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Based in Mumbai and Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines and creative industries. Some of their work-defining projects have been the 16mm film festival, Museum of Ordinary Objects and the Harkat alternative arts and performance space in Mumbai—housing an ever evolving curatorial of programming and in-house projects. We support the new, unheard, emerging, exciting, cutting edge, poetic, the political, forgotten, nostalgic, melancholic, rule breakers, beautiful and more. And that’s what Harkat is. Harkat.
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Akshay Mahajan is a photographer, curator and writer. His work comprises of self-initiated research projects that combine his interest in myth, folklore and photography as a mirror to culture and collective memory.
Akshay’s engagement with the visual arts also takes shape through writing, teaching and curation. In 2008, he co-founded Blindboys.org, an open collective aimed at reclaiming public spaces – both online and offline – to showcase photography. Akshay Mahajan is a member of the photo editorial of PIX Quarterly, a contemporary photography publication looking at South Asia. He has curated shows at the Format Festival, Angkor Photo Festival and JaipurPhoto among others.
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Lina Vincent is a cultural practitioner committed to socially engaged arts practice that reflects in multidisciplinary projects she has developed and participated in. With 18 years’ experience in research, curation and public art programming, she is currently an IFA Museum-Fellowship grantee. Her recent curatorial management projects include ‘GOOD FOOD India’ – international arts program for awareness on Climate Change (Sept 2017- Jan 2018); Story of Space (Oct -Nov 2017, Goa); ‘Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India’ (Jan-Mar ’16, CSMVS Mumbai). Lina is Associate Curator with ARTPORT_making waves and Chief Program Designer, Visual Art & Design for Sublime’s ArtEd (Arts Curriculum development) Bangalore.
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Anurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppetry director and the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, a puppet theatre group based in Delhi, India since 1998.
She has a Diploma in Puppet theatre from DI (Dramatiska Institutet for Film, T.V, Drama and Radio) at The University of Stockholm, Sweden and has been trained in traditional glove puppetry, from La Scoula Della Guaratelle (School of Traditional Glove puppetry) in Naples, Italy under Bruno Leone in 2002. She has been a Researcher in Residence- 2011- Deutches Forum DFP in Bochum, Germany and at Institute International de la Marionette Charleville-Mezeires Anurupa has been a Pro Helvetia Artists at Residence at Rote Fabrik in Zurich and a guest faculty at World Arts and Cultures at UCLA in Los Angeles, USA.
Anurupa has directed performances for Katkatha, TIE Company National School of Drama, Jana Natya Manch. She is a recipient of the Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Puraskar 2007 – National award for contribution to puppet theatre by the Ministry of Culture.
She is currently the General Secretary of UNIMA India, the Indian chapter of the Union Internationale de la Marionette.
2019
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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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NancyAdajaniais a cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay. Since the late-1990s, she has written consistently on the practices of four generations of Indian women artists. She was Joint Artistic Director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012) and has curated a number of exhibitions including, most recently a retrospective of five decades of Navjot’s artistic practice – ‘The Earth’s Heart Torn Out, Navjot Altaf: A Life in Art’ at the NGMA Bombay (12 December 2018 – 25 January 2019) and ‘In the Land Of Downside Up: Adbhut Lok’ at the Birla Academy, Calcutta (9 January – 9 February 2019).
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Kristine Michael is a ceramic artist, researcher, curator and arts educator based in New Delhi. She has held over 26 solo shows and participated in international and national group shows. She is the recipient of Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, The Charles Wallace Trust Award, Sanskriti Award, among others. She was a research scholar under the Nehru Trust at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) for the study of 19th century Indian ceramics in its collections, and has curated the Ceramics Gallery at the renovated Albert Hall Museum (Jaipur). She recently curated an exhibition ‘The Art of Kripal Singh Shekhawat’ for Delhi Art Gallery, which was showcased at the Indian Ceramics Triennale 2018 (Jaipur) and Museum of Legacies (Jaipur).
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Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, production designer, photographer, and installation artist. She does not confine her art to one medium, often cross-pollinating between them all. Aradhana is a creator of multiple worlds. In her film work, she does not merely build sets, she breathes life into the homes of her characters. She makes sure their imprints are found in every nook — from their flower vases to their toothbrushes to their wall coverings. She rebuilds old and new memories in her photo studio‘Merchant of Images’. Her living archive ‘The House of Enquiry’ is an ongoing art project that brings together the world of art, film, photography and history. As Art Director she has worked on London Has Fallen, The Darjeeling Limited, The Bourne Supremacy, and Stiff Upper Lips. Her production design credits include The Sweet Requiem, Chuskit, Angry Indian goddesses, Vara, West is West, Don, One Night with the King, Admissions, Easy, The Guru (India), Leela, Everybody says “I’m Fine!”, Karvaan, Earth and Fire. She has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Sunapranta, Goa. Her work has been exhibited with Andrea Anastasio at Istituto Italiano de Cultura, New Delhi, and at the Thyssen-Bornemisza ArtContemporary in Vienna, Grosvenor Gallery, London, Vadehra Art Gallery, and Khoj, New Delhi and ClarkHouse, Mumbai. She has made over 18 documentary films and co-produced a photography book India Mexico: ParallelWinds, featuring the work of Sebastiao Salgado, Graciela Iturbide, and Raghu Rai.
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Anuja Ghosalkar is the founder of Drama Queen–– a Documentary theatre company, evolving a unique form of theatre in India since 2015. Her practice focuses on personal histories, archival absences and blurring the hierarchies between audience and performer–– to extend the idea of theatre to create audacious work.
Iterations around form and process, modes of (social) media, sites, technologies, reclaiming narratives on gender and intimacy are critical to her performance making and pedagogy.
As artist-in-residence at Art Lab Gnesta, Sweden she created her debut show, Lady Anandi which travelled extensively across India, and showcased independently in Berlin and Stockholm. Her performances and workshops have been programmed by University of Oxford, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Serendipity Arts Festival, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Forum Transregionale –ZMO, First Post, Kerala Museum, FLAME University among others. Anuja is the co-curator of the international workshop series on Documentary Theatre with her German collaborator––that programmed artists like Boris Nikitin, Rimini Protokoll, Zhao Chuan and Gobsquad. As visiting faculty at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology since 2016, she leads practice based pedagogy. In the past, she was programme officer at India Foundation for the Arts, film programmer for Experimenta and India researcher for University of Westminster. She is an Art Think South Asia Fellow (2017-18) and has written on film and performance for Nang Magazine, Art India, Bioscope, Hakara, Scroll, and Ladies Finger.
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