IFA@Bangalore | DAY 1 at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices | Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Make your way to Bangalore International Centre (BIC) and spend the day with us at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices! A three day arts festival brought to you by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre (BIC) on October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019. This festival brings together over 40 diverse artistic expressions under six themes of Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Engaging Communities, Making Meanings of Myths, Thinking Audiences and Imagining Futures through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions.
Be Present at #PastForward today to catch an exciting range of events from a nadaswaram performance to a keynote address by Sunil Shanbag and a discussion interrogating pasts to a performance exploring the idea of the ‘black hole’.
Here is the schedule for today.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
11: 00 AM – 01:00 PM
Workshop | Thinking Audiences
Decoding Intimacy, Desire and Affect | Mandeep Singh Raikhy
(Registration Only)
11: 00 AM – 01:00 PM
Workshop | Confluence of Forms
The Jumping Project | Preethi Athreya
(By Registration Only)
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Inaugural Performance | V Venkataraju
Foyer, Ground Floor
04:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Opening Keynote Address
Artists in Troubled Times: Past Present | Sunil Shanbag
Auditorium
05:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Interrogating Pasts
This panel will discuss the multiple paths artists have traversed to converse with diverse pasts to cherish, challenge and re-interpret it, while creating art in the present times.
Padmini Chettur, Pushpamala N, Sarbajit Sen, Sharanya Ramprakash, Susnato Chowdhury
Jonathan Barlow (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
07:30 PM – 09:15 PM
Performance | Confluence of Forms
Black Hole | Jyoti Dogra
Language: English, Hindi
Auditorium
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Photography | Engaging Communities
Let's Sing an Old Song | Soumya Sankar Bose
Saanchi Gallery
Photography | Engaging Communities
Hold Nothing Dear: Armenians of Calcutta | Alakananda Nag
Saanchi Gallery
New Media | Confluence of Forms
A Museum of Dubious Splendors | Dhruv Jani
Foyer, Second Floor
Photography | Thinking Audiences
Men of Pukar | Abul Kalam Azad
Saanchi Gallery
Music | Interrogating Pasts
The Scholar Musician and the Seni Ustads: Snapshots from a personal archive | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Principal Collaborator: Lakshmi Subramanian
Foyer, Second Floor
Graphic Novel | Interrogating Pasts
Ramblings | Sarbajit Sen
Saanchi Gallery
Video Installation | Making Meanings of Myths
Maniyara | Ranjini Krishnan
Foyer, First Floor
Click here for the full schedule.
We would like to thank our philanthropy partners – Bangalore International Centre, Biocon Limited, C. Krishniah Chetty Group Of Jewellers, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, RMZ Foundation, Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation, and Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao; and outreach partner – Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, for supporting this festival.
Please note that the festival is free and open to all. The auditorium has limited seating capacity and seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Do plan your arrival accordingly.
For guests arriving by car, please note there is limited parking at the venue. And, if you are taking an Ola/Uber to the venue, please enter "Bangalore International Centre New Building" on the address bar.
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