Summary:
The residencies will enable mid-career artists from South Asia to work with, or be supported by, artists and curators with international reputation. The initiative sees the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Dhaka Art Summit, the Karachi and Lahore biennales and the Colombo Biennale from the sub-continent in partnership with such major contemporary art organisations from the north of England as the Manchester Art Gallery, the Whitworth Art Gallery, the Manchester Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, and The Tetley Art Gallery along with the British Council. “In keeping with its mandate to collaborate and engage, KBF is proud to work with a range of partners in South Asia and in the UK on this long-term initiative to share knowledge and creativity across the world. As well, 12 artists selected by the network and drawn from across South Asia and the UK will incubate new ideas and deliver a weekend of talks and performances in August. The on-ground programme begins in Manchester in March with a retrospective of photographs by Sooni Taraporevala at the Whitworth..