Festival Archives

Curated By Debashree Mukherjee and Rahaab Allana

This exhibition showcases, for the very first time, a sampling of rare, original photographs and digital reprints of early Indian cinema from the Wirsching Archive. The selection for the Serendipity Arts Festival comprises behind-the-scenes photographs of cast and crew, production stills, and publicity images. These photographs, shot primarily on 35mm with a Leica camera between the 1920s – 60s, give us unprecedented access to the aesthetic decisions, creative communities, and cross-cultural exchanges that were vital to filmmaking in late colonial India.

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Collaboration between Dayanita Singh and Mark Morris

A series of photographs taken by Dayanita Singh of the famous Bollywood choreographer, Saroj Khan, were made into a projection, with a carefully sequenced choreography by Mark Morris, who approached the images as a dance – a poetic movement of the still image.

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Curated By Dayanita Singh

Continuing in the same vein as her Pocket Museum, Dayanita Singh asks of these particular, hand selected photo books on display: Is it a book? Is it a work of art? Dayanita has carefully curated a selection of books she feels are particularly unique because of the level of engagement of the photographer/artist, and because the photo book can now be deemed much more than just a book – it is an object of art and design as well. Viewers will get the opportunity to spend time with these books and judge for themselves.

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Curated By Dayanita Singh

When the nine mobile museums in Museum Bhavan began to find homes in more formal institutions, Dayanita Singh decided to find a form that would allow her museums to be simultaneously disseminated in more domestic spaces: as a result, the larger wooden museums transformed into the pocket museum. A unique handmade box that holds within it nine miniature concertina books that turn into exhibitions and a book of conversations, the pocket museum is waiting to be installed in your homes. Is it a book? Is it an exhibition? Is it mass produced? Is it unique? Is it a work of art? With this, Singh invites you to become the curator of her work.

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Curated by Dinesh Khanna

Shot from a unique vantage point, Navtej Singh photographs India’s coastal regions as never before seen – vast, sweeping swathes of emerald green and sapphire blue, far from the teeming crowds and densely populated cities that urban inhabitants are so accustomed to. Here, the horizon is endless and serene, but the lives of its coastal inhabitants, despite the achingly beautiful environment, can be harsh and unforgiving. These photographs will be shown for the first time at Serendipity Arts Festival.

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Curated by Dinesh Khanna

This project focuses on the city of Panjim, and its unexplored secrets in the form of short photo essays in a newsletter. A photographer native to Goa and another who has made Goa his home shall photograph select stories/spaces in the city which are often overlooked, but are spaces and happenings that add a unique character to the city. The newsletter is a special photo-project in its own right.

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Curated by Dinesh Khanna

This photographic installation distills work done by Arati Kumar Rao over the past three years in criss-crossing the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin — the largest river basin in the world. It will take you on a journey upriver from the many-tongued mouth of the Ganga delta (Sundarbans), into the womb of the Brahmaputra basin (Arunachal Pradesh). The journey will explore slow violence through stories of personal loss, biodiversity decline, vanishing livelihoods, thoughtless anthropogenic activities, and forced human migration.

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Nature Untamed is a series of stunning photographs by wildlife photographer Anup Shah. An immediate and intimate approach to these magnificent creatures gives a surprising feeling of the vastness of the landscape of Maasai Mara.

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Curated by Mahesh Bhat & Dinesh Khanna

Celebrating the Extraordinary Grandeur of Smallness” derives inspiration from the writings of botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book on mosses. It is the 3rd project in the UNSUNG series. Published by photographer Mahesh Bhat, the first volume UNSUNG and the second volume UNSUNG-Extraordinary Lives, celebrated the stories of real heroes of India, people who have contributed to society against odds. This multi (mixed) media exhibition, curated by Mahesh Bhat and Dinesh Khanna and produced by the work of five extraordinarily talented women photographers lens based artists – Aparna Mohindra, Deepti Asthana, Karen Dias, Neeraja Rao and Sharmistha Dutta will tell the stories of the unseen lives, places and philosophies that inhabit the liminal boundaries between worlds.

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Curated by Prashant Panjiar

This exhibition will focus on important Goan musicians in the Indian Jazz scene, from 1935 to 1970, when Jazz had a significant presence in clubs in India. The focus will be on the Swing & Big Band era of Jazz between 1930 to 1950.

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