IFA@Bangalore | Festival | Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices | October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
in collaboration with
Bangalore International Centre
presents

Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices
OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 01, 2019

Be Present at Past Forward

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is delighted to invite you to Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices, an arts festival brought to you by IFA in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre over three days on October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019 at Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore. 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.

As we count down, check out the events planned under its themes Confluence of Forms and Thinking Audiences at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices

Confluence of Forms
Art forms have always existed and thrived in each other's company. They have evolved through mutual influence and nurturing. Artists working in specific art forms often engage in others to challenge themselves, make experiments, learn new skills or get inspired with unusual possibilities of outcomes. The projects showcased under this theme were in part born out of the desire to see the results of two or more forms in conversation with each other. While some of these projects borrow and build through their respective techniques and methodologies, others provoke new ways of looking at making work. Engage with this theme through film, dance, art, theatre and music.
Works of the following grantees will be showcased:
Panel Discussion: Barun Chattopadhyay, Jyoti Dogra, Madhuja Mukherjee, Umashankar Mantravadi, Justin McCarthy (Moderator)
Exhibition: Dhruv Jani
Performance: Jyoti Dogra
Film Screening: Anitha Balachandran, Avik Mukhopadhayay, Prantik Basu
Workshop: Preethi Athreya

Thinking Audiences
Far from being passive consumers, the audiences have always played a powerful role in shaping the trajectory of arts practices. They have encouraged practitioners to chart new paths, discover new content and find new ways of communicating it to the larger world. Practitioners too, on their part, have tried in many ways to break boundaries with their audiences and make them integral to their work. Some of the projects showcased here have attempted to build new audiences, enabled wider public access to their work and embraced audiences as active participants in their work. Engage with this theme through dance, art, theatre and music.
Works of the following grantees will be showcased:
Panel Discussion: Bassu Khan, Bikram Ghosh, Deepa Rajkumar, Mandeep Singh Raikhy, Neelam Man Singh (Moderator)
Exhibition: Abul Kalam Azad
Performance: Bikram Ghosh
Workshop: Mandeep Singh Raikhy

Click here for details on other themes – Interrogating Pasts and Imagining Futures.

Stay tuned for details of exciting events planned under other themes at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices!

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.