The Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and the Visual Arts Division at the University of Pretoria present  ‘Unhoused Memories’ at the Javett-UP – a creative collaboration between acclaimed poet Sudeep Sen (India) and visual artist Johan Thom (South Africa).

Please join us for an afternoon of readings, short-film screenings, live-art, discussion & book-signing.

Venue: The Javett-UP Auditorium
Date: Thursday 11 May 2023
Time: 14:30-15:30

For this talk Sudeep Sen, the globally-acclaimed author, will read poems from his latest book, Anthropocene (Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize winner) and his two books-in-progress, The Whispering Anklets and Red. Sen is currently the international fellow & writer / artist-in-residence at the Nirox Foundation in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind. [www.sudeepsen.org]

Johan Thom is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Fine Art, School of the Arts, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria. Thom holds a PhD in Fine Arts from The Slade School of Fine Arts (UCL) on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Thom works across a variety of media including sculpture, video, performance, drawing, printmaking and photography and has exhibited extensively – both locally and globally.
[https://johanthom.com/]

Thom and Sen are currently collaborating on producing creative responses to each others’ works through the use of text, video, recorded sound and live performance.  

Javett-UP Auditorium, Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 2:30pm
RSVP: Email: connect@javettup.com or bookings@javettup.com | Telephone: +27 (0)12 420 3960