Colomboscope: Rio Complex

Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/01/2019 - 31/01/2019
10:00 am - 8:30 pm

Location
Rio Cinema

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The sixth edition of interdisciplinary arts festival Colomboscope will be held at different historical venues and cultural spaces in Colombo. The festival will be held at the Rio Complex, Colombo 02, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo 04, B52- Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo 01.

Over thirty intergenerational local and international visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and scientific experts will participate in SEA CHANGE; evoking stories of maritime history, delving into oceanic ecology and shipping infrastructure.

Colomboscope 2019 artists:
Abdul Halik Azeez / Amaara Raheem / Anoli Perera / Armin Linke / Catharina Danial / Cooking Sections / Cresside Collette / Dominic Sansoni / Fabienne Francotte / Fazal Rizvi / Filipa César & Louis Henderson / Firi Rahman / Francis Joseph Hemashironi / Hania Luthufi / Henry Tan & Partners / Hira Nabi / Isuru Kumarasinghe / Jack Beng-Thi / Jasmine Nilani Joseph / Layla Gonaduwa / Luka Alagiyawanna / Mahen Perera / Mayantha Perera / Mika Tennekoon & Yanik Tissera / Molla Sagar / Muhanned Cader / Prasad Hettiarachchi / Pradeep Thalawatta / Raqs Media Collective / Robin Meier / Ranjit Kandalgoankar / Shadman Shahid / Sissel Tolaas / The Many Headed Hydra / Venuri Perera

Curated by Natasha Ginwala

Presented By EUNIC and Festival Works with several partner organizations. Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, British Council Sri Lanka, Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo, Australian High Commission, European Delegation, Gujral Foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Pro Helvetia New Delhi – Swiss Arts Council, Acción Cultural Española AC/E, Bengal Foundation, German Embassy Colombo, Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and Maldives, Embassy of Spain in Delhi, Theertha Artists Collective, Barefoot Gallery Blue Resources Trust, Anim8.lk, Wijeya Newspapers Ltd, Daily ARTRA, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colomboscope would specially like to thank festival patrons Feroze and Mohit Gujral, Amrita Jhaveri, Moiz Zilberman and those patrons who wish to stay anonymous.

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