation and dissemination of alternate forms of knowledge. This event is organized by The South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) in conjunction with the exhibition, ​Archival Alchemy. For more information click here __________________________________________________ ~ Writing BETWEEN, BENEATH, AND BEYOND A CONVERSATION WITH CHITRA GANESH BY JARET VADERA JV: So where does your story begin? Do you remember what first drew you to art? To making things? Was there a moment when you first decided you wanted to be an artist? CG: My story begins in New York in the mid 1970s. My first memories are of Sheepshead Bay, and a blackout during the Summer of Sam, and of the Bengali immigrant families who helped take care of me. I lived in Hyderabad for a year with my Masi and Mama, a very significant year for me... Click to read full conversation __________________________________________________   + Public Conversation / Panel Discussion EMBEDDED, EMBEDDING: ARTIST RESIDENCIES, URBAN PLACEMAKING AND SOCIAL PRACTICE @ The New School / Parsons 55 West 13th Street, Room I-202 New York, NY – 10011 February 10, 2017 The Perils and Opportunities of Art and Urban Development Jaret Vadera in conversation with Gia Hamilton While urban placemaking aspires to generate “vibrancy” in the community through art initiatives and residencies, in the end, who are these programs really benefiting? Funders, board members, bureau-planners, and politicians are drawn to the potential of the arts as a means to create safer communities with better public education, and increased economic growth. But, is this just the cultural façade of gentrification? Are there ways for artists and art programs to build the communities, and wealth, for the people already living in them? How do we address the disparities in race and class through art and programming? What do more symbiotic models look like? Artist Jaret Vadera in conversation with Gia Hamilton, Joan Mitchell Center Director, Founder of Gris Gris Lab, Independent Curator and Organizer. Organized by Livia Alexander and Residency Unlimited For more information click here ________________________________________________________________________________________   ~ Reading SPEAK OUT ON INAUGURATION DAY Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 Friday, Jan 20th, 2017  11am–2pm Artists, writers, and activists affirm their values to resist and reimagine the current political climate.  Participating Artists and Writers: Aaron Burr Society | Gina Beavers | Alicia Boyd | Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Tiona McClodden, and Daniella Rose King) | Chinatown Art Brigade (Betty Yu, Tomie Arai, Liz Moy) | Aruna D’Souza | Jenny Dubnau | Avram Finkelstein | Noah Fischer | Kim Fraczek | Chitra Ganesh | Mariam Ghani | Vijay Iyer | Paddy Johnson | Baseera Khan | Carin Kuoni | Simone Leigh | Kalup Linzy | Yates Mckee | Naeem Mohaiemen | Tracie Morris | Uche Nduka | Tavia Nyong’o | Laura Raicovich | Mark Read | Martha Rosler | Mira Schor | Dread Scott | Gregory Sholette | Pamela Sneed | Jaret Vadera | Madison Zalopany Also contributions from: Coco Fusco | Guerrilla Girls | Zoe Leonard This event is organized by Occupy Museums, an arts collective that explores the connections between economics, finance, and the art world. Click for more information __________________________________________________ ~ Feature / Review THE FUTURE IS BEHIND US: THE WORK OF JARET VADERA BY DIANA MCCLURE Vadera celebrates ambivalence. In his writing and in interviews he likes to reframe the term as multivalence—a state of being that becomes comfortable for those who learn to navigate their intersectional identities on their own terms. His work inhabits a fluid field where an either/or, us-versus-them, divide-and-conquer mindset is of little value, one where new possibilities are always on the horizon and personal agency reigns supreme... Click to read full review __________________________________________________   + Exhibition CTRL+ALT: A CULTURE LAB ON IMAGINED FUTURES Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 477 Broadway, New York November 12 - 13, 2016 11am-9pm Curators: Adriel Luis, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, and Kālewa Correa CTRL+ALT is creative convening of artworks, performances and dialogues with artists and scholars who insist that knowing what the future holds is not a question of speculation, but instead agency. Whether their concepts of the future are based on outer space or inner space, a distant era or the next brief moment, the tellers of these stories commonly claim them as their own. Representing a range of backgrounds and identities, they show that even those who have long been pushed to the margins are the center of someone’s universe. http://smithsonianapa.org/alt/project/jaret-vadera/ __________________________________________________ Blue Skies, White Walls, Brown Bodies, poster, Jaret Vadera, 2014 + Exhibition BAYAN @ A Space Gallery 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 Toronto, Canada November 18 2016 - December 17 2016 Bayan, reveals the evolution and multiple meanings of the word bayan itself as it manifests in the cultural practice in the Philippines and in the diaspora. The works of Hector Calma, Jaret Vadera and Kwentong Bayan, combine to reveal bayan in various ways, giving us the opportunity to trace its mutations in particular political and geographical contexts. For more information click here __________________________________________________ ~ Reading “I Don't Need Your Heroes” Soapbox Responses October 31, 2016 from 5 - 7 pm @ The High Line, NYC http://bit.ly/hlsoapbox __________________________________________________ + Exhibition FILE SÃO PAULO 2016: VIDEO ART Centro Cultural FIESP – Ruth Cardoso July 11 - August 28, 2016 Curator: Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida FILE Video Art presents recent poetic production that combines video and current technologies, breaking down barriers and showing us how technology changes the way we perceive the world around us. With works from over than 20 countries, we seek to explore the imbrications between us, images, technology, and space. Centro Cultural FIESP – Ruth Cardoso Av. Paulista, 1313   São Paulo, Brazil Free admission click here for FILE SÃO PAULO 2016 website __________________________________________________ ~ Interview ARTIST JARET VADERA ON CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION BY PLASTIC OBEAHH.com June 27, 2016 PLASTIC: Describe the first thing you remember creating as a child. JV: When I was a kid, my brother and I always used to be making things. I remember making elaborate snow forts till the sun went down, constructing toothpick helicopters, and programming lo-fi games on our commodore 64... Click to read full interview __________________________________________________ ~ Residency 2016-17 ARTIST-RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE 2 Gateway Center, Newark, NJ Jaret Vadera is the inaugural PES artist-researcher in residence. Over the course of the year, through archival research and dialog with members of the community Vadera will... Click for more information __________________________________________________     ~ Co-Organizer ART + COMMUNITY Wikipedia Edit-a-thon April 6 / 13, 2016 Social Science and Cultural Studies Department Pratt Institute, North Hall, Room 111, Brooklyn, New York During this edit-a-thon we will be submitting 24 new pages for artists, activists, and organizers with a sustained involvement in cultural production, community building, and intersectional dialogs. This is the first in a series of edit-a-thons with the aim of adding diverse practitioners and communities to the wikipedia archive. Organized by Uzma Z. Rizvi and Jaret Vadera click here for the ART+COMMUNITY wikipedia page __________________________________________________   ~ Interview / Q + A / Video Feature P R O P R I O C E P T I O N INTERVIEW WITH JARET VADERA BY CHARU MAITHANI CM: Let’s start by talking a little about your practice – what informs it and your current pre-occupations? JV: That should be an easy question to answer, but every time I am asked, I’m not sure what to say. Probably because I like to keep my practice open and out in front of me, shapeshifting into whatever I need it to be... Click to read full interview __________________________________________________   + Exhibition DISTANSYA @ Filipino American Museum | Ace Hotel NY Opening Reception: March 3rd 2016, 6 - 8pm Curator: Edwin Ramoran Maia Cruz Palileo | Rico Reyes | Jaret Vadera | Aldrin Valdez These artworks, paradoxically embody and disembody, reveal and obscure, abstract and confound personal and cultural chronicles and images. Their works visually and figuratively may seem out-of-focus and esoteric, somewhat distant echoes of recorded histories or constructed identities. This is deliberate. __________________________________________________ ~ Discussion Leader Legibility Dictionary of the Possible Saturday October the 24th from 4-6pm Shifter Magazine The New School 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 For our next meeting of The Dictionary of the Possible, Jaret Vadera and Yamini Nayar will present the keyword "legibility." They will ask us to consider how structures of power intersect with ideas of legibility and illegibility across time and place. Everyday we are trained to move faster and think less. Architecture, design, TV, movies, and advertising are designed to be inherently legible, whether consciously or subconsciously. In this context, illegibility can be instrumentalized as a strategy of resistance. Revealing the underlying structures of speed and consumption that are often hidden in plain sight. Our discussion will focus on the dynamics between legibility and illegibility explicated through art, advertising, architecture, education and discourses around identity. Nayar and Vadera will draw from examples including the early 20th century interiors of Eileen Gray, Édouard Glissant’s writings on transparency and opacity and Edward Thorndike’s readability formulas that became the standard for school textbooks. What does a deeper understanding of il/legibility reveal about the world live in? Organized by Rit Premnath & Avi Alpert click here for more information __________________________________________________ ~ Reading + Closing Remarks Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings FAM [Filipino American Museum] Monday, October 19th, 2015 from 6 - 8pm @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC FAM (Filipino American Museum) presents a marathon reading of the seminal Jose Rizal novel Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not). Artists, actors, dancers, activists read from the novel that shaped a national identity. Come hear the story of a colonized society and all the secrets, conspiracies, heroes and villains that result from a fractured country's subconscious. Featuring Marilyn Abalos, Patricia Astorga, Rechelle Balanzat, Liz Casasola, Christelle de Castro, Maha Chelaoui, Luis Francia, Avena Gallagher, Rio Guerrero, Cecilia Pagkalinawan, Maia Cruz Palileo, Nicole Ponseca, Bino Realuyo, Patrick Rosal, Ninotchka Rosca, Jon Santos, Sophia Skiles, Paz Tanjuaquio, Grace Villamil, Jaret Vadera, Aldrin Valdez and more. With a special closing by Jaret Vadera and Gina Apostol. click here for more information __________________________________________________ ~ News Noli Me Tangere: A Book That Changed the World By Marivir R. Montebon I am inspired by the words of artist and cultural producer Jaret Vadera, one of the readers of the marathon: “Rizal’s legacy, through his work, is that he gives us a means to remember. Remembering is an active process. Over the last three days, Rizal’s words, about our history, traveled on our breaths, were spoken through our lips, with our voices. Re-embodied and reconjured through our retellings with our individual inflections and accents... click to read the full editors note __________________________________________________   ~ Review Accented Exhibition Reviewed by Kareem Estefan IBRAAZ, July 2015  "Refreshingly, Accented does not find alternatives to the monoculture of Siri and CNN in reversions to the traditional or the analogue, but rather by articulating a contemporary poetics of plurality. Jaret Vadera's videos, for example, cleverly extract corporeal and anecdotal qualities from the most monolithic of web sources. Vadera's File_Not_Found (2013), a one-minute succession of screenshots apparently captured from Google Images, presents a brief narrative of individual mortality ('One day I will die…') by matching each word with a tangentially related image, converting the algorithmic search task into an idiosyncratic exercise in association... __________________________________________________   ~ Panel Discussion "Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance": An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature FAM [Filipino American Museum] August 16th, 5:30-6:30PM   Fordham University  This round table discussion will explore how the major painting "Spoliarium" by Juan Luna influenced Jose Rizal's writing of "Noli Me Tangere." This is an opportunity to introduce the painting as an important Philippine cultural treasure and present the forthcoming exhibition Spoliarium being organized by the Filipino American Museum. Panelists include discussant / presenter Edwin Ramoran, curator, and NYC-based artists Maia Cruz Palileo, Jaret Vadera and more... click here for more information __________________________________________________ ~ Interview / Q + A New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera Breach Magazine – Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics   Carla K. Stewart in conversation with Jaret Vadera CS: By way of an introduction, can you talk a little about the evolution of your practice? About the Light series and your video installation I tell the truth, even when I tell a lie…? JV: As far back as I can remember, I have always been making things, and breaking things. Taking things apart and putting them back together... __________________________________________________   Image: NEITHER THERE, NOR THERE, NOR NOWHERE, 2015, vinyl on wall, 9x3' + Exhibition FALSE ALTERNATIVES @ The Apartment | Park Hyatt Opening Reception: March 28th 2015, 6:30 - 8:30 PM Curator: Meenakshi Thirukode Alexander Singh | Chitra Ganesh | Chippa Sudhakar | David Antonio Cruz | Haseeb Ahmed | Jaishri Abichandani | Jaret Vadera | Kathleen Granados | Kumaresan Selvaraj | Lekha Washington | Michael Bühler-Rose | Nandita Kumar | Parvathi Nayar | Seema Kohli | Sujeeth Kumar Sree Kandan The Apartment | Park Hyatt Chennai 39 Velachery Road Guindy, Chennai, IN Presented by Gallery Veda in collaboration with Park Hyatt Chennai   __________________________________________________   Image: EVEN NOWHERE IS SOMEPLACE, 2015, Jaret Vadera, vinyl on wall, 15 x 8.5' + Exhibition ACCENTED @ Maraya Art Centre March 1st - May 16th, 2015 Opening reception: Sunday, March 1st, 7pm Curator: Murtaza Vali Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Abbas Akhavan | Ammar Al Attar | Fayçal Baghriche | Vikram Divecha | GCC Collective | Iman Issa | Pouran Jinchi | Raja'a Khalid | Monira Al Qadiri | Farah Al Qasimi | Abdullah Al Saadi | THE STATE | Jaret Vadera | Lee Xie “Accented” works out from the premise that the accent is an enduring sign or figure of cultural difference in the age of globalization. While the processes of globalization promise homogenization, transparency and translation across cultures, the accent—localized in and expressed through the body—is the residue or remainder that challenges those claims, that resists and exceeds acts of intercultural translation. It indexes what remains unassimilable and opaque. “Accented” conceives of and presents the accent as not a purely linguistic phenomenon and the processes of intercultural translation examined extend beyond the limits of language into the realm of images, sounds, smells and tastes. And so the accent can also be understood as an embellishment that emphasizes difference, as an accessory, in terms of fashion or interior decor, through which culture is expressed on bodies and introduced into spaces. Finally, “Accented” will use this theoretically enriched notion of the accent as a lens through which to examine the particular type of cosmopolitanism indigenous to the U.A.E., where social and cultural space is, arguably, always already accented. click here to read an excerpt from the catalog __________________________________________________   + Screening 12Gates Video Art Fest @ Drexel University Saturday, February 28, 2015, 2 - 5pm Shehrezad Maher | Shambhavi Kaul | Jennifer Saparzadeh | Nitin Mukul | Mariam Eqbal | Sausan Saulat | Jaret Vadera | Anna Kipervaser | Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia | Vivek Shraya Selected, Curated, and Produced by: Ayza Akhtar, Sonali Gulati, Bakirathi Mani, Sa'dia Rehman, and Atif F. Sheikh 12Gates Video Art Fest celebrates contemporary video art coming out of and inspired by the art of South Asia and the Middle East. 2015 will be the first edition of what promises to be a unique and stimulating annual experience of film and media. Experimental, queer, poetic, abstract, political, philosophical, uncensored and mix-media short film and video. Hosted by Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design 3501 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 click here for more information __________________________________________________   FIG. 156. – Method of Removing a Foreign Body from the Cornea (Surgeon Standing in Front of the Patient)., photocopy and US penny, Jaret Vadera, 2015 + Exhibition OBJECT MANIPULATING ECONOMY / ECONOMY MANIPULATING OBJECT @ August Fröhls January 29 – February 15, 2015 Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 28th, 7pm Curators: Aman Sandhu & Swapnaa Tamhane Soya Arakawa | David Bernstein | Jessica Gispert | Elmar Hermann | Harkeerat Mangat | Rajni Perera | Titre Provisoire | Nep Sidhu (Black Constellation) | Dino Steinhof | Kristina Stoyanova | Arjan Stockhausen | Jaret Vadera August Fröhls, Friedrichstr. 19, 41061 Mönchengladbach click here for website click here for more information __________________________________________________   + Screening VIDEO ART @ Bhau Daji Lad Museum December 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th Screenings at 3:30pm and 4:45pm Curator: Gayatri Sinha / Critical Collective Lu Chunsheng | Zhou Tiehai | Guan Xiao | Jaret Vadera This edition of the Video Art Series brings together films that comment upon the relationship between the state and artistic practices. Through narrative and abstract videos, a sense of desolation in the modern world echoes through various works. Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug), 91/A Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Byculla East, Mumbai click here BDL website click here for larger invitation __________________________________________________ + Article / Feature Decoding Images Hema Vijay Deccan Herald, November 30, 2014 __________________________________________________ + Talk | Panel Discussion FLATLAND: THIS WORLD / OTHER WORLDS Asian College of Journalism November 3, 2014: 5-6:30pm Masum Momaya - Curator, Smithsonian, APA Center Sadanand Menon - Arts Editor, Adjunct Faculty ACJ & IIT(M) Jaret Vadera - Artist | Cultural Producer Meenakshi Thirukode - Creative Director, DakshinaChitra FLATLAND: THIS WORLD/OTHER WORLDS will focus on the various challenges and potential opportunities when art and ideas shift across cultural-contexts. The discussion will focus predominantly on artists living in India or the diaspora and on the ways in which curation, academia, and audience shape the ways in which their artwork is presented, and received. Asian College of Journalism, Lecture Hall Second Main Road (Behind M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation) Taramani Chennai - 600 113 click here for more information click here for more information II __________________________________________________ + Review Feeling the Doublebind by DEBORAH FRIZZELL Depart Magazine, Issue 17 - 2014 click here to view pdf click here to visit website __________________________________________________ + Article / Review Of Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Ideas The New Indian Express, October 18, 2014 Art in the Context of Larger Ideas The New Indian Express, October 20, 2014 __________________________________________________ + Artist Talk ON BUTTERFLIES, DEAD PIXELS AND OTHER SPACES Indian Institute of Technology October 15, 2014: 4-5:30pm This artist talk will focus on key arcs in the work of Jaret Vadera, an artist, curator and writer who defies easy categorization. This will be followed by conversation with Meenakshi Thirukode, Creative Director, DakshinaChitra. Event venue: HSB 356, IIT(M) Sardar Patel Road Chennai, TN 600036 click here for more information __________________________________________________ + Featured as one of 2014's FUTURE GREATS ArtReview Asia Magazine Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen + Jaret Vadera: 2014 Future Great Asia feature on ArtReview.com __________________________________________________   + Profile / Interview Deccan Chronicle by Shiba Kurian __________________________________________________   Blue Skies, White Walls, Brown Bodies, poster, Jaret Vadera, 2014

+ Poster Contribution for 52 Weeks

52 Weeks is a one year campaign starting in October 2013. Artists, writers, and activists from different cities and countries are invited to contribute a work, a text, or action each week that relates to or highlights the unjust living and working conditions of migrant laborers building cultural institutions in Abu Dhabi.

To learn more visit: www.gulflabor.org

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TEN @ Cindy Rucker Gallery | Culturehall
May 9-11, 2014
Curator: Jayson Keeling

100 artworks chosen by 10 curators

May 9th, 2014: 7-11pm
May 10th / 11th: 12-6pm
Cindy Rucker Gallery
141 Attorney Street at Stanton, LES NYC 

http://ten-nyc.com/

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+ Artist Talk | Panel Discussion

A Community Exchange:
The Socially Engaged Artist and the Public Imagination
@ Pratt Institute
Thursday, April 24, 2014, 1:30–5pm

Join us as we explore the role of the public in socially engaged art. What is the publicʼs imagination in relationship to social engagement and its potential within the society we inhabit? What is the nature of the publicʼs commitment to space and place, and how is it related to a social engagement that formulates new social imaginaries? This conversation will explore these questions and discuss the place of socially engaged art in our many publics.

Ann Messner, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Pratt
Shane Aslan Selzer, artist, organizer and writer
Jaret Vadera, artist and cultural producer
May Joseph, Professor of Global Studies, Pratt Institute
Rick Lowe, artist, activist, and founder of Project Row Houses

Pratt institute
Higgins Hall
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 11205

Free and open to the public

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PERSPECTIVES ON ART AND RESISTANCE
William Patterson University Gallery
April 7, 2014: 2 - 3:15pm

Jaishri Abichandani
Naeem Mohaiemen
Yamini Nayar
Jaret Vadera
Gary Michael Tartakov

University Galleries
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ

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DOUBLEBIND @ William Patterson University Gallery
March 31–May 30, 2014
Curator: Kristen Evangelista

Jaishri Abichandani
Hasan Elahi
Naeem Mohaiemen
Yamini Nayar
Jaret Vadera

To belong to a diaspora…I wrote down those words and stopped. For I was not sure one could belong to a diaspora. Belonging is predicated on something that is already constituted. Would the first migrant then remain excluded forever from a diaspora? Who constitutes a diaspora anyhow? And what is it after all? Is it a place or simply a region of the mind – a mnemic condensation used to form figures of nostalgia out of a vast dispersal. Or is it nothing but the ruse of beleaguered nationalism to summon to its aid the resources of long-forgotten expatriates in the name of patriotism? Well, I don’t know—not yet any case. - Ranajit Guha

For the artists in this exhibition, the notion of diaspora is more complex than the binary relationship of “here” or “there.” Rather, it is multi-positional and ever-shifting...Through new media, photography, sculpture, and video, they explore contested relationships to space, territory, and geography. - Kristen Evangelista

University Galleries
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ

The exhibition catalog can be downloaded here

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Reading List @ MoMA Library
September 25, 2013–January 6, 2014
Curators: Lori Salmon and Rachael Morrison 

The Museum of Modern Art Library will be hosting an exhibition titled Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection. For the exhibition, a group of artists were asked to select a favorite item from the library collection and respond to a questionnaire written by library staff. This exhibition includes the selected materials, each accompanied by the artist’s explanation of why they chose the selected material and what it means within the context of their artistic practice.

The Museum of Modern Art Library
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

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~ Interview / Q + A

MAPPING IMAGES
ArtVaarta Magazine - Video Issue, January, 2014  

Swapnaa Tamhane in conversation with Jaret Vadera

ST: Firstly, I want to talk about how you might define ‘image’. And in that process of definition, how have you been creating your idea/identity of the image.

JV: I think of an image as a kind of map. A constellation of data that is held in place by its ability to remind us of something else that we’ve already seen. We only call an image an “image” if it somehow manages to synch well with our memory of an ‘other’ thing. Otherwise it’s just something random, it’s just noise.

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~ Writing | Mail Art Participant

Wayland Rudd Project by Suzanne Broughel
January 17 - February 22, 2014

Winkleman Gallery
303 East 37th Street, #6P
New York, NY 10016

click here to read text contribution by Jaret Vadera

click here for more information about Suzanne Broughel's project 

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~ Excerpt from Supper Club Conversation

Jaret Vadera: On Theory
Dinner at Recess
January 11, 2014  

The Supper Club - A series of suppers, afternoon teas, whisky socials and other gatherings, encouraging dialog across generations, cultures, archetypes. Photographed and created by Elia Alba, produced in collaboration with Recess.

The Supper Club takes its cue from the magazine Vanity Fair’s “Hollywood Edition” (the annual celebration of the film industry’s most compelling players) and it brings to together 50 contemporary artists of color through photography and dialogue.

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Etiquette For Lucid Dreaming @ The Gateway II, NJ
October 11–December 24, 2013
Curators: Meenakshi Thirukode, Jasmine Wahi, and Rebecca Jampol

Featuring works by:
THE OTHER THEATRE, Amelia V Panico, Alyssa Lawler, Alex Callender, Ariana Barat, Brian Leo, Bruno Miguel, Chloe Bass, David Antonio Cruz, Feng-Tsung Chan, Field Trip (Larry Dunn, Leonora Loeb, Pamela Matsuda-Dunn and Andy Monk), Kameelah Rasheed, Leila Lal, Hiroshi Kumagai, Igor + Yuri Alves, Jaret Vadera, Jennifer Wroblewski, Jeremy D. Slater, Katherine Gomez, Kelly Anne Pinho, Krista Svalbonas, Marcy Chevali, Milcah Bassel, Pooneh Maghazehe, Roshani Thakore, Petros Nagakos, Tehniyet Masood and Zoran Dragelj

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+ Screening

Translucent Video Art Festival @ WAA
November 9–16, 2013
Curator: Kanchi Mehta 

1. Ashish Avikunthak
2. Nikhil Chopra + Munir Kabani
3. Jehangir Jani
4. Shambhavi Kaul
5. Kartik Sood
6. Jaret Vadera
7. Aaditi Joshi
8. Sahej Rahal
9. Niyati Upadhya

WAA
7 Baitush Apts, 29th road,
Bandra W, Mumbai
Maharashtra, India - 400050 

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~ Public Conversation

Between the Door and the Street
A Project by: Suzanne Lacey

Facilitator: Meenakshi Thirukode, Project For Empty Space Discussion topic: Feminism and men

Participants: Mike Estabrook
Richard Lovejoy
Rob Smith
Jaret Vadera

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~ Writing

"The Bittersweet Performance of Histories"
Jaret Vadera interviews Andil Gosine
ARC Magazine Issue no. 8

"Andil Gosine and Jaret Vadera share a comprehensive conversation querying normative discourses on race, sexuality, culture and class, using love, desire and personal anecdotes to examine indentureship and Indo-Caribbean history."

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+ Screening

File_not_Found @ 100 Years of Experimentation (1913-2013)
Retrospective of Indian Cinema and Video
FD ZONE | Films Division, Mumbai
June 28 - 30, 2013

The curatorial impetus of this retrospective is marked by an emphasis on tracing the chronology of experimentation through the history of Indian cinema. It halts at pit stops of radical moments of experimentation and underscores it. The idea of ‘experimentation’ rather than the experimental or avant-garde drives the films put together in this retrospective. The conceptual rubric of this ‘experimentation’ traces its theoretical genealogy from Gandhi’s “Experiments with Truth” rather than the Western art historical lineage of experimental or avant-garde. Although these terms are temporally analogous to the 1920s and have an aesthetic origin, experimentation in Gandhi has a metaphysical, self-reflexive and ontological root.

Saturday June 29, 2013, 4 - 6pm
Experiments in the Gallery
Curators: Ashish Avikunthak & Mortimer Chatterjee

1. Record/Erase¬¬ – Nalini Malani (10 mins, Video, 1996 )
2. Flight Rehearsals – Kiran Subbaiah (7: 26 mins, Video, 2007)
3. Dance Like Your Dad – Hetain Patel (6:15 mins, Video, 2009)
4. There is a spider living between us – Tejal Shah (7 mins, Video, 2009)
5. Man Eats Rock – Nikhil Chopra & Munir Kabani (22:11 mins, Video, 2011)
6. The First Dance – Hetain Patel (7:44 mins, Video, 2012)
7. Forerunner – Sahej Rahal (12:16 mins, Video, 2013)
8. File_not_Found – Jaret Vadera (1 min, Video, 2013)

FD Zone, Films Division
RR Theatre, 10th floor
24 Pedder Road
Mumbai – 400026 

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~ Curatorial Project

1-1=1 @ Alwan Film Festival
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 7-9pm

Including works by:
Ali Cherri, Bessma Khalaf, Dina Danish, Haig Aivazian, Jaishri Abichandani, Malak Helmy, Mariam Ghani, and Tejal Shah

The artists in the Experimental Video / Art Program all wield the formal elements of video and performance to explore modes of engagement that challenge our passive roles as viewers. Repetition, and rhythm are utilized in these videos to reference or establish a logic that then folds in on itself or breaks down over time. Through generative strategies of entropy and poetic tension, the artists in 1-1=1 short circuit conventional narratives, and offer an experiential critique of different structures of power and the forms through which they function.

- Jaret Vadera, Experimental Video / Art Programmer AFF 2013


The screening will be followed by a conversation between Mariam Ghani, Haig Aivazian, Jaret Vadera, and Naeem Mohaiemen. Followed by a reception.

Alwan for the Arts,
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
(between Broad Street & Broadway)
New York, NY - 10004
Tel: (646) 732-3261
Fax: (212) 967-4326
Email: info@alwanforthearts.org 

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Ascent @ MoMA
Abstract Currents: An Interactive Video Event
Sunday, April 7, 2013, 8:30 – 11:30 pm

In conjunction with the exhibitions Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 and Abstract Generation: Now in Print, the PopRally committee has been collecting hundreds of one-minute abstract videos. These video minutes open a broad window into the ways that abstraction endlessly inspires artists, designers, and anyone observing the peripheries of their own daily life. The captured imagery, ranging from the bizarre to the contemplative, is made from small observations in nature, flowing psychedelic mutations, and digitally imagined spaces.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
New York, NY - 10019

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+ Writing + Artwork

2050 featured in Minority Rules: 2050, The Margins Magazine

The Margins magazine / Asian American Writers' Workshop asked four artists to create a work in response to the 2050 U.S. Majority-Minority debates.

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+ Screening

DYSTORPIA @ Local Project
Video Screening: October 13th, 2012, 7 - 10 pm

"I tell the truth, even when I tell a lie..." by Jaret Vadera,
"Soul Juice" by Michael Wyshock,
"Ci sarà - tributo escatologico ad Al Bano & Romina Power" by Fabrizio Coniglio,
"Switch" by Liat Berdugo,
"Robocats in Titan City" by Paul Wiersbinski,
"Above the Skyline" by Tessa Garland,
"Happy Moscow" by Tatiana Istomina,
"bi:t/" by Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos,
“Against Reduction” by Vienna Del Rosario Parreno,
“Aphasia Oceana”, by Danny Warner,
“Presbyopis Park” by Kit Yi Wong 

LOCAL PROJECT
45-10 Davis Street
Long Island City, New York - 11101
info@localproject.org

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+ Screening

DYSTORPIA @ Outpost
Video Screening: September 21st, 2012, 7 - 10 pm

“bi:t/” by Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos;
“Going” by Gwen MacGregor;
“I tell the truth, even when I tell a lie…” by Jaret Vadera;
“Dauphin 007” by Jonathan Monaghan;
“Happy Moscow part 2” by Tatiana Istomina;
“Above the Skyline”by Tessa Garland;
“Flight of Memory” by Victoria Febrer & Pedro J. Padilla,
”Vexed” by Zoran Drageli,
“Mortality Rates” by Stephen John Ellis, and
“Terremoto” by Shelley Jordon.

OUTPOST
1665 Norman Street,
Ridgewood NY - 11385
718. 599.2385
outpostedit@gmail.com

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+ Residency / Collaborative Experiments / Exhibition

TRANSPARENT STUDIO @ Bose Pacia
January 3 - February 2, 2012
Closing Reception: Thursday, February 2, 6 - 9 PM

Bose Pacia is pleased to present Transparent Studio.

Jaret Vadera will be creating new artworks that will be determined and completed each day during his residency turning the space into an artist / alchemist’s lab, focusing more on the process rather than end result. Each new piece will be comprised of an array of mediums and will also include one-day collaborative projects with artists and non-artists alike. He will also project a new video created every week during the month on the gallery windows. The final installation will be an assemblage of all his creations throughout his residency.

BOSE PACIA
163 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY - 11201
212 989 7074
mail@bosepacia.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm

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December 18, 2012
International Migrants Day

24 was a collaborative action by artists Jaishri Abichandani and Jaret Vadera as part of Immigrant Movement International. The action evolved out of a conversation between the two artists about the number of would-be migrants that die crossing national borders in boats or in other ways as they try for a better life. 24 paper boats (for 24 time zones) were filled with flower petals and tied to white ballons that were released into the wind across the water from Manhattan. 

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+ Exhibition

50 YEARS OF ART: LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE @ FCP Gallery
Curator: Jennifer Rudder
June 8th - July 16th, 2011

A retrospective exhibition showcasing a selection of artwork made by TOAE award-winners "who push the boundaries in their work by breaking out of medium-specific conventions and restrictions. Unconventional pioneers in their field over the last fifty years, these artists have initiated shifts in the way we view art and craft in Canada today."

FCP Gallery, 100 King Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada
Located in First Canadian Place, at street level near the Adelaide Street entrance
Gallery hours: Monday through Friday, 11am to 3pm

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+ Exhibition

PROLONGED ENGAGEMENT @ EFA Project Space
Curator: Erin Sickler
March 25-May 8, 2011

N. Dash | Jesal Kapadia | Deana Lawson | Esperanza Mayobre | JJ Peet | Harriet Salmon | Jaret Vadera

Prolonged Engagement is an exhibition that brings together artists who create aesthetic conditions rather than discrete art objects. Finding beauty and ingenuity amidst human imperfection, the artists in Prolonged Engagement allow the world to act upon them as they act upon it. As with tinkerers, inventors, and other radical thinkers, they know that the ah-ha moment is not a singular event, but rather one that absorbs information from the outside world, mixes and remixes it, and allows new ideas and processes to gradually fade into view. Driven by productive antagonisms and juxtapositions, they create complex environments for inquisitiveness and transformation that go beyond simplistic notions of failure and success.

EFA Project Space
323 West 39th Street 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Tel. 212 563 5855

http://www.efanyc.org/prolonged-engagement/

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+ Exhibition

FORM & PHENOMENON @ Project 88
Curator: Heidi Fichtner
December 15, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Rana Begumh | Hemali Bhutah | Nivedita Deshpandeh | Sandeep Mukherjeeh | Huma Muljih | Gyan Panchalh | Iqra Tanveerh | Jaret Vadera | Asim Waqif

Form & Phenomenon brings together a selection of works in a variety of media that employ abstraction and formal strategies to address the nature of perception, representations of space, questions of materiality, absence, as well as the dynamic relationship between energy and process.

PROJECT 88
BMP Building,
Ground Floor
N.A. Sawant Marg
Near Colaba Fire Station
Colaba, Mumbai - 400 005
Ph +91 22 2281 0066
contact@project88.in

http://www.project88.in/2010_form_and_phenomenon.html 

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+ mention on DaWire
ONLINE PLATFORM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ELSE at Tilton Gallery, NYC by Diana McClure

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+ mention in the New York Times
ART IN REVIEW: 'Else' by Holland Cotter

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+ Exhibition

ELSE @ Tilton Gallery
Co-Curators: Derrick Adams + Jack Tilton
September 9 - October 16, 2010

Participating artists: Noel Anderson | Adler Guerrier | Arjan Zazueta | Carlos Rigau | David Antonio Cruz | Diane Wah | Frohawk Two Feathers | Jaret Vadera | Langdon Graves | Simone Leigh | Yashua Klos | Felandus Thames

ELSE group exhibition presents a selection of work situated in between the recognizable and indistinguishable. A combination of sculpture, painting, printing making, video and installation bringing about various overlapping conversations and exploring the way we interpret cultural, religious and personal narrative in a way that gives the viewer a glimpse into something uncanny.

Tilton Gallery
8 East 76th Street
New York, NY 10021
212.737.2221 | info@jacktiltongallery.com

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+ included in the /Younger Than Jesus / Artist Directory,
The New Museum, NY. Phaidon Press, 2009

"Celebrating the present and anticipating the future of contemporary art, Younger than Jesus:
Artist Directory introduces over 500 of the best artists under 33 years of age from around the world"

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~ Curatorial Project

Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs @ Yale University School of Art Gallery
Opening Reception: January 27, 2009; 6 - 7:30 pm

Including works by:
Abir Karmakar, Bharti Kher, Bhupen Khakhar, Brendan Fernandes, Chitra Ganesh, Gauri Gill, Jaishri Abichandani, Nalini Malani, Ram Rahman, Raqs Media Collective, Riyas Komu, Shilpa Gupta, Tejal Shah, and Vivan Sundaram

Organized by Robert Storr and Jaret Vadera

Necessarily, posing more questions than it attempts to answer and in the spirit of keeping the dialogue dynamic, Shifting Shapes – Unstable Signs, proposes both artists and viewers as creative agents, translators, shape-shifters, and transformers who defy, jam, and subvert simple reduction.

All of the artists in this exhibition actively destabilize, re-examine and seriously play with signs and symbols, calling into question the overlapping networks through which meanings are assigned. The 13 artists and 1 collective strategically use doubling, drag, performance, mirroring, humor, tastelessness, juxtaposition, fragmentation, and ambiguity to bend and twist essentialized readings of gender, authenticity, identity, and space.

On view January 26–February 27, 2009
Yale University School of Art Gallery
32 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, CT - 06511

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Panel Discussions:

Art, Social Structures and Cosmopolitan Contexts – Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7pm
Panelists: Jaishri Abichandani, Brendan Fernandes, and Murtaza Vali
Moderator: Jaret Vadera

Curation, Contemporary Art & the International Context – Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7pm
Panelists: Melissa Chiu, Fereshteh Daftari, and Gillian Forrester
Moderator: Robert Storr

Yale Sculpture Building, 36 Edgewood Avenue, Room 204
New Haven, CT - 06511

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~ Feature / Review

THE FUTURE IS BEHIND US:
THE WORK OF JARET VADERA
BY DIANA MCCLURE

Vadera celebrates ambivalence. In his writing and in interviews he likes to reframe the term as multivalence—a state of being that becomes comfortable for those who learn to navigate their intersectional identities on their own terms. His work inhabits a fluid field where an either/or, us-versus-them, divide-and-conquer mindset is of little value, one where new possibilities are always on the horizon and personal agency reigns supreme...

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+ Exhibition

CTRL+ALT: A CULTURE LAB ON IMAGINED FUTURES
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
477 Broadway, New York
November 12 - 13, 2016
11am-9pm

Curators:
Adriel Luis, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, and Kālewa Correa

~ Reading

“I Don't Need Your Heroes”
Soapbox Responses
October 31, 2016 from 5 - 7 pm
@ The High Line, NYC

http://bit.ly/hlsoapbox
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+ Exhibition

FILE SÃO PAULO 2016: VIDEO ART
Centro Cultural FIESP – Ruth Cardoso
July 11 - August 28, 2016

Curator: Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida

~ Interview

ARTIST JARET VADERA ON CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION
BY PLASTIC
OBEAHH.com
June 27, 2016

PLASTIC: Describe the first thing you remember creating as a child.

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~ Residency

2016-17 ARTIST-RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE
PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE
2 Gateway Center, Newark, NJ

~ Co-Organizer

ART + COMMUNITY
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
April 6 / 13, 2016
Social Science and Cultural Studies Department
Pratt Institute, North Hall, Room 111, Brooklyn, New York

~ Interview / Q + A / Video Feature

P R O P R I O C E P T I O N
INTERVIEW WITH JARET VADERA
BY CHARU MAITHANI

CM: Let’s start by talking a little about your practice – what informs it and your current pre-occupations?

JV: That should be an easy question to answer, but every time I am asked, I’m not sure what to say. Probably because I like to keep my practice open and out in front of me, shapeshifting into whatever I need it to be...

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+ Exhibition

DISTANSYA @ Filipino American Museum | Ace Hotel NY
Opening Reception: March 3rd 2016, 6 - 8pm
Curator: Edwin Ramoran

Maia Cruz Palileo | Rico Reyes | Jaret Vadera | Aldrin Valdez

These artworks, paradoxically embody and disembody, reveal and obscure, abstract and confound personal and cultural chronicles and images. Their works visually and figuratively may seem out-of-focus and esoteric, somewhat distant echoes of recorded histories or constructed identities. This is deliberate.

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~ Discussion Leader

Legibility
Dictionary of the Possible
Saturday October the 24th from 4-6pm
Shifter Magazine
The New School
2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

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~ Reading + Closing Remarks

Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings
FAM [Filipino American Museum]
Monday, October 19th, 2015 from 6 - 8pm
@ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC

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~ News

Noli Me Tangere: A Book That Changed the World
By Marivir R. Montebon

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~ Review

Accented Exhibition Reviewed by Kareem Estefan
IBRAAZ, July 2015 

"Refreshingly, Accented does not find alternatives to the monoculture of Siri and CNN in reversions to the traditional or the analogue, but rather by articulating a contemporary poetics of plurality. Jaret Vadera's videos, for example, cleverly extract corporeal and anecdotal qualities from the most monolithic of web sources. Vadera's File_Not_Found (2013), a one-minute succession of screenshots apparently captured from Google Images, presents a brief narrative of individual mortality ('One day I will die…') by matching each word with a tangentially related image, converting the algorithmic search task into an idiosyncratic exercise in association...

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~ Panel Discussion

"Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance":
An Intersection of Visual Art and Literature

FAM [Filipino American Museum]
August 16th, 5:30-6:30PM  
Fordham University 

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~ Interview / Q + A

New Poetics of Translation: An Interview with Jaret Vadera
Breach Magazine – Issue 1: Decolonial Aesthetics  

Carla K. Stewart in conversation with Jaret Vadera

CS: By way of an introduction, can you talk a little about the evolution of your practice? About the Light series and your video installation I tell the truth, even when I tell a lie…?

JV: As far back as I can remember, I have always been making things, and breaking things. Taking things apart and putting them back together...

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Image: NEITHER THERE, NOR THERE, NOR NOWHERE, 2015, vinyl on wall, 9x3'

+ Exhibition

FALSE ALTERNATIVES @ The Apartment | Park Hyatt
Opening Reception: March 28th 2015, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Curator: Meenakshi Thirukode

Alexander Singh | Chitra Ganesh | Chippa Sudhakar | David Antonio Cruz | Haseeb Ahmed | Jaishri Abichandani | Jaret Vadera | Kathleen Granados | Kumaresan Selvaraj | Lekha Washington | Michael Bühler-Rose | Nandita Kumar | Parvathi Nayar | Seema Kohli | Sujeeth Kumar Sree Kandan

The Apartment | Park Hyatt Chennai
39 Velachery Road Guindy, Chennai, IN

Presented by Gallery Veda in collaboration with Park Hyatt Chennai

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Image: EVEN NOWHERE IS SOMEPLACE, 2015, Jaret Vadera, vinyl on wall, 15 x 8.5'

+ Exhibition

ACCENTED @ Maraya Art Centre
March 1st - May 16th, 2015
Opening reception: Sunday, March 1st, 7pm
Curator: Murtaza Vali

Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Abbas Akhavan | Ammar Al Attar | Fayçal Baghriche | Vikram Divecha | GCC Collective | Iman Issa | Pouran Jinchi | Raja'a Khalid | Monira Al Qadiri | Farah Al Qasimi | Abdullah Al Saadi | THE STATE | Jaret Vadera | Lee Xie

“Accented” works out from the premise that the accent is an enduring sign or figure of cultural difference in the age of globalization. While the processes of globalization promise homogenization, transparency and translation across cultures, the accent—localized in and expressed through the body—is the residue or remainder that challenges those claims, that resists and exceeds acts of intercultural translation. It indexes what remains unassimilable and opaque. “Accented” conceives of and presents the accent as not a purely linguistic phenomenon and the processes of intercultural translation examined extend beyond the limits of language into the realm of images, sounds, smells and tastes. And so the accent can also be understood as an embellishment that emphasizes difference, as an accessory, in terms of fashion or interior decor, through which culture is expressed on bodies and introduced into spaces. Finally, “Accented” will use this theoretically enriched notion of the accent as a lens through which to examine the particular type of cosmopolitanism indigenous to the U.A.E., where social and cultural space is, arguably, always already accented.

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+ Screening

12Gates Video Art Fest @ Drexel University
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 2 - 5pm

Shehrezad Maher | Shambhavi Kaul | Jennifer Saparzadeh | Nitin Mukul | Mariam Eqbal | Sausan Saulat | Jaret Vadera | Anna Kipervaser | Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia | Vivek Shraya

Selected, Curated, and Produced by: Ayza Akhtar, Sonali Gulati, Bakirathi Mani, Sa'dia Rehman, and Atif F. Sheikh

12Gates Video Art Fest celebrates contemporary video art coming out of and inspired by the art of South Asia and the Middle East. 2015 will be the first edition of what promises to be a unique and stimulating annual experience of film and media. Experimental, queer, poetic, abstract, political, philosophical, uncensored and mix-media short film and video.

Hosted by Drexel University
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
3501 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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FIG. 156. – Method of Removing a Foreign Body from the Cornea (Surgeon Standing in Front of the Patient)., photocopy and US penny, Jaret Vadera, 2015

+ Exhibition

OBJECT MANIPULATING ECONOMY /
ECONOMY MANIPULATING OBJECT @ August Fröhls
January 29 – February 15, 2015
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 28th, 7pm
Curators: Aman Sandhu & Swapnaa Tamhane

Soya Arakawa | David Bernstein | Jessica Gispert | Elmar Hermann | Harkeerat Mangat | Rajni Perera | Titre Provisoire | Nep Sidhu (Black Constellation) | Dino Steinhof | Kristina Stoyanova | Arjan Stockhausen | Jaret Vadera

August Fröhls, Friedrichstr. 19, 41061 Mönchengladbach

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+ Screening

VIDEO ART @ Bhau Daji Lad Museum
December 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th
Screenings at 3:30pm and 4:45pm
Curator: Gayatri Sinha / Critical Collective

Lu Chunsheng | Zhou Tiehai | Guan Xiao | Jaret Vadera

This edition of the Video Art Series brings together films that comment upon the relationship between the state and artistic practices. Through narrative and abstract videos, a sense of desolation in the modern world echoes through various works.

Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Veer Mata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Rani Baug), 91/A
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Byculla East, Mumbai

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+ Article / Feature
Decoding Images
Hema Vijay
Deccan Herald, November 30, 2014

+ Review
Feeling the Doublebind
by DEBORAH FRIZZELL
Depart Magazine, Issue 17 - 2014

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+ Article / Review
Of Butterflies, Dead Pixels, and Other Ideas
The New Indian Express, October 18, 2014

Art in the Context of Larger Ideas
The New Indian Express, October 20, 2014