In a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival

November 30 – December 9, 2006

SAWCC’s ninth annual visual arts show explores issues of conflict, violence, identity, commodification, claustrophobia and the politics of the body using photography, video, installations and animation. The featured South Asian women artists resist and reshape the world on their own terms within their individual idioms, while still maintaining the fragility of their bodies juxtaposed to the beautifully harsh urban realities. … Continue readingIn a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival

Coded Bodies

Thursday, October 19 – October 20, 2000, 7pm

Exit Art and SAWCC present a video and performance event, curated by Mariam Ghani (Exit Art), and Chitra Ganesh and Swati Khurana (SAWCC), featuring video screenings from Sonya Shah, Raina Kumra, Swati Khurana, Sheelah Murthy, Prema Murthy, Karla Murthy and Marla Murthy, and performanaces by Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, Achinta Sawhny, Gita Reddy and Sharmila Desai. … Continue readingCoded Bodies