For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will seek to spatialise the narratives of the Women of Vaastukala Archive through a focused body of layered drawings and analytical diagrams. Tentatively titled Listening to Draw: Annotating the Women of Vastukala Archive, this project through listening of the oral history recording of a selected group of practitioners across generations, will develop a series of timeline diagrams and comparative typological plates. The outcomes of this project will be eight to ten analytical and narrative drawing plates as digital files, four to five large format physical prints for display, a printed research booklets and a digital publication. The Project Coordinator’s final deliverables to IFA, along with the reports will be copies of the drawing plates, digital or physical copies of the prints, copies of the research booklet and soft-copies of the digital publication. This is a collaboration with the Women of Vaastukala Archive, an online oral history archive. The Project funds will pay for contract fees, printing, travel and living, subscription to software, archive and library fee, documentation and purchase of books.
For the making of a short film that explores the impact on education and shifts in the lives and work of teachers, who are compelled to use digital technology and the internet to teach during the pandemic. A series of interviews with teachers whose lives have been disrupted will be conducted in and around Jaipur. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be the film. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, equipment hire and local conveyance.
For research towards a book and an exhibition on the impact of the Rajasthan government’s policy on and patronage of public art projects in Jaipur. The book will examine the reasons for the surge in state-commissioned public art works in the last ten years and how these works reflect a larger political and cultural ideology. The effect of each new government’s changing policy on the content, form and location of public art projects in the city will also be studied. The exhibition will include photographs and a map of public art projects in Jaipur.
