Dhaka Live Art Biennale is a bi-annual Live Art event that took place recently in Dhaka. The event quite gracefully ensured international exposure, impacting national art, culture and economy.
Dhaka Live Art Biennale launched in 2017 by the non-profit art initiative BACK Art Foundation. It is an international and public platform where gap between art and public narrows down as the body itself was used as means of art. In 2019, the second edition of D’LAB was organized to the audience 28 international artists from 26 countries along with local artists and artisans from Bangladesh totaling up to more than a hundred artists in one platform. This year, the theme of D’LAB 2019 was “Performing Tradition and Text”.
The event had 8 educational workshops by international and local art practitioners and experts. The D’LAB Inauguration Ceremony was held on the 31st of January in the premises of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Charukola) of the University of Dhaka.
“The event hosted an amalgamation of artistic thoughts from countries like, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, USA, UK, Vietnam”
D’LAB exhibition (31st Jan – 14th Feb) that was held in the Zainul Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the courtyard of Edge Gallery with national and international Live Art presentations from the 1st to the 5th of February. The 6th of Feb hosted a completely local, traditional and extraordinary viewpoint of Live Art with live presentations of traditional practices such as gajir poter gaan, saap khela, behular bhashan, circus, putul nach and so on by local artisans.
Another 4 day-long workshop and seminar in the Goethe institute from the 8th to the 12th Feb drew the event to its closing ceremony .ensured international exposure impacting national art, culture and economy.
