Jothi Xavier, Yousuf Saeed & Epsita Haldar | Feb 13 & 14, 2015 | Ahmedabad & Lucknow

Ahmedabad | February 13, 2015

An exhibition, New Developments in Warli Art  in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, curated by our grantee, Jothi F. Xavier. The exhibition will be followed by a panel discussion on the subject. Friday | February 13, 2015 04:00 PM | Inauguration 07:00 PM | Panel discussion Natarani, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad. Exhibition on view till February 15, 2015 10:00 AM to 08:00 PM Panelists: Amit Ambalal, Arvind Ghosalkar, Esther David, Jothi Xavier, Fr. Rappai Poothokaren, Sujit Bhurkud, Dominic Malkari

Jothi F. Xavier is an independent art historian based in Baroda. Jothi’s interest in Warli Art deepened when he had an opportunity to organize a workshop with Warli artists back in 2008. This brought him in contact with the new generation of Warli artists in the Talasari mission.

The Warli tribe in Thane is spread out across the villages of Dahanu, Talasari, Mokhada, Vada, and Palghara among others. The traditional visual arts practice of this region is commonly known as Warli art, painted on mud, charcoal and cow dung-based surfaces with white paint, and decorated with red and yellow dots. As per scholars/historians, the genesis of Warli art can be traced back to pre-historic times. Jothi, through this project is looking to critique the existing framework and develop a new theoretical structure for writing and curating tribal art in India.

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Natrani: 079 2755 6669

Lucknow | February 13 & 14, 2015

Presentations by two of our grantees, Yousuf Saeed and Epsita Haldar At the third edition of the Lucknow Literary Festival Scientific Convention Centre,  KGMU Chowk, Lucknow Friday | February 13, 2015 | 04:45 PM Tasveer-e-Urdu: Historical and socio-political relevance of printed images from popular Urdu literature of early 20th century by Yousuf Saeed Saturday | February 14, 2015 | 05:15 PM Pain as Piety: Glimpses of Muharram from West Bengal by Epsita Halder

Yousuf Saeed, a Delhi-based filmmaker, an author and archivist, talks about his project, Tasveer-e-Urdu. It examines the historical and socio-political relevance of printed images from popular Urdu literature produced in the first half of the 20th century, and the stories they reveal of Urdu's transformation from a language, reflecting the cultural plurality of North India, to one associated with Islam.

Epsita Halder, a professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata will present glimpses of Muharram from West Bengal through a presentation on her study of the varied renderings of the narrative of the Karbala Battle as recounted by Shia Muslims across different districts of West Bengal during the holy month of Muharram. She is also a prolific poet in Bangla, and a novelist and a columnist for the Ananda Bazar Patrika.

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Tanveer: +91 98803 00118

All three grants were supported by IFA under its Arts Research and Documentation programme.