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- ↑ See The Delhi Declaration, which centrally cites Adajania's concept of 'new context media' Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See Adajania's essay on 'new mediatic realism' [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ See Adajania's essay, 'Take the Fast with the Slow'
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania's essay, 'Public Art? Activating the Agoratic Condition' Archived 31 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania, 'The Sand of the Coliseum, the Glare of Television, and the Hope of Emancipation'
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania, 'The Sand of the Colosseum, the Glare of Television, and the Hope of Emancipation', in Documenta Magazine No: 2/ Life! (2007) Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978-3-8365-0058-6
- ↑ Nancy Adajania: 'Avatars of the Object: Sculptural Projections'
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania, Essay for 'Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves' (ZKM, Karlsruhe) Archived 1 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ E-flux: Announcement of Joint Artistic Directors of 9th Gwangju Biennale Archived 13 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See ZKM: Nancy Adajania biographical note
- ↑ See 'In Aladdin's Cave' at 'On difference 2/Grenzwertig' (Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, February 2006)
- ↑ See 'In Aladdin's Cave' at 'Building Sight' (Watermans Arts Centre, London)
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania & Ranjit Hoskote, 'Notes towards a Lexicon of Urgencies' (Independent Curators International, Dispatch
- ↑ See Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania, in NJP Reader # 1: Contributions to an Artistic Anthropology Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See Nancy Adajania & Ranjit Hoskote: A New Journal for the Arts Archived 7 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See Asian Art Archive
- ↑ See e-flux announcement of joint artistic directors of 9th Gwangju Biennale, 2012 Archived 13 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
