Ten years ago, a student at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) asked one of his teachers – Prof. Ramnath Narayanswamy – “Why not a course on arts, business and ethics for management students?” Prof. Narayanswamy was impressed with the idea and turned to IFA for help in designing and offering such a programme. Since then, students at IIMB have been signing up in large numbers every year for a ten-week course called Tracking Creative Boundaries (TCB)...
IFA has a new public face in the form of the recently-launched arts magazine, ArtsConnect. We hope the magazine will reflect and celebrate the multi-disciplinary, eclectic and process-oriented nature of the work we have supported over the years. Our two hundredth grant has just gone out – before us now is a huge fund of ideas, objects and materials to draw upon and invite reflection on through the magazine. At the centre, of course, will be voices –not dry, impersonal ones but those speaking from the midst of the field or from the messy centre of art-making...
2007 ends with our Extending Arts Practice programme opening itself out to projects that look at contemporary art-making practices from the artist‟s point of view. Filmmaker Amit Dutta who is exploring the life and death of Gond artist, Jangarh Singh Shyam, is aware of the tentative nature of his questions and at the same time their crucial implication for his own practice...
