Images from Album Pacifica © The artist
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Session 5: Travels
in a New World
In exploring the nature of diaspora and visual
culture, through installation based art work, texts and other publications,
Chandra’s practice involves a multiplicity of cross-cultural
dialogues with disciplines such as history, anthropology and geography,
suggesting new ways of mapping cultural experience through personal
memory. In this paper Chandra discusses the way in which post-colonial
Indian communities in the Pacific have incorporated photography
into visual and historical processes, which map the fluidity of
their own, increasingly diasporic, cultural identity. She then considers
her own role as interpreter, interlocutor and member of global and
local cultures as she traverses geographic and temporal distance
via internalised ‘diasporic’ maps of family and personal
remembrances.
Speaker: Mohini Chandra, artist
Session 5 Webcasts:
Mohini Chandra 56k (Real Media stream)
Mohini Chandra 256k (Real Media stream)
Suggested Further Reading
- Mohini Chandra, 'Pacific Album: Vernacular Photography
of the Fiji Indian Diaspora', History of Photography,
No 3, Autumn 2000.
- Mohini Chandra, 'Visible Fragments: Photography
and diaspora at the turn of the century', Creative Camera,
December 1999.
- Mohini Chandra, VoiceOver, eBook, Diffusion
series, Proboscis, (RCA/LSE/Arts Council of England), June, 2002
www.diffusion.org.uk
- Mohini Chandra, Album Pacifica, Autograph, 2001.
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