About Call #2 brings 15 contributors from India and around the world, to think of space-making as an artistic gesture- tracing, and manifesting extending paradigms of ‘space’, ‘intelligence’ and ‘refuge’. What would it mean to create, and inhabit spaces that are at once porous and resistant, visible and invisible, fleeting and sedimented? As the artistic […]
Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi About The Tree Memories project entails recording the memories of people regarding specific trees from their lives. These could be trees encountered in childhood, the remembrance of which lies buried under the sediments of mundane preoccupations. Or, trees planted by a family and cared for over generations, or trees that
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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About Soil Assembly is an emergent trans-local network that organises assemblies to foster soil health literacy by bringing together local stakeholders, artists, scientists, and communities to experiment with creative, participatory approaches. Mobilising art and science open labs, artist farms, permaculture communities, non-formal education initiatives, and art and design schools, the project explores new ways of
AgriForum: Phase 2 by FICA About 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 enquiries, multiple propositions and diverse practices. For Phase 2 of the AgriForum, FICA proposes an artist
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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
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