TrAIN

Guest Speaker - Open Lecture

Rasheed Araeen is a major international artist, whose works are held in numerous major museum collections. He was curator of the landmark exhibition, The Other Story, hosted by Hayward Gallery, London, England, and The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England.
He is founder and Editor of Third Text which is an international scholarly journal providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. It examines the theoretical and historical ground by which the West legitimises its position as the ultimate arbiter of what is significant within this field.

Third Text provides a forum for the discussion and reappraisal of the theory and practice of art, art history and criticism, and the work of artists hitherto marginalised through racial, gender, religious and cultural differences. Dealing with the diversity of art practice within the visual arts. Third Text addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different world views meet, and the challenge this poses to eurocentric and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria. Third Text develops new discourses and radical interdisciplinary scholarships that go beyond the confines of eurocentricity.