Cheragi: an evening with Zihan Karim and Shohrab Jahan

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Doors open 6:30pm
Event begins at 6:45pm

For about ten years with colleagues from Jog Art Space, an artists' collective in Chittagong, Bangladesh they have run the festival based in Cheragi Pahar, long known as the city’s cultural crossroads of bookshops, small presses, little magazines and tea stalls, and a long-standing adda culture among writers, artists and students. We'll encounter the Cheragi Art Show, alongside a live street-show rehearsal, festival posters and newspaper publications and their independent moving-image practices to ask what happens when a street becomes a stage, an adda turns into an art space, and how those encounters became part of their artistic process.

Shohrab Jahan (b. 1987) is an artist, educator and curator, and assistant professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, Chittagong University.

Zihan Karim (b. 1986) is an artist from Chittagong and an associate professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, Chittagong University. His work has been shown at Dhaka Art Summit, the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial and Colomboscope.

Shohrab and Zihan will be in discussion with Benjamin Cook, founder director of LUX who is currently working on Midnight's Third Child, a collaborative research project with curator Kehkasha Sabah exploring the past, present and future of Bangladeshi artists' moving image.

Join Bangladesh-based interdisciplinary artists Zihan and Shohrab for an evening with their street art festival Cheragi Art Show, which moves between performance, moving images, printed matter, and conversation.