Festival Archives

Curated by Siddhant Shah

The Festival believes and works toward making art accessible to all. In collaboration with Siddhant Shah, Serendipity Arts Festival organises the Senses programme for the less abled. Senses 2.0 is programmed with workshops and curated walks for the disabled and with workshops for audiences that work as sensitisation workshops.

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Curated By Orijit Sen

Mapping Mapusa Market is an installation by artist Orijit Sen that has originated from a project that the artist has worked on since 2013, involving explorations of the old Mapusa market in North Goa. These explorations involve a mix of visual documentation, socio-historical mapping and graphic narration, and delve into the social, cultural and economic functions of that the market performs for the people of Goa.

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Curated by C.S. Venkiteswaran

Arrivals and Departures brings together a selection of contemporary Asian films that explore and excavate various layers of contemporary life – of personal experiences and dreams, social dilemmas and conflicts, and confrontations with tradition and modernity. The selection includes films of young directors from China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. The daily matinee showcase will be followed by a discussion.

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Curated by Vidya Shivadas

Using Mary Douglas’s famous statement “Dirt is Matter out Place”, this exhibition looks at the displacements that occur when artists work with the aesthetics of waste, foreground its materials and politics, turning it into figure of radical indeterminacy.

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Curated by Riyas Komu

The Young Subcontinent project will showcase the works of young, emerging artists from across the Indian subcontinent. The project aims to retrieve the shared histories and pasts of the countries that constitute the subcontinent, and which now lie under the debris of contemporary political events and man-made borders.

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This exhibition will showcase the work of six artists who were selected to be part of a 3-month long residency facilitated by Serendipity Arts Trust. This holistic and thematic residency was based equally in theory and practice, allowing for artists to create and collaborate with a group of their peers, and to connect with the community at large.

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A collaboration between Serendipity Arts Trust, Asia Art Archive & HH Art Spaces

Serendipity Arts Festival is pleased to present The Ground Beneath My Feet, an exhibition of cutting edge performance art from around the world.

Situated on a barge docked at Captain of Ports Jetty on the Mandovi River in Goa, the exhibition explores the rapidly transforming relationship between human bodies, their natural environments, and technological infrastructures.

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Curated by Vivek Menezes

Now You See It!: The Invisible River of Konkani Surrealism foregrounds interconnected dialogues that  distinguish Goa’s artists, and their profound –  yet barely recognized –  contributions to  the modern and contemporary art landscape of the subcontinent. It includes thirty artists from Laxman Pai and Vamona Navelcar in their 90’s to Vineeta Chendvankar and Bhisaji Ghanekar in their 20’s, whose works represent the entire gamut of mediums and individual practices.

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Curated by Subodh Kerkar

Reimagining Gandhi is an attempt to engage with the Gandhian thought through various forms of artistic expressions. Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings of truth, non-violence and compassion are eternal and need to be imbibed in every individual. Gandhi’s teachings have inspired not just political figures like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, but also scientists like Albert Einstein and business leaders such as Steve Jobs.

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Curated By Orijit Sen

Mapping Mapusa Market is an installation by artist Orijit Sen that has originated from a project that the artist has worked on since 2013, involving explorations of the old Mapusa market in North Goa. These explorations involve a mix of visual documentation, socio-historical mapping and graphic narration, and delve into the social, cultural and economic functions of that the market performs for the people of Goa.

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Fratelli has specially commissioned a project using recycled glass bottles. Artist Hemi Bawa depicts the journey of grape to wine, and the life of a vineyard.

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Curated by St+Art India Foundation

St+art Goa will bring a diverse range of public art interventions Goa. Ranging from murals, billboards and cut outs, the festival will see some of the most renowned international and local street and public art talent.

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Curated by Ranjit Hoskote

This exhibition will engage with a spectrum of ways in which artists in late-colonial, postcolonial and contemporary India have addressed the challenge of a present that is always saturated in and over determined by a past or pasts. Or, as the matter may also be phrased: a spectrum of ways in which they have addressed the challenge of a past or pasts that are continually being reshaped in the present, or even as the present.

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