Visual Arts in and on Afghanistan: political violence, war and the question on futurity

Visual Arts in AfghanistanPanel: “Visual Arts in and on Afghanistan: political violence, war and the question on futurity”

Friday, Feb. 10 | 11:30-1:30 PM

East Duke Parlors

Duke University – Register online

This panel brings together artists and researchers and queries how to envision futurity in the face of continuous political violence and war in Afghanistan. In reference to discussions in Black Studies and Palestine Studies and feminist and queer studies, futurity describes here the refusal to accept to be reduced to loss, grief and suffering and to be treated like disposable objects by imagining a different modality of subjectivity and alliance-building. Against this backdrop, the panel explores the ways in which political violence and war in Afghanistan has been researched and investigates the archival and analytical labor of visual artists engaging with living and dying in the face of political violence and war.

Sponsored by Duke Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)