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Nukta - An art publication
from Pakistan
Launch on Saturday 14th May 2005 at 5.30 pm
At Amin Gulgee's Gallery
Street 2 A, Block 3,Clifton, Karachi. (Pakistan)
Adjacent to South City Hospital.
As Pakistan’s art comes of age it not only needs a voice in print to
discuss and inform but also to look at it critically and view it in a global
context. Nukta
art publication hopes to contribute to this discourse in a modest way. From
provocative debates and insightful interviews to exclusive news
Nukta
will focus on pertinent issues of art in our time.
Nukta is the endeavour of three writers and a designer who
have been linked with the arts of Pakistan for some time. This art
publication with a global perspective also finds itself firmly rooted in the
creative terrain of Pakistan.
As the country's art comes of age, it not only needs a voice in print to
discuss and inform but also to look at it critically and view it in a global
context. This publication will place Art at its core and offer an
opportunity to art critics, art historians and artists to examine, debate
and contextualize the many dimensions of this field. Related disciplines
like archaeology, architecture, design, performing arts and film have also
been included in the discourse.
Working without any specific model in mind Nukta is guided by vital issues
of the time. From biennials to gallery news, publication and events, the
Art@Nukta section will keep the reader
abreast with art happenings at home and around the world. One of Nukta's
priorities is to discuss the shared art history of the region. We have
invited writers from
Nepal and Bangladesh to spotlight new facets of the life and work of
Chughtai and Zainul Abedin, the two significant South Asian Masters. The
creative dynamics of the city have been explored in four separate articles
'The Iconography of a City Under Siege' investigates Karachi's visual
schizophrenia, and Street Theatre is examined as a tool of social change in
'Awareness and Dissent- Performance in the By-lanes'. Intervention in the
urban space by artists like Christo and eminent architects around the world
add to the exploration of this theme.
An inclusion of voices from outside the dominant art discourse, come from
Brazil and Lithuania. Eminent art critics from these countries, bring to the
Nukta reader their struggle to overcome the challenges presented by history
and geographical location.
With insightful interviews, essays and book reviews, Nukta will draw its
readers into a stimulating dialogue around art. This engagement will
hopefully be a modest step in the direction of a positive change in the way
art is viewed, recognized and documented in
Pakistan and provide a wider view of art from Pakistan to its international
readers.
The name Nukta has been carefully selected. In Urdu it means 'the point' or
the rhombus- shaped basic unit of the Arabic script used to calibrate the
proportions of
the entire alphabet. Nukta not only has this ability to expand from the
elemental to the universal but it also resonates with the intellectual
traditions of South Asia.
Editor: Niilofur Farrukh
Senior Editors: Rumana Husain and Amra Ali
Magazine Design: Sabiha Mohammed
For details contact: nuktaart@yahoo.com
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