Schedule is Out! Past Forward: An Arts Research Festival | October 25-27, 2024 | BIC, Bangalore
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
presents
Past Forward: The Pleasure, Purpose and Practice of Arts Research
October 25, 26, 27, 2024 at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
A three-day festival celebrating 70 diverse projects in Arts Research through
Panel Discussions | Film Screenings | Workshops | Talks | Performances | Exhibition
We are delighted to invite you to a rich and exciting gathering of creative practitioners, artists, curators and researchers over the course of three days in Bangalore!
The festival hopes to probe questions around methodological and disciplinary boundaries, practices and stories of marginalised histories, and evoking an alternative sense of aesthetics. The projects curated in the festival look back on the past 10 years of the Arts Research programme at IFA, and together, weave a tapestry of complex realities and imaginations that the projects find themselves in.
Read the schedule below or download here. Register for the festival here.
Please note that Workshop, Research Spotlight@Exhibition and Sound of Streets - a Teesta Troupers performance need separate registrations.
You can also read/download the festival note and bios of participants.
This festival is free and open to all and will have Indian Sign Language interpretation.
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DAY 1: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Registration
Outside Seminar Hall
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Opening Address
Seminar Hall
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Performance: Kaniyan Koothu organised by Hemachandran Karah
Seminar Hall
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Keynote: Muktabai's Legacy: The Search for Knowledge by Urvashi Butalia
Seminar Hall
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Break
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Panel I: Decolonising the Image: Photography as a Research Method
Zubeni Lotha | KP Jayakumar | Sharbendu De | Dipti Tamang
Moderator: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Seminar Hall
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Deep Dive: Re/Looking at Archives, Arts and Archival Practice with Surajit Sarkar
Library
*Limited spots. First come first served
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Film: Makhfi (The Hidden One) by Prachee Bajania
Board Room
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Tea Break
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM | Film: Songs of our Soil by Aditi Maddali
Board Room
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Panel II: Unpacking the Social Life of Rituals: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Hemachandran Karah | Rupsa Ray | Latika Gupta | Sarita Sundar
Moderator: Latika Gupta
Seminar Hall
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Performance: Children of Kangleipak by Akhu
Seminar Hall
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DAY 2: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Registration
First Floor Foyer
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Performance: Kadu Gollara Sollugalu by Mohan Kumar N
Seminar Hall
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Film: Songs of our Soil by Aditi Maddali
Board Room
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Guftugu: The Last Courtesan: In Conversation with Manish Gaekwad
Library
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | Panel III: Towards a Counter-Cultural Aesthetics: Investigating the Artistic Form in Performance
Usham Rojio | Sharanya Ramprakash | Lakshmana KP | A Mangai
Moderator: A Mangai
Seminar Hall
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Film: Palai - Landscapes of Longing by S Jayakrishnan
Board Room
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Break
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Panel IV: Towards a Counter-Cultural Aesthetics: Community Engagement and the Arts
Sanchayan Ghosh | Ashok Lote | Anuradha | Rohit Kumar
Moderator: Sanchayan Ghosh
Seminar Hall
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Deep Dive: Feminist Histories in Search of an Archive with Urvashi Butalia
Library
*Limited spots. First come first served
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Film: Casting Music by Ashok Maridas
Board Room
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Tea Break
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM | Film: The Last Shoemakers of The Doon Valley by Lokesh Ghai and Jaymin Modi
Board Room
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Performance: Dastaan – Storytelling in a Song organised by Asif Abbas Rayama
Seminar Hall
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DAY 3: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Registration
First Floor Foyer
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Performance: The Carnatic Band-its! by Deepti Navratna and the Mysore Police Band
Seminar Hall
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Book Preview: Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India
Shilpi Goswami | Suryanandini Narain | Urvashi Butalia | Surajit Sarkar | Menaka Rodriguez
Library
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Film: The Last Shoemakers of The Doon Valley by Lokesh Ghai and Jaymin Modi
Board Room
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | Panel V: Forgotten Genres, Publics and Practices: The Understated Ecosystem of Indian Cinema
Prachee Bajania | Yamini Krishna | Anuj Malhotra | Siddhi Goel
Moderator: Prachee Bajania
Seminar Hall
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | Workshop: Safety in the Arts by Varoon P Anand
Auditorium
*By registration only
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Break
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Panel VI: Out of Print: Tracing Overlooked Histories of Regional Magazines and Periodicals
Pankti Desai | V Jayashree | Haneena PA | Mangesh Narayanrao Kale | Susnato Chowdhury
Moderator: Sachin Ketkar
Seminar Hall
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Film: Makhfi (The Hidden One) by Prachee Bajania
Board Room
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Tea Break
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | Film: Palai - Landscapes of Longing by S Jayakrishnan
Board Room
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Performance: Sound of Streets by Teesta Troupers organised by Veecheet Vigya Dhakal
Auditorium
In collaboration with Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
*Limited seating. RSVP required
07:00 PM - 07:15 PM | Closing Remarks
Auditorium
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EXHIBITION
October 25, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
October 26 & 27, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Gallery, Foyer outside Gallery, and Library
Aishika Chakraborty | Anuj Malhotra (Collaborators: Gaurav Puri, Ketan Dua) | Anuradha | Ashok Lote
Basil Islam SPC (Collaborators: Sidra Ali Palazhi, Thoufeeq K) | Devika Sundar
Geetanjali Sayal (Collaborator: Prashansa Sachdeva) | Haneena PA (Collaborator: Jazeela Basheer)
Hemachandran Karah (Collaborators: Bagavathi Kumar, K Padmavilasini, Shilpaa Anand) | Hina Saiyada
KP Jayakumar | Latika Gupta | Mala Pradeep Sinha (Collaborator: Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan)
Miriam Chandy Menacherry | Mridu Rai (Collaborator: Dipti Tamang; Artists: Ashwin Sharma, Bibhusha Rai
Mingma Lhamu Pakhrin, Nangsel Sherpa, Nawami Gurung, Ruchi Dyeksang, Vicky Sharma, Yawan Sharma)
Pankti Desai | Parshati Dutta | Rajdeep Konar (Collaborator: Subhash Dey)
Rajesh Devraj | Rohit Kumar | Rupsa Ray | S Bharat | Sanchayan Ghosh | Sandesh Bhandare
Sanjay Kak | Sarasija Subramanian (Collaborator: Nihaal Faizal) | Sarita Sundar
Savitha Suresh Babu (Collaborators: Lakshmana KP, Shalini R) | Saumya Agarwal | Sharanya Ramprakash
Sharbendu De | Shruti Ghosh | Siddhi Goel | Subhendu Dasgupta | Usham Rojio
Ushmita Sahu | V Jayashree | Yousuf Saeed | Zubeni Lotha
Research Spotlight@Exhibition:
Friday, October 25, 2024
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Rohit Kumar
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Geetanjali Sayal & Prashansa Sachdeva
Saturday, October 26, 2024
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Mala Pradeep Sinha & Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Rajdeep Konar & Subhash Dey
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Bagavathi Kumar & K Padmavilasini
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Devika Sundar
Sunday, October 27, 2024
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Anuradha & Ashok Lote
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Shruti Ghosh
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Ushmita Sahu
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Sidra Ali Palazhi
This festival is free and open to all and will have Indian Sign Language interpretation.
The festival is made possible with support from BNP Paribas India Foundation.
Image recreated from mixed media collages by Anuj Malhotra.