Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

YBCA welcomes Bay Area photographer and installation artist Derick Ion to the Room for Big Ideas. His installation transforms the RBI into a meditative and sensual environment rich in symbology, Jainist iconography, and Subcontinental texture. Complementing and contrasting YBCA's large first floor exhibition, The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, the ephemera and minutiae displayed in Ion's space reflect another contemporary – and timeless – perspective on India.

Castaneda/reiman investigates the treatment of the outdoors within interior domestic spaces; challenges artistic notions of display, especially as they relate to painting and sculpture; and plays with ideas of simulacra and simulation.

This three-day symposium, organized by Center for South Asia, Stanford University, is devoted to a broad yet theoretically incisive exploration of visual culture, nation, and art in contemporary India. Speakers include leading philosophers, art historians, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars, as well as practicing artists. The first two days take place at Stanford University's Humanities Center. The third day takes place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and is organized in collaboration with YBCA.

The day’s program will consist of two panels. The first, entitled “Art, Capital, and the Public,” will begin in Gallery 1 at 9:30am. It will end at 11:30am. A second panel, entitled “Seeing Distance: Lens-based practices in contemporary Indian art,” will begin in the Screening Room at 2:00pm. It will end at 4:30pm.