Day 2@Past Forward: An Arts Research Festival | October 25-27, 2024 | BIC, Bangalore
DAY 2
Past Forward: The Pleasure, Purpose and Practice of Arts Research
October 26, 2024 | 09:00 AM onwards
Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
We hope you enjoyed yourself on Day 1 of the festival!
Today's lineup begins with songs by Mohan Kumar N about his community, the Kadu Golla, and their oral narratives. The panels today will discuss the aesthetics of culturally marginalised theatre and performative practices, performances and the films variously explore issues of migration and labour, and two communities' contributions to music and shoemaking. Listen to Manish Gaekwad speaking about his mother in the book he wrote, or attend a Deep Dive session by historian and feminist Urvashi Butalia. We will end the day with stories in the form of Dastaan, the surs of which have existed for ages.
Read the schedule for Day 2 below or download the full schedule 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 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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EXHIBITION
October 26, 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:
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
The festival is made possible with support from BNP Paribas India Foundation.
Image: Rishi Kochhar; Acknowledgements: Suman Gupta, Sandeep Tandon