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Practice as Research by Sabih Ahmed

Sept 19, 2017

New Delhi based researcher Sabih Ahmed prepares for an interactive session on Practice as Research. The talk shall include idea of conceptualising art initiatives, digitising art archives, creating digital bibliographies of art across multiple languages and organising archiving, uncharted educational resource related colloquia and seminars. The speaker shall also share his experience as a member of the curatorial collegiate of the 11th Shanghai Biennale which presents fresh ideas about creative art archive and offer some fresh ideas about how an archive could be curated creatively. 

Sabih Ahmed is an art historian and currently a Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA). abih Ahmed conceptualises and leads research initiatives on modern and contemporary art, has led projects digitising artist archives, creating digital bibliographies of art across multiple languages, and has organised colloquia and seminars around archiving and uncharted educational resources. Ahmed is a Visiting Faculty at School of Culture and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi. He was a member of the Curatorial Collegiate of the 11th Shanghai Biennale.