EVENT: 1984 – India’s Guilty Secret: Pav Singh with Rahul Patel

Monday 6th February 2023 | 17:30 – 19:30 | Online | Watch here

In November 1984, the ruling elite of the world’s largest democracy conspired to murder thousands of their country’s citizens in genocidal process Over four days, armed mobs brutally and systematically butchered, torched, and raped members of the minority Sikh community living in Delhi and elsewhere. The sheer scale of the killings was huge. In Delhi alone 3,000 people were killed. The full extent of what took place has yet to be fully acknowledged. WATCH BELOW

‘Nowhere else in the world did the year 1984 fulfil its apocalyptic portents as it did in India’.
Amitav Ghosh, author and essayist.

The consideration of difficult historical omissions requires meaningful navigation, the process of thoughtful critique and enquiries into archives and collections. This session will consider the relationship between ethics and art practice. The assembly of research and the interaction with lived experiences is the centre part of this conversation. Watch below: