Formations: Screening & Discussion – Subash Thebe Limbu

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Wednesday 13th November | 2024 | 7pm
Bonington Gallery
Free

Join NTU Arts at Bonington Gallery for a screening of films by multimedia artist Subash Thebe Limbu, including Ningwasum (2021) and Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous (2023), followed by a discussion and Q&A led by Dr Nicola Thiara, co-director of NTU's Postcolonial Studies Centre. Open to all, book your free ticket in advance.

Established in 2020, Formations is an event programme led by NTU's Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group in collaboration with Bonington Gallery. The series foregrounds the work of underrepresented writers, academics, artists, intellectuals, and activists worldwide who address inequalities of all kinds, often bringing people from different places and working practices together for important conversations.

Ningwasum (2021) is a Yakthung science fiction documentary film/video-work narrated by Miksam, a time traveller from a future Indigenous Nation. The film follows two time travellers, Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali respectively, in the Himalayas weaving indigenous folk stories, culture, climate change and science fiction.

The plot of Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous (2023) depicts a conversation between two Indigenous figures from different historical timelines, the first a real 18th Century Yakthung warrior called Kangsore fighting the colonial army, and the other an astronaut and time traveller from the distant future. They discuss the space-time continuum from their perspectives, and in doing so, ask the viewers — who exist between the past and future — to investigate their own relationship to the passage of time.

About Subash Thebe Limbu
Subash Thebe Limbu is a Yakthung (Limbu) artist from Yakthung Nation (Limbuwan) from what we currently know as Eastern Nepal. He works with sound, film, music, performance, painting and podcast. His Yakthung name is ᤋᤠᤱᤛᤠᤱ Tangsang (Sky).

Subash has MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2016), BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University (2011), and Intermediate in Fine Art from Lalit Kala Campus, Kathmandu.

His works are inspired by socio-political issues, resistance and science/speculative fiction. Notion of time, climate change, and indigeneity or Adivasi Futurism as he calls it, are recurring themes in his works. Subash is the co-founding member of Yakthung Cho Sangjumbho (Yakthung Art Society) and Haatemalo Collective.