Past ACCFs

Director of Cultural Programs, Manhattan Cultural Council, USA

Radhika Subramaniam is the Director of Cultural Programs at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council where she oversees its curatorial projects. Prior to joining LMCC she was the founding and executive Editor of an interdisciplinary art and culture journal, Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, published by Arts International. In that position, she spearheaded the effort to establish its independent voice and led its editorial, management and publishing operations. Subramaniam has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinarity, international dialogue and the curating of ideas. She has organized several global dialogues such as Inroads/Asia on the performing arts in Asia, the Not at East salon series as part of an Islamic World Arts Initiative and most recently, the two year Cities, Art and Recovery initiative focused on the work of art in the wake of catastrophe www.lmcc.net/recovery. She is an independent scholar and writer with a special interest in urban modernity in South Asia. Her publications include Urban Physiognomies. Sarai Reader 02, Delhi: Sarai: The New Media Initiative (2002) and Culture of Suspicion: Riots and Rumor, Bombay, 1992-1993 Transforming Anthropology. (1999). Subramaniam has a PhD. in Performance Studies and a Masters in Anthropology.