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EK – MINUTE FILM WORKSHOP
Special Project Curator: Harkat Studios
Harkat Studios will conduct a five-day workshop preceding Serendipity Arts Festival, from 10 – 15 December 2019. The films produced by the participants during the workshop will be showcased as part of Harkat Studio’s curated project India on Film, on 21 and 22 December 2019.
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LUCIFER’S ENSEMBLE // THE WISHFUL FALL
Curated by HH Art Spaces
Lucifer’s Ensemble is a music performance project crossing physical theatre, interactive technologies and sound art, comprised by two performers and a composer. In their music performances, guest musicians/performers are invited to close the circle of conceptual pieces dedicated to the occult, orbiting the notions of Ritual, Trance and Transcendence, The Night, The Morning Star and The Angel of Light, The Fool’s Journey and The Wishful Fall.
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ZINE ME UP (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
A special workshop for all who are and have struggled with mental health concerns designed to provide an opportunity to express their emotions creatively.
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YOG-ART (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
Ever thought of what would happen if Yoga met Art? Be a part of this body-twisting workshop infused with art.
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MEMORIES THAT TOUCHED ME – BLINDFOLD COLLAGE ART (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
Can you craft a collage on through sense of touch and memory? A great way of celebrating a memory/thought that has been dangling in your subconscious mind.
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DIY ZINE (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
A do-it-yourself zine workshop for school children!
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TEXT ZENTANGLE WORKSHOP (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
A wonderfully creative relaxing process of turning simple drawn patterns into artistic designs.
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OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN // TRANSFIGURATION
Curated by HH Art Spaces
“Le visage humain n’a pas encore trouvé sa face et c’est au peintre à la lui donner…” – Antonin Artaud
The performance “Transfiguration” is the story of the sculptor’s unfulfilled desire to imbue his creation with life. -
SPLASH ART (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
A workshop open for all, and specifically focused on participants with autism. Participants learn how a splash is animated with 3d Objects!
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EXCEL @ PIXEL (SENSE 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
In this workshop participants will learn how to make a pixelated avatars of different object.
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OF OTHER PLACES
Curated by Serendipity Arts Foundation in collaboration with Zain Masud & Godrej Culture Lab India
The staggering growth of periodic/permanent, independent and area-based art interventions, in the form of festivals, biennales, sites and community experiments raises various points of enquiry. We take site to extend beyond the physical and architectonic environment, to networks of power, the performance of boundaries and belonging, the incursion of capital, and trajectories of difference and diaspora.
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LOOK OUTSIDE THIS HOUSE—ARTIST TALKS
Curated by Sudarshan Shetty
Talks by featured artists accompanying the exhibition, Look Outside This House curated by Sudarshan Shetty.
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TINU VERGHIS // UNTITLED
Curated by HH Art Spaces
Beneath the concrete skies lie rural villages where farming was the way of life. Over the years, rice fields have been taken over for other purposes. Highways have been built over once thriving agricultural lands. As a farmer, Tinu Verghis cultivates her land with seasonal crops. As the years pass, she is starkly aware of the changes in the weather pattern, which affect the planting and harvesting season.
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O RETORNO – MUNDO GOA
Special Project Curator: Vivek Menezes
In the middle of the last century, at least 200,000 Goans lived in both British and Portuguese colonial East Africa, with the largest concentrations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola and Mozambique. With decolonization came wrenching exodus, with many seeking refuge in the West while others scattered back to India.
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CONCRETE SKIES // UNTITLED
Curated by HH Art Spaces
Exploring GMC and it’s surroundings in the weeks prior to Serendipity, Perera will respond to the concrete and natural landscape and it’s people through body, text and found material.
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ANTONIO E COSTA: BEYOND BOUNDARIES – MUNDO GOA
Special Project Curator: Vivek Menezes
Antonio E Costa was born in Malawi, raised in Kenya, and has spent most of the following decades living and practicing both art and architecture in an astonishing array of countries on five continents. He speaks many languages, which aid his shaman-like movements through varying international landscapes, rapidly absorbing ideas, angles, light, colour and shadow which all make their way onto his uncanny, extraordinary abstract paintings.
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RAGHU WODEYAR // IN CONVERSATION WITH
Curated by HH Art Spaces
Comfort and intensity are the forces driving most of our recent innovations. which in turn create disturbances in nature. Is there any end point where we might stop?
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MADHU DAS // ROOM TO BREATHE
Curated by HH Art Spaces
The performance explores the idea of how an intangible value becomes a tangible form in relation to time. Madhu Das explores the moments in the interregnum, between the transfiguration of form and state, unfolding the question of how we define our self in relation to time.
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PIERRE FRIQUET, JEAN-BAPTISTE FRIQUET & KANNAKEE // SEA OF SERENITY
Curated by HH Art Spaces
Performance by Pierre Friquet and Kannakee, with live-video broadcast by Jean-Baptiste Friquet (Bruxelles).
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FORM, METAPHOR, MEMORY: AN EXHIBITION OF WORK CREATED THROUGH THE SERENDIPITY ARTS FOUNDATION GOAN ARTISTS’ GRANT
Form, Metaphor, Memory showcases works by the awardees of the Goan Artists’ Grant, instituted by Serendipity Arts Foundation in 2019.
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DHARTI ARTS RESIDENCY
Curated by Serendipity Arts Foundation
Dharti Arts Residency is a three-month artists’ residency based in New Delhi. Conceptualised as an intensive, studio-based residency for emerging artists, Dharti provides its residents space and resources to develop their practice, work on a new project, and interact with the broader art community in the city. The residency is held annually between the months of May and August.
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VIRTUALITY AS REALITY
Curated by Jessica Castex and Odile Burluraux
Invited to participate in the Serendipity Festival, the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris offers an exhibition entitled Virtuality as Reality. Based on a selection of films from the museum’s collection, the project reflects the idea of virtuality that irrigates ever more strongly the daily life. This virtualisation of human societies questioned by artists, is creating new territories, it is transforming the being and its relationship to the world.
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CALL TO DISORDER: EXPERIMENTS IN PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
Special Project Curator: Vidya Shivadas
Call to Disorder is an outcome of the annual courses conducted by Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Serendipity Arts Foundation, over the past three years. The intensive programmes were geared towards young artists who are looking to closely engage with experienced practitioners, and explore diverse mediums and materials.
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MUNDO GOA
Special Project Curator: Vivek Menezes
The history of India’s western coastline is written in the ebb and flow of ocean tides, and the constant passage of voyagers who profoundly shaped the history and culture of the ancient entrepôt called Goa. At the very heart of this civilisational experience is globalisation on an epic scale: confluential layers of meaning that extend back for millennia to mankind’s earliest recorded history and continue to accrue in the wildly diverse contemporary experience.
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ST+ART GOA
Special Project Curator: St+art India Foundation
Over the past five years, one of St+art India Foundation’s primary missions has been to transform urban spaces into public art districts to create art accessible to everyone. Using key elements that are characteristic to the cultural fabric of urban cities, these art districts explore the contemporary face of India.
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CONCRETE SKIES
Curated by HH Art Spaces
The highway leading in and out of Panjim—National Highway no.17 or ironically renamed route 66—with its many branches of flyovers and exit roads, has created the impression that we might as well be getting ready for war. It is not an easy relationship to concrete that the world has inherited since World War II when the need of the time was low cost, quick-fix, prefabricated housing.
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COUNTER-CANON COUNTER-CULTURE: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF INDIAN ART
Curated by Nancy Adajania
The history of postcolonial Indian art is usually told from within the confines of the art world, as a sequence of long-lived styles and short-lived movements, avant-garde aspirations and institutional trends, artist groups and art schools. In the present exhibition, Nancy Adajania will demonstrate the rich, living heritage of art-making in postcolonial India that had little or nothing to do with this dominant narrative.
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LOOK OUTSIDE THIS HOUSE
Curated by Sudarshan Shetty
This project aims to present indigenous inventions and informal industries that have origins in catering to real life circumstantial needs with lasting social impact on communities at large.
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IMAGE JOURNEYS: THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD AS PICTURE
Curated by Dr. Jyotindra Jain
The exhibition offers a critical viewing of popular Indian imagery at the turn of the twentieth century in the construction of its social and national identities. This includes approximately 200 images and objects, including nineteenth and twentieth-century engravings, chromolithographs, oleographs, photographs, calendars, trade and product labels, postcards, film posters, textiles and porcelain figures.
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INDIA ON FILM – FILM SCREENINGS
Special Project Curator: Harkat Studios
It happened about a decade ago, ‘film’ as a medium was discarded by the film industry, almost overnight. Decades worth of knowledge, equipment and processes were put aside and the craft of ‘making’ a film was sealed shut in boxes, forgotten in storage. The digital age brought on the beautiful democratisation of the moving image, but there was one casualty: its medium.
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NEON MANDALA ART (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
Experience a blissful day of spiritual connection, rebalancing and self-integration with this art workshop focused on the practice and philosophy of Mandalas.
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MIND MAGNET (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
An art workshop designed to provide positive distraction from anxieties.
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CURATED ACCESSIBLE WALKTHROUGHS (SENSES 4.0)
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access For ALL
Access for ALL will develop a series of accessible walkthroughs of select exhibitions on display at Serendipity Arts Festival. The walkthroughs will feature specially designed activity worksheets for student participants from Sanjay School, Umang School and National Association for the Blind (NAB).
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NHOI—THE BIG REVEAL
Curated by Bookworm Trust Library; Liz Kemp; Rhea D’Souza
Nhoi workshops co-supported by the Directorate of Art and Culture & Goa State Central Library.
The Nhoi: Goa River Draw project is India’s largest single collaborative drawing and its 80.6 metres of vibrant imagery is a magnum opus of the imagination and a true celebration of the innate and thriving creativity of people everywhere. -
SENSES 4.0
Curated by Siddhant Shah, Access for ALL
SENSES is India’s first ever ‘accessible and inclusive outreach program’ curated for persons with special needs, for a multidisciplinary arts festival. The fourth edition – SENSES 4.0 is pushing the brackets further by not only acknowledging disability access for varied visitors but also using the Festival as a catalyst to talk about Mental Health and introducing Arts Based Therapy workshop as part of the outreach.
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CELLULOID KARIGAR – HANDMADE FILM WORKSHOP
Curated by Harkat Studios
The practice of using found objects to create a work of art finds its origins in dadaist art movements of the 20th century and was perfected by Marcel Duchamp with his ready-mades. Avant-garde filmmakers adopted the practice using found film footage. The process of assemblage became a means for filmmakers to critique the spirit of their time.
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