The Jameel Library Reading Groups return with Reading the Street: Voice, Aesthetics, and Meaning Across Regions, led by Priyanka Mehra. This three-part program approaches the street as a medium, a surface of inscription and a living archive.
The series will compare how urban surfaces operate across Australia, India and West Asia under distinct cultural, legal and historical frameworks. Through pre-circulated readings and visual analysis, participants will explore how streets speak, who is allowed to speak through them and what narratives are silenced or absorbed.
To learn more about each session, please follow the links below:
Reading groups are free and open to all. Registration is required, as space is limited. Registered participants are expected to commit to all sessions, complete the reading material and contribute to a respectful and open discursive environment.
About Priyanka Mehra
Priyanka Mehra is a curator and cultural producer whose practice explores site-specificity and the street as both medium and subject, navigating the intersections of public art, institutions and urban space. She has worked across India, the UAE and KSA and served as the Exhibitions Manager and Programmes Curator at Ishara Art Foundation apart from working on large-scale public art interventions. Based in Dubai, her interdisciplinary research and curatorial practice examines the public sphere through the lens of the Global South.
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