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.
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.
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.
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.
Curated by Ravi Agarwal
The Travelling Dome is conducting five ecology walks around Panjim city. The region lies in the midst of rivers, beaches, wetlands, mangroves, creeks and springs. This fascinating watershed area supports a variety of plants, birds, reptiles and aquatic creatures. Your participation shall help in calling attention to these fragile ecosystems that are key to sustainable living. Participants shall visit different ecosystems to experience its rich biodiversity and to understand the vital ‘eco services’ they provide. We shall discuss how these ecosystems work, what are the threats to it and what remedial actions can help in preserving them.
Curated by Ravi Agarwal
The workshop is a space to explore the changing nature, through the medium of photography. Binaries between documentary and fiction, new and old media, fantasy and realism, still and moving image have collapsed. The photographer in the contemporary moment is working in this radically different landscape; a new visual culture that calls for multiplicity of photographic forms. Production and consumption of millions of images a day has almost made us immune to its effects.
Curated by Ravi Agarwal
New urban spaces are creating fresh contestations of global capital and local realities. The idea of the urban has been defined outside the rural as a divide, even as society seamlessly flows between them. Carved out of terrains of multiple inhabitations, what was once ecological is becoming polluted, gentrified or destroyed. The project highlights the clash of imaginaries of the ‘urban’ as a means to help rethink them.
Curated by Ravi Agarwal
It had been proclaimed that the photograph is dead, yet it thrives, as it morphs itself to the ever shifting contemporary. In many senses it is irreplaceable. Like ‘truth’ has reinvented itself, so has the photograph – only the ‘reality’ it refers to has changed. In the post-truth technoshpere, the photograph as a singular medium has been transformed by technology for some time now. The still photograph coexists with the moving image, sound and even animation, all of which are possible through a single device, and which is not only the classical camera, but can be a computer, a mobile phone, a spy cam, or a remote sensor placed almost anywhere.
Curated by Rahaab Allana
The history of photography in India presents some unexplored and unexpected gaps. One of the most understudied concepts is that of ‘vernacular’ photography – a term often applied to quotidian images, which in India, given its colonial connotations, has been amended by visual anthropologists such as Christopher Pinney with the term mofussil, or that which lies outside the centre and besides the strictly metropolitan. The colloquial referencing of ‘vernacular’ focuses heavily on that which is ‘native,’ as distinguished from the ‘national.’ Hence, the focus on local, community-oriented, marginalised zones that may represent elided traditions come to the fore as viable parameters within which the term is broadly understood.
Curated By Coke Studio
The popular series comes back to Serendipity Arts Festival with its signature mix of fusion music. The Clinton Cerejo band features Clinton Cerejo, along with accomplished vocalists Bianca Gomes and Sudeep Jaipurwale. Together with some of the country’s finest live musicians, this power packed trio create magic on stage with a high energy set comprising the best of Coke Studio.
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