Association of Academics, Artists and Citizens for University Autonomy (ACUA), Vadodara is organizing an Art curation workshop at RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Tripunithura on 7 to 12 th February .
The theme and schedule of the workshop is as following .
Workshop: Curating Indian Visual Culture: Theory and Practice
Thematic Focus: Questions of Region, Gender and Sexualities
Program Schedule
07. 02. 2011, Monday
10.00 to 11. 15 am – Introductory Session
11. 15 -11.30 – Tea
11.30 – 1.00 pm – Theme presentation -1 and Discussion:
Rajan Gurukkal – Power, Place and Social Relations in Traditional Visual Culture
Chair Person: MSS Pandian
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch Break
2.00- 3.15 – Presentations by Participants
Discussants: Raimi Gbadamosi and Rakhee Balaram
Gopika Jadeja, Paul O’ Neill, ‘The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse’, Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance.
Jayashree Venkatadurai – Geeta Kapur, Hundred Years: From NGMA Collection, Working Notes for the Exhibition, and Re-view 1930-1993: From the NGMA Collection: Exhibition Notes, Exhibition handout. Review article of the show by Anita Dube, ‘A Show of Closed Gestures’
3.15 – 3.30 – Tea
3.30 – 5.00 – – Presentations by Participants:
Moderator: MSS Pandian
Sumesh Sharma – Proletariat Aesthetics
Jayashree Venkatadurai – Re-Tracing and Pluralizing the Pasts of Tamil Nadu
8.00 – 9.00 Dinner at Nyle Plaza
08.02.2011, Tuesday
10.00 to 11. 15 am Presentations by Participants
Moderator: Sunil Gupta
Núria Querol – The Impact of Globalisation on Indian Curatorial Practices: What, How and For Whom?
Surya N. Singh – Media Matters
11. 15 -11.30 – Tea
11.30 – 1.00 pm – Theme Presentation -2 and Discussion:
MSS Pandian – Rethinking the Region
Chair Person: Raimi Gbadamosi
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Presentations by Participants:
Moderator: Raimi Gbadamosi
Gopika Jadeja – Swaraj Labs: A Pamphlet Project of the Five Issues Performance-Publishing Interface
Akansha Rastogi – Archiving Studio
3.15 – 3.30 – Tea
3.30 -5.00 – Theme Presentation – 3 and Discussion:
Rakhee Balaram – Woolf’s Teeth: Curating Women Artists After ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Chair Person: Sunil Gupta
8.00 – 9.00 Dinner at Nyle Plaza
09.02.2011, Wednesday
10.00 – 11.15 am – Presentation by Participant:
Discussant: MSS Pandian
Núria Querol – Kwame Anthony Appiah, ‘Is the Post- in the Postmodern the Post- in the Postcolonial?’
Kavitha Balakrishnan – Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour, ‘Experimenting with Representation: Iconoclash and Making Things Public’, in Sharon McDonald and Paul Basu (Eds.), Exhibition Experiments.
11. 15 – 11.30 – Tea
11.30 – 1.00 pm – Theme Presentation – 4 and Discussion:
Raimi Gbadamosi – Paris Burnt, Rambo Was Bloodletting, Boys Cried Not, and We Stored Salmonberries
Chair Person: Rakhee Balaram
(Open to All)
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 – Presentations by Participants:
Moderator: Sunil Gupta
Kavitha Balakrishnan – Curating the ‘Erotic’
Vishal Tondon – Gender Games
3.15 – 3.30 – Tea
Studio Visit/City Visit
8.00 – 9.00 Dinner at Nyle Plaza
10.02.2011, Thursday
10.00 to 11.15am – Presentation by Participant:
Discussant: Bose Krishnamachari and Raimi Gbadamosi
Sumesh Sharma – R. Nandakumar, ‘Painting and Sculpture in Modern Kerala: A Historical Overview’, in Essays on the Cultural Formations of Kerala, Literature, Art, Architecture, Theatre and Cinema, Kerala State Gazetteer, Vol. IV, Part II.
Vishal Tondon – Sunil Gupta, ‘Culture Wars: Race and Queer Art’
11-11.30 – Tea
11.30 am – 1.00 pm – Theme Presentation – 5 and Discussion:
Nivedita Menon- Beyond the Sex/Gender Binary: Rethinking the Human
Chair Person: Rakhee Balaram
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Presentations by Participants:
Discussant: Nivedita Menon
Jagdish Chandra – Gendering Gender: Nationalism and Colonialism
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi – One Step Outside
3.15 –3.30 – Tea
3.30 – 5.00 Theme Presentation – 6 and Discussion:
Bose Krishnamachari – Double Enders
Chair Person: Sunil Gupta
8.00 – 9.00 Dinner at Nyle Plaza
11.02.2011, Friday
10.00 to 11.15am – Presentations by Participants:
Discussant: Sunil Gupta
Georgina Maddox – Emmanuel Cooper, ‘Queer Spectacle’
11.15-11.30 – Tea
11.30 – 1.00 pm – Theme Presentation – 7 and Discussion:
Sunil Gupta – Same Difference: Curating Race and Sexuality Since the 1980s
Chair Person: Raimi Gbadamosi
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Presentations by Participants:
Discussant: Nivedita Menon
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi and Jagdish Chandra – Catherine Elwes, A Parallel Universe: The “Women’s” Exhibitions At the Ica, 1980, And The UK/Canadian Film And Video Exchange, 1998–2004, Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwick (Eds.), Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
3.15 – 4.15
Theme presentation – 8 and Discussion
Georgina Maddox – The Queer Ga(y)ze: in a different voice
Chair Person: Raimi Gbadamosi
4.00 – 4.15 – Tea
4.15 – 5.00 – Presentations by Participants:
Discussant: Nivedita Menon
Surya N. Singh and Akansha Rastogi – The Politics of Display: Ann-Sofi Zide´n’s Warte Mal, Art History and Social Documentary: A seminar with Laura Bear, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock, and Ann-Sofi Side´n’.
8.00 – 9.00 Dinner for the resource persons and participants at Nyle Plaza
12.02.2011, Saturday
10.00 to 11am – The New Media Ga(y)ze – Videos curated by Georgina Maddox
11-11.30 – Tea
11.30 – 1.00 pm – Re-worked Presentations by Participants
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3 – Feed-Back Session
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