In a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival

November 30 – December 9, 2006

SAWCC’s ninth annual visual arts show explores issues of conflict, violence, identity, commodification, claustrophobia and the politics of the body using photography, video, installations and animation. The featured South Asian women artists resist and reshape the world on their own terms within their individual idioms, while still maintaining the fragility of their bodies juxtaposed to the beautifully harsh urban realities. … Continue readingIn a State of Emergency? Women, War, and the Politics of Urban Survival

Chiasmata

Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2005

SAWCC’s three-day literary festival revolves around the idea of chiasmata and the spontaneous connections that birth the motley spaces South Asian writers inhabit — between the old and the new, the established and the subversive, the familiar and the novel that serve as bridges toward a new self. … Continue readingChiasmata