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Artist Conversations on Time, Territory, and Relations

Two panels featuring artists part of the Time as a Mother exhibition, moderated by curators Ravi Agarwal and Damian Christinger.
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Bamboo: A Way of Life – Collaborator Presentations

Designers, artisans, and collaborators part of the Bamboo: A Way of Life exhibition in conversation with curator Sandeep Sangaru.
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Interactive Notations

Five artists and the curator of ‘Synaesthetic Notations’ will engage the audience in an interactive and immersive discussion.
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Culinary Narratives from the Heartland: The Voice and Vision of SPS Community Media

Join us for this captivating discussion with the team from SPS Community Media, moderated by Chef Thomas Zacharias, as we delve into SPS’s mission to showcase India’s rich culinary tapestry.
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The nights will follow the days – Talk

Shalmali Shetty (Curatorial Fellow) & Mala Yamey (Head of Programs, Art South Asia Project) will be in conversation around the ASAP x SAF Curatorial Research Fellowship.
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Photography and the Social Imagination

With an esteemed panel of festival directors, curators and artists, the moderated session invites its speakers to bear on their personal/professional trajectories around the inevitable gulf in contemporary lens-based practices – the complex relationships of the regional and global, the artifactual and the artificial – thinking across disciplinary fields to investigate the feasibility of a common ground in a world marked by social and economic disparity.
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Art, Science, and Method — In Practice

How can the arts and the sciences collaboratively reformulate future trajectories, in the face of an ecological crisis? This panel will continue some of the conversations from the first symposium held in Zurich in September 2023.
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That’s Not Indian Dance: Exploring Histories of Dance in India

In this session, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, co-Guest Editor (Readings on Dance: From 75 Years of Marg) speaks with Navtej Singh Johar and Sharon Lowen about bridging the gaps between academics and practitioners of dance and performance.
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Start the Presses: Practising Print Culture through the Magazine

SAF and The Marg Foundation bring Shukla Sawant, Guest Editor (Readings on Modernism: From 75 Years of Marg), Naman Ahuja (General Editor, The Marg Foundation), Sarita Sundar (Independent Scholar/Writer) and Akila Seshasayee (Chief Designer, Toile Indienne) together for a conversation about print culture in Independent India.
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Cultural Partnerships: Navigating Challenges

The session will explore/discuss how vital partnership is in the cultural ecosystem.
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Wording and Imaging the World: A Discussion on Writing and Illustrating for Children

The discussion will follow the projection of five animations based on five exceptional books written and illustrated by K. G. Subramanyan and A. Ramachandran and produced by FIAE.
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Listening Gladly: Safe and Enjoyable Experiences with Sound

A session discussing sound and safety in order to raise awareness about safe listening, its consequences, and how to protect one’s hearing for a lifetime of enjoyment.
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Book Launch: The Power Plant – Fragments in Time

The desire of modernity for an equitable future through technology lies in ruins. Climate change and extinctions have become the debris of progress.
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B-Side: Making Local Music a Global Sound

Elle Shimada, musician, curator, violinist, DJ and producer, and performer for B-side; and Sahej Bakshi (Dualist Inquiry) – musician, guitarist, electronic music producer, and co-founder of boxout.fm will be in conversation with Aakanksha Sidhu – Manager of Operations at Australia’s leading arts and culture think tank (A New Approach, ANA) and artist manager (Daalee), about influences that shape their sound, the underground music ecosystem, and perspectives on how to reach for a global career while being rooted in local cultures.
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The Future of Storytelling II

This discussion explores how the ways in which we tell our tales is going to evolve with innovative and futuristic media.
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Melodies in Motion: Exploring Goan Artists, Their Music, and the Clubs That United Them

Nalini Elvino de Sousa and Justina Costa have worked together closely when Sousa was researching for her film ‘O Clube’, as well as her thesis ‘Kantar Goa…”, that studied, documented and translated renderings from Konkani Tiatr recorded on shellac discs, from the AIR archive.

