Curated by Ravi Agarwal
Looking at the staged photograph that flits between reality and fiction, the show aims to focus on works that employ various sorts of strategies and techniques to tell their story. These could involve recreating scenes from memory, constructing elaborate sets, or telling personal encounters. Constructed sets may involve sculpted or found objects re-constructed and re-imagined as conceptual narratives.
Curated by Anurupa Roy
Shadow Play is an exploration of the technique of shadow puppets as intricate works of craft, illustrators of narratives and metaphors for good and bad. Who is good and who is bad in the oral narratives that are told with these shadows or are there only shades of grey? The exhibit includes leather shadow puppets from Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Curated by Aradhana Seth
Artist and curator, Aradhana Seth’s mobile photo studio project ‘The Merchant of Images’ is an ongoing transnational conversation, led by the act of photography. Seth invites the public into the slower, more considered space of the old-fashioned photo studio, to a time when the visit was as memorable as the image that resulted from it. The starkly realist medium of photography was always subverted and playfully tweaked by the hand of fantasy—whether through fantastic backdrops, theatrically staged poses, or by hand painting the final image to infuse it with colour.
Curated by Lina Vincent
The Goa Familia Project is conceived as an evolving archive that explores and documents the multidimensional aspects of family histories. Directed at seeking out physical material such as photographs, postcards, ancestral heirlooms and memorabilia, as well as oral and recorded histories, the archive will become a participatory space for people to contribute personal and collective stories. These stories help us reflect on the past and present in interesting ways.
Curated by The Travelling Dome
An exploration of the lived ecology of Goa through a series of walks to the source of the food, and interaction with local communities who are responsible for food production. The walk will conclude with the sampling of local food (vegetarian and non-vegetarian).
By Munem Wasif
The workshop will explore different possibilities of staged photography. Beginning with a quote by Jeff Wall, ‘I begin by not photographing’, the workshop will focus on various processes and practices of ‘Staging Situations’ divided into three chapters: As constructed narrative; performing for the camera; and stranger than fiction. The participants will travel through various historical and contemporary interventions by artists—from tableau vivant to self-portraits.
Curated by Kristine Michael
The exhibition will seek to uncover a hidden narrative of transnational modernism in ceramics and glass within a national art history, which negotiates the modern with the indigenous or traditional through a vast and varied terrain of aesthetic production post-independence. Beginning with the reworking of stylistic forms from pan Asian or European influences of Oriental and Western aesthetics, designers and NGO’s working with craft drew selectively from a range of artistic and aesthetic legacies of craft and craftsmanship, iconographic and mythological sources. This quest characterizes an important facet of the development of a modern idiom of Indian contemporary ceramics and glass.
Curated by Pramod Kumar KG
Weftscapes examines a fresh approach to the creation and making of Jamdani fabrics, both in its weaving, choice of raw materials, patterns, designs and the end-product—a finished garment. Three inherently intertwined yet disparate stories come together for the first time in this initiative. The versatility of the Jamdani weaving technique involves the use of a supplementary weft technique.
Facilitator Swagata Naidu, Rajesh Sharma And Zafar Ahmed
Gunduraju is a master puppeteer of the Togalu Gombeyatta, the leather shadow puppet theatre form from Karnataka. The session will discuss the narrative form of epics and mythology with shadow puppets. The discussion will be followed by a Q & A with the audience.
Facilitators Swagata Naidu, Rajesh Sharma And Zafar Ahmed
Visual Presentation by Swagata Naidu and Rajesh Sharma on their artistic journeys and the collaboration with craftsmen of Firozabad.
Demonstration by Rajesh Sharma and Zafar Ahmed of flame work bird and small figurine making.
Participants are welcome to try their hand at making their own bird figures and take them home!
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