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.

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

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 26, 2021
10 min

9/11 Memorial

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.

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

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 13, 2021
6 min

9/11 Memorial

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 6, 2021
3 min

General Art

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.

Five Pioneering Site-Specific Artists you should know

Pritika Chowdhry

Nov 6, 2021
3 min

General Art

Five Pioneering Site-Specific Artists you should know

Site-specific art as a movement

Pritika Chowdhry

Oct 31, 2021
3 min

Text-based Art

What is the Shadow Pandemic?

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

Anti-Memorial to the Sikh Pogrom of 1984

Pritika Chowdhry

Oct 30, 2021
2 min

Partition Anti-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

9/11 Memorial

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.

Pritika Chowdhry

Aug 10, 2021
9 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

Partition of India and Monuments

Anti-memorial triangulates monuments in India-Pakistan-Bangladesh, commemorates 1947 Partition of India and 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jul 14, 2021
1 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

What is Counter-Memory?

A succinct explanation of the term, Counter-Memory.

Pritika Chowdhry

Jul 14, 2021
2 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

What is an Anti-Memorial?

A succinct explanation of anti-memorials by Pritika Chowdhry.

An Epiphany: Anti-memorials and Counter-memory

Pritika Chowdhry

Jun 30, 2021
2 min

Welcome

An Epiphany: Anti-memorials and Counter-memory

I had an epiphany that for the last at least 15 years or more, my work has really been about counter-memory, and that I make anti-memorials!

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Graves

Pritika Chowdhry

Mar 25, 2021
5 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Graves

This drawings-based installation is an anti-memorial to the thousands of mass graves found after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Pritika Chowdhry

Feb 27, 2021
15 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

Partition of India and Communal Riots

Memory Leaks anti-memorial creates a timeline of the periodic eruptions of Hindu-Muslim communal riots since the Partition of India, 1947.

Partition of India and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919

Pritika Chowdhry

Jan 13, 2019
15 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

Partition of India and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919

Connections between Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919 with the Partition of India in 1947 and other significant international events of 1919

Pritika Chowdhry

Aug 1, 2008
4 min

Partition Anti-Memorial Project

Partition Anti-Memorial Art Project FAQ

The Partition Memorial Project memorializes the partitions of India in 1947 and 1971.