Festival Schedule
Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Arts Practices | October 30 – November 01, 2019
DAY 1 : WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019
11: 00 AM - 01:00 PM
Workshop | Thinking Audiences
Decoding Intimacy, Desire and Affect | Mandeep Singh Raikhy
(Registration Only)
11: 00 AM – 01:00 PM
Workshop | Confluence of Forms
The Jumping Project | Preethi Athreya
(By Registration Only)
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Inaugural Performance | V Venkataraju
Foyer, Ground Floor
04:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Opening Keynote Address
Artists in Troubled Times: Past Present | Sunil Shanbag
Auditorium
05:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Interrogating Pasts
This panel will discuss 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.
Padmini Chettur, Pushpamala N, Sarbajit Sen, Sharanya Ramprakash, Susnato Chowdhury
Jonathan Barlow (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
07:30 PM – 09:15 PM
Performance | Confluence of Forms
Black Hole | Jyoti Dogra
Language: English, Hindi
Auditorium
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Photography | Engaging Communities
Let's Sing an Old Song | Soumya Sankar Bose
Saanchi Gallery
Photography | Engaging Communities
Hold Nothing Dear: Armenians of Calcutta | Alakananda Nag
Saanchi Gallery
New Media | Confluence of Forms
A Museum of Dubious Splendors | Dhruv Jani
Foyer, Second Floor
Photography | Thinking Audiences
Men of Pukar | Abul Kalam Azad
Saanchi Gallery
Music | Interrogating Pasts
The Scholar Musician and the Seni Ustads: Snapshots from a personal archive | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Principal Collaborator: Lakshmi Subramanian
Foyer, Second Floor
There will be a 30 minute guided tour led by Lakshmi Subramanian at 11:00 AM and 03:00 PM on October 31 and November 01, 2019
Graphic Novel | Interrogating Pasts
Ramblings | Sarbajit Sen
Saanchi Gallery
Video Installation | Making Meanings of Myths
Maniyara | Ranjini Krishnan
Foyer, First Floor
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DAY 2 : THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Confluence of Forms
This panel will discuss new possibilities with active dialogue between diverse art forms to influence and nurture each other,
Barun Chattopadhyay, Jyoti Dogra, Madhuja Mukherjee, Umashankar Mantravadi
Justin McCarthy (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Performance | Engaging Communities
Ema-Gi Wari (Stories of my mother) | Ronidkumar Chingangbam (Akhu)
Seminar Room 1 and 2
02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Thinking Audiences
This panel will discuss how audiences shape art making and encourage artists to chart new paths.
Bassu Khan, Bikram Ghosh, Deepa Rajkumar, Mandeep Singh Raikhy, Rajkumar Rajak
Neelam Man Singh (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
04:30 PM – 06:30 PM
Panel Discussion | Engaging Communities
This panel will discuss art projects that engage community knowledge systems and enquires into community identity/ies.
Alakananda Nag, Ekta Mittal, Soumya Sankar Bose, Sumona Chakravarty
Sumana Chandrashekar (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
07:00 PM – 08:00 PM
Performance | Making Meanings of Myths
Songs from Snakes | Shena Gamat
Language: English, Hindi
Auditorium
FILM SCREENINGS
Board Room
10:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Lorni The Flaneur | Interrogating Pasts
Wanphrang Diengdoh
Intervals, Departures, The Journey | Confluence of Forms
Anitha Balachandran
02:00 PM- 04:00 PM
The Common Task | Imagining Futures
Pallavi Paul and Sahej Rahal
Transformer Room | Confluence of Forms
Avik Mukhopadhayay
04:30 PM – 06:00 PM
Bela | Confluence of Forms
Prantik Basu
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Photography | Engaging Communities
Let's Sing an Old Song | Soumya Sankar Bose
Saanchi Gallery
Photography | Engaging Communities
Hold Nothing Dear: Armenians of Calcutta | Alakananda Nag
Saanchi Gallery
New Media | Confluence of Forms
A Museum of Dubious Splendors | Dhruv Jani
Foyer, Second Floor
Photography | Thinking Audiences
Men of Pukar | Abul Kalam Azad
Saanchi Gallery
Music | Interrogating Pasts
The Scholar Musician and the Seni Ustads: Snapshots from a personal archive | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Principal Collaborator: Lakshmi Subramanian
Foyer, Second Floor
There will be a 30 minute guided tour led by Lakshmi Subramanian at 11:00 AM and 03:00 PM on October 31 and November 01, 2019
Graphic Novel | Interrogating Pasts
Ramblings | Sarbajit Sen
Saanchi Gallery
Video Installation | Making Meanings of Myths
Maniyara | Ranjini Krishnan
Foyer, First Floor
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DAY 3 : FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2019
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Making Meanings of Myths
This panel will discuss the many explorations of myths in art making that seek larger truths for our lived experiences.
Deepika Arwind, George Mathen (Appupen), Ranjini Krishnan, S Murugaboopathy, Shena Gamat, Gitanjali Rao (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Performance | Imagining Futures
A Musical Performance: Experiencing Noori | Kavish Seth
Foyer, First Floor
02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Panel Discussion | Imagining Futures
This panel will discuss creative articulations of our imagined collective futures.
Anurupa Roy, Pallavi Paul, Rajiv Krishnan, Ranjana Pandey, Sahej Rahal, Sanjay Kak (Moderator)
Seminar Room 1
04:00 PM – 04:45 PM
Performance | Interrogating Pasts
Vithu Mazha – Songs of the Women Warikari Poets | Shruthi Vishwanath
Foyer, First Floor
05:00 PM – 05:45 PM
Performance | Interrogating Pasts
A Reading of Excerpts from Muktidham | Abhishek Majumdar
Language: Hindi
Seminar Room 2
06:00 PM – 06:45 PM
Closing Keynote Address
Rangabhoomiya Hudukaata (In Search of Theatre) | B Jayashree
Auditorium
07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
Performance | Thinking Audiences
Rakshas | Bikram Ghosh
Language: Hindi
Auditorium
FILM SCREENINGS
Board Room
10:00 AM – 01:00 PM
The Common Task | Imagining Futures
Pallavi Paul and Sahej Rahal
Bela | Confluence of Forms
Prantik Basu
02:00 PM – 05:30 PM
Lorni The Flaneur | Interrogating Pasts
Wanphrang Diengdoh
Transformer Room | Confluence of Forms
Avik Mukhopadhayay
Intervals, Departures, The Journey | Confluence of Forms
Anitha Balachandran
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Photography | Engaging Communities
Let's Sing an Old Song | Soumya Sankar Bose
Saanchi Gallery
Photography | Engaging Communities
Hold Nothing Dear: Armenians of Calcutta | Alakananda Nag
Saanchi Gallery
New Media | Confluence of Forms
A Museum of Dubious Splendors | Dhruv Jani
Foyer, Second Floor
Photography | Thinking Audiences
Men of Pukar | Abul Kalam Azad
Saanchi Gallery
Music | Interrogating Pasts
The Scholar Musician and the Seni Ustads: Snapshots from a personal archive | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Principal Collaborator: Lakshmi Subramanian
Foyer, Second Floor
There will be a 30 minute guided tour led by Lakshmi Subramanian at 11:00 AM and 03:00 PM on October 31 and November 01, 2019
Graphic Novel | Interrogating Pasts
Ramblings | Sarbajit Sen
Saanchi Gallery
Video Installation | Making Meanings of Myths
Maniyara | Ranjini Krishnan
Foyer, First Floor