WORKSHOP & FILM SCREENINGS: 11:00 TO 14:00 AND 15:30 TO 17:00

Organised in collaboration with National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), the workshops will be conducted from 11:00 to 14:00 at NGMA, Jaipur House, Shershah Road, near India Gate

On 25 July 2022 at NGMA from 11:00 to 14:00
NGMA Lecture: The Genesis of Modern Art
Speaker: Sujata Prasad, former Civil Servant, author, and art columnist, presently Adviser, NGMA

Curated gallery walkthrough: Hastantaran
A retrospective of Nandalal Bose
Conducted by Ruchi Singh Baoni, Curator, NGMA

Live studio session inspired by the maestros of the Bengal School

From 15:30 to 17:00 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC 
Film: The Inner Eye (21 min; 1972; English)
A film by Satyajit Ray

Recipient of the President of India’s Gold Medal, 1974
Introduced by R. Siva Kumar, art historian and curator

Satyajit Ray’s tribute to Benode Behari Mukherjee, legendary artist and one of the pioneers of Indian modernism
 

SUNDAY 24

WORKSHOP & FILM SCREENINGS: 11:00 TO 14:00 AND 15:30 TO 17:00

Organised in collaboration with National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), the workshops will be conducted from 11:00 to 14:00 at NGMA, Jaipur House, Shershah Road, near India Gate

On 24 July 2022 at NGMA from 11:00 to 14:00
NGMA Lecture: Remembering Ramkinkar Baij
Speaker: A. Ramachandran, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, litterateur, and teacher

Curated gallery walkthrough: Viewing of NGMA’s Permanent Collection
Conducted by Sushmit Sharma, Deputy Curator NGMA

Pottery Lab: inspired by the NGMA Collection

From 15:30 to 17:00 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC 
Film and discussion: Ramkinkar Baij (30 min; 1975; English)
A film by Ritwik Ghatak

Introduced by K.S. Radhakrishnan, sculptor and curator

This film by legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak sought to unravel the man behind the persona, but remained incomplete due to Ghatak’s sudden death. The Ghatak Memorial Trust has put together this version using available film footage.

K.S. Radhakrishnan will also screen his own short documentary on the artist

WORKSHOP & FILM SCREENINGS: 11:00 TO 14:00 AND 15:30 TO 17:00
 

Art Appreciation Workshops and Screening of Films on Artists: 23 to 25 July 2022
Organised in collaboration with National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), the workshops will be conducted from 11:00 to 14:00 at NGMA, Jaipur House, Shershah Road, near India Gate

On 23 July 2022 at NGMA from 11:00 to 14:00
NGMA Lecture: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Artistic Legacy
Speaker: Arpana Caur, artist and scholar
Chair: Adwaita Gadanayak, sculptor, curator and Director-General, NGMA

Curated gallery walkthrough: Kshetragya
The oeuvre of ten masters of Contextual Modernism
Conducted by Meghna Vyas Arora, Curator, NGM

Live studio session inspired by Amrita Sher-Gil and Nicholas Roericj

From 15:30 to 17:00 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC 
Film: Amrita Sher-Gil: Une Rapsodie Indienne 
(52 min; 2002; French with English subtitles)
Director: Patrick Cazals

Introduced by Yashodhara Dalmia, art historian and curator

Shot in New Delhi, Mumbai, Simla, Budapest and Paris, the film unfolds the complex life and extraordinary oeuvre of an artist who became a legend in her lifetime, but tragically died when she was only twenty-eight
 

Audio-visual presentation by Shri Shail Vyas, Homi Bhabha Fellow, Mumbai, musicologist and composer

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Dr. R.S. Bisht, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; Dr. Vasant Shinde, former Vice Chancellor, Deccan College, Pune; Dr. K.N. Dikshit, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; and Dr. B.R. Mani, former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Moderator: Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, former Director, Archaeological Survey of India and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

An introduction to a new and fascinating research on Harappan Archaeomusicology that attempts to recreate ancient sounds and music. This multidisciplinary research has revealed a large set of linguistic data that strongly points towards a language that the Harappans may have spoken. The illustrated presentation will be followed by panel discussion with leading archaeologists who will share their views and discuss the far-reaching implications of this path breaking research 

 

Kathak Recital 

By Tabasmi Paul Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Dr. Malabika Mitra
Accompanists: Kushal Basu (vocal); Siddhartha Bhattacharjee (tabla & Bol Padant); and Shabhoo Sisodiya (sarangi)

At 19:00
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital 
By Subhashis Bhawal from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Amaresh Chandra Chawdhury, Pt. Samaresh Chawdhury, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar and Pt. Ramashreya Jha
Accompanists: Chetan Nigam (harmonium); and Madhurjya Barthakur (tabla)
 

Challenges Africa Faces Today

Speaker: Amb. Gurjit Singh, India’s former Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Welcome Address: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
Closing Address: H.E. Mr. Joel Sibusiso Ndebele, High Commissioner of South Africa

A career diplomat, Amb. Gurjit Singh is one of India’s foremost experts on African affairs. Amb. Gurjit Singh was posted as Deputy High Commissioner of India to Kenya (1995-2000); India’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and African Union (2005-2009); and he headed the undivided Africa division at the Ministry of External Affairs in 2001-2002 and was later Additional Secretary and Sherpa for the second India-Africa Summit 2009-2012. He has also served as India’s Ambassador to Indonesia, ASEAN and German. Amb. Gurjit Singh is Honorary Professor of International Studies at IIT-Indore; and is the author of the recently published book The Harambee Factor – India-Africa Economic and Development Partnership (Macmillian, 2022)

The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was instituted at IIC in 2018 to mark the Centenary of Madiba

(Collaboration: South African High Commission; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Migration, Informality, and the Growing Precarity of Work

Speaker: Prof. Ravi Srivasavta, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Presented by The Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

Sopranos: Aastha Mohapatra, Meera Arora, Serene Philip
Contralto: Ankur Dang
Baritone: Johnson Joseph Wilson

Accompanied on the piano by Hanna Pashkevich on the piano

A musical soiree with European vocal music through the ages in several languages

Dastangoi presented by Mahmood Farooqui, award-winning writer and director best known for reviving Dastangoi

A dastangoi on the painter, S.H. Raza’s journey from a small village in Madhya Pradesh to the pinnacle of international fame. It describes the ferment of the Bombay of the 1940s, the formation of the Progressive Artists Group, Raza’s early days in France, his passionate love for Janine Mongillat, his trilingual love for poetry, and his search for Truth through Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Ayush Dwivedi from Kanpur, disciple of Pt. Vinod Kumar Dwivedi
Accompanied by Rishi Shankar Updhaya on pakhawaj

At 19:00
Kuchipudi Recital

By Vaidehi Kulkarni from Nashik, disciple of the late Guru Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam and Guru Smt Manju Barggavee