We will host a presentation and discussion titled Staged Archives: Fictional History on September 18, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium. The artist, Maryam Jafri will present her videos, installations and photo collages. The discussant for this program is Sharmistha Ray (Writer and Director, Bodhi Art, Mumbai).The program is free and open to all.
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We will host a presentation titled Jyoti Bhatt: Parallels that Meet on August 28, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.The artist Jyoti Bhatt will present his works which includes mediums such as painting, prints and photography. The discussant for this program is Roobina Karode, an art critic, educator, writer and curator, based in Delhi. This program is free and open to all.
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We will host two presentations by Sundar Sarukkai on May 14 and 15, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. This program is free and open to all.
Sundar Sarukkai is a Professor in Philosophy at the School of Humanities, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore. He is trained in physics and philosophy, and has a PhD from Purdue University. His research interests include Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Postmodernism, as well as Philosophy of Art. Sarukkai has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow, Fellow of the Shimla Institute of Advanced Studies and PHISPC Associate Fellow. He is the author of the following books: Translating the world: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry and Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, and co-editor of two volumes on Logic and Applications and is an Editorial Board member of the Leonardo Book Series, an influential series published by MIT Press on science and art.
Lecture I: Postmodernism and Philosophy of Art
Lecture II: The Nature of the ‘Contemporary’
We will host a presentation by the artist Tushar Joag on April 17, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. This program is free and open to all.
We will host two presentations by the historian Indira Chowdhury on March 26 and 27, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. This program is free and open to all.
Indira Chowdhury was formerly Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, her book The Frail Hero and Virile History (OUP, 1998) was awarded the Tagore Prize (Rabindra Puraskar) in 2000. She also compiled the Supplement of Indian English words published in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary in 1995. In 2004, she published The First Promise – a translation of a major Bengali novel into English. She is based in Bangalore and works as a Consultant Archivist for several institutions among them, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IIT Kanpur and Naandi, Hyderabad.
Lecture I: Collective Memory, Institutional Archives and the Writing of Contemporary History
Lecture II: The Promise of Women’s Writing: Ashapurna Debi, a hundred years on
We will host a presentation titled Lifestyle China: The Global Rise of China’s Creative Industries by Philip Dodd (Chairman, Made in China) on March 12, 2009 at 6.30pm at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Auditorium. This program is free and open to all and has been organized in collaboration with the Asia Society India Centre and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.
We will host two presentations titled Life and Art after the Ruins by the art theorist Amir Parsa (Museum of Modern Art, New York) on February 6 and 7, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. This program is free and open to all and has been organized in collaboration with Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai.
We will host a presentation titled Dialogues of a Story-Teller by the artist, N.S. Harsha on January 15, 2009 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is free and open to all.
We will host a series of presentations in the program titled Contemporary Art of Bengal on November 20 and 21, 2008 from 6.30pm onwards at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The presentations will conclude with a panel discussion. The program is free and open to all.
Speakers: Partha Pratim Deb (Artist, based in Kolkata); Anshuman Dasgupta (Art Historian, Curator and Lecturer in Art History, Santiniketan); Paula Sengupta (Artist, Academician, Researcher and Theoretician, Kolkata); Sanchayan Ghosh (Artist and Lecturer in Painting, Santiniketan); Adip Dutta (Artist and Lecturer in Sculpture, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Paula Sengupta: Beyond Modernism – En Route to Post-Modernism in Kolkata
Adip Dutta: The Art/Aesthetics of Partha Pratim Deb
Friday, November 21, 2008
Anshuman Dasgupta: Santiniketan; or Predicament of a Host Culture
Sanchayan Ghosh: Site Specificity and Methods of Community Interaction
Panel Discussion: Partha Pratim Deb, Anshuman Dasgupta, Paula Sengupta and Sanchayan Ghosh
Chair: Adip Dutta.
We will host a presentation titled Antariksh – The Space Between by the artist, Sheba Chhachhi on October 24, 2008 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is free and open to all.
Chair: Nancy Adajania (cultural theorist, art critic and curator)
