Video Gallery: Festival
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre (BIC) organised Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices from October 30 to November 01, 2019. Spread across disciplines such as photography, visual arts, theatre, video installation, film, gaming, graphic art, sound, music, dance and puppetry, this festival featured a diverse line-up of artists sharing their work through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, exhibitions and workshops.
We are pleased to bring the videos of some of the conversations at the festival for you to watch and share with your network.
Festival Film
Catch brief glimpses into some of the exciting events at
Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices and hear our grantees speak about the festival and their projects
supported under the Arts Practice programme.
Opening Keynote Address
Sunil Shanbag - Artists in Troubled Times: Past Present
Closing Keynote Address
B Jayashree - Rangabhoomiya Hudukaata (‘In Search of Theatre’)
Panel Discussion | Interrogating Pasts
Panelists: Padmini Chettur, Pushpamala N, Sarbajit Sen, Sharanya Ramprakash, Susnato Chowdhury
Moderator: Jonathan Barlow
This panel discussed the multiple paths artists have traversed to converse with diverse pasts
to cherish, challenge and re-interpret it, while creating art in the present times
Panel Discussion | Confluence of Forms
Panelists: Barun Chattopadhyay, Jyoti Dogra, Madhuja Mukherjee, Umashankar Mantravadi
Moderator: Justin McCarthy
This panel discussed new possibilities with active dialogue between diverse art forms
to influence and nurture each other
Panel Discussion | Engaging Communities
Panelists: Alakananda Nag, Ekta Mittal, Sumona Chakravarty, Soumya Sankar Bose
Moderator: Sumana Chandrashekhar
This panel discussed art projects that engage community knowledge systems and enquire
into community identity/ies
Panel Discussion | Making Meanings of Myths
Panelists: Deepika Arwind, George Mathen (Appupen) Ranjini Krishnan, S Murugaboopathy, Shena Gamat
Moderator: Gitanjali Rao
This panel discussed the many explorations of myths in art making that seek
larger truths for our lived experiences
Panel Discussion | Thinking Audiences
Panelists: Bikram Ghosh, Deepa Rajkumar, Mandeep Singh Raikhy, Rajkumar Rajak
Moderator: Neelam Man Singh
This panel discussed how audiences shape art making and encourage artists to chart new paths
Panel Discussion | Imagining Futures
Panelists: Anurupa Roy, Pallavi Paul, Rajiv Krishnan, Ranjana Pandey, Sahej Rahal
Moderator: Sanjay Kak
This panel discussed creative articulations of our imagined collective futures
Guided Tour
Lakshmi Subramanian
A 30 minute guided exhibition tour of The Scholar Musician and the Seni Ustads: Snapshots
from a personal archive, led by Lakshmi Subramanian
Festival Film (Short)
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.