Festival Archives

Project By Lukas Birk

A camera obscura usually refers to a room or box with a very small hole that allows light to enter into the room or box. The light projects on the surface inside and reproduced what is going on outside (upside-down). A camera obscura in a room is a wonderful experiential installation, allowing visitors to understand the very basic principles of photography. The installation will allow viewers to experience a camera obscura up close.

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Project By Harkat Studio

Imagine a woman sleeping in the grass – comfortable, at leisure, not stared at – a dream. Covers of shade, a bench amidst concrete and (a semblance of) safety, sometimes make public spaces feel inclusive. They feel like yours, to take up and look at. But in a social climate where unspoken hostilities become public norms, several communities aren’t free to occupy space in the same way. Design, proportion, gender, patriarchy, caste and class are all things to look at, to measure, to discern.

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Project By Pavithra Chari

‘Chitrahaar Live by Pavithra Chari’ is a collection of retro film songs in Hindi and Tamil. Each song chosen is associated with a significant memory and invokes a deep sense of nostalgia within the artists and the audience. What began as a series on Instagram has now evolved into a live performance outfit.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Residency 2022

Serendipity Arts Residency is an intensive studio-based residency for emerging artists. It seeks to provide its residents space and resources to develop their practice, work on a new project and interact with the broader art community in New Delhi. In the course of the three months, the four artists selected for the programme participated in a lineup of peer-to-peer conversations, critique sessions, gallery and studio visits, artist talks and presentations. The work on display will be a further evolution of what was showcased at the Open Studio in New Delhi in September.

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Project By Edwin van der Heide

In the installation ‘Pneumatic Sound Field’ a continuum is being created between rhythmical perception of sound, spatial perception of sound and the perception of pitch. A horizontal plane of pneumatic valves is used to produce wind, pressure and sound. The result is a breathing sound environment above the audience.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Grant

Supported by Serendipity Arts Grant, the work Invisible Corridors, a project on animal road kills, attempts an expansion in our perception of space and sentience. The exhibition has come together through the artist’s reflection on the numbness that follows extinction; navigating through co-existing thoughts on loss and ways in which grief is ‘arrived at’ and ‘processed.’ The display for this work, divided in three parts, will be based on reflections from Hrishitonoy Dutta’s primary field research. Disappearing Act mimics the movement of light on the road, confronting loss; the Grieving Machine is a cold lifeless machine in a constant state of dilemma, both grieving for and causing death. The last work, Highway Hypnosis delves into seemingly mundane recollections that acknowledge the presence of life other than ourselves.

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Project By Ayush Kasliwal

The Charpai Project installation is back at Serendipity Arts Festival! This engaging and interactive work is representative of furniture that is truly Indian. The charpai is a rectangular wooden frame having four legs (hence the word charpai), with a woven fiber/ fabric as the surface. It is used .across the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the hot and relatively dry regions of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Virtual Grant

SUNO (सुनो) is a new media experiment supported by Serendipity Arts Virtual Grants, exploring the intersections between the art of storytelling and digital soundscapes. Traversing the physical and virtual worlds, sensorially and symbolically, it recreates an obscure site based in the city of Delhi through aural immersion. In a world where overconsumption of disconcerting visuals has desensitized us, Suno will invite you to engage, empathise and discover a hidden landscape through digital storytelling.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Grant

This photo project supported by Serendipity Arts Grants documents the entire process of the production of Manalmagudi Drama Group’s play, ‘Puzhuthimarap Paravaigal’ up to the time it is staged. This includes capturing the various stages of rehearsal, design, music creation, portraits of cast members and travels. The play tells the story of angels that were martyred beneath landslides and floods of hatred created by mankind through the spread of war and violence. Laundress, the Aphrodite of the fossils resurrects these angels with the ray of nothing but love she is woven with. A gentle river of hope flows again restoring even the most hateful hearts from the dungeons, uniting them, opening up a new primitive space for healing and creating, building upon the transformative power of the unfettered, wild and natural feminine.

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Project By Asia Art Archive India

‘Under the Influence: Books that Inspire Artists’ is a travelling library featuring one hundred titles, from across multiple genres, chosen by artists at the invitation of Asia Art Archive (AAA). For many art practitioners, “reading” is a starting point for their work, a process that permeates their practice. Books can spark artworks and influence continuous processes of inquiry.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Grant

The site-specific installations for Chilika Dialogues were developed and supported by the Serendipity Artist Grant (Visual Arts Research) and are currently being executed in different part of Lake Chilika, Odisha. Through this project display, the attempt will be to think-through the installation not only as a culmination of Chilika Dialogues, executed during the grant period, but also to incorporate core elements from which the project was realised such as the important poets, leaders, events and case-studies associated with the conversations around Lake Chilika through an immersive installation.

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Project By Bhagyashree Patwardhan

The Mercado at Serendipity Arts Festival is a curated marketplace showcasing small businesses originating from Goa, each of which have a strong belief system in sustianable practices. Over the last several years, Goa has developed as an incubator for entrepreneurs with a mindful and slow approach to life, work and products. These dreamers have built lovely and simple concepts that allow for enriching engagement. The Mercado is designed for you to engage with these small brands, listen to their stories and immerse yourself in the experiences they create. From specially developed clay for pizza pans and ovens, to hand painted ceramics, small batch shirts and local produce to handmade books, beauty secrets based in Ayurveda to a self help group working with local women to make affordable cloth shopping bags, you can experience it all. Mercado will be a slow experience to be explored at an unhurried pace built for a lasting memory.

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Project By Vishal Rawlley

The St. Inez Creek, a vital part of Panjim’s water drainage system, is undergoing a massive transformation. To help restore this precious estuarine ecosystem, a series of ‘Floating Gardens’ is proposed along its length. This will help in revitalizing the local biodiversity by providing an anchorage and a shelter for the indigenous flora and fauna. These Floating Gardens are part science experiment in creating regenerative habitats and part artistic endeavour in creating objects of aesthetic and natural beauty.

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Project By Jyotindra Jain and Jutta Jain-Neubauer

Orientalist Archives: Indo-British Painting in Colonial India (Company School Painting from the Swaraj Archive)
The defining facet of this exhibition is to contextualise the Company School paintings within the emergent Indo-British visual culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, largely reflecting an orientalist stance. With their exposure to new lessons in realism, local artists, patronised by the British settlers, evolved a hybrid stylistic idiom, marked by vestigial chiaroscuro, creating a menagerie of images depicting themes from Hindu mythology as well as stereotyped and exoticised Indian communities. The Company School developed a visual census of the people of India, typified by naivety and dramatisation with a tinge of sarcasm.

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Project By Svaram

Space expresses itself through energy and atmosphere, through moving vibrations and frequencies, through sounds heard and unheard. Svaram explores and creates such soundspaces through conscious application, configuration and composition of sounds. The Sound Garden by Svaram is a project that invites the visitors into a specialized and dedicated environment by bringing together the need for recreation, easy learning and active participation through the creative component of exploratory and interactive musical play.

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Project By Svaram

Svaram’s Sound Journey workshop provides a novel experience of heightened, synaesthetic perception of the immediate impact of sound vibrations on the body and its more subtle layers. The direct tactile impact of the sound vibrations create a deep state of relaxation. The aim and natural result of a sound jourmey session is to support the recepient in a state of deepened awareness, which brings refreshing rest, naturally stimulating homeostatic, self healing capacities and offers the opportunity of balancing the system through a shift and realignment.

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Project By Dinah Bird and Jean-Philippe Renoult

‘Antenna Gods’ is a composite art project by Dinah Bird and Jean-Philippe Renoult on the use of radio waves by High Frequency Trading. It includes sound installations, electroacoustic music compositions, performances, conferences, photographs, publications and artefacts. Dinah and Jean Philippe have paid particular interest in the materiality of speed, looking at how digitalisation results in multiple temporalities; different rhythms and paces of everyday life. For Serendipity Arts Festival 2022, they will be giving an illustarted talk and an electro-acoustic performance based on their findings, radio captations and field recordings.

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Project By Varoon P. Anand

Tune in for a fun introductory session to improvised theatre and storytelling with Kaivalya Plays, India’s leading improvisational theatre company. With fun games and interactive exercises, explore the art of improvisation at the Serendipity Arts Festival in a safe, no-pressure environment and allow your imagination to run free!
In collaboration with Kaivalya Plays.

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Project By Pritish Bali and Anu Bali

‘Homemakers’ is a collaboration between Pritish Bali, and his mother Anu Bali, a homemaker . Realised through the Serendipity Arts Virtual Grant 2021, the project was churned out of a mix of memories and daily updates of Anu Bali incessantly working over the years. Initially conceptualised as a website, the interface has interactive sections that aim to sensitise the audience towards the arduous life enforced upon/adopted by a homemaker as well as the growing gender gap in unpaid domestic and care work.

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Project By Vishal Rawlley

The Eco Walks, centred around Panjim city, showcase the various ecological hotspots in the city – city gardens, municipal parks, urban forests, beach vegetation and mangroves. The various treasures contained herein are revealed by eminent experts from the perspective of ecology, history, culture, health and aesthetics.

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Project By Aseng Borang

codified space? And what happens when some bodies do not wish defy the rules? Does anybody ever just ‘witness’? Does the act of witnessing translate into another act of obedience? What prompts people to resist? What prompts people to obey?

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Project By Lukas Birk

A workshop that will allow viewers to understand the construction of a camera obscura, explaining how to use it in artistic ways and for taking photographic prints. Constructing a camera obscura does not require any specific tools or photographic lenses, as Lukas will demonstrate. For those who have never worked in a darkroom before, the workshop will also provide an introduction to the principlies of black and white processing.

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Project By Michael Fehr & Rico Baumann

A unique performance by Swiss singer, musician and narrator Michael Fehr in collaboration with musician and producer Rico Baumann, merging the ritual of storytelling with the spirituality of music. The performance comprises songs consisting of Michael Fehr’s unique vocals paired with compelling percussions, alternating with emotional ballads.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

At Serendipity Arts, we have increased our focus on sustainability and innovative practices that support these areas in the domain of arts and culture. In this panel discussion, industry stalwarts representing diverse sectors of business speak about their experiences in achieving sustainability through innovation and business processes in their respective domains.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

A conversation between gallerists from 4 galleries across India aimed towards young and aspiring artists to better understand the workings of a gallery.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

An illustrated presentation delving into mostly unseen and forgotten footage, kept under the Colonial Archive of the Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum of Cinema in Lisbon, revisiting images and their stories, trying to understand how Portugal used cinema as a powerful tool to extend and crystalize the idea of ‘empire’ and the continuation of colonial rule. In other words, which ‘Goa’ were these films planting in viewers’ imaginations and how can we relate to them now?

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A conversation related to archiving, looking at personal histories as well as public documentation.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

The book is a collection of essays and texts offering a creative look at crises past, present, future and speculative, featuring contributions by Patrick Jagoda, Ashlyn Sparrow, Trina Nileena Banerjee, Amitesh Grover, Suraj Yengde, Jeet Thayil, Leticia Bernaus, Siyanda Mohutsiwa, Uzodinma Iweala, Ho Tzu Nyen and Meena Kandasamy.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

Now with Future Landing moving from the virtual to the physical, the artists will be presenting their explorations as part of the project over the last two years.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

A conversation discussing the future of art using technology, driving accessibility and sustainability in the arts through technology, and will use case studies and demonstrations to illustrate the same.

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Project By Serendipity Arts Festival

A workshop dealing with an introduction to NFTS – what are they and how do they work? The session will also tackle the question of what one needs to learn and understand in order to trade in NFTs, the merits and perils, DIY tips for beginners and the investment it involves, along with a visual demonstration via AV on NFT trading.

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Project By Mehirr Nath Chopra

This panel will ponder on the future of storytelling and its evolution – how art has evolved through the ages with various media. The amalgamation of music, tech, and moving images has the potential to elevate the entire audience experience—these experts from the fields of music, film and photography will weigh in on the same.

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Project By Edwin van der Heide

In this workshop presentation Edwin van der Heide will address sound and its behaviour in, and its interaction with, space from different playful perspectives. Starting from the sound source distinctions are made between air-born sound, structure-born sound and ear-born sound. Afterwards, sound propagation in different media and different spatial dimensionalities is being addressed, including spatial interference patterns (standing waves).

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Project By Joel Brown and Eve Mutso

Joel Brown and Eve Mutso will lead a creative workshop exploring ideas behind their piece ‘One Hundred and Eleven’, focussing on the interaction between bodies, space, and the oscillation of power.

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Project By Akash Sumanth Paranjape, Assistant Food & Beverage Manager, ARAKU

An introduction to ARAKU Coffee: understanding the beans, roast and origin with respect to elevation, climatic variation and biodynamic farming. The workshop will define the third wave of coffee in India, and look at what makes specialty coffee special. It will also look at time vs. temperature and time vs. airflow when it comes to brewing and some tips and tricks to brew the perfect cup of coffee at home, and much more. Essential knowledge for coffee lovers and the coffee curious!

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Project By Akash Muralidharan

‘The Case of the Missing Vegetables’ is a physical rendition of Akash’s research on forgotten vegetables. In his 100-day project of cooking with forgotten vegetables from the book “Samaithu Paar”, Akash has shared recipes, illustrations, and stories on his Instagram channel.

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Project By Elizabeth Yorke & Anusha Murthy

Edible Issues is a food systems collective fostering thought and conversation on the Indian food system through public participatory events, research project. At Serendipity Arts Festival, there will be a library of books and zines across various topics ranging from agriculture to food culture, addressing some of the most commonly asked questions such as: What does “plant-based” mean in a country that has a large vegetarian culinary repertoire? How do we understand sustainability in the Indian context? Who is responsible for preserving our culinary culture? What influence does technology have on the way we eat?

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A conversation between Rahaab Allana and Georg Wirsching around Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema, published by the Alkazi Collection of Photography in association with Mapin Publishing. The volume, containing contributions from a variety of scholars and film historians, presents rare behind-the-scenes photographs from the personal archive of the cinematographer Josef Wirsching, through the 1930s and ’40s when he was employed at the legendary film studio, Bombay Talkies Ltd.

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The launch of 20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary, a landmark volume published in association with Art Alive, accompanied by a conversation between Dr. Parul Dave Mukherji, Pramod Kumar KG, and Sunaina Anand. The volume comprises key contributions representing multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, along with expansive ideas about contemporary art practices, furnishing a definitive reference for anyone with an interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories.

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Each person will be given some time to use their front cameras and sketch themselves. This self-portrait workshop will encourage us to pay attention to the way we accept ourselves, and the difference between how we look at ourselves and what we draw on an empty page.

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Makanaka will be conducting a workshop on how to make a bag with a stitch Please put a call out for participants to bring a tshirt Also we will be teaching block printing and screen printing, so participants can bring a bag or garment they’d like #makanakaplastic printed on.

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A read aloud session for children (ages 4+) with That Book Store, followed by an art activity in which we will map spaces and imagine our own walks!

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Maayu invites Juliette Ravel Roychowdhury a French textile designer based in Goa to co-conduct a natural dye Indigo workshop. After working for several years for Indian textile mills, she decided to create her own studio with the objective to create sustainable textiles with plant based dyes while exploring the artistic possibilities of traditional craft techniques.

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This is a fun & interactive session about thrifting.
How one can support circular consumption by thrifting. Why it is the need of the hour. A solution-based list of local brands/companies with contact info for people to be able to reach out and action their sustainable choices.

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In this deep listening session we will explore various stories of the forest, with immersive original recordings created by That Book Store. We welcome all ages, 7+ and especially adults!

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In this deep listening session we will explore various stories of the forest, with immersive original recordings created by That Book Store. We welcome all ages, 7+ and especially adults!

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Will be a skit play in local farming ecosystem by Sammy Coelho from zeroposro

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Ragini Dhingra from Studiopaddyfields will speak to the children about the importance of recycling and guide the kids to make a few different trimmings using waste material.

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The word “ENAMEL” refers to glass material, as well as to the finished product. Vitreous Enamel is glass bonded by fusion to a metal surface. Enamel (glass) is crushed to a powder somewhat finer than granulated sugar & somewhat coarser than flour. This powder is applied, by one of the several methods, to the metal surface. Next, the 0 0 article is heated to 750 C to 850 C, either in a preheated furnace or torch firing. The powder melts & then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating on metal. The fired enamelled ware is a fully laminated composite of glass and metal. Enamelling is an old & widely adopted technique, for most of its history mainly used in jewellery & decorative arts.This workshop will focus on using jewellery enamel colours on copper or precoated steel surface. The enamel colour application & its firing strategies and creating patterns on metal surface. During the workshop, the participant will make one Pendent sized 1.5 inch diameter circle of Copper or Precoated steel. The participant can experience their own art work with Kiln Firing or Gas Torch Firing.

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What we wear affects our mental & physical overall health. Environment friendly primarily needs to be people friendly.
Talk By Sonal Jain Founder of Maayu

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Project By Lukas Birk

Lukas will introduce participants to the history of box camera photography and a variety of techniques that can be used with the box, while covering aspects of constructing and usage. Participants will be invited to work with the camera and will be provided with an instructional manual.

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Project By Kaamna Patel

The workshop will begin with a short presentation tracing the evolution of appropriation art along with some examples of classical, modern and contemporary works. This will be followed by a bookbinding and editing session where participants will work on creating a zine from newspaper archives. At the end of the workshop, each participant will briefly present their work and concepts to the group.

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