"MISCEGENATION NATION" Or the Dream Logics of Racial History in Hardeep Pandahl's Art

ZAHID R. CHAUDHARY, Associate Professor at Princeton University, Department of English.

This lecture takes up the work of contemporary artist, Hardeep Pandhal. His artworks investigate the significance of Punjabi traditions in the context of South Asian disaporic experiences in Britain. Working across animation, installations, cut outs, and drawings, Pandhal’s work explores the reinvention of tradition in light of racial diasporic histories, destructive internet cultures, and immigrant nostalgia.

This lecture is organized by the Postcolonial Collective at UGA funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Ballew Lecture Series.