Would you like to experience an auditory bus ride across Bangalore, complete with horns, traffic, and chit-chat? In ‘201 Bus Project’, Rukmini Swaminathan creates soundscapes in Bangalore with intertwined sounds of traffic, songs and snatches of conversations to evoke the eerie stillness that descended upon us during the COVID-19 outbreak...
Would you like to play a game that invites you to protect, revive and transform the lakes in Bangalore? Once There Was a Lake by Chanakya Vyas is an interactive online game that chronicles the oral histories, mythologies, anecdotes and official records of the lakes in the city...
What do you see the Internet as? A space for unrestraint fun? A secret garden to connect with people from all over the world? An eternal source of wisdom? A scary tunnel? Or is it something else? A wide variety of exciting outcomes and conversations around our relationships with the internet and its complexities from a two-day festival titled 25x25 GOING LIVE!...
Gamestorming Narratives: a conversation with Dhruv Jani, Gayatri Kodikal, Vishal K Dar (discussant), and Avinash Kumar (moderator) engages with gaming as a form of artistic expression | City as Playground: a conversation with Vaibhav Dutt, Sumona Chakravarty, Nilanjan Das, and Sumana Chandrashekar (moderator) explores how artists use play as a means to address cities’ systemic problems | Learning through Play: a conversation in Kannada with Ningu Solagi, Keerthivathi, and Krishna Murthy TN focuses on why play matters in children's learning and education with reflections from their extensive teaching experience...
Seevbalak's Echochamber by Priya Sen is an installation using text, sound, and projections at the AIIS Archive & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in Gurgaon | Dastan ek Talib ki ('Story of a Seeker') by Kafeel Jafri is a Dastangoi performance that explores the idea of the archive as a space for memory and history...
Hejjegalu is an annual publication in Kannada supported under the Kali Kalisu programme of IFA, featuring grantees and their projects and the larger story of arts education in India | Folklore and Oral Traditions in Classrooms: Savita Uday in conversation with Krishna Murthy TN is conversation organised by IFA under its Throwback Thursdays with IFA series with Savita Uday and Antara Mukherjee from a not-for-profit organisation called Buda Folklore located in the Uttara Kannada region in Karnataka...
OBJECTSPEAK is an online platform for sharing visuals and mini-stories about objects and to build an ongoing online archive of items that are handmade or produced for different contexts and purposes, of origin prior to mid-20th century from all over the world | Children’s Books from Bengal: A Documentation by Gargi Gangopadhyay is a website featuring visual and bibliographical documentation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Bengali children’s books...
F-1/105 by Mohit Takaldar of Aasakta Kalamanch weaves the personal and the political, the physical and the psychological, and takes you through stunning revelations of the colour 'green' | S*x, M*rality and Cens*rship tells the story of Vijay Tendulkar’s controversial theatre classic Sakharam Binder which was attacked by the censor board and by sections of society...
With this project, Amit attempts to push the boundaries of cinema by juxtaposing it with ideas from philosophy, visual art, chess, mathematics, geometry, linguistics and psychology | A Kannada adaptation of the play Interior written by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Directed by Sankar Venkateswaran, Antharanga revolves around the theme of conflict between life and death...
Contemporary Dance in India Today: A Survey, an extensive report on the contemporary dance ecosystem in India was produced by Annette Leday, a leading choreographer, director trained in France and India, as a commission of the National Dance Center, Paris (Centre National de la Danse) in 2019 | Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices, a three-day arts festival organised by IFA in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre (BIC) in 2019 brought together a diverse line-up of projects supported under the Arts Practice programme in the past five years...
