Art Murmur x #SupportLocalArt Talk: What We Do With Other People: The Packet Collective from Saskia Fernando Gallery on Vimeo.
Art South Asia Project (ASAP) have partnered with #SupportLocalArt to host a summer series of Art Murmur’s dedicated to the field of modern and contemporary Sri Lankan art. As the final talk of this summer series, What We Do With Other People: The Packet Collective, two members of The Packet Collective, Imaad Majeed and Tashyana Handy will be in conversation, with Mala Yamey, Head of Programs at ASAP.
Made up of a group of art workers from Sri Lanka, The Packet seeks to make work located in the playful and the intimate in response to a stratified and exclusionary world. The Packet began in 2019 with a community of artists and friends meeting in an apartment in Colombo. What emerged was a collaboration on a deconstructed art book, and has since evolved into a larger group practice. Instead of “speaking at” or “speaking to”, we’ve been asking what it means to “speak from” and what it looks like to do thinking in public. We adopt a model of collective study that is encompassed by, to paraphrase Fred Moten, “what we do with other people”, with a particular focus on hyper-locality, collaborative processes and conversation.
#SupportLocalArt: The Talk Series is an initiative organised by Saskia Fernando Gallery to create a much needed platform for conversation on the developments of the Sri Lankan art industry.
ASAP "Art Murmur" hosts artists, academics and art professionals from all around the world to discuss topics and issues faced in the field of modern and contemporary South Asian art.
This program is supported by Faizal & Shabana Foundation.