Lina Vincent Sunish

Lina is a curator who has moved to Goa four years ago. Since the past six years she has been working in a multidisciplinary manner connecting research, writing, artist interactions and audience engagements in meaningful ways. She sees her role as that of a ‘mediator’ trying to shift the focus of art activities away from museums and galleries to more democratic and accessible spaces.

Lina has in the past worked with projects dealing with ‘living heritage’ and for this fellowship she intends to engage with the concept of ‘unraveling stories’ of about 10 to 15 iconic objects from the museums’ collections. Lina will explore both the past and the present of Goa through these objects and their biographies. She has limited her research to a maximum of 15 objects so that she is able to devote ample time on each during this short period of her fellowship. Besides building rich and layered narratives on the objects, Lina will also curate small mobile exhibitions outside of the museum space in order to engage with a completely new audience.         

The variety of public engagements that Lina will curate during the fellowship period will include gallery walks, workshops for children to introduce them to the history of Goan art and culture through photography and the visual arts, and repair cafes for adults that will encourage them to conserve what they have for future use. The Fellow’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be process images, audio recordings, texts and publication, if any.