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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Artist Showcase: Historicization\, Art\, and the Socio-Politics of India: An Artist's Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the intersections of historicization\, material culture\, and socio-political struggle in India through an interdisciplinary art practice that engages with Ajrakh block printing\, indigo dye\, and khadi cloth. Working outside the academy yet in sustained dialogue with postcolonial theory\, Jyoti uses textile-based installations as “visual essays” to reframe histories of colonial exploitation\, migration\, and resistance.\n\nDrawing on works such as Indigo: The Blue Gold and The 18th Century Merchant Ship\, Jyoti interrogates how indigo functioned as both commodity and instrument of colonial capitalism. In Faceless Journeys\, anonymity becomes a metaphor for the erasure of migrant subjectivities\, while The Khadi March: Just Five Meters reanimates Gandhi’s call for swadeshi by situating khadi within contemporary debates on sustainability and rural livelihoods.\n\nJyoti's practice approaches textiles as living archives that embody transnational exchanges and subaltern histories\, tracing their movements from Sindh and Gujarat to global circuits of trade and consumption. By employing materiality—cloth\, color\, and motif—as sites of memory and resistance\, she explores how art can perform the work of historicization and offer critical interventions into postcolonial discourse.\n\nThe lecture invites reflection on how creative practices might be read as forms of scholarship\, challenging conventional boundaries between archive and artwork\, academic and artisan\, past and present.\n\nPlease register at https://myumi.ch/qZ213 to receive the Zoom link before the event.
UID:140167-21886694@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140167
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:south asian,Colonialism,South Asia,South Asian Studies,Art,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250904T103904
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cathy Barry Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Cathy Barry has a profound connection to the natural world\, which has shaped her artistic journey. She focuses on expressing gratitude\, compassion\, and a sense of responsibility towards environmental protection. After years of working with traditional media such as oil\, acrylic\, and watercolor\, her art is transitioning to more sustainable materials. The pigments she uses in her collages are sourced entirely from plants\, all collected and processed by Cathy herself from various locations throughout Michigan. This natural paint has become a vital part of her expressive palette\, driving her to approach her work with a renewed sense of integrity and awareness of our interconnected ecosystem.\n\nIn her collages\, Cathy skillfully combines paper painted with her homemade botanical pigments and intricately punched shapes\, creating a distinctive micro-scale vocabulary. These miniature worlds are thoughtfully assembled within larger contexts\, challenging our perceptions of the universe and our place within it.\n\nRecently\, Cathy has embarked on a new adventure: creating art directly from plant materials. By collecting\, drying\, and weaving leaves\, she has developed an exciting rhythm in her process. Through simple weaving\, twining\, and basketry techniques\, she has deepened her enthusiasm for and connection to the plants surrounding her in her yard and neighborhood. This integration of materials with form and subject in her work evokes a serene wholeness that reflects nature's inherent wisdom. Additionally\, her journey has sparked a curiosity to explore the historical uses and roles of plants throughout history.\n\nCathy Barry is an artist and instructor living and working in Ann Arbor\, Mi. She is a Lecturer in the University of Michigan (UM) Stamps School of Art and Design\, the UM Program in the Environment and the UM Biological Station.
UID:138080-21881753@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138080
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ArtsEngine,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Festival,Free,Natural Sciences,Nature,North Campus,Visual Arts
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connection Gallery lower level
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