We are happy to announce the publication of Beyond the Proscenium: Reimagining the Space for Performance edited by Anmol Vellani. It was underwritten by a grant from the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust. Beyond the Proscenium explores how performing artists have conceived of space in performance, used existing theatre facilities imaginatively or created alternative spaces for performances. We hope this book will serve as a resource for the many people invested in enabling, creating, programming and negotiating performance infrastructure in India...
Kali-Kalisu is an arts-based training initiative for government school teachers across Karnataka. It is a joint project of IFA and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore. This is the third year of the initiative, and IFA is organising regional conferences to reinforce the work done under Kali-Kalisu. These conferences invite teachers trained under Kali-Kalisu to share and discuss their experiences. The teachers also get to observe and interact with the work being done by independent artist-educators...
We launched Big Picture II, Artists for a home for the Arts, on 04 October 2011 in Bangalore. 89 artists donated 103 artworks including paintings, sculptures, photographs and works in mixed media for this show. Renowned artist Rekha Rodwittiya opened the exhibition and was in conversation with curator Abhishek Poddar and IFA’s Deputy Director, Arundhati Ghosh, on the importance of supporting the arts. IFA is grateful to all the artists who have very generously donated artwork in support of IFA...
For the first time since IFA’s inception, two of its programme divisions—Arts Research and Documentation and Extending Arts Practice—are collaborating on a new initiative, The Archival Fellowships. This initiative aims to encourage archives to play a more dynamic role in building discourse in the arts. It supports artists to engage creatively with different archives while simultaneously enriching their own arts practice...