From jeebesh at sarai.net Tue Jan 5 17:41:22 2010 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:41:22 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Call for photos, films for Queer Film Fest, Bangalore References: <4B41C648.8080005@altlawforum.org> Message-ID: <45F05342-F633-44F8-A85C-E52B9ADCF987@sarai.net> > From: namita > Date: 4 January 2010 4:13:20 PM GMT+05:30 > To: alfexternal at googlegroups.com > Subject: [ALF] Call for photos, films for Queer Film Fest, Bangalore > Reply-To: namita at altlawforum.org > > > Hi everyone.. > > We're holding a queer film festival in Bangalore this year on 27th and > 28th Feb, 2010. This is the second in the series but the first time > that > we are ourselves going out to look for films on queer themes (gay, > lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, lady boys, drag, F2M, M2F > -- basically _anything_ that could be called queer) from across > India, > Asia and anywhere else in the world. > > The festival is a community-driven effort and we have looked for > sponsorship only as far as the venue and basic costs. The point of the > festival is to draw a large audience and screen good films with gay, > lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories, that people might not have > easy access to. So if you have made any such film or would know of > other > filmmakers who would be interested, do forward this call to them. We > are > also looking for people who would like to curate a small package of > films from different countries (or themes). And we will have a photo > exhibit so still images are also welcome. > > I'm attaching a formal call for films from the festival, but right now > do email me (namita at altlawforum.org) if you're interested in either > sending your own film or photographs or want to send a package of > films > by different filmmakers. > > And ofcourse -- Happy new year and hope you had a good time... :-) > > take care, > Namita > > About the organisers: The three groups involved are Good As You (GAY), > Swabhava (an organisation that works on sexuality and carries out > trainings and sensitisation surrounding sexuality issues, and WHAQ (a > support group for lesbian, bisexual and transgendered women). If you > need any further details on the festival, please let me know. Our > official email id is blrqueerfilmfest at gmail.com, and this is the > second > year of the festival (the first festival was held in April 2009). > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/announcements/attachments/20100105/080b6647/attachment.html From shuddha at sarai.net Sun Jan 10 16:33:11 2010 From: shuddha at sarai.net (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:33:11 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Seminar on KP Krishnakumar and the Kerala Radical Group at SAA, JNU Message-ID: <68F917A5-2610-41B4-824B-38586B3D6DB6@sarai.net> The Office of Contemporary Art Norway, and CoLab Art & Architecture, Bangalore, in cooperation with the School of Art & Aesthetics, JNU in New Delhi, India announces: QUESTIONS & DIALOGUE: A RADICAL MANIFESTO A seminar around the Practice of K. P. Krishnakumar and the Kerala Radical Group Saturday, 16 January 2010 / 10:30 – 17:30 School of Art & Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi, India www.jnu.ac.in/saa/> SPEAKERS Anita Dube, artist, art historian and critic based in Delhi, India Gavin Jantjes, artist and curator based in Oslo, Norway Amar Kanwar, artist and filmmaker based in Dehli, India Will Bradley, art critic and curator based in Oslo, Norway This one-day seminar, the second research initiative organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, in cooperation with CoLab Art & Architecture, Bangalore, surveying the traditions of modernism in India, will take as its point of departure the artistic and political practice of K. P. Krishnakumar and the Kerala Radical Group of Painters and Sculptors, which he helped found in the late 1980s. Coming from a predominantly working-class background, the Kerala Radical Group attempted to stake their claim on what they perceived as a bourgeois art world. As an artist's group it made it's mark with the manifesto Questions & Dialogue, which proposed a political agenda that interrogated the role of cultural production in relation to local and national politics, labour, inequality and social transformation. While espousing a radical politics, the group did not consciously attempt to make an aesthetic transformation in their work, remaining instead within the modernist framework and a received aesthetic language. The group disbanded in 1989 after the death of Krishnakumar, with an air of frustration and the desire to re-think their position. The analysis of the Kerala Radical Group and its legacy will provide the basis for a wider reassessment and critical reappraisal of particular moments and movements in recent art history. Further, the seminar will look at contemporary artists' practices and use case studies to understand the role of aesthetic strategies in addressing the political. During the seminar there will be a display of material relating to K. P. Krishnakumar in the gallery at the School of Art and Aesthetics courtesy of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MuHKA), Belgium. About the speakers Will Bradley is an art critic and curator based in Oslo. His publications include the books Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader (editor, Tate Publishing and Afterall Books, 2007), Self- Organisation / Counter-economic Strategies (co-editor, Sternberg Press, 2007) and the essays 'The New New Monuments' (Metropolis M, 2008) and 'Dreaming of Dreaming' (for the 'Dream Politics' edition of UKS Forum, 2009). He has curated many exhibitions, including 'Forms of Resistance' (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007, with Charles Esche and Phillip van den Bossche) and 'Radical Software', on the underground influences on Open Source culture (Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2006). Anita Dube is an artist based in Delhi. Initially trained as an art historian and critic, Dube creates works with a conceptual language that valorises the sculptural fragment as a bearer of personal and social memory, history, mythology, and phenomenological experience. Employing a variety of found objects drawn from the realms of the industrial (foam, plastic, wire), craft (thread, beads, velvet), the body (dentures, bone), and the readymade (ceramic eyes), Dube investigates a very human concern with both personal and societal loss and regeneration. Dube was a member of the Kerala Radical Group. She is the author of the Manifesto Questions & Dialogue, written in 1987. Gavin Jantjes is a curator for International Contemporary Art at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Jantjes has been a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain, an advisor for the Tate Gallery in London and the artistic director of the Henie- Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. His works are displayed in public and private collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of Great Britain, London; Wolverhampton City Art Gallery, Great Britain; Coventry City Museum and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. Jantjes is currently spearheading 'Visual Century', a multimedia project that aims to promote a critical reappraisal of South African Art History. Amar Kanwar is an artist and filmmaker based in New Delhi. Emerging from the Indian sub continent, his films are complex, contemporary narratives that connect intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political processes. His work maps a journey of exploration revealing our relationship with the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice. Recent solo exhibitions have been at the Stediljk Museum, Amsterdam and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has participated in Documenta 11 and documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and is also the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art, Norway and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA. His films are also shown at film festivals and he has received several awards like the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, the Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival, Jury's Award, Film South Asia, Nepal. About the cooperation between OCA and CoLab in 'Reflections on Indian Modernism' This seminar is organised for OCA by Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson, guest curators for a wider project entitled 'Reflections on Indian Modernism’. The project explores the historical roots of modernism within visual art in India through a series of seminars, publications and exhibitions. 'Questions & Dialogue – A Radical Manifesto' follows 'Nasreen Mohammedi' – a seminar that took place in Delhi in January 2009. This resulted in 'Nasreen Mohammedi: Notes', a solo exhibition dedicated to the artist initiated and exhibited at OCA in March 2009 and currently on tour organized by OCA to Milton Keynes Gallery, UK, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. 'Reflections on Indian Modernism' is supported by OCA's designation of 03–funds* from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Further support is provided by the Norwegian Embassy in Delhi by way of hospitality. *The purpose of the 03–funds is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers and organisations located in or associated to such countries. This includes but is not limited to 'professional research visits by cultural producers, artists, and curators', 'short-term residencies for cultural producers and artists', 'the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries', and 'project development (and pilot projects) on an international scale.' This seminar is free and open to the public. For more information please contact colab_aa at yahoo.com / +91 98860 74175 or Marthe Tveitan at marthe at oca.no. Shuddhabrata Sengupta The Sarai Programme at CSDS Raqs Media Collective shuddha at sarai.net www.sarai.net www.raqsmediacollective.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The platforms will involve people from all walks of life: scholars, practitioners, activists, writers, artists, ordinary citizens. The platform will have an active online presence; all sessions will be documented and presented in the public domain. We are looking for interns with a passionate interest in issues of urban life and public debate in general. The platform events will take place on an average of once or twice a month. As part of the Platform, interns would be involved in providing logistical support at the event venues, managing the website and moderating discussions, corresponding with speakers and coordinators, dealing with the press and media, writing event notifications and press releases, and so on. If you are interested, please send your C.V. to delhiplatform at sarai.net by *10 February 2010*. Be sure to tell us when you will be in a position to join the Platform. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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One Minute Films for One Minute Film Collection ________________________________________________ 1 Call for entries Deadline 2 March 2010 Theme: [self ] ~imaging // artists portraying themselves in film and video Like in the classical artistic media, self-portraying takes also in film & videoart a prominent position, the own "self" is not only representing the cheapest model, but basically self-reflecting belongs to the essential artistic processes and activities of an artist. Thus, there are good reasons why artists self-portraits can be counted often to the best and most intimate works of an artist, at all. VideoChannel Cologne would like to invite artists working in the field of the moving images to submit their Selfportrait in video. VideoChannel Cologne is planning to extend an already existing collection of artists video self-portraits through new exciting films and videos to be launched in May 2010 on VideoChannel online, optional screenings in sequence. Find the details and the entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 _________________________________________________ 2. Call for entries Deadline 2 April 2010 Theme: One Minute Films for OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) VideoChannel is looking for "one minute films and videos" on the theme "memory" and "identity" for an online feature and future screening programs in the framework of the 10th anniversary celebrations of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - http://2010.newmediafest.org The accepted films will extend OMFC - One Minute Film Collection - the uinique selection of films and videos lasting exactly 60 seconds. regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 _________________________________________________ VideoChannel Cologne http://videochannel.newmediafest.org videochannel (at) newmediafest.org _________________________________________________ From kaksanjay at gmail.com Fri Jan 22 15:56:24 2010 From: kaksanjay at gmail.com (Sanjay Kak) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:56:24 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] screening "Forever Young" In-Reply-To: <5c5369881001210329n7275fbd9v7ba5730f09f44e84@mail.gmail.com> References: <5c5369881001210329n7275fbd9v7ba5730f09f44e84@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5c5369881001220226if5ab88do76da8ab7faeedd0d@mail.gmail.com> Forever Young a film by Ranjan Palit at the India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Jan 27, 2010 (Wed) / 6.15 pm / Auditorium For the past twenty years every year on Bob Dylan’s birthday, 66-year-old Lou Majaw and the band Ace of Spades has been performing a tribute concert, with their rendering of Dylan songs. The film is about this man and how his annual celebration of Dylan’s music has made him into a small-town hero in the rock capital of the country. duration: 78 mins (The film-maker will be present for the screening) From mitoo at sarai.net Fri Jan 29 15:23:16 2010 From: mitoo at sarai.net (Mitoo Das) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:23:16 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Call for Applications: Course on "Researching the Contemporary" at CSDS Message-ID: <4B62B00C.9060709@sarai.net> The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) invites applications for its two-month course on ‘Researching the Contemporary’. This cross-disciplinary course will critically examine the formation of the contemporary and its multiple histories, ideologies, forms and affects. A focus on three thematic areas will enable participants to familiarize themselves with concepts and theories that help analyse the contemporary. These include: • Contemporary Social Theory • History, Memory, Identity • Capital, Consumption, Markets This course aims to have participants reflect upon and further develop their research questions and methods. This is an intensive course with compulsory readings and class discussions. Course materials will be made available. Participants are expected to write research papers upon completion. A participation certificate will be awarded upon successful completion. The course will be conducted over 8 weeks between July 1-August 31, 2010. Classes will be held at CSDS on week-day afternoons, Tuesday to Thursday, from 3-5pm. Applications are invited from M.A./M.Phil/Ph.D students as well as independent researchers. As part of your application please submit your C.V. and a 1000-word description of your research question/topic. Deadline: March 15, 2010. Applications may be sent to: teaching at csds.in For course details check: www.csds.in From tamiko at alum.mit.edu Tue Jan 26 11:45:58 2010 From: tamiko at alum.mit.edu (Tamiko Thiel) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:15:58 +0100 Subject: [Announcements] Mumbai: 3D virtual reality Berlin Wall installation Message-ID: <4B5E889E.8070800@alum.mit.edu> Dear Friends, We are now coming to the final leg of our South Asian tour: We will be exhibiting the interactive 3D installations "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall" in Bombay, and would be honored if you came to see it! It deals with life "in the shadow of the Berlin Wall," was supported by the cultural department of the Berlin Senate, and won the IBM Innovation Award at the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival. The tour is organized by the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, but in Mumbai the exhibition is at the Indian Institute of Technology in Powai. The opening reception for "Virtuelle Mauer" is on January 29th at 5pm at IIT, all are invited! The installation runs until February 7th (but I will have to leave Bombay much earlier, on February 2nd). Please see below for more information and links! Yours, Tamiko Thiel Indian cell: 9873948065 http://www.mission-base.com/tamiko/ ------------------------------------------------------------ "Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing The Wall" ============================================== interactive 3D virtual reality installation by T+T (Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter), 2008 http://www.virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de/english/devFiles/screenshots.htm Exhibit in Bombay: http://cms.goethe.de/ins/in/mum/ver/en5536491v.htm Opening reception: January 29th, 5pm on Exhibition: Jan. 30th - Feb. 7th (but I will leave Bombay on the 2nd) at: Conference Room No 2, 1st Floor Industrial Design Centre (IDC) http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/ Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (IIT) Powai, Mumbai 400076 Many thanks to the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai for organizing and supporting this exhibit! Highlights of the USA leg of the tour: -------------------------------------- - Winner of 2009 IBM Innovation Award for Artistic Creation in Art and Technology at Boston Cyberarts Festival (venue Goethe-Institut Boston) - German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth gave the opening speech for our solo exhibit at the American University Museum in Washington D.C., arranged in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington - 20th anniversary of Fall of the Wall on November 9th: Goethe-Institut Boston put on a special showing of "Virtuelle Mauer" at Harvard University Kennedy School of Goverment, with speeches by German Consul Friedrich Loehr and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Steven Walt. Events webpage: http://www.virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de/english/events.htm Ongoing exhibits ---------------- Bangalore, India___until 24 Jan.2010, Goethe-Institut Bangalore Berlin, Germany____until 07 Feb.2010, Ephraim-Palais/Berlin City Museum Gijon, Spain_______until 05 Apr.2010, LABoral Centro de Arte Previous exhibits ----------------- Berlin, Germany_____Museum for Communication (World premiere) Seattle, USA________911 Media Arts Center (USA premiere) Boston, USA_________Goethe-Institut Boston/Boston Cyberarts Festival Maine, USA__________New England University/Goethe-Institut Boston Cambridge, USA______Harvard Univ., Kennedy School/Goethe-Inst. Boston Lubeck, Germany_____Chancellor Willy Brandt House Wolfsburg, Germany__Kunstverein Wolfsburg Berlin, Germany_____Gallery [DAM]Berlin (fine art prints) Los Angeles, USA____Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Washington DC, USA__American Univ.Museum/Goethe-Inst.Washington DC New Delhi, India____Goethe-Institut New Delhi/Max Mueller Bhavan Colombo, Sri Lanka__Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka Many thanks to our sponsors! -------------------------------- Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin Capital City Cultural Funds) Goethe-Institut Boston Bitmanagement Software GmbH Lunatic Interactive Softline JSC metroGap e.V. MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies -- Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing The Wall T+T (Tamiko Thiel & Teresa Reuter) www.virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de info at virtuelle-mauer-berlin.de Tamiko Thiel (Munich, Germany) Tel: +49/89/20.23.21.49 Mobile: +49/171/208.99.52 Teresa Reuter (Berlin, Germany) Tel: +49/30/612.88.789 Mobile: +49/0176/288.13.497