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Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer, researcher and a 2016-17 FICA Inlaks Goldsmiths scholar at the M.Res program in Curatorial/ Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her areas of focus and research is on the role of culture and collectivity in the subcontinent within the realm of a trans-nomadic, transient network of individuals and institutions. Her recent projects include organizing the “Here, There and Everywhere” conference at MAC Birmingham, UK as part of the India-UK 70 years celebration (March 2018) and “Out of Turn, Being Together Otherwise” in collaboration with Asia Art Archive (AAA) at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (December 15th-22nd 2018).
Her research, writings and curatorial work is invested in the role of reimagining cultural and political spaces in the region through alternate methods of pedagogy, lost, erased and invisible art histories as well as intersectionality. She has contributed to various publications including Marg Publications, Critical Collective, Depart Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Hindu Newspaper, Whitewall Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Art India, Art and Deal Magazine, Art Journal, Artmap Magazine (China), Of Note Magazine and Grassroots Literature Blog. She also edited an upcoming online publication FIELD REVIEW: SOUTH ASIA (Oct 2016) produced in partnership with Asia Contemporary Art Consortium (ACAC), New York.
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2018
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Ayush Kasliwal, the Creative Director of ANANTAYA and AKFD, graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Ayush is the winner of first Messe Frankfurt, India 2015, EDIDA India, Designer of the year 2013. He won the Best of Year Awards 2015: USA by Interior Design Magazine. Ayush was the finalist of CII Design Awards 2015, India’s Best Design Studio by Pool magazine 2015. The UNESCO Award of Excellence recognized his designs in 2007 and 2008. Edition Nouveau Objet (ENO), France, launched Ayush as a designer. Showcased in the Talents à la Carte section of ‘Maison ét Object’ in Paris and a finalist in the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards 2011, he has licensed products to MATER, a Danish ethical design house. He collaborated with Incubis’ sculptural installation at Delhi International Airport Terminal T3. Ayush’s work is informed by traditional crafts and artisans and it reflects a deep understanding of mythology, architecture and culture through a contemporary aesthetic. He believes that “Objects are messages in physical form”.
2018
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Sabeena Gadihoke is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi where she teaches Digital Media Arts. She began her career as an independent documentary filmmaker and cameraperson. Gadihoke writes on Indian photo history, cinema and popular visual culture and has curated several photo shows. She was the curator of Light Works, a retrospective of photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bangalore during 2017-8. She has also written a book on India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla titled Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla (2006). Gadihoke is a member of several advisory boards that includes the editorial board of the online journal ‘Trans Asia Photography Review’.
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Siddhant Shah is a Heritage Architect and Access Consultant who specialises in bridging the gap between Cultural Heritage and Disability, through his initiative #AccessforALL. Shah, a Stavros Niarchos Scholar has finished his MA in Heritage Management from the University of Kent (Athens Campus, Greece) and his bachelors in Architecture (BSSA-NMIMS, India) along with a Post graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics.
‘Access for ALL’ aims at pushing the boundaries of physical, intellectual and social access through innovative, indigenous design and advocacy while fostering an inclusive experiential culture. The team focuses on access audits, interpretation & educational activities, inclusive outreach programs, sensitization & awareness program, braille-tactile kits, braille books and CSR based engagement programs.
2018
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Vidya Shivadas is a curator, and director of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in Delhi. FICA is a not-for-profit organization that supports creative practitioners, researchers, curators and educators working in the field of contemporary art alongside developing education and outreach programmes. Since 2005, Shivadas has curated exhibitions at Vadehra Art Gallery, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Devi Art Foundation, Edinburgh Arts Festival and Serendipity Arts Festival. Shivadas has been a visiting faculty at School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi, since 2013.
2018
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Kai Tuchmann works mainly as a Director, Dramaturge and Academic. He studied Directing at the Drama Academy Ernst Busch, Berlin. Although strongly influenced by documentary theatre practices, he constantly tries to challenge the concept of documentation.
Currently, Kai works as a Dramaturge for Lian Guodong`s new choreography 关于未知的诗歌/ A Poem to the Unknown, which will highlight the crucial power of imagining future in troubled times. This piece will premiere in October 2020 in Beijing and will be shown in Germany and Italy as well. As a fellow of the recently founded Academy_for_Theatre_and_Digitality in Dortmund (Germany), Kai will collaborate in the second half of 2020 with the dancer Kiran Kumar and the programmer Matthias Härtig for the piece Dear Dead Doctor, which will premiere in 2021. Dear Dead Doctor will unfold on stage as a choreographic dialogue between the digital hologram P3B and Kiran Kumar. Materializing layers of presence and absence on stage, this work proposes aesthetic experiences of reincarnation through the use of recursive algorithms.
Between 2013 and 2018 Kai collaborated with some of China’s internationally most esteemed independent theatre groups, such as Living Dance Studio, Caochangdi Workstation and Grass Stage. The resulting collaborations have been invited to numerous festivals and venues, among others, to I Dance Hong Kong (2016), Zürcher Theaterspektakel (2017), Kunstfest Weimar (2017), Festival d’Automne à Paris (2017), and Asia Society New York (2018). Thematically, these works examine, among other things, the afterlife of the Cultural Revolution in present-day China, the effects of urban development on the population of the migrant workers, and the application of digital technologies.
Kai lectured, taught and conducted workshops, among others, at Beijing University, University of California Santa Cruz, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, and he is a Fulbright Scholar at The Graduate Center, City University New York, where in summer 2020 he will complete the work on his book “Situating Visibility -Dramaturgies of The Real in Dialogue”.
Kai published articles and chapter contributions on dramaturgy and documentary theatre in several books (for Routledge and the Brecht Yearbook) and he has written for Theatre Times and the German weekly Der Freitag.
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Vivek Menezes is a widely published writer and photographer, and cofounder and co-curator of the acclaimed Goa Arts + Literature Festival.
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From an early start in interior design, art and architecture, Rashmi Varma went on to work in fashion, film & theatre. A profound love and respect for crafts led her to launch a women’s wear label Rashmi Varma in 2013, with garments that celebrate design, functionality and the rich imperfections of the human hand for the 21st century.
Prior to moving to India to start her clothing line, she worked extensively as a costume designer in films ranging from indie to big budget Hollywood productions. Her designs, performances and installations have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art and the Textile Museum of Canada. Her book, Sār: The Essence of Indian Design, co-authored with Swapnaa Tamhane, was published by Phaidon Press in 2016. Sār distils Indian design aesthetics into 200 living objects, both machine made and handcrafted throughout India. Rashmi Varma was born in Montreal, Canada and is now based in New Delhi, India.
2018
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Ranjana Dave is a dance practitioner and arts writer. Her work in dance spans performance, writing, archiving, curation and pedagogy. She is the co-founder of Dance Dialogues, a Mumbai-based initiative that connects artists to provocative and diverse ideas, individuals, and institutions. Her writing has appeared in the Hindu, Scroll, Time Out, NCPA Onstage, Asian Age, Indian Express, and Tanz, among other publications. She curated and annotated an extensive online archive of dance video at Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive). Ranjana is programmes director at the Gati Dance Forum in New Delhi, developing, curating and documenting various projects for the organisation. She co-curated and curated, respectively, two practice-oriented conferences for the IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance in 2015 and 2016. She worked on curriculum design for a new MA in Dance Practice developed by Gati, which will be the first programme of its kind in South Asia to be implemented within the university system.
Trained in Odissi, Ranjana performs and teaches the form actively. She also teaches courses on dance writing, history and reflexive practice. She has taught short courses and semester-length modules at KRVIA, Mumbai, Ashoka University, Sonepat, and at Gati Dance Forum.
Ranjana was an Arthink South Asia Fellow in 2013. Her essay, Liminal Spaces in Tradition: Odissi as a Continually Evolving Form, features in Tilt Pause Shift: Dance Ecologies in India, published by Tulika Books, 2016. In 2017, her essay, Significant Issues for Contemporary Dancers in India, appeared in Marg’s special issue on contemporary dance.
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