Beauty & the Beasts – Beauty in Languages
| Dates: | 5 March 2020 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Evening event |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Museum |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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Beauty & the Beasts – Beauty in Languages
5pm till 7.30pm
Sylvia’s Space
Come join Manchester Museum’s Young People’s Collective as they bring us an evening of multilingual poetry recitation, and a writing workshop to accompany our current Beauty and the Beasts exhibition.
Also joining us will be a special guest, Dr Walther, discussing research on Otherworlds: Animal Beauty in Contemporary Indian Art
For contemporary Indian artists, the megacity defines the experience of life in their nation. In this talk, Dr Sundhya Walther discusses the work of visual artists who use animal figures to introduce utopian possibilities.
These animals create “otherworlds” by offering a vision of the world as we know it that is somehow both plausible and ordinary, and yet totally alien. Animal beauty in visual art exposes a world-to-come that exists within the world as we know it, even if only in fleeting but powerful moments of sight.
These artists reach into a remembered past of multispecies community, and discover, in this memory, the utopian potential of a future based on alternative modes of living together as species in an increasingly precarious world.
Dr Sundhya Walther is a Presidential Academic Fellow in the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on multispecies living in contemporary South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
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