Exhibitions
...the earth is still going around the sun...
Rooee a book and exhibition by Guncotton....................................2
A single earth and yet in it spin multiple worlds.
Knock Knock curated by Ashima Tshering...................................4
This too shall pass curated by Sarker Protick...............................26
Worlds that bang and collide, clash and clang, worlds that cohabitate, and worlds that lay dormant. In these thirteen exhibitions by curators across South Asia and Iran, you will encounter worlds made of memories, identities, pasts, erasures, and even humor. Effervescent worlds that emanate from technological caverns. Bristly worlds with the scent of the earth. Worlds carved out of personal memories and public histories, worlds tarnished by violence. In these worlds are attempts at finding home and creating home: the body is home, the earth is home, and sometimes, home is defined by its own absence, shrouded by loss and catastrophe. In the midst of all of this, people make the tragic and dignified attempt to live, to survive, to encounter defeat, to be remembered, and to laugh.
Some-Bodies: Narratives Around the Body curated by Zohreh Deldadeh..................................................28
Meanwhile, tying together disparate and fraught realities across space and time, the earth carries on.
inhibitions.inhabitations curated by Ayushma Regmi......................6 Furnishing Papers curated by Diwas Raja Kc...........................8 Timequake curated by Maryam Bagheri........................................10 Real Time Tactics curated by Mila Samdub.............................12 Pata curated by Poulomi Paul....................................................16 Dis-place curated by Pranamita Borgohain...................................18 1927 - The Mahad Satyagraha: ‘Erasure’ as a form of assertion curated by Rumi Samadhan.......................20 GHAR curated by Sadia Marium...............................................22 Memoryscapes curated by Kirubalini Stephan..................................24
Rooee
6pm: Saacha: The Loom, a documentary film screening1
Some-Bodies
16 December, Auditorium
7.30pm: Screening of 1978 the 231st day and A composition in blue, red & other colors by artist and filmmaker Sara Rajaei
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18 December, 6pm, Seminar Hall 1: Network Politics / Network Aesthetics, with Amber Sinha, Nayantara Ranganathan and Manuel Beltrán and a short film by Clemens von Wedemeyer 20 December, 7pm, Art Gallery Terrace: SKUM and Reactions to SKUM by Urvi Vora All programmes held at the India International Centre
1927 The Mahad Satyagraha
`17 December, 6.30pm, Art Gallery Terrace: Human in Una, a performance by Prabhakar Kamble
Real Time Tactics
15 December, 5pm, Art Gallery Terrace: After a while, shadows begin to rouse, a performance by Anupam Saikia
Knock Knock
Dis-Place
Public Programmes the earth is still going around the sun is a culmination of the third edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA), a flagship programme by Khoj International Artists’ Association in partnership with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, which brings together curators from Iran, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. CISA aims to develop a diversity of perspectives on the medium of the exhibition in South Asia and Iran and to provide both a structured and an experimental inquiry into the possibilities of curatorial practice today. The exhibitions have been independently developed after a two-week intensive programme that took place in New Delhi in July 2019, led by mentors Dr Leonhard Emmerling and Latika Gupta.
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