- Tasveer ghar
Tasveer Ghar (English: House of Pictures) is a digital network of
South Asian popular visual culture. Tasveer Ghar is a trans-national virtual “home” for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual sphere including posters,calendar art , pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia,cinema hoardings , advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art.Some of the key fields of exploration within the network are:
(a) the social and performative life of images; (b) the histories and everyday lives and voices of producers, disseminators and ‘consumers’;(c) various techniques of visuality/media of visualisation (for instance, ritual or theatrical performance, or political spectacle). Tasveer Ghar is supported by a generous three-year gift from Adarsh and Ranvir Trehan of the Trehan Foundation to the
University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, USA. With these start-up funds the group has planned several exciting events over the course of the next three years. These activities are currently limited to Indian popular visual culture, but as and when more funds are raised, there is hope to expand the reach to cover the other countries of the South Asian subcontinent.Tasveer Ghar is located in two institutional nodes:
(1)
University of Michigan ,Ann Arbor , U.S.A., and (2) South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg,Heidelberg , Germany. The principals at these institutions are Manishita Dass, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Christiane Brosius, and also Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Sarai (Delhi). Yousuf Saeed from Delhi is the Project Director.Visit www.tasveerghar.net for more details
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