Chitpur Local by Sumona Chakravarty is centered around one particular neighbourhood- known as Jatrapara, or Battala, which was the hub of popular traditions like Jatra (travelling theatre), printmaking, publishing, jewellery-making, and bamboo crafts | Myself Mohan 1909 by Shaunak Mahbubani involved a series of multi-disciplinary artistic interventions in the 100-year old Mohan building, in Chikpet, one of the busiest shopping areas of Bangalore that brought alive the biographical journey of the Mohan building...
At times a silent film, at times an intimate conversation, at times a scenographic installation, Light Doesn’t Have Arms To Carry Us by Preethi Athreya proposes a way of interpreting the music which takes it out of the realm of auditory sensation and suggests other visual phenomena in which the music resides | Across, Not Over by Vikram Iyengar, choreographed by Preethi Athreya questions and re-frames notions of classicism and beauty by presenting the dancing body as an image of itself...
Between 2008 and 2013, IFA published 13 issues of ArtConnect comprising essays, accounts, interviews and reviews on a fascinating array of subjects | Published by IFA with support from the Infosys Foundation, the book titled Embroidering Futures: Repurposing the Kantha, edited by Ritu Sethi documents the journey of kantha embroidery...
Adishakti Laboratory For Theatre Art Research is a contemporary theatre research and repertory company near Pondicherry, India. Their play titled Brhannala which premiered in 1999 takes inspiration from the Mahabharatha and focuses on the episode where Arjuna spends a year disguised as a woman | Aasakta Kalamanch is a group of contemporary theatre performers based in Pune. Their play titled Tichee 17 Prakarane is an adaption of Attempts on Her Life by the British playwright Martin Crimp...
Soumya Sankar Bose's Let’s Sing an Old Song is a body of work with photographs of Jatra artistes; Where the Birds Never Sing is his ongoing work on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bangladeshi refugees on Marichjhapi Island | Imagined Homeland by Sharbendu De is a photographic and video work on the lives of the Lisus, an indigenous forest-dwelling community located on the Indo-Myanmar border of Arunachal Pradesh | Men of Pukar by Abul Kalam Azad is the third part of a group of independent yet interconnected photographic images from his long time series titled Story of Love, Desire and Agony...
Ars Botanica by Sita Reddy is a botanical arts archive that highlights the sheer diversity of botanical motifs and designs in Indian art, craft, architecture and sculptural traditions | Tasveer-e Urdu by Yousuf Saeed is a digital archive documenting diversity in the visual print culture of Urdu in India and South Asia...
Personalities in the Agra Gharana presented by Smit Dharia and Srijan Deshpande is a podcast featuring select archival recordings sourced from Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad to discuss the music of various generations of musicians who were inspired by the Agra tradition of Hindustani music | The Travelling Archive by Moushumi Bhowmik and Sukanta Majumdar brings together rich and varied folk music scattered across West Bengal, Bangladesh and some adjoining areas of Assam...
Culture Funding Watch in partnership with Rambourg Foundation - COVID-19 Crisis and Emergency Funding Mechanisms: What Action Plans for the Cultural and Creative Sector? | ArtTactic in partnership with Art Dubai - South Asia: Art and Philanthropy 2020..
Somewhere by Dhruv Jani is a text driven, first person exploration game, set in a mythical city of storytellers called Kayamgadh in colonial India | Sultana’s Reality by Afrah Shafiq is an animated installation inspired by the Bengali feminist thinker Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s 1905 short story titled Sultana's Dream...
