Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent Edited by Juginder Lamba and Amal Ghosh 2001 Series ISSN 1740-3103 Soft Cover ISBN 1872843212 | Soft cover | 277mm [h] x 210mm [w] ISBN-13 9781872843216 288 UK Price GBP 24.95 Overseas Surface GBP 29.95 approx Shipping weight 1450g approx Published by Saffron Books Distributed by Saffron Distribution

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About Beyond Frontiers

Beyond Frontiers marks the first ever attempt to survey the work of contemporary British artists whose ancestral roots lie in the countries and cultures of South Asia. For some, their links with the Subcontinent remain present and immediate; for others, they are a barely perceptible trace, filtered through generations of exile and migration. Beyond Frontiers marks the first ever attempt to survey the work of contemporary British artists whose ancestral roots lie in the countries and cultures of South Asia. For some, their links with the Subcontinent remain present and immediate; for others, they are a barely perceptible trace, filtered through generations of exile and migration Always lively, often provocative and lavishly illustrated, the book contains a heady mix of scholarly essays, interviews, artists' texts and specially commissioned works. It aims, once and for all, to unsettle pat assumptions about the meaning and significance of ethnic origin to artists' contribution to contemporary culture and experience. There are as many different voices here, as many different approaches to art and culture as there are contributions to the book Artists of three generations join eminent critics, cultural theorists and art historians to explore visual art now, against a backdrop of the centuries-old intertwining of East and West that informs many of the most vibrant manifestations of British and European contemporary culture.

Table of Contents

• introduction • 9
• preface • 11
• walking in crusoe’s footsteps: margins and mainstreams in critical theory | TANIA V GUHA • 14
• artist’s pages and a poem | nilofar akmut • 25
  indian artists and the raj: westernisation and nationalism (1850–1947) | partha mittEr • 30
• to kill two birds with one stone | SUTAPA BISWAS • 44
• artist’s pages | chila kumari burmaN • 51
• chila kumari burman | sonali fernando • 57
• freedom and restriction nothing is far away, everything is near ... | JAGJIT CHUHAN • 64
• artist’s pages | mohini chandra • 69
• mohini chandra: travels in a new world | ELIZABETH EDWARDS • 71
• the transcending vision: another story | AMAL GHOSH • 74
• face to face: an interview with zarina bhimji | TANIA V GUHA • 90
• artist’s pages | nina edge • 103
• ukasian: nina edge | John Brady • 105
• hair of the dog? | SONALI FERNANDO • 108
• artists’ pages | keith khan & ali zaidi • 126
• (looking backward) looking forward | Keith Khan • 133
• artist’s pages | amal ghosh • 137
• part of the universal story | Amal Ghosh • 141
• artist’s pages | BALRAJ KHANNA • 145
• artist’s pages | pervaiz khan • 148
• virtual visions | PERVAIZ KHAN • 151
• towards reaching kundalini | Manjeet Lamba • 154
• i carry my village with me | prafulla mohanti • 159
• going native: revisited | Shaheen Merali • 169
• mirror, mirror on the wall ... | jacques rangasamy • 174
• challenging the passive venus | USHA PARMAR • 188
• a link with tradition | ANU PATEL • 192
• the autobahn | SUTAPA BISWAS • 198
• the patterns of culture i currently wear | GURMINDER SIKAND • 214
• interactive moving images | Symrath Patti • 218
• can someone translate? i want to speak | Veena Stephenson • 222
• projections of authenticity | journeys through identity, diaspora and
• british south asian film | IAN IQBAL RASHID • 226
• the restless search | Shanti Thomas • 238
• humanoid | Ibrahim Wagh • 242
• here and now 1 | amal ghosh in conversation | sajid rizvi • 246
• here and now 2 | juginder lamba in conversation | Sajid Rizvi • 254
• afterword | AMAL GHOSH & JUGINDER LAMBA • 259
• contributors • 263
• bibliography • 267
• index • 275

Series Editor's Note

The appearance of Beyond Frontiers coincides with the launch of Saffron Books’ Asian Art and Society Series, running in tandem with our African Art and Society Series, and the development of a Web-based archive, Making Waves.

Essentially the website’s role is to pick up from where Beyond Frontiers rests its discourse on the art of British artists of South Asian descent. The purpose of Making Waves is also to draw attention to the work of lesser known, and younger, European artists of South Asian descent and to facilitate the publication of new material about these artists in other forms, ie in print and new media.

Making Waves takes our diasporic studies beyond the remit of an ongoing project, 101 Diasporas, which is focused on British Asian artists of Chinese descent and has been funded by the Arts Council of England.

Beyond Frontiers is the result of a huge amount of work conducted over several years by its editors and publishers. After the first drafts were submitted to Saffron Books, extensive changes in content and appearance became necessary not only to update the publication but also to enhance its appeal. It has not been possible to cover all recent developments on the South Asian art scene in Britain; that task has been passed on to Making Waves, which is accessible at www.eapgroup.com.

This publication would not have been possible without financial assistance from the Arts Council of England and the interest demonstrated by its officers in the project. It would not have been presented in this form without critical help with the various processes prior to production from several of our colleagues, chief among them Shirley Rizvi, for her invaluable editorial input, and Asad Rizvi for his technical expertise. Our thanks also go to Charles Gregory Jensen and Jennifer Campbell for their wholly voluntary help with the publication.

Sajid Rizvi, Series Editor

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