For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the impact of human-made bodily norms to generate perspectives on the breast, as a form designed by society and culture along with biology. The outcomes of the project will be an artistic research paper, a process matrix, three ReBoob prototypes, and an installation. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the artistic research paper, and the visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for materials, contract fees, installation, consumables, hire of equipment, printing, archive and library fee, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the neurological concept of the “phantom limb” and Feldenkrais method for movement and stillness, through storywriting and devised theatre, to meditate on the neurological condition of pain, explore the interactions between science and the body, myth and memory, touch and untouch, history and fiction. The outcome of the project will be a series of collective devised theatre experiments, integrating Feldenkrais methods. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be audio-visual and photographic documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for production, contract fees, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will explore the photo-chemical and photo-mechanical dimensions of the organic materials sourced from East Kolkata Wetlands, in order to recontextualise the current conditions of the water-based infrastructures surrounding an Indian metropolis in light of the climate crisis. The outcome of the project will include print-based works, site-specific interventions with found materials, documentation of eco-somatic and alternate process, along with a short essay on ecological photochemistry. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photographic and visual documentation of the artistic process, and the short essay. Project funds will pay for the materials, archive and library fees, contract fees, travel and living, and hire of venue.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will explore how personal archives and stories of mothers and daughters can be translated through feminist storytelling, in the form of a graphic narrative that can be transposed onto a spatial installation, as a “living zine”. The outcome of the project will be a “living zine”, including a graphic narrative, through objects and space, as a spatial installation of feminist storytelling, and an open studio event. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will an artistic archive scrapbook, a zine/ mini comic, and visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for contract fees, production, printing, materials, travel and living, and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will engage with Rafooghar (a community-based textile-led practice in New Delhi, where women gather) through sessions of stitching, drawing, assembling materials, visual notes, sound fragments, or a collection of prompts, to capture the subtle shifts in their shared space. The outcome of the project will be community-based art practice, as a series of women’s gatherings of collective noticing of what resists documentation, through embodied, material and relational forms of making. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the photographic and visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, materials and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the intersections of the mudras (hand gestures) in Odissi dance, and the Indian Sign Language (ISL) for the deaf, as a way of developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between classical dance, gesture, rhythm and embodied communication. The outcome of the project will be artistic collaboration between an Odissi dancer, deaf children, and an ISL interpreter, leading to a set of choreographic scores. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be audio-visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for the contract fees, documentation, travel and living, consumables, materials and stationery, purchase of books, and printing.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will make a history card game that will explore the political, cultural, and social evolution of Tamil history from the Sangam Era to the Dravidian Movement, with illustrated cards created by contemporary Tamil artists and designers. The outcome of the project will be a card game that encourages the players to engage deeper with Tamil history. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be 100 card illustrations of historical events, and the game rule book and box art. Project funds will pay for contract fees, printing, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will involve the making of a site-responsive artistic exploration with the fading design archives of the artist’s father, in their ancestral house in Big Bazar, North Kolkata. Through drawing, textile, moving image, projection, voice, found objects, it explores how a private family archive can become a public enquiry into memory, inheritance, and Kolkata’s fading visual culture of the 1960s. The outcome of the project will be a site-specific installation, including a series of graphic drawings, a series of moving images, a digital archive, and a public gathering. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be the visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for materials, documentation, printing, oroduction, travel and living, contract fees, and consumables.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will include the making of anthotype prints (using light-sensitive plant pigments) from medicinal plants gathered from Thurga River, Ajodhya Hills, Purulia, towards the making of a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of anthotype prints. The outcome of the project will be a series of anthotype prints made from medicinal plants gathered along the Thurga River, as a fading archive and a bilingual zine. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of the anthotype prints. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, publication, printing, workshop and materials.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Seminars that seeks to hold long form conversations with poets, filmmakers, and digital content creators who work in Kamrupi, a non-standardised variant of Assamese language. These poets, filmmakers and creators use Kamrupi as an independent language or form of expression, without foregrounding its identity merely as a dialect. This is important because the language has historically been used in films and other forms of cultural and literary production largely for comic effect. The proposed seminar will be the first-ever attempt to bring some of the artists, creators together under a common umbrella as practitioners who have used, or continue to use, Kamrupi in their serious creative work. The Seminar will bring people together who work in this language under one roof and initiate a conversation around their practices. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, hire of venue, printing and stationery.
