Goethe Pop Up Festival
In the Terrains of Fear

Group show by Ghartera in Lalmatia, making art accessible. 

By Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo

In this day and age and for a long time now, fear is an emotion that encapsulates us in very much all spheres of our lives. The culture of fear flows from the mighty state, corporations, social institutions to religious establishments. It lives through our homes and all the way down to our individual reality. Fear as we know it today, is beyond a survival instinct. It has also become a tool of oppression, control and manipulation - a weapon of the hegemonic bloc. As a result, the emotion itself is as prominent as many of our identities.
 

The second show of Ghartera invited to express, explore and navigate through the nature of fear. We were looking for work in any language or medium that interprets your ideas in relation to fear. How you face and deal with it; or how you may have overcome and triumphed over it.
  Eventually, in the process of scrutinizing the aspects of fear itself we hope to communicate the argument of the personal, the political and all that lies in between.
"The traditional gallery space often intimidates audiences with its rules that set who the viewer can be or can't be. But we believe that art should be interactive and that it is for everybody," says Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, one of the curators of Ghartera.  "Stepping away from the standards of high art, we intend on making art more interactive and accessible with our collaborative approach giving voice to anyone to use art as a tool to express themselves in the pursuit of creativity. This year's edition focuses on breaking the fear of those normative practices."