COVER STORY –Nahaly Nafisa Khan Uronto Artist Community was formed at a time when contemporary art was gradually losing connection with the masses in the country. Artists from different backgrounds were not collaborating, and many of their works were being colonised by the western ways,......
Written by- Tanvir Alim. An Art Exchange Program Like Never Before | daily sun- It was a long journey by bus and when we reached the destination, it was dark all around. She came with a torch with two other young men after a while......
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Developed by artist Sadya Mizan, Uronto Artist Community was formed in 2012. We created an unique artist residency programme, Uronto Residential Art Exchange Programme, which has created an alternative platform for site specific interventions, engaging with old, abandoned, or soon to be demolished spaces. Operating as a......
-Culture Desk, Daily Observer The term “site-specific art” is still quite controversial because there is dissention as to whether it applies to work made specifically for a site or to work made in response to and while encountering a site. Or is the term applicable......
Recreating memories of PK Sen building through art -Abida Rahman Chowdhury (The Daily Star) he July sun sparkled and reflected from the rows of tin-shed roofs that the almost hundred year old PK Sen building looked out upon. The little known, Prashanna Kumar Sen building......
-by Urukku Team from Banik Barta, 2016. http://ebonikbarta.com/index.php?viewdate=2016-09-24...
– Depart 18th Issue In the 4th episode of the URONTO residential art exchange program, artists from varied disciplines and nations came together in a common space to interpret, re-construct, re-imagine, and resurrect the communal history of Lakhotia Zamindar House. Locally called the Babur Bari,......
Young & Independent is a weekly newspaper under The Indipendent Newspaper in Bangladesh....
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-Lotte Hoek (research Blog) The developer is a fearful character in the popular tales and public rumours of contemporary Bangladesh. From unscrupulous dealings to inhumane displacements, the figure of the developer is part-gangster film, part- personal despair. As tall structures continue to go up in......
-Sadma Malik, Dhaka Tribune. The “Uronto” residential art exchange programme is a meeting place for creative personalities to work with a common theme and space. The multi-disciplinary visual artists, photographers, writers, musicians and performing artists travel throughout Bangladesh, where our rich heritage is situated. The......
A site-specific workshop by Uronto – Depart 14/15 Issue The nomenclature ‘Uronto’ is derived from a Bangla word which denotes ‘flight’, but as a platform for people given to social concerns and artistic proclivities the newly-formed organization stands for an idea framed around their attempt......
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