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The Slippery Image: Workshop with Susanta Mandal

‘The Slippery Image’ was a one-day workshop conducted by artist and educator Susanta Mandal. Drawing from Susanta’s image-based practice and prompts from Yoko Ono’s seminal book Grapefruit, participants explored the intersection of light, shadow, screens and automata. Through play, collision, and overlapping with prompts, the participants responded in diverse ways, and the Shared Ecologies team was thrilled to participate as well.

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Breaks, Pauses & Run-on Sentences: Who’s Afraid of Writing as Practice? A Workshop by Sukanya Deb

How does one render writing as lucid, evocative, and affective? How does the understanding of “text” as a form allow us to break the mold of formal language that we are used to encountering? What are the tools and instruments of the writerly sphere? This day-long workshop will focus on addressing writing as craft and

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Entangled Ecosystems: A Collaborative Grant with Science Gallery Bengaluru

About What does it mean to be entangled—with a forest, a fungus, or a changing climate? How do field notes, temperature logs, or a canopy scan reveal the pulse of an ecosystem—and the ways it is being disrupted? Science Gallery Bengaluru and Shared Ecologies —a program supported by Shyama Foundation– invite artists or collectives of

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Community Ecologies, with Jasdeep Singh, Aastha Chauhan & Rahee Punyashloka, moderated by Smita Rajmane

What are possible strategies of organising, from the point of view of community-led initiatives, and what processes can strengthen these networks of solidarity? A community-run newspaper that highlights farmers’ positions from the ground up; a community radio project; and subterranean speculative fictions. Highlighting perspectives from the ground up, this panel will seek to investigate the challenges and successes of community engagement.

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 Agriforum, with FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art)

The AgriForum is an ongoing platform hosted by FICA, involving a set of discussants – artists and art collectives – working with the agrarian as a site, seeking to bring together varied critical inquiries, multiple propositions, and diverse practices. FICA organised an artist residency with the Gram Art Project in Paradsinga, Madhya Pradesh. Their proposed programme in Paradsinga aimed at streamlining certain discursive points for the participating artists and their art practices, while also learning from and adding to the work Gram Art Community has been doing for over 9 years.

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