Listening to History: The Music and Culture of the Silk Road

By Hans Utter 

Encompassing thousands of miles, diverse cultures, and centuries of history, the Silk Road linked cultures from China to Egypt, transporting language, music, religion, and art along with mercantile goods. This presentation will examine an array of cultures and music along the Silk Road, exploring how specific musical instruments, performance genres, and associated cultural milieus were transplanted and transformed in diverse regions. The living traditions and re-imagination of Silk Road in contemporary arts and culture will demonstrate its current relevance and influence

Hans Utter is an ethnomusicologist, writer, producer, composer, and musician. He performs regularly in the United States, India, and Europe

 

 

 

A film by Nicolás Grandi & Lata Mani

 

Screening will be followed by a conversation between Lata Mani and Shebha Chhachhi

 

The film is an experimental visual essay; an exploration through story, performance and poetry of how fragility is intrinsic to nature and human life featuring Angela Davis, Nora Cortiñas, Cherrie Moraga and others

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Renuka Reddy, technology revivalist of hand-painted natural dyed Chintz textiles

 

Chief Guest: Jasleen Dhamija, textile revivalist and scholar 

 

Chair: Gulshan Nanda, Padmashree

 

(Collaboration: Craft Revival Trust)

 

 

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, an exhibition of photographs

By Tibet Museum, Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibet Administration, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Dharamsala

 

Inauguration by Shri Yashwant Sinha, former Minister of External Affairs on  Saturday, 1st April 2017 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Tibet Museum, Dharamsala)

 

 

Speaker: Shri Devdutt Pattanaik, author and mythologist

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Greece)

 

Exhibitions:

Tectonic Live

An exhibition of paintings and puppets 

By Jimmy Chishi

 

The exhibition explores the architecture of forms mimicking human movement and inspired by the constructing powers in nature as well as architecture. It attempts to capture the multi-facetedness of living, which are passive and active, organic and inorganic. The work is inspired by the aesthetics of Bauhaus and traditional Naga renderings

 

Preview on Thursday, 23rd March 2017 at 18:30
 

On view 24 to 30 March 2017, 11:00 to 19:00 at the Annexe Art Gallery

17th March at 11 am in the Main Art Gallery

 

 

 

By Dr. Anita Ratnam

 

Choreography by Anita Ratnam 

Costumes: Sandhya Raman

( Sponsored by Rasaja Foundation)

 

(Collaboration: UNESCO FILLM, Raza Foundation, Sahitya Akademiand John Benjamins Publishing Company)

 

15-18 March 

 

Exhibition  main art gallery  (Kamaladevi Complex) from 11:00 -19:00

 

A Sensorial Experience designed and curated by Sandhya Raman. Celebrating the yarn and unveiling the exotic with the familiar with Erroll Pires, well known textile artist abd specialist in ply braiding

 

Inauguration on 15th March at 5 pm

WEDNESDAY 15 TO 17

 

EXHIBITION ■ ART GALLERY, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX 11:00 TO 19:00

THE ENCHANTED TREE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EXOTIC AND THE FAMILIAR

A Sensorial Experience designed and curated by Sandhya Raman. Celebrating the yarn and unveiling the exotic with the familiar with Erroll Pires, well known textile artist and specialist in ply braiding

 

Inauguration on 15th March at 17:00

 

ON 17TH MARCH AT 11:00 IN THE ART GALLERY

A Million Sitas

By Dr. Anita Ratnam

 

Choreography by Anita Ratnam in collaboration with Hari Krishnan

Research and Text: Anita Ratnam and Rex

Costumes: Sandhya Raman