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SBS Spice Conflictorium: Holding Space for DissentConflict is found in every corner of our world and within, yet lingers silently as many refuse to acknowledge it. 'Conflictorium' aims to instead shed light on dissent, inviting viewers from all works of life to consider how they wrestle with the ideas and experiences that challenge them. Founded in 2013, the participatory museum has already been housed twice in India but has now made its way to Australia for Sydney Festival 2026. Artistic Director YSK Prerana and Project Associate Gargi Verma unpack the sensory installation, spice dabbas and the power of reflection with Suhayla Sharif. Listen now, only on SBS Spice.

2026-01-2223 min

The Gyaan Project Conflictorium with Avni SethiToday’s guest has been dealing with conflicts for some time now. Pleasure to have Avni Sethi with us on Audiogyan. Avni is a interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concern lying between culture, memory, space and the body. She conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium about which we’ll be diving deep as a case study. Her interests lies in exploring the relationship between intimate audiences and the performing body.QuestionsWhat does conflict mean to you? Where do conflicts come from? Aren’t those inherent? Is there something called a s a good conflict to hav...

2022-11-0949 min

Architecture Off-Centre On Building a Museum of Conflict / Avni SethiOn a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I drove eastwards to the old city of Ahmedabad to interview Avni Sethi at the Conflictorium, a museum of conflict housed in a 100-something year old building. We talked about her being a cultural practitioner, who foregrounds the issues of caste, violence and oppression in a city with a painful history of riots. We also discussed their exhibits, ongoing thematic inquiries, the function of repetition in public dissent and the potential of museums in being institutions for dialogue, reconciliation and reaching closure. Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary practitioner with...

2022-06-1632 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Eriola PiraThis conversation was recorded on 24nd October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Eriola Pira and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Eriola Pira is the Curator at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Most recently, as Director of Programs, Pira led Art in General's international collaborations, residencies, public events, and fellowship programs building on her professional networks and experiences as Program Director and Curator at the artist-founded NA...

2021-10-251h 02

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Jennifer TiptonThis conversation was recorded on 22nd October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Jennifer Tipton and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her lighting for theater, opera and dance. Her recent work in theater includes TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD for Broadway and Beckett’s FIRST LOVE for ZOOM . Her recent work in opera includes Ricky Ian Gordon’s INTIMATE APPAREL with libretto by Lyn...

2021-10-2348 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Tamara Oyola SantiagoThis conversation was recorded on 14th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Tamara Oyola Santiago and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Tamara Oyola Santiago Co-Director at the Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM). She is a public health educator and activist who specializes in harm reduction. After earning graduate degrees in Public Health and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Tamara joined the National In...

2021-10-2250 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Paloma McGregorThis conversation was recorded on 20th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Paloma McGregor and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Paloma McGregor (Director, Angelas’s Pulse) is a Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer who makes Black work with Black folks for Black space. A former newspaper reporter, she combines a choreographer’s craft, journalist’s urgency and anti-racist organizer’s framework to activate creative communities and shepherd collaborative visioning. Working at...

2021-10-211h 03

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Kemi IlesanmiThis conversation was recorded on 20th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Kemi Ilesanmi and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Kemi Ilesanmi is Executive Director of The Laundromat Project, which advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. She is inspired by the immense possibilities for joyful justice at the intersection of arts and community. She has previously worked at Creative Capital Foundation and Walker Ar...

2021-10-2145 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Radhika SubramaniamThis conversation was recorded on 19th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Radhika Subramaniam and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice, interested in the poetics and politics of crises and surprises, particularly urban crowds, walking, cultures of catastrophe and human-animal relationships. She is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School where she was...

2021-10-2056 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Emily JohnsonThis conversation was recorded on 18th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Emily Johnson and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being. Emily is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim and United States Artists Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award. She is based in Le...

2021-10-191h 00

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Robert SemberThis conversation was recorded on 17th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Robert Sember and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Robert Sember works at the intersection of art and public health. He is a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, which helped establish Vogue’ology, an initiative by and for members of the African-American and Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in New York City. His et...

2021-10-1859 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Manan AhmedThis conversation was recorded on 14th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Manan Ahmed and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Manan Ahmed is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives cr...

2021-10-181h 03

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Shannon MatternThis conversation was recorded on 13th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Shannon Mattern and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Shannon Mattern is a Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Ma...

2021-10-1455 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Shaun LeonardoThis conversation was recorded on 11th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Shaun Leonardo and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Shaun Leonardo’s performance practice, anchored by his work in Assembly—a diversion program for court-involved youth at the Brooklyn-based, arts nonprofit Recess—is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment. Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. His work has been featured at The Gugg...

2021-10-1251 min

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In conversation with Hrag VartanianThis conversation was recorded on 10th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Hrag Vartanian and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. The editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an art critic, curator, artist, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics. To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/ To know mor...

2021-10-111h 14

Owed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the Conflictorium In Conversation with Carin KuoniThis conversation was recorded on 9th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Carin Kuoni and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. Carin Kuoni is a curator, writer, and arts administrator whose work examines how contemporary artistic practices reflect and inform social, political, and cultural conditions. She is the Senior Director and Chief Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and Assistant Professor of Visual...

2021-10-101h 08

eShe Avni Sethi, Founder of Conflictorium Museum, on Democracy and Conflict ResolutionThrough art, dance and her Conflictorium Museum in Ahmedabad, interdisciplinary artist Avni Sethi has created a space to bring up difficult subjects of conflict, violence and democracy. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://eshe.in/2021/02/15/avni-sethi/

2021-02-2305 min