July 15, 2021 — In a discussion moderated by Sabih Ahmed, associate director and curator at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, Anushka Rajendran, researcher, art writer and festival curator for Colomboscope 2022, Sri Lanka; Faisal Anwar, artist and curator for the Karachi Biennale 2022, Pakistan; and Shubigi Rao, artist and curator for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020, India delve into the relationship between cultural sites in South Asia and the communities they live in and work with, especially in the wake of the pandemic.

They investigate the complexities of using a term like "community," touching upon ideas of collective action and shared commons in art, what the digital has done to this landscape, and what modes of artistic sustenance we can imagine for the future as we see a move towards more multidisciplinary sites of public dialogue, support, and activism across the region. (1 hr., 26 min.)