Mending Cracks: Trauma and Art Practice


DATE
Friday November 13, 2015
TIME
4:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join us on Friday, November 13th, for a deeper look into the role of art in times of disaster, featuring Raghavendra Rao, an incredibly talented CISAR Research Associate. Raghavendra Rao is an artist from Bangalore living in Vancouver, Canada since 2012. He graduated from Ken School of Art; Bangalore in 1990 and over the last two decades has participated in several international residencies and exhibitions.

Raghavendra’s presentation explores Art Practice in the context of disaster. Through it, he will explore how an artist as “victim” copes with trauma to produce art. The goal is to provide a small window into artistic projects that embrace various media and forms to create Art that validates, challenges, and appeases trauma and its various manifestations. This will be a FREE, PUBLIC EVENT.

See full detail poster here