Rattanamol Singh Johal is an art historian and curator. He has held fellowships at The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Research Centre: Asia (now Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational), and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Previously, he worked as a curator, archivist, and publications editor at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, completing a dissertation that offers an account of postmodern art practices emerging in metropolitan India during the eighties and nineties. Rattan earned a BA (summa cum laude) in Art History & Political Science from the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, an MA (with Distinction) from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and an MA and MPhil from Columbia University.
What is historicized, how is it recorded, and who determines and controls these seemingly unyielding criteria? Invoking multiple media apparatuses and deriving its title from a rumor, Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013) undercuts the hegemonic and umbilical ties of media and history.
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