Tag Archives: India

A Study on Contemporary Concerns around Gender

15th June 2013, Towards Gender Inclusivity, in Bangalore (India) The Alternative Law Forum and LesBiT invite you to the release of Towards Gender Inclusivity: A Study on Contemporary Concerns around Gender. This report is authored by queer rights activist Sunil Mohan assisted by musician Sumathi Murthy. The report has been edited by Alok Vaid-Menon, and [...]

Disappearance as work in progress: Approaches to ecological romanticism

Part of the Maldives pavilion in Venice Bienniale 2013 Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 6 pm – 9 pm, Khoj Studios terrace, S – 17, Khirki Extension, New Delhi (India) Khoj International Artists’ Association and Ravi Agarwal present an evening discussion addressing critical artistic practices that can help recover multiple ecologies and rethink ideas of progress. [...]

Call for Applications: Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways- Part IV

Deadline: 5th February, 2013 Khoj is inviting applications from artists, artists groups or professionals for the Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways – Part IV project. All projects proposals must tackle issues of ecology and should have an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes both research and community engagement. Projects should be site-specific and should preferably be [...]

Call for applications for International Artists’ Residency: In Context: public.art.ecology, FOOD EDITION-II

Deadline: 4 JANUARY, 2013 – Online applications only Khoj’s international residency: In Context: public.art.ecology focuses on exploring ecological themes in and around public spaces in Delhi and is being carried forth into its fourth year. In continuance with last year’s trajectory, the residency, FOOD EDITION-II will once again have a special focus on examining the [...]

Call for abstracts: Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century – Rethinking and Remembering?

This festival, taking place from the 24th-25th January 2013 in Bangalore, India,  organized by the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India and the School of Arts and Communication, Malmo University, Sweden is inviting abstract entries till the 20th November 2012. This festival brings together artists, academics, activists and other media and cultural [...]

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies. Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary [...]

Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I

Friday, 13th April, 2012 - 6:00 pm onwards – New Delhi Khoj Studios , S-17 Khirkee Extension Works on view till 18th April, 2012  – 11:00 am – 7:00pm In Context: Public.Art.Ecology, Food Edition I is an International Residency with art projects and interventions in public spaces exploring the intersection between art and ecology through the [...]

Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”. Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artists’ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the [...]

Khoj International Residencies and Projects

Khoj International Artists’ Association is an artist led, alternative forum for experimentation and international exchange based in India. It sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts. In the last few years it has developed an active network of artists in South Asia. Applications are [...]

City of Pieces – an urban festival of creative practices

Bangalore 22nd to 30th of October Maraa, a media and arts collective, invites to City of Pieces, an urban festival of creative practices: City of pieces is a nine day festival that interrogates the violence of the everyday transformation of the city from the perspective of creative practice. This festival marks the third anniversary of [...]

Films about Myanmar and India

November 21st, 2011 MIT (USA) “The Indian artist and well-known filmmaker Amar Kanwar creates documentary-based multi-channel installations that deal with the politics of power, violence, sexuality, and justice. In “The Torn First Pages”, Kanwar unfolds the struggle for democracy in Myanmar. The eight-chanel video piece “The Lightning Testimonies” reflects upon a history of conflict in [...]

Confluence 2011 – Festival of Indigenous Storytellers

30th of September – 2nd of October, 2011 Fire Flies Ashram, Bangalore/India The “Confluence” invites you to a 3-day event on storytelling, where storytellers from various tribal communities of India will be sharing some of their disappearing myths, legends and stories with a view to build a collective that supports the need for their preservation. [...]

Cultural Events in Bangalore

The Bangalore-based collective “Maraa” invites you, as a parallel to the “Walls Between People” photo exhibition that opens on September 9th, to a series of three interesting events in Bangalore (India). Movement and Stillness – a theatre workshop on walls, conflict and trust. Please join us for a three hours theatre workshop on the themes [...]

IN CONTEXT: PUBLIC.ART.ECOLOGY II

Open Studio Day: 1st April 2011; Time: 6:00 pm onwards; Venue: KHOJ Studios and Select CITYWALK, Saket (India) Projects on view: KHOJ Court by Ackroyd & Harvey (UK); My Love Is An Icy Cold Fever by Navin Thomas (India); Unpacking Social Networks by Partik Sagar (India); Econnect+ Love Motel for Insects by Ecohaven Project+ Brandon [...]

Art Talks @ The Reading Room

Reposted from the website of Khoj International Artists’ Association (India) In Context:public.art.ecology Art Talks @ The Reading Room D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 – Friday, 18th March 2011, 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm A discussion  on the intersection of  Art,Ecology and Science by Biologist & Physicist Dr. Mukund Thattai and  Philosopher & Physicist Dr. Sundar [...]