Grants

Shared Ecologies invites visual art practitioners working across all mediums and addressing the intersection of art and ecology to apply for the inaugural Confluence Grant. The grants will support multiple artistic projects that need to be completed or can be significantly advanced. The projects need to be mid- to late-stage in their current development and require specific further development or completion.

The Grant will support conceptual, experimental, research-based, or community-focused visual art approaches that engage with ecology as an expanded sphere.

The Earth Studio by Saagwala Farm AboutThe Earth Studio was set up by Anish Cherian and Sujit Mallik as a way of mobilising an agricultural farm (Saagwala) in Jawli village, Ghaziabad District, Uttar Pradesh, into a site for artistic, scientific, and social experimentation, to incubate ideas on the planetary conditions and human existence in relation

Drawing Out Natures by SEA AboutIn a series of nine fortnightly monsoon 2022 public seminars, SEA (School of Environment and Architecture) Conversations delves into the idea of ‘drawing out natures’ to advance imaginaries of engagement with contemporary ecological crises and climate emergencies, and the contests that come to erode and expand sociospatial claims in the

Sahyadri Samvada by SARA Centre About Sahyadri or the Western Ghats, is a biodiversity hotspot. One of the hottest biodiversity hotspots. It is also accorded the title of being a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for housing some of the best representation of tropical evergreen forests of non-equatorial region.  It means, with favourable weather patterns, this

Initiation of AgriForum by FICA and Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation AboutAgriForum took off as an online forum in October 2021. FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art) ran this forum in collaboration with Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, later developing into an exhibition display at Vadehra Art Gallery. The Forum was envisioned as a space for presenting

Roots Project by SARA Centre AboutSARA (Sustainable Alternatives for Rural Accord) Centre is located around the backwater region of the Linganamakki reservoir in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka. Once a rich biodiversity forest, it is now occupied by the relocated farming community. With increased farming activity for decades, much of the biodiversity is lost

Mahakali Walk by Veditum India Foundation AboutMahakali Walk is an ongoing effort by Garima Gupta and Siddharth Agarwal of Veditum India Foundation to explore the current riverscape of the Mahakali river. Starting from Banbasa at the foothills of the Himalayas, the practitioners are walking along the river as far upstream as possible. Over the ages,