Dalit Ecologies: A Presentation | Shared Ecologies: Working Methods

Shared Ecologies aims to invite and engage a network of practitioners and encourage thinking across singular art practices towards correlational work with the possibility for collaboration and exchange. In order to facilitate such sites for discussion, we aim to initiate and disseminate programs, talks and workshops that can engage a wide range of practitioners. Every six months, we organise in-person and hybrid events to initiate conversations within our immediate community and reach out to practitioners outside of our current cohort. This was the first event of its kind.

The internal round of presentations was followed by a keynote lecture by Prof. Mukul Sharma, in conversation with Premjish Achari.

About the speakers:
Mukul Sharma is a Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. Before this, he was the Professor and Head, Department of Development Communication, and Dean, Academics, at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi (2014-2019). His formal academic qualification is in Political Science. Since 1984, he has worked in academic, development and media sectors.

Premjish Achari teaches art history and theory at Shiv Nadar University,Greater Noida. A Delhi-based writer and curator, he is the initiator of Future Collaborations, a curatorial platform supporting the development of theoretically and politically informed curation as an essential aspect of contemporary art practice.