Curator Curioso Goa
Curioso DIY, Art & Craft Corners are creative and experiential spaces designed to get people excited about the idea of making things with their hands, even if they have no prior art or craft experience. The aim is to encourage trying something new – decoupage, abstract art, clay modeling or even just doodling. These corners are set up outdoors with access to materials, instructors and lots of hands-on time for projects.
Curated by Ayush Kasliwal
If one were to imagine a single piece of furniture that is truly Indian, it would be the charpai. The charpai is a rectangular wooden frame having four legs (hence the word char pai), with a woven fiber/ fabric as the surface. It is used across the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the hot and relatively dry regions of Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. The variant in the wet climates have a solid wooden surface. The project aims to explore the charpai from a historic and cultural point of view, and simultaneously carry it into the future by inviting leading thinkers and designers to interpret the charpai, and present it at the festival. The thematic extension of the charpai is achieved by placing them in multiple locations, positioning it in creative ways, thereby encouraging use as well as recognition of the charpai as furniture that is relevant and unique to India.
Curated By Rashmi Varma
This exhibition explores how the handmade in India is experienced through objects of utility ranging from recent innovations and artisanal expression to ubiquitous objects found in public and private spaces. Forms of shelter, furniture, floor covering, lighting, kitchen utensils and storage are imbued with story and embody thought processes, perfect-imperfections, function and aesthetic integrity extending from the creators themselves. Matters of Hand: Craft, Design and Technique exemplifies how the traditional is modern craft, both continuously in flux and moving along a continuum that embraces a dynamic past and future, resisting categorisation.
Curated by Annapurna Garimella
The Barefoot School of Craft is a unique architectural project that was initiated in the previous edition of the festival. The first stage was accomplished by creating a vision, through the selection of fifteen models in an architectural competition, which were displayed at Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017. This year, a residency in Goa with the architects from the 9th to 21st May 2018 allowed us to turn the vision into a design for a pavilion that will function as a talking, working, and collaborative space, bringing together architects, craftspeople, the curator, students of the BSC and visitors. We seek to inaugurate the pavilion prior to the festival as a space for the local community to make and buy products historic and new Goa crafts. The programme will start from 6 December 2018 and end on 10 February 2019, with workshops, pedagogical talks, and discussions taking place every week.
Craft Beer has been sweeping across India over the past decade and is here to stay.
Curated by Rahul Akerkar
Honey is one of the world’s most magical of foods- made of nectar concentrated down to a sweet stickiness by thousands of bees working together in the hive. Come learn about India’s unique honey varieties- how their taste, colour, and smell is dependent on which flower bees collect the nectar from and the soil and location where the plants grow.
Curated by Odette Mascarenhas
In every Goan village, the marketplace was the vibrant, colourful focus of every local’s daily life. Originally part of the ancient gaunkari system, it evolved into the Titya (Tinto) meaning a “market at three roads.” It was at this venue that locals would meet every morning to buy daily, essential items as well as catch on the local news, have discussions on serious issues or just gozzale (gossip).
Curated by Rahul Akerkar
Interactive, tutored workshops in understanding the relationship in the expression of coffee by comparing the outcomes of 3 different roasts and 2 different brewing techniques of the same coffee.
Curated by Rahul Akerkar
Taste and smell, particularly those which are linked to food and spices are the greatest triggers of memories. The Spice Lab will be a multi-sensory experience, exploring the way spices are combined for use in cooking; whether through dry rubs, wet grinds, oil tempering, infusions, or other ways, while also allowing visitors to share their own taste/smell memories through an interactive spice lab “tree”.
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