Moderation des Artist Talk mit Ragini Bhow und Poonam Jain, Teil der Reihe "Einführung in das Feld der Transregional Gender and Media Studies", Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, initiiert von Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider.

As part of the programme of the exhibition "Common Ground #3. Where the Circles Intersect", Rebecca John moderated a conversation with the artists Ragini Bhow and Poonam Jain around the topic of “home”. Both artists left their home city Bangalore for their artistic careers, and thereby established new homes – not without being torn between insider and outsider positions. The private space, which also becomes the artist’s studio, is often associated with a gendered, female space.Reflecting upon the situation of female artists in the contemporary Indian context, both artists imagined a future art world where the category “artist” would not be gendered as male by default any more.The temporary home that the two artists inhabited during the time of the exhibition in Berlin-Kreuzberg and their exchange with a variety of locals – those who were born there, those who chose to come and those who had to seek refuge – enriched their perspectives on the meaning of "home".

The artist talk was part of the seminar “Transregional Gender and Media Studies”, organized by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider (Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin).