Global Art Forum 11: March Programme

William Dalrymple is a writer and historian.

Interests include the history and art of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, the Muslim world, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early Eastern Christianity. His latest book is The Anarchy: India Between Empires 1739-1803. Other titles include From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East; Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India; and Return of a King: The Battle of Afghanistan.

Dalrymple is also co-founder and co-director of the annual Jaipur Literary Festival. @DalrympleWill ROUTE! : Invisible Infrastructures The Silk Road is one of the most famous trade routes in history. Its coverage was also immense in scale and complex in shape. Trade vectors over very large distances become imaginative ideas in their own right, figures of speech or thought. Artists Slavs and Tatars and Trevor Paglen present the linguistic and informational dimensions of planetary trade routes. They are joined by William Dalrymple and Shumon Basar for discussion.

The artist collective Slavs and Tatars was founded in 2006. A mid-career survey of their work, commissioned by CCA Ujazdowski, Warsaw will travel to the Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Salt, Istanbul; CAC Vilnius; MOCA, Belgrade; and Albertinum, Dresden through early 2018. @slavsandtatars Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. @trevorpaglen $OLD! PACK! $â‚ŹND! Iftikhar Dadi presents his episode of Art Trade Tales, a series of short stories describing the travels of significant artworks through histories of sales, storage, ownership and more.

As an artist, Iftikhar Dadi has collaborated with Elizabeth Dadi for 20 years. Their work is frequently realised in large-scale installations and