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Episode 249: The Politics of Art — with Ranjit Hoskote
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On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Ranjit Hoskote, poet, translator, art critic, and curator.
Together they discuss Bombay鈥檚 political and cultural milieu in the 1980s and 90s, from which Ranjit began to experiment with art making, artistic and curatorial responses to an emergent neo-colonial Indian state. They also discuss the crisis of cultural politics, Ranjit鈥檚 poetic responses to humanity鈥檚 demise in this moment of ecological crisis, and the promise he sees in interstitial spaces.
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About Our Guest
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet, theorist, and curator whose influential work centres on the complex history and presence of cultural pluralism from the local to the global.
His eight books of poetry鈥攊ncluding Icelight (2022), Jonahwhale (2018), and a translation of a fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic-poet, I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal De虇d (2011)鈥攅ngage with themes of identity, displacement, and transformation through time. His acclaimed 2012 book Confluences: Forgotten Histories between East and West (with Ilija Trojanow) traced the rich history of intercultural and interreligious encounter that has shaped鈥攁nd continues to shape鈥攖he contemporary world. Hoskote has curated more than 50 showcases of Indian and global art over the past three decades, including India鈥檚 first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Johal, Am. 鈥淭he Politics of Art 鈥� with Ranjit Hoskote.鈥� Below the Radar, 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 10, 2024. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/249-ranjit-hoskote.html.
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