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Xina Xurner
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Founders, Kwak and Astorga will perform a few concerts as Xina Xurner, an experimental musical act that blends hardcore, industrial, drone metal, techno-opera and bad drag to create a unique dance floor sensation.
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Mutant Salon
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Founders Kwak and Astorga describe Mutant Salon as a ‘roving platform for collaborative performance and community-building that strives to foster connections between queer, trans, POC, womyn and mutant communities… in the act of self-care’. At Serendipity, Mutant Salon will offer haircuts, makeup, nail care, and bodywork to visitors (on a first come first served basis) within a site-specific installation that also includes zines and videos.
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Sajan Mani – ‘Unlearning lessons from my father’
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
Unlearning Lessons from my Father is a poetic response to questions around archiving. From within a political and cultural temporality that does not ‘archive’ to record, what would a ‘looking back at’ entail? Mani looks to his own personal biography and its connection to the history of colonisation; particularly at the forced migration of trees and plants which include cashew, pineapple, rubber and tapioca. Mani claims his father and brother sold cashews to the nearest state border in order to make money to send the children to school while his parents were rubber tappers working at various plantations in Kerala. Mani therefore weaves a narrative that connects colonial and material histories of these fruits and plants to the personal histories connected to indigenous lands, bodies and knowledge.
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siren eun young jung – ‘Anomalous Fantasy_India Version
Curated By Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
siren eun young jung’s Anomalous Fantasy questions official history by putting into conversation the experiences of a young actress as she discovers the all-female musical theatre tradition in Korea known as Yeoseong Gukgeuk. This genre, which had its heyday in the latter half of the twentieth century, takes on a new life by musically staging contemporary experiences of members of India’s only LGBTQ choir, Rainbow Voices, based in Mumbai
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Senses 3.0
Curated by Siddhant Shah
Senses 3.0 is programmed with workshops for the differently abled, including sensitisation workshops for our able-bodied audiences.
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River Lin – ‘Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara’
Curated by Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
River Lin offers a reflection on cycles of waking and sleeping, presence and absence, transience, and labor in his durational performance Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara. As the title suggests, the piece also gives a sly nod to two artistic forebears “from” Asia, Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara, whose work have also taken the marking of the passage of time as one of their prime tasks.
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Still / Moving : The Folds Within Cinema and Photography
Curated By Sabeena Gadihoke
Still/Moving is a curated package of non-fiction films that attempts to enable a dialogue between pre-existing material and images created by the filmmaker. Deploying archival images and found footage, the films in the package wrestle with questions of erasure, silence or loss. Memory is central to almost all the films. In some, memory collides with history while in others it explores the incertitude that lies between the two
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Still/Moving
Curated by Sabeena Gadihoke
Still/Moving is a curated package of non-fiction films that focuses on a dialogue between pre-existing material and images in the making. All the films use archival and found footage in the form of still and moving images to explore questions of erasure, silence and loss. Some interrogate history and memory and the unstable space that lies between. While in others official histories and memories collide. Yet other films explore the themes of race and identity, migration and displacement. Combining fragments of personal, vernacular and official accounts of events they interrogate the truth claims made by images. In a moment marked by convergence, these documentaries celebrate the hybrid form and fluid boundaries between cinema and photography. As ruminations on ‘stillness’ and movement they pay homage to the photograph and its expanded role within the moving image.
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River Lin – ‘Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara’
Curated by Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
River Lin offers a reflection on cycles of waking and sleeping, presence and absence, transience, and labor in his durational performance Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara. As the title suggests, the piece also gives a sly nod to two artistic forebears “from” Asia, Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara, whose work have also taken the marking of the passage of time as one of their prime tasks.
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Maya Krishna Rao – ‘Loose Woman’
Loose Woman is the travels of a woman through and across media. What makes her loose is as much to do with the world around her, to the stuff that flows within her and, as mediated by, conjured, coaxed and driven by different mediums – theatre, sound, and camera.
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Out of Turn | Live Acts
Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
In bringing together the present selection of artists and exhibition materials, this project draws attention to the practice of performance in Asia, and especially in South Asia, gathering a multi-generational group of artists to underscore its evolution over the decades.
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Between and Betwixt
Curated By Goa Artists’ Collective
In-betweenness of Betwixt and Between situation is related to liminality, is intermediary, transitional and hybrid. It has culturally recognised liminal state that occurs during rites of passage or transition.
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Digital Heritage Play Lab
This project presents ‘digital heritage’ experiences inspired by Goa. The Digital Heritage Play Lab encourages people to explore Goan heritage through emergent media experiences and platforms. We are surrounded by objects, places and practices that have been a part of the quintessential Goan household and community for centuries. The exhibit is a medley of heritage projects in immersive media and interactive storytelling showcasing works by three research and design collectives—Quicksand, Tandem, and Greenhouse—that work at the intersection of art, design, and technology.
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Out of Turn
In bringing together the present selection of artists and exhibition materials, this project draws attention to the practice of performance in Asia, and especially in South Asia, gathering a multi-generational group of artists to underscore its evolution over the decades.
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Dharti Arts Residency
This exhibition will showcase the work for four artists who were selected to be a part of a 3-month residency facilitated by Serendipity Arts Foundation. This residency, in its second cycle, was based equally in theory and practice, allowing the artists to create and collaborate with a group of their peers, and to connect with the artist community at large. In addition to the artists, this year, the residency also has a critic in residence.
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Young Subcontinent: Sightlines
A Serendipity Arts Foundation Initiative
Through the last two editions, the Young Subcontinent (YS) project attempted to chart the contours and sightlines of South Asian art imagination and art practice, illustrating and celebrating the lines of convergence, the commonalities in historical experiences, the entanglements of its cultural roots, and most crucially, its shared aspirations and dreams. These tapestries of art practices from across the continent meditated upon and mediated the complex social, religious and political spheres of life in the subcontinent. The geopolitical dynamics of South Asia is subject to several local, regional, national, and global factors.
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The Sacred Everyday: Embracing the Risk of Difference
Curated By Ranjit Hoskote
This exhibition project for the Serendipity Arts Festival 2018 will be developed around the proposition of ‘the sacred everyday’ – the interrelationship between the domain of the divine, iconic, cosmic and sublime on the one hand, and the realm of the human, intimate, domestic and quotidian on the other. This interrelationship is articulated through ritual and festivity, vernacular translations, and the interplay of the sacred and the profane – which, in Indian culture, are not stark opposites, but two dynamic and interactive poles on a sliding spectrum of possibilities.
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My Colour On Your Plate
Curated by Subodh Gupta
The curatorial concept informing the exhibition, “My Colour on Your Plate”, is to use the idea of a “map” as a metaphor, rather than a literal image. It seeks to move beyond the practical history and function of maps as the representation of territory and the boundaries of nation states, towards the way maps embody our desires, as a society and as individuals, to constantly make, unmake and remake our own identities. It also attempts to explore our relationship- as human beings, artists, citizens- to the familiar and the unfamiliar, the Self and the Other. Experienced and perceived through various kinds of difference and similarity it will seek to look for what we hold in common, as well as what we struggle to communicate across limits and distances.
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