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Conference/Symposium - USA & Canada

Bali and Beyond: Culture, Power, and Indonesian Textiles

Bard Graduate Center Gallery
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall,
New York, USA
Feb 26, 2018


Detail: Organized in conjunction with the Focus Project exhibition Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles, this symposium expands upon themes of religion, power, and cultural resilience to include textiles from various parts of the Indonesian archipelago. Speakers will include anthropologists, textile historians, and curators each of whom will offer reflections on the agency of Indonesian textiles ranging from their spiritual or ritual uses in their culture of origin to their re-contextualization in Western ethnographic and art museums.

Phone No.: 212.501.3023
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/770/26-feb-2018-symposium-bali

Cepuk being laid on a girl undergoing toothfiling, Ubud, Bali, July 2016
Cepuk being laid on a girl undergoing toothfiling, Ubud, Bali, July 2016
Photograph: Urmila Mohan

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