Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts

Presentation: Norbert Bisky in conversation with Girish Shahane

mpcva — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:39:10 +0000

We will host a presentation titled Norbert Bisky in conversation with Girish Shahane on November 28, 2008 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is organized in association with Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and is free and open to all.

Presentations and Panel Discussion: Contemporary Art in Bengal

mpcva — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:31:28 +0000

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.

Film Screening: The Cell: Antonio Negri

mpcva — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:13:17 +0000

The Mohile Parikh Center for the Contemporary (MPCC), will a documentary titled The Cell: Antonio Negri on November 19, 2008 at 6.00 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Free passes are available at the Mohile Parikh Center.

Workshop: Dasavatar: A Story-Telling and Clay Modelling Workshop

mpcva — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:40:20 +0000

We will host a one-day students workshop titled Dasavatar: A Story-Telling and Clay Modelling Workshop, in association with The Pomegranate Workshop (Mumbai) on November 14, 2008 at the Sea View Room of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The workshop will be conducted by the performing artist, Gowri Rao Mehta and the clay artist, Parsuram Kumbhar.

Participating NGOs: Amchaghar, Smile, Muktangan and Bandra East Community Centre.

Presentation: Antariksh – The Space Between

mpcva — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:57:04 +0000

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)

Film Screening: Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema from 1928 - 1954

mpcva — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:50:14 +0000

The Mohile Parikh Center for the Contemporary (MPCC), will screen short films from the Raymond Rohauer collection titled Avant Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928-1954 on October 16, 2008 at 6.00 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Free passes are available at the Mohile Parikh Center.

Screening of selected films from the collection:

1) Geography of the Body (1943) – Produced and Directed by Willard Mass (7 mins)

2) Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (1953) – Written, Photographed and Directed by Stan Brakhage (29 mins)

3) Arriere Saison (1950) – Written and Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff (15 mins)

4) Venom and Eternity (1951) – Written, Produced and Directed by Jean Isidore Isou (111 mins)

Presentation: Desire Machine Collective

mpcva — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:17:21 +0000

We will host a presentation by the art collective Desire Machine comprising of artists, Mriganka Madhukaillya and Sonal Jain, who are based in Guwahati, on September 19, 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: Pooja Sood (Director, Khoj International Artists’ Association)

Film Screening: Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ‘30s

mpcva — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:59:49 +0000

The Mohile Parikh Center for the Contemporary (MPCC), will screen short films from the Raymond Rohauer collection titled Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s on September 4, 2008 at 6.00 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Free passes are available at the Mohile Parikh Center.

Film Screening: Landmarks of Early Film

mpcva — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:03:07 +0000

The Mohile Parikh Center for the Contemporary (MPCC), will screen a documentary film titled Landmarks of Early Film on August 28, 2008 at 6.00 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Free passes are available at the Mohile Parikh Center.

Presentation: Fantasies of History in Indian Painting

mpcva — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:50:50 +0000

We will host a presentation titled Fantasies of History in Indian Painting by art historian, Kavita Singh on August 14, 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.