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.