book 2018
Education as Mutual Translation recounts recent research conducted at a UK Art School. It then examines and applies Hindu Vedantist (Ancient Indian) and Yoruba (West African) philosophical concepts of self and mutuality with others to an environment that expects high levels of individuality. Yoruba and Vedantic analyses of mind are shown to have startling resonance with each other, with Paulo Freire’s critical consciousness, and Ronald Barnett’s student being. Placing these sources in theoretical dialogue with each other the author proposes “critical autobiographic reflection” as a tool for locating cultural, political and ontological self; she suggests that a more resilient original voice emerges from awareness of society and community than from individualism, and that genuine pedagogic exchange changes student, tutor, and the work of both.
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Book chapters, journal articles, writing on contemporary art
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'On the Brink'- Letter From Delhi (covering February -May 2024) in Art Monthly 478, July/August 2024
'Pedagogies of Transmission in "...But There Are New Suns" - The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #3 with The Otolith Group', Third Text Online, 14 February 2024
Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different, National Gallery London, in Art Monthly Issue 466 May 2023 pp 28-29
'Sooun Kim's Yellow Fever- an asynchronous reflection on Korean history, cultural memory and hybridity' in NOWNESS ASIA- Nowness Experiments 31 May 2022
‘The Shoes at My Door’ A reflection on Hauntology and African presence in the Caribbean Islands and their diaspora. Commissioned by Panel for Jumbies, a performance by Ashanti Harris, Zephyr Liddell and Patricia Panther, Glasgow International 2021
'Certainty and its Refractions in Ayla Dmyterko’s Solastalgic Soliloquy’ MAP, Issue 58, June 2020
'Expanding the Curriculum’ in Art Monthly No. 432, Dec /Jan 2019-20, pp 7-9
‘Finding the Self in the City of Multitudes’ in Resilience and the City- Art, Education, Urbanism. ELIA 2019, pp 143-152
‘The Feminist Call of the Spiritual/ Erotic Impulse in Indian Art’ Chapter 8 in The Sacred and the Feminine- Imagination and Sexual difference, IB Tauris 2007, pp 135-149
‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Anti-Racist Education, an Introduction to the Talacchanda Project’, Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol 23, issue 1, 2004
‘Kashmiri Woodcrafts’ co- authored chapter in Crafts of Jammu,Kashmir, and Ladakh, edited by Jaya Jetley, Mapin Publications 1990. Republished by Grantha Corporation 1999, pp 101-17
'Devi Prasad- The Culture of Making' Profile feature Ceramic Review Issue 184 July/August 2000
TALACCHANDA 2002 exhibition catalogue with invited essays. Ed. R. Thapalyal, Glasgow School of Art 2002.
‘Aaj ke Sambandh Me Mritika Shilpa’ in Samkaleen Kala No. 6, Lalit Kala Akademi 1986, pp 17-25