কলিকাতার নকশি-কথা/ Kolikata r Nakshi-kotha (Sketches and Stories of Kolkata): An On-Site Immersive Media Installation by Madhuja Mukherjee | November 18 - December 18, 2022

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH)
invite you to
কলিকাতার নকশি-কথা/ Kolikata r Nakshi-kotha (Sketches and Stories of Kolkata)
An on-site immersive media installation by Madhuja Mukherjee

November 18 to December 18, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
on all days except Monday

Calcutta Gallery, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Victoria Memorial Hall, 1, Queens Way, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071

Exhibition Inauguration: November 18, 2022 | 05:00 PM

কলিকাতার নকশি-কথা/ Kolikata r Nakshi-kotha (Sketches and Stories of Kolkata) is an on-site immersive media installation (33 mins, single channel video, projected on curved screen) that will be on view at the historic Calcutta Gallery, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata for a month. We invite you to the exhibition and its inauguration on November 18 at 05:00 PM with a screening of the film, followed by a conversation between geographer Keya Dasgupta with Madhuja Mukherjee. 

Kolikata r Nakshi-kotha retraces the course of the ‘Old (or Adi) Ganga’, a riverway in Bengal rendered into oblivion. Adi Ganga was ‘developed’ as Tolly’s canal (in 1777), flowing quietly through the heart of the city, via Kalighat, towards the ‘South’ and the ‘West’ – taking multiple detours. This waterway becomes both the route and a method of revisiting the city. In the course of moving with a camera, one registers a parallel rhythm of life, which persists on the colonial debris and present-day insolvency.

This exhibition is the final outcome of the Foundation Project by Madhuja Mukherjee titled Route 033 implemented by IFA in collaboration with VMH. Route 033 is a creative project with photographs, images, videos, sounds, voices and noise – a provocation to reroute our pathways and remap the city of Calcutta/ Kolkata.

Madhuja Mukherjee is Professor of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She extends her research into art-practice and filmmaking.

Keya Dasgupta is a former faculty at the University of Burdwan and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her research interests centre around urban spaces, its social transformation in contemporary Calcutta and its representation through urban cartography in colonial Calcutta.

Image Credit: Madhuja Mukherjee, View of Alipore Nodal Point, Tolly's Nullah

Madhuja Mukherjee is Project Coordinator of the Foundation Project, implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under their Archives and Museums programme, in collaboration with Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) Kolkata. This has been made possible with part-support from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi.