For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will examine the complex and elusive quality of women-specific pain and subjective patient experience vis-à-vis standardised diagnostic testing and normative clinical procedures. It will inquire how the female body is studied, written, mapped and visualised in allopathy, ayurveda and homoeopathy. The outcomes of this project will be an artist book, a series of mixed media and multi-sensorial artworks and a virtual journal documenting the project journey. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a copy of the artist book, visual documentation of the artworks and a link to the virtual journal. Project funds will pay for production, contract fees, travel and living, and art materials.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Arts Projects (Research/Practice) that will explore and engage with Bangalore as a centre for mental health and well-being. By documenting conversations, stories and personal histories of caregivers, mental health experts and users of the city’s mental health system, the project attempts to investigate a little-known aspect of the city’s history and offer a new methodology for engaging with a subject as complex as mental health. The outcomes of this project will comprise two sets of audio series, a group discussion, a public panel discussion and site-specific dispersion of artistically curated audio series via QR codes. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be audio recordings of all the interviews, still and video recordings of the panel discussion and still documentation of the site-specific QR codes. Project funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, resource persons’ fees, travel, equipment hire, venue hire, food and printing and materials.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Arts Projects (Research/Practice), that explores and engages with Dakhni expressions in Bangalore’s popular culture through rap and hiphop music. Titled Apnich Bol, Dakhnich Bol, the project seeks to celebrate and foreground Bangalore’s deep-rooted Dakhni culture which has been overshadowed by the city’s mainstream discourse. The outcomes of the project will include a nine-track music album, three music videos, six to ten curated performances and a bonus track, with the possibility of a behind-the-scenes film. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the complete album along with the bonus track, the music videos and photographs from the local performances. Project funds will pay for professional fees, equipment hire, honorarium, travel and food, studio hire, performances and material costs.
This Project was Terminated by IFA and the Project Coordinator is ineligible to apply to IFA in the future.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Neighbourhood Engagements, which will create a series of drawings that investigates the role of the marketplace in the city through interactions in the meat market in Murphy Town, Ulsoor. The project will examine the nature and possibilities of interactions among sellers, butchers and customers, and reflect on broader issues such as society’s relationship with meat and the future of the marketplace. The outcome of this project will be a series of drawings created in conversation with the community that evoke the meat market, and a public sharing in the marketplace. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be process documentation of the research and interactions, images of drawings and documentation of the physical installation. Project funds will pay for honorarium, material costs and travel.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Neighbourhood Engagements, which will create a series of video vignettes capturing stories of the gold and silver crafting community in Cubbonpete and Anchepete. The project will document the diversity of the industry, its community and the changing dynamics of the pete. The outcome of this project will be the video vignettes, which will be shared with the community through a series of art interventions. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be process documentation of research and interactions, photographs and video vignettes, and documentation of the final sharing. Project funds will pay for exhibition cost, equipment rental, honorarium, printing and stationery, travel.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Neighbourhood Engagements, which will create a series of zines that documents the history and lived experiences of residents of Rustum Bagh. Through detailed research and conversations with residents, as well as members of the Kothavala family, the project will culminate in a zine-making workshop with young residents to bring alive the stories of the neighbourhood. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition of the zine series in the neighbourhood. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be process documentation of research and interactions, images from the zines and documentation of the exhibition. Project funds will pay for workshop costs, equipment hire, printing and publication, and exhibition.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations, which will engage with three popular children’s television shows from the late 1990s, as cultural documents in media that trace shifts in our lives in post-liberalisation India. Through this endeavour the project will reflect on the larger processes of urbanisation, globalisation, and representation in neo-liberal times. The outcome of the project will be drawings on ‘magic slates’. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a documentation of the drawings. Project funds will pay for materials, purchase of books and honorarium.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations, which will be a collaboration between four contemporary dancers, rethinking and re-embodying ideas of community and co-work through a series of weekly or bi-weekly shared journeys. These four dancers, who are teacher-trainees of the Alexander technique, will examine ways to unite their solo investigations into a sustainable collective practice, focussing on process instead of production. The outcome of the project will be the process documentation and a collective journal in physical, digital or hybrid form. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be this process documentation, including those of the interactive open studio improvs and a collective journal in physical, digital or hybrid form. Project funds will pay for professional fees, space hire, honorarium, equipment hire and online subscriptions.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Productions, to create a performance that seeks to reinvent Bharatanatyam by bringing in values of pluralism. Based on the lived experiences of a non-binary, Muslim Zoroastrian dancer practising the Hindu temple dance form, the performance will be centred on the Alarippu—the traditional Bharatanatyam dance sequence—reimagining the form through layered movement, sound influences from Islam, and lyrics from Bhakti and Sufi traditions. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be audio recordings of interviews and still and video documentation of the process and the final production. Project funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, equipment hire, venue hire and studio hire.
For research that will attempt to explore the hitherto unresearched and marginalised narratives of lead actresses of the mainstage as well as frontline comic actresses of the Company Theatre in Kannada (1960 to present). It will examine ways in which they define and defy notions of female respectability and vulgarity through their performances and selfhood. The outcomes of this project will be a series of essays in Kannada, a photo essay and a script outline for a theatre performance. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final reports will be the essays, the photo-essay, the script, and audiovisual documentation of the present day Company Theatre performances in Karnataka. Grant funds will pay for travel and living costs, honorarium, professional fee, consumables and an accountant’s fees.
