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Welcome to my blog!

In this blog, I will be sharing my thoughts on counter-memory discourses and anti-memorials as a form of visual art practice.

I write about the traumatic geopolitical events that I memorialize in my art projects, and what about these events stirred me to make anti-memorials to them.

I also hope to post passages from books that I am currently reading from James E Young, Michele Foucault, Judith Butler, Andreas Huyssen, and other authors whose writings inform my art practice.

Pritika Chowdhry

May 4
3 min

Remembering Survivors on the Anniversary of the Third Anglo-Afghan War

Pritika Chowdhry. "An Archive of 1919." Enameled spittoon. While researching “An Archive of 1919,” I came across the Third Anglo-Afghan...

Pritika Chowdhry

Apr 13
4 min

Connecting Revolutions on the Anniversaries of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and Ireland’s Partition

I highlight the alliance between Ireland and India through a text I discovered while researching the installation "An Archive of 1919."...

Pritika Chowdhry

Mar 23
3 min

Broken Column: Art Show International Exhibition

Broken Column: The Monuments of Forgetting Online Exhibition Art Show International Los Angeles In “Broken Column: The Monuments of...

Pritika Chowdhry

Mar 23
4 min

Independence Day of Bangladesh and the Art of Memory

Independence Day of Bangladesh and the Art of Memory On March 26th, 1971, Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan. The war...

Pritika Chowdhry

Feb 25
7 min

20 years after Godhra Train Burning, the Gujarat Pogrom, and Specters of the Partition

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the infamous Gujarat riots of February-March 2002, subsequently termed the Gujarat Pogrom. This...

Pritika Chowdhry

Feb 23
6 min

2020 Delhi Riots, Citizenship Amendment Act Protesters, and Echoes of the Partition Violence

2020 Delhi Riots, Citizenship Amendment Act Protesters, and Echoes of the Partition Violence

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 31
5 min

Partition Memorial Project

Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and the RSS connection

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948 by Nathuram Godse of RSS. Today is the 74th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 28
5 min

Partition Memorial Project

The Pakistan Declaration: January 28 and the Pakistan National Movement

On January 28th, 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali published The Pakistan Declaration that sparked off the Pakistan National Movement.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 26
5 min

Partition Memorial Project

The Purna Swaraj: January 26 and the Declaration of the Independence of India

Republic Day in India honors the call for Purna Swaraj in 1930 and adoption of the Constitution of free India in 1950, both on January 26.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 15
38 min

Partition Memorial Project

“Subaltern” Remembrances Mapping Affective Approaches to Partition Memory

Scholarly published review by Dr. Jacque Micieli Voutsinas about one of Pritika Chowdhry's anti-memorials in her Partition Memorial Project.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 11
4 min

Partition Memorial Project

Irish Declaration of Independence: January 21, 1919

The historic Irish Declaration of Independence was made on January 21, 1919, more than a century ago.

Pritika Chowdhry

Dec 17, 2021
0 min

Nirbhaya Project

Remembering Nirbhaya, and a tribute to her mother, Asha Devi

As December 16th approaches, I am remembering Nirbhaya. This is a tribute post to Nirbhaya and her mother, Asha Devi.

Pritika Chowdhry

Dec 16, 2021
3 min

Partition Memorial Project

Remembering the "Birangona": the Spectral Wound of the Bangladesh War of 1971

Remembering the Birangona: the Spectral Wound of the Bangladesh War of 1971

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 26, 2021
10 min

India's 9/11: Memorializing 26/11 terror attack on the 13th anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks

Memorializing 26/11 dubbed "India's 9/11," situating it as a global node in the 9/11-style attacks in Madrid, Paris, and London, post-9/11.

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 13, 2021
6 min

Memorializing 13/11 Paris bombings on the sixth anniversary of the Paris terrorist attack

In remembering the Paris bombings of November 13, 2015, I revisit the question - is 13/11 the 9/11 of Paris?

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 7, 2021
3 min

7 Books by Judith Butler we must read

List of seven books by Judith Butler, with a quick conceptual summary that will be useful for a variety of readers.

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 6, 2021
3 min

Five Pioneering Site-Specific Artists you should know

Site-specific art as a movement

Pritika Chowdhry

Oct 31, 2021
3 min

What is the Shadow Pandemic?

Endlessly, an anti-memorial to the Shadow Pandemic, by Pritika Chowdhry

Pritika Chowdhry

Oct 30, 2021
2 min

Partition Memorial Project

Anti-Memorial to the Sikh Pogrom of 1984

Communal riots have been a brutal reality in India since the Partition of 1947, and still seem to occur with regularity in various parts...

Pritika Chowdhry

Sep 11, 2021
2 min

An Anti-Memorial to 9/11 on the 20th anniversary of 9/11

Interview with Pritika Chowdhry about 9/11 and her anti-memorial, Ungrievable Lives: Ghosts of 9/11.