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South Asian Unlearning and Disorganising in Crisis

A Workshop by Oliur Sun and Aziz Sohail

Led by Oliur Sun and Aziz Sohail, this half-day workshop, conceived as a roundtable, invites writers, artists, cultural workers and activists in Bangladesh to come together to hear from and think with each other on collective modes of learning and organising, especially given our current moment of multiple political crises, genocide, and climate breakdown. As relations are re-imagined and communities face duress, what strategies may we adopt? How can learning/unlearning be horizontal? How do we situate rest and care in our current context, with burnout and economic precarity?

Drawing their own contexts, Sun and Aziz will facilitate this conversation, with a view to mapping long-term networks and possibilities for future gathering and organising.



Date: 22 January, 2025

*This is an invitation-only workshop.

Oliur Sun and Aziz Sohail

Aziz Sohail is a Pakistani-passport holding curator and writer whose work builds interdisciplinary connections between art, history, archives, literature, theory, and biography and supports new cultural and pedagogical infrastructures. Their research and resultant projects honour and recognise the power of collectivity, sociability, joy, and wayward encounter and unfold through slowness, collaboration, and tentacularity. They are currently a PhD Candidate in Curatorial Practice at Monash University.

Oliur Sun is a sunyatavadin and multidisciplinary creator whose work unfolds across textual, organisational, and visual forms. Engaged in academic labour at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, they draw on decolonial thought, philosophy, and pedagogy to examine language, power, and collective life. Working at the intersection of cultural production and political imagination, they co-founded a political liberation think tank and a Bangla audiovisual archive of thought, centering queer, intersectional, and collaborative modes of inquiry and care.

About Us

Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures that Drik and Pathshala has initiated. The first Chobi Mela – International Festival of Photography was held in December 2000 – January 2001. It is the most demographically inclusive photo festival in the world and is held every two years in Dhaka.

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