FROM 10:00 TO 11:30 IN SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III

Of Other Partitions

A roundtable discussion that focuses on Eastern India’s stories of Partition that somehow remain outside the general narrative of Partition of India. The discussion will begin with a sound installation by Moushumi Bhowmik

 

Speakers: Udayon Misra; Moushumi Bhowmik; Debjani Sengupta; and Vishwajyoti Ghosh

 

 

12:00 TO 13:30

The Ground Beneath: Governance and Civil Society in India’s Northeast

Speakers: Barsha Poricha; G.K. Pillai; Govind Bhattacharejee; Sunil Kaul; and Surjit Thokchom

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14:45 TO 16:45

Adda: The Lost Art of Conversation

The word ‘adda’ roughly speaking is the practice of friends getting together for long, informal and unrigorous conversations. This session proposes an adda on the culture of adda and perhaps the shrinking space for conversations and opinions as well

 

Speakers: Shiv Visvanathan; Amarendra Khatua; Ashok Vajpeyi; Basant Rajkumar; Raju Nazary; Ian Lyngdoh

 

From 17:00 to 17:40 in Seminar Rooms I to III

Tea Tasting Ceremony

Curated and conducted by Dhrubajit Chaliha, Korangani Tea

 

At 18:30 in the Fountain Lawns

Songs She Carries

Concert by Moushumi Bhowmik with Tajdar Junaid

 

Moushumi Bhowmik is a singer, songwriter and music researcher who has been involved in a field recordings – based project called The Travelling Archive: Field Recordings and Field Notes from Bengal. Moushumi will present her own compositions and also draw from folk music of Bengal

 

Tajdar Junaid is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and producer who’s debut album was named album of the year by Rolling Stone magazine in 2013. His music has featured in the work of leading filmmakers abroad and in India

 

The festival has been organised to mark 25 Years of National Foundation for India and curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee

 

FRIDAY 24 & 25
 

FESTIVAL ? ANNEXE ART GALLERY, GANDHI-KING PLAZA, C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM,  SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX

 

Curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee

 

The festival is an initiative to raise pertinent questions through a series of engagements on art, livelihood, social justice, climate change, communication, history – past and present, issues that have a far reaching impact on every day life of people and of the nation. Organised in collaboration with National Foundation for India; Sasakawa Foundation; and Reachout Foundation

 

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

 

Ebb and Flow: Migration, masks and River Stories

Maskmakers and artists from Majuli, the world’s biggest inhabited river island will demonstrate their craft through installations and workshops. Central to their artistic approach is the performative aspect of masks. The Majuli pavilion is  an installation on the historical and cultural intersections between monastic art, tribal life, climate change and displacement

 

On view 24 and 25 March 2017, 11:00 to 19:00 at the Gandhi-King Plaza

 

Majuli: Hope and Homelessness

An installation in water depicting the homelessness of the people of Majuli with relentless erosion and loss of livelihood and habitat. Everyday objects of home fill up the physical space of memory and identity; a pot, a lantern, a bicycle, a suitcase, the masks that are perhaps no longer required and their gods and goddesses

 

On view 24 and 25 March 2016 in the Fountains next to the Lounge

 

Roots: Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya

A photo essay by Ian Khongmen

 

Bridges in East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya are not built but grown. The photo essay shows how villages in Meghalaya use traditional knowledge to engineer a unique bridge building art with living roots of rubber trees. This ancient and rare art of making the roots grow across a stretch weaving in sticks and stones till they take root on the other side of the river thus allowing the people to cross over

 

On view 24 to 30 March 2017 at the Quadrangle Garden

 

FROM 16:30 TO 19:45 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

Introduction 

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Mukhabhaona

A traditional mask theatre/dance performance by the mask makers of Majuli. The mukha or mask is an important component of the bhaona – a traditional form of entertainment with a religious message, first created in the 16thcentury by Shankaradeva. The performance is a tribute to Sanjoy Ghose, development activist

 

Film: Majuli – Land Between Two Rivers

(45 min; 2017; HD; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Parashar Baruah

 

The film explores the challenges in preserving the island physically and it’s culture of mask making that is as threatened as the island itself. A searing narrative of the survival of art and life itself, told through masked characters drawn from mythology

 

From 18:00 to 19:15 in Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex

Discussion on Philanthropy: The Art of Giving

Panelists:

 

 

 

READINGS  ? ANNEXE LECTURE ROOM II AT 18:30

 

By Mahesh Verma, Vivek Nirala, R Chetan Kranti & Piyush Daiya

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

 

(52 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Nandit Desai who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rare Images of Durga Mahisamardini

Speaker: Dr. Sunanda Srivastava, former Superintending Archaeologist, ASI

Chair: Dr. D.N. Dimri

 

Worship of Sakti or Devi as the supreme goddess has been very popular since ancient times, Durga being the most revered one. This form of Devi attained such admiration that her images as Mahisasuramardini were ubiquitously sculpted and found across the country. Discussion on a few of rare images of Durga will be the topic of the talk

 

 

By Hans Utter and Utpola Borah from USA, Hans is a disciple of Ustad Shujaat Khan and Utpola Borah is a disciple Prabha Atre, Malashree Prasad, Iqbal Khan and Indralal Danda