Ananya Sikand is the C-MAP Bombay/Mumbai Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as well as a doctoral candidate in Art History and an affiliated student of the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and the South Asia Center at the University of Washington. She researches modern and contemporary art, with a focus on South Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts. Her dissertation-in-progress, entitled “Muslim Unbelonging: Conceptual and Performance Art in Post-Independence South Asia (1970-2020)” reframes histories of conceptual and performance art of South Asia and its diaspora via the dialectic of muslim belonging and unbelonging. At MoMA, she conceives the research and programming activities of the C-MAP Bombay/Mumbai group and co-edits the museum’s digital platform post.moma.org. Most recently, she co-organized the C-MAP Seminar Assemblies in Uncertain Times as well as the CAMP Study Day and performance Reading Listening Seeing Bombay Tilts Down in conjunction with the exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. She earned her MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa at SOAS, University of London, and has previously worked at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; the Siena Art Institute, Italy; and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum), India.
This public program brought together Nancy Adajania, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Frida Muenala from Mullu for an evening of inquiry into forms and practices of gathering. The speakers, who represent diverse practices in the cultural fields—from art making to curation to institutional leadership—and operate across vast geographies, unpacked their different approaches to assemblies. Among the…
