From dak at sarai.net Thu Dec 7 01:19:34 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 01:19:34 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] DECEMBER 2006 Message-ID: <7F885174-977F-4BDF-BA32-72FE942C54FF@sarai.net> *********************************************** ******* SARAI NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2006 ******* *********************************************** Dear All, This month at Sarai, we screen a new documentary: Q2P by Paromita Vohra, in collaboration with Breakthrough, and Sahnehaye Kharei [Exteriors] a feature film by Alireza Rasoulinezhad. We also feature a selection of one minute video works "60 seconds of Play", curated by Avantika Bawa. As part of the ongoing seminar series, MSS Pandian and A Srivatsan come to Sarai for "Chennai: Museum, Exhibition, Backyard", with presentations on contemporary Chennai. We hope many of you will be able to make your way to Sarai. :) Warmly, Aarti Sethi [Outreach] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[CONTENTS]] EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS 1. Seminar @ Sarai: Chennai: Museum, Exhibition, Backyard - MSS Pandian and A Srivatsan 2. Screening @ Sarai: 60 seconds of Play - curated by Avantika Bawa FILMS 3. Film @ Sarai: Q2P - Paromita Vohra + Sahnehaye Kharei [Exteriors] - Alireza Rasoulinezhad ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ [[EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS]] ============ Seminar @ Sarai ============ Chennai: Museum, Exhibition, Backyard Presentations by MSS Pandian and A Srivatsan on the transformation of contemporary Chennai 2:30 P.M., Wednesday, 13 December 2006 Seminar room, Sarai-CSDS, 2: 30 P.M., followed by film screening at 5 P.M. The presentation will be followed by a screening of: "Chennai: The Split City"directed by Venkatesh Chakravarthy =============================== Screening @ Sarai: 60 seconds of play =============================== 60 seconds of play …..a collection of experimental one-minute works. 5:30 P.M., Friday, 15 December 2006 curated by Avantika Bawa 60 seconds of Play is presented as part of the launch for Issue #06 - ‘PLAY’ of Drain mag- journal of contemporary art and culture (drainmag.com). The works in ’60 seconds of Play’ question how playful energy may be a driving force in art and society. Drawing attention to trials and errors, mischievousness, illusions, irregularities, pretences and states of 'make - believe' this series of shorts will bring together the familiar and unfamiliar. We present offbeat works that delve into how 'play' operates as a sociopolitical force in creative practices. In exploring these qualities, this series encouraged all contributors to visually and/or aurally experiment with their mediums and take a few risks by shaking our senses around with a little bit of naughtiness. Artists include- Alex Pearl, Josh Mosley, Travis Hanmer, Jessica Gomula, Grant Stevens, Jaishri Abichandani, Suko Presseau, Matt Gamber, Bryan Zanisnik, Christi Heyob, Jen Schmidt, Mike Woody, Adam Tourek, Alex Heatherington, Ben Pranger, Matthew Kellen, Robert Ladislas Derr, Sarah Skapin, Elizabeth Smolares, Krista Steinke & Sherman Finch, Richard Oliver Wilson, Dana Sperry, Loren Schwerd, Natalie Bray, Ernesto Gomez, Jason Rivera, Joel Jonientz, Mary Magsamen, Stephan Hillerbrand, Kristi Ryba, Jon Field, Katya Moorman, Steve Aishman, Scott Beatty, Christi Heyob, David Burns, Allison McElroy and Object Orange. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ [[FILM]] ========================== Films @ Sarai: December 2006 ========================== Q2PParomita VohraIndia / 2006 / English & Hindi / 54 mins 5:00 P.M., Friday, 8 December 2006 in collaboration with Breakthrough as preview screening of the forthcoming Third Tricontinental film festival. About the Film Festival Initiated in Latin America in 2002, South Africa in 2003 and India in 2004, the TRI Continental Film Festival has become an annual platform for narrative, documentary, feature and short length films with themes that explore human rights issues in Latin America, Africa and Asia - the three continents that form part of the global South. In India, the TRI Continental Film Festival is organized by Breakthrough, and will be held for the third time in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore in January and February 2007. 2007 will see newer themes explored in the festival such as the alienation faced by call centre workers, the politics of toilets, the war on terror, children in conflict situations, gay and transgender people gazing and being gazed at through the lens, the lives of revolutionary women, the predicament of undocumented immigrants and the rights of indigenous communities. During the course of the year, films from the TRI Continental Film Festival are also screened at universities, cultural institutions, among practitioners of human rights, citizens’ groups as well as general audiences across India. Q2PPreview Screening Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a futuristic Mumbai and finds not enough public toilets. As this film observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand the imagination of gender that underlies the city’s shape and the constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We meet whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive with mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in the city’s bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at a night concert, in a New Delhi ‘international toilet’, in a Bombay slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how similar it is to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet becomes a riddle with many answers and some of those answers are questions – about gender, about class, about caste and most of all about space, urban development and the twisted myth of the global metropolis. About the Director Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer. She has written, produced and directed Q2P (2006), Where’s Sandra (2005), Work In Progress (2004), Cosmopolis: Two Tales Of A City (2004), Unlimited Girls (2001), A Woman’s Place (1998), Annapurna: Goddess of Food (1995) and A Short Film About Timei (1999). Her work as a writer includes feature films Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) and Khamoshi: The Musical; the documentaries Skin Deep, A Few Things I Know About Her and If You Pause: In A Museum of Craft as well as a series of short fiction films on communal conflict. She writes frequently for print on urban culture. She has worked extensively in media education with young people with a focus on radio and teaches scriptwriting as visiting faculty at the Sophia Polytechnic. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++ Sahnehaye Kharei [Exteriors] Director: Alireza RasoulinezhadIran, 63 minutes, video, 2004 4:30 P.M. Monday 18 December 2006 Sahnehaye Kharei is a film in three parts about a discouraged intellectual uncle who disappears from Tehran to lead a different life elsewhere. He leaves his apartment to his nephew and niece. The two discover some notes on various social and cultural topics and an unfinished film by their uncle. Inspired by their uncle’s ideas and the film footages, they decide to make a film together. The involvement of the two in pursuing the film becomes a pretext for the director of this trilogy to address contemporary social and cultural issues of Iran. The film will be introduced by Ramin Jehanbegloo ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++ END OF NEWSLETTERThe Newsletter of the Sarai Programme,29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.netInfo: dak at sarai.netTo subscribe: send a blank email to newsletter-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header.Directions to Sarai: We are ten minutes from Delhi University. Nearest bus stop: IP college or Exchange Stores. You can also take the Metro - get off at Civil Lines station.See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/calendar/newsletter.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We present offbeat works that delve into how 'play' operates as a sociopolitical force in creative practices. In exploring these qualities, this series encouraged all contributors to visually and/or aurally experiment with their mediums and take a few risks by shaking our senses around with a little bit of naughtiness. Artists include- Alex Pearl, Josh Mosley, Travis Hanmer, Jessica Gomula, Grant Stevens, Jaishri Abichandani, Suko Presseau, Matt Gamber, Bryan Zanisnik, Christi Heyob, Jen Schmidt, Mike Woody, Adam Tourek, Alex Heatherington, Ben Pranger, Matthew Kellen, Robert Ladislas Derr, Sarah Skapin, Elizabeth Smolares, Krista Steinke & Sherman Finch, Richard Oliver Wilson, Dana Sperry, Loren Schwerd, Natalie Bray, Ernesto Gomez, Jason Rivera, Joel Jonientz, Mary Magsamen, Stephan Hillerbrand, Kristi Ryba, Jon Field, Katya Moorman, Steve Aishman, Scott Beatty, Christi Heyob, David Burns, Allison McElroy and Object Orange. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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