Geographies of Consumption: Bombay/Mumbai | Field Notes

January 8 to 9, 2016 | 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, Mumbai

Geographies of Consumption: Bombay/Mumbai is a public art project conceived and curated by the Mohile Parikh Center. Spanning over a year, it critically investigated the impact of consumption on natural resources in the city, and on human bodies, our ecosystems and cultures.

Field Notes is a culminating symposium that will explore the ideas of the public sphere, our ecological footprint, and our right to the city. It will discuss the processes and challenges of making art in public spaces and bring in forms of practice-led thinking.  Each day of the symposium will conclude with film screenings that examine our consumptive geographies and its impact.

Day I:

What is the Public Sphere?
Speaker: George Jose | Discussant: Noopur Desai

Ecological Footprint: Bombay/Mumbai
Speaker: Prasad Modak | Discussant: Prasad Shetty

Art Projects:
Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Archana Hande, Navjot Altaf, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Anupam Singh, Prajakta Palav and Mansi Bhatt
Discussant: Rohan Shivkumar

Film Screening:
Wasted | Direction: Anirban Dutta

Day II:

Right to the City
Speakers: Hussain Indorewala and Shweta Wagh
Discussant: Shubhangi Singh

Art Projects:
Kush Badhwar, Parag Tandel, Sahej Rahal, Prajakta Potnis, and Justin Ponmany
Discussant: Shirish Joshi

Exercises in Imagination | Students’ Study Group
Facilitators: Amrita Gupta Singh, Shilpa Gupta, and Nikhil Purohit

Film Screening:
Watermark | Direction: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky

The film program is curated by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar.