Application Deadline: May 7, 2023 at 11:59 pm IST
The curator-in-residence will be selected by nomination
The curator-in-residence will contextualize the residency and curate the Open Studio at the end of the residency. The artists-in-residence and the curator-in-residence will have the opportunity to regularly engage with each other, discuss their practice, conceptual ideas and specific details about their works for the residency.
Residents will be provided furnished accommodation and access to a studio space. Besides a basic monthly per diem for meals, they will also be entitled to a production grant to cover purchase of material, implements, additional technical support as well as support for hiring musician/ script writer/ costume/ set, etc. The Foundation will provide assistance in the implementation of the artist’s projects, supply technical infrastructure, and build publicity for events organized around the residency. It will also help residents contact curators, artists, critics, gallery owners, workshop facilitators, etc., they are keen to reach out to. The residency then becomes a platform for artists to build networks and interact with professional possibilities within the art world.
Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and is the founder-director of the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme offered by the Australia Council for the Arts, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.
Sanchayan Ghosh received his Masters in Fine Arts from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan and currently works as an Associate Professor, Department of Painting, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He was a Charles Walles Fellow in 2003. Over the years, Sanchayan has been interested in site-specific art as a public engagement in transit and has done extensive work on space designing in collaboration with different experimental and contemporary performances in India. He involves pedagogy as practice in public or community situations, where he generates a collective process of working and learning through workshops that is interactive and participatory. He re-engages with the notion of research from a multifaceted reciprocal conversation to emerge inter disciplinary crossover of multiple practices and generate critical dialogue around land, landscape transformation, labour and practice.
Sahej Rahal is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs, that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction, rendering scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilization. Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions includes the Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, CCA Glasgow. He is the recipient of the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, the Digital Earth Fellowship, and the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK.
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