Throwback Thursday #2 | Where the Birds Never Sing | In Conversation with Soumya Sankar Bose | June 11, 2020 | 06:00 PM
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
invites you to
Where the Birds Never Sing:
A Photographic Project on the Memories of a Massacre
Soumya Sankar Bose
in conversation with John Xaviers
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Throwback Thursdays with IFA
Thursday, June 11, 2020 | 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Zoom
As the lockdown and call for physical distancing continue, we at IFA, are discovering new ways of engaging with technology and online platforms to share the work of our grantees. We are delighted to introduce a virtual series of conversations, film screenings, and performances titled Throwback Thursdays with IFA, where everyone is welcome.
In our second session of the series, we present Where the Birds Never Sing: A Photographic Project on the Memories of a Massacre, where Soumya Sankar Bose will be in conversation with John Xaviers, Programme Officer, Arts Practice, IFA.
Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose received a grant from IFA, under the Arts Practice programme towards the making of a photo-book on the memories of the massacre of Marichjhapi in 2018.
This project titled Where the Birds Never Sing recently also received the FICA Amol Vadehra Art Grant 2019-2020.
It is an ongoing body of work on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bangladeshi refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease. The project blurs the boundaries between documentary and staged photographs while creating awareness about a historical event, the documentary evidence of which has been systematically destroyed.
Join us as Soumya Sankar Bose shares from his work that brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this historic event that is facing slow erasure from the memory of people.
Click here and register to join us on zoom. It will also be streamed live across our social media platforms.
In our second session of the series, we present Where the Birds Never Sing: A Photographic Project on the Memories of a Massacre, where Soumya Sankar Bose will be in conversation with John Xaviers, Programme Officer, Arts Practice, IFA.
Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose received a grant from IFA, under the Arts Practice programme towards the making of a photo-book on the memories of the massacre of Marichjhapi in 2018.
This project titled Where the Birds Never Sing recently also received the FICA Amol Vadehra Art Grant 2019-2020.
It is an ongoing body of work on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bangladeshi refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease. The project blurs the boundaries between documentary and staged photographs while creating awareness about a historical event, the documentary evidence of which has been systematically destroyed.
Join us as Soumya Sankar Bose shares from his work that brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this historic event that is facing slow erasure from the memory of people.
Click here and register to join us on zoom. It will also be streamed live across our social media platforms.
(If you would like to listen to the recording of the first session in the series where Poornima Sukumar, Shanthi and Chandri from the Aravani Arts Collective are in conversation with Sumana Chandrashekar, click on We Exist: Trans-ing the City)