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Artist talk with Paromita Vohra

April 6, 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Artist talk with Paromita Vohra

Time:  6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Barnard College, Diana LL-104, 3009 Broadway, entrance at 118th Street

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Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer who works with a range of forms, including film, comics, digital media, installation art and writing to explore themes of feminism, desire, sexuality and popular culture. In 2013 Time Out Mumbai listed her as one of 10 artists who changed the way Indians watch films. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Welcome Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art, broadcast internationally and is taught in universities worldwide. In 2015 she founded Agents of Ishq, an award-winning digital platform which transformed conversations on sex, love and desire for young Indians. She is currently its Creative Director.

Her films as director include the documentaries Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where's Sandra? and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahanai, among others and a series of short musical films including The Amorous Adventurs of Megha and Shakku in the Valley of Consent. She has written the fiction feature Khamosh Pani, the documentaries Skin Deep, Stuntmen of Bollywood, and If You Pause, the play Ishquiva: Dharavi Ishtyle and the comic Priya's Mirror. Her fiction and non-fiction are widely published and she writes a weekly newspaper column, Paro-normal Activity in Sunday Mid-day.

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