Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta, Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on Capital Art Studio in Zanzibar

Abstract

Abstract: Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta talks with her hosts Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on her latest project “From Indian Ocean to African Indian: Through the refracted lens of Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar”

People & roles

Guest(s): Gupta, Pamila; Fendler, Ute; Vierke, Clarissa

Origins & context

Title: Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta, Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on Capital Art Studio in Zanzibar
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: July 17, 2023

Rights & access

Extent: 32 minutes, 19 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-9-new/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 9

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Cluster Conversations. My name is Clarissa Fierke. I am the spokesperson of the research section Arts and Aesthetics and professor in African Language Literature at University of Bayreuth. And today I'm here with my colleague Ute Fendler, as well as our guest Pamela Gupta. And yeah, probably I should give you the chance first to introduce yourself properly. Speaker 2: Yeah, hello, my name is Ute Fendler. I am a professor in Romance and Comparative Literatures and Cultural Studies. And I'm very pleased to be here today in conversation with Pamela Gupta. Speaker 3: Okay, and my name is Pamela and I'm a research professor based at the University of Free State in South Africa. I was formerly at Wiser, which is a research institute based at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. And it's really especially lovely to be here today because we first met, I think the three of us, in 2019 in Lisbon for a wonderful workshop. And then of course things took an abrupt turn. And so it's nice to finally be here in person and having a conversation with you on a fellowship for three months, May through July, working on a new exciting project on Zanzibar. Speaker 2: Tell us more about the exciting project on Zanzibar. Speaker 3: Of course. I think it's exciting. I hope it's exciting. So it's been a sort of long durée project where I have started with a colleague based in South Africa who's now based in Australia, Meg Samuelson. The two of us went to Zanzibar first in 2012 and subsequent visits were 2015 and 2018. And we got interested in looking at the history of a photography studio. And what's amazing about it is that its history goes from dates from 1930 until the present, run by a Gujarati father and son, Ranshad and Rohit Oza, who created a really sort of an amazing archive of works that documented everyday life in Zanzibar, as well as being commissioned… Read the full text about 5,816 words