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DESCRIPTION:Performance by Alok Vaid-MenonOn Saturday November 11 at 4 pm\,
  as part of our public festival\, Lahore on my Mind\, join performance art
 ist Alok Vaid-Menon in our Gallery for a performance intervention.Lahore o
 n my Mind is a public festival\, curated by art historian Sugata Ray\, tha
 t moves between the past and the present to explore the early modern\, col
 onial\, and contemporary cultural worlds of South Asia. Featuring artist i
 nterventions and discussions with thinkers\, curators\, and artists from t
 he United States\, Europe\, and South Asia. This interdisciplinary event t
 akes John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London as a st
 arting point to reflect on the role of visual arts\, performative practice
 s\, and literary cultures in shaping South Asia’s aesthetics\, arts\, and 
 cultural politics in a globalized world.Leading support for Public Program
 s at Bard Graduate Center comes from Gregory Soros and other generous dono
 rs.Image caption: Photograph from the Macnabb Collection of a street scene
  in Lahore\, taken by an unknown photographer\, most likely during the 189
 0s.Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is a gender non-conforming performance arti
 st\, writer\, educator\, and entertainer. Their eclectic sense of style\, 
 political comedy\, and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been int
 ernationally renowned. Alok was recently the youngest recipient of the pre
 stigious Live Works Performance Act Award granted to ten performance artis
 ts across the world. They have been featured on HBO\, MTV\, The Guardian\,
  National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and The New Yorker and have pr
 esented their work at 300 venues in more than 30 countries.Thursday\, Nove
 mber 918 West 86th Street7 pm: Meena Alexander Poetry ReadingMeena Alexand
 er is an internationally acclaimed poet who was born in Allahabad\, India 
 and lives and works in New York City.Friday\, November 1038 West 86th Stre
 et 7 pm: OpeningsRichard Davis\, Associate Professor of Religion\, Bard Co
 llegeShahzia Sikander\, visual artistSadia Abbas\, Associate Professor\, D
 epartment of English\, Rutgers-NewarkSaturday\, November 1118 West 86th St
 reet12 pm: Empire\, Post-Empire\, Neo-EmpireRisha Lee\, Independent Curato
 r and ScholarGyan Prakash\, Professor of History\, Princeton UniversityMee
 na Alexander\, poet\, scholar\, and writerSabrina Dhawan\, screenwriter an
 d producer2 pm: Outside Kipling’s Wonder HouseTasneem Zakaria Mehta\, Hono
 rary Director\, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum\, Mumbai\, IndiaNadeem Omar Tarar\
 , Director\, National College of Arts\, Lahore\, PakistanNavina Najat Haid
 ar\, Curator of Islamic Art\, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtFREE with an R
 SVP18 West 86th Street4 pm: Interventions in the Gallery: Alok Vaid-MenonA
 lok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming performance artist\, writer\, ed
 ucator\, and entertainer.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Lahore on My Mind
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