14 Curators
7 Disciplines
15–22 December, 2018
Panaji, Goa
Matters of Hand: Craft, Design and Technique
An exhibition that explores handcraft in India through objects of utility for everyday living, through an abstract installation of the home-workshop environment. This exhibition highlights how material handcrafts in India are experienced through collaborations.
Visit Highlighted Project >Songs of Nature
A performance that explores motifs from nature represented in song-texts expressed in the repertoire of Qawwals, Bauls and Manganiars.
Visit Highlighted Project >Akshayambara
What happens when a woman enters the professional space of a form performed by men for the last 800 years? Akshayambara explores the representation of the feminine within the male-dominated practice of Yakshagana. Drawing from research and personal experience, the performance imagines a reversal of roles in the popular Yakshagana plot of Draupadi Vastrapaharana.
Visit Highlighted Project >To Die Upon a Kiss
To Die Upon a Kiss… is a Kathakali performance, based on the world famous tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare. Constituting one of the most prominent classical dance forms of India, Kathakali is characterised by elaborate make up, face-masks and costumes. The characters will be presenting edited scenes of Shakespeare’s play, touching upon the broad themes of downfall, betrayal, and love.
Visit Highlighted Project >Tityache Khabbari (Marketplace News)
Originally part of the ancient gaunkari system, enjoy the ‘Tinto’ (marketplace) experience, with stalls serving organic and Saraswat thalis, freshly-made fish dishes, pickles, meat dishes and desserts through an artistic representation of a true Goan story.
Visit Highlighted Project >Young Subcontinent: Sightlines
The YS project in 2018 expands points of contact, explores sightlines of common struggles and aspirations in South Asia, looking at the reassertion and reinvention of geographies, facilitating conversations and narratives.
Visit Highlighted Project >The Sacred Everyday: Embracing the Risk of Difference
An exhibition developed around the proposition of ‘the sacred everyday’—the interrelationship between the domain of the divine, iconic and religious on the one hand, and the realm of the human, intimate and domestic on the other.
Visit Highlighted Project >Out Of Turn
Bringing together a selection of artists and collection materials OUT OF TURN, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode in collaboration with Asia Art Archive, draws attention to the rise of performance art across South Asia since its earliest instances in the 1970s connecting to other instances across Asia
Visit Highlighted Project >Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images
The history of photography in India presents some unexplored, and unexpected gaps. One of the most understudied concepts is that of ‘vernacular’ photography—a term often applied to quotidian images. This exhibition seeks to broaden the engagement with the term ‘vernacular’ in order to think about how we can enhance our lens-culture and better understand the lesser known histories of photography.
Visit Highlighted Project >A spoonful of Sweetness
Honey is one of the world’s most magical of foods- made of nectar concentrated down to a sweet stickiness by thousands of bees working together in the hive.
Attend Workshop >Grandmother's Recipe: Feni as Medicine
Dwell into the beneficial nature of Feni- a local goan liquor that has been used to combats common ailments for generations.
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