Avni Sethi's guest appearances

Avni Sethi

Audiogyan

NLS In Podcast

Josh Talks

Architecture Off-Centre

eShe

Walter Gropius

Dan Brown

Marlon James

Nicole LePera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Soraya Chemaly

Sudha Bhuchar

Benazir Bhutto

Amanda Craig

John Wagner

Neil Lawrence

Julia Phillips

Scilla Elworthy

Fatima Iqbal

Aisha Brown

OwlTail

On a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I drove eastwards to the old city of Ahmedabad to interview Avni Sethi at the Conflictorium, a museum of conflict housed in a 100-something year old building. We talked about her being a cultural practitioner, who foregrounds the issues of caste, violence and oppression in a city with a painful history of riots. We also discussed their exhibits, ongoing thematic inquiries, the function of repetition in public dissent and the potential of museums in being institutions for dialogue, reconciliation and reaching closure. Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concerns lying between cultures of violence, memory, space and the body. She has conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium, a Museum of Conflict, in Ahmedabad and Raipur, and Mehnat Manzil, a Museum of Work in Ahmedabad. She is a recipient of the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice 2020-2022 housed at the New School, New York. The museums: https://www.conflictorium.org/ https://mehnatmanzil.org/

On a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I drove eastwards to the old city of Ahmedabad to interview Avni Sethi at the Conflictorium, a museum of conflict housed in a 100-something year old building. We talked about her being a cultural practitioner, who foregrounds the issues of caste, violence and oppression in a city with a painful history of riots. We also discussed their exhibits, ongoing thematic inquiries, the function of repetition in public dissent and the potential of museums in being institutions for dialogue, reconciliation and reaching closure. Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concerns lying between cultures of violence, memory, space and the body. She has conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium, a Museum of Conflict, in Ahmedabad and Raipur, and Mehnat Manzil, a Museum of Work in Ahmedabad. She is a recipient of the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice 2020-2022 housed at the New School, New York. The museums: <a href="https://www.conflictorium.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.conflictorium.org/</a> <a href="https://mehnatmanzil.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mehnatmanzil.org/</a>

On Building a Museum of Conflict / Avni Sethi

Njoki Ngumi

Episode 36: Njoki Ngumi & Avni Sethi

Through art, dance and her Conflictorium Museum in Ahmedabad, interdisciplinary artist Avni Sethi has created a space to bring up difficult subjects of conflict, violence and democracy. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eshe.in/2021/02/15/avni-sethi/

Through art, dance and her Conflictorium Museum in Ahmedabad, interdisciplinary artist Avni Sethi has created a space to bring up difficult subjects of conflict, violence and democracy. This episode is also available as a blog post: <a href="http://eshe.in/2021/02/15/avni-sethi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eshe.in/2021/02/15/avni-sethi/</a>

Avni Sethi, Founder of Conflictorium Museum, on Democracy and Conflict Resolution