ARTEAST FESTIVAL 2018: 1 TO 3 FEBRUARY 2018

 

ArtEast is an initiative to raise pertinent questions through a series of engagement on art, livelihood, social justice, climate change, communication, history – past and present, issues that have a far reaching impact on everyday life of people and of the nation. The festival includes talks/discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and performances

Conceptualised by Dr. Monica Banerjee

 

Curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

Organised in collaboration with National Foundation for India; The Sasakawa Peace Foundation; and New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication

 

Exhibitions:

An Ode to Bamboo

A tribute to M.P. Ranjan, design evangelist and one of the world’s leading design thinkers

 

An Unseen Tunnel inside a Displaced Proletarian – Year 2018

A mixed media installation that takes the viewer through a tunnel travelling and experiencing the transitional point of green to grey space

By Sukant Panigrahy and Kaur Chimuk, New Media Artists

 

Photographs, Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Poetry and Bamboo Objects of Everyday Use

Artists: Arati Kumar Rao, photographer and writer; Parasher Baruah, cinematographer; Pankhi Saikia, painter; Sumana Roy, poet and writer; Vijay Jodha, writer, photographer and filmmaker; and Siddhartha Das Studio

 

Opening on 1 February 2018 at 17:00

 

On view at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, 1 to 7 February 2018, 11:00 to 19:00 daily

 

In the Neighbourhood

Illustrating life and living in the North East by Biscoot & Rain

Visual artists: Sirawon Khathing and Ben Ezra Ning

 

On view at the Quadrangle Garden, 1 to 7 February 2018

 

AT 18:00 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

Inauguration of ArtEast

Openings remarks by Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, National Foundation for India

 

Up, Down and Sideways (Kho-ki-pa-lü/Nagaland)

(83 min; 2017;dvd; English)

Directed by Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar who will introduce the film

 

A musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss in Phek village, Nagaland

 

(Collaboration: The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies)