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Curated by Ravi Agarwal

The Travelling Dome is conducting five ecology walks around Panjim city. The region lies in the midst of rivers, beaches, wetlands, mangroves, creeks and springs. This fascinating watershed area supports a variety of plants, birds, reptiles and aquatic creatures. Your participation shall help in calling attention to these fragile ecosystems that are key to sustainable living. Participants shall visit different ecosystems to experience its rich biodiversity and to understand the vital ‘eco services’ they provide. We shall discuss how these ecosystems work, what are the threats to it and what remedial actions can help in preserving them.

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Curated by Ravi Agarwal

The workshop is a space to explore the changing nature, through the medium of photography. Binaries between documentary and fiction, new and old media, fantasy and realism, still and moving image have collapsed. The photographer in the contemporary moment is working in this radically different landscape; a new visual culture that calls for multiplicity of photographic forms. Production and consumption of millions of images a day has almost made us immune to its effects.

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Curated by Ravi Agarwal

New urban spaces are creating fresh contestations of global capital and local realities. The idea of the urban has been defined outside the rural as a divide, even as society seamlessly flows between them. Carved out of terrains of multiple inhabitations, what was once ecological is becoming polluted, gentrified or destroyed. The project highlights the clash of imaginaries of the ‘urban’ as a means to help rethink them.

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Curated by Ravi Agarwal

It had been proclaimed that the photograph is dead, yet it thrives, as it morphs itself to the ever shifting contemporary. In many senses it is irreplaceable. Like ‘truth’ has reinvented itself, so has the photograph – only the ‘reality’ it refers to has changed. In the post-truth technoshpere, the photograph as a singular medium has been transformed by technology for some time now. The still photograph coexists with the moving image, sound and even animation, all of which are possible through a single device, and which is not only the classical camera, but can be a computer, a mobile phone, a spy cam, or a remote sensor placed almost anywhere.

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Curated by Rahaab Allana

The history of photography in India presents some unexplored and unexpected gaps. One of the most understudied concepts is that of ‘vernacular’ photography – a term often applied to quotidian images, which in India, given its colonial connotations, has been amended by visual anthropologists such as Christopher Pinney with the term mofussil, or that which lies outside the centre and besides the strictly metropolitan. The colloquial referencing of ‘vernacular’ focuses heavily on that which is ‘native,’ as distinguished from the ‘national.’ Hence, the focus on local, community-oriented, marginalised zones that may represent elided traditions come to the fore as viable parameters within which the term is broadly understood.

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