From dak at sarai.net Mon Jul 3 01:56:56 2006 From: dak at sarai.net (dak at sarai.net) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:26:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] JULY 2006 Message-ID: <1134.61.246.29.166.1151872016.squirrel@mail.sarai.net> ************************************************************************ ******************* SARAI NEWSLETTER JULY 2006 ************************* ************************************************************************ Dear All, We begin the year's cycle of events with Marnie Slater's book launch and a discussion on the possibilities of independent publishing on the 7th, Ranjit Hoskote's reading on the 18th and the Open Mic / Open Screen, with a special one hour feature on dwelling in Delhi, on the 14th. We hope many of you will be able to make it to Sarai and share an evening with us. Warmly, Aarti Sethi [Outreach] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[CONTENTS]] EVENTS 1. Poetry Reading @ Sarai: "Vanishing Acts", Ranjit Hoskote. 2. Book-Reading and Discussion: "Far Far and Away", Marnie Slater. 3. Open Mic/Open Screen @ Sarai: Film, Video, Audio, Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance... RESOURCES 4. Broadsheet @ Sarai: Forthcoming Sarai.txt 3.2: DRAFT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[EVENTS]] ================================= Reading @ Sarai: "Vanishing Acts" ================================= Sarai-CSDS and Penguin Books invite you to a reading by Ranjit Hoskote 6:00 P.M., Tuesday, 18 July 2006, Sarai-CSDS seminar room Ranjit Hoskote will read from his new collection of poetry, "Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005", Penguin Books India, 2006. Shuddhabrata Sengupta will introduce Ranjit Hoskote and moderate the discussion. ‘It is the way he hangs on to a metaphor, and the subtlety with which he does it, that draws my admiration (not to mention envy) Hoskoté’s poems bear the “watermark of fable”: behind each cluster of images, a story; behind each story, a parable. I haven’t read a better poetry volume in years.’—Keki N. Daruwalla, reviewing The Sleepwalker’s Archive in The Hindu "Vanishing Acts by Ranjit Hoskoté, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award 2004, brings together some of his best poetry, drawn from his three published collections, along with a substantial body of new poems. While continuing to explore the interplay between the epic, devastating sweep of historical events and an intimate, often vulnerable, self, his new poems dwell on emigrants, fugitives, interpreters, double agents - survivors who walk the fragile border between eternity and transience. Experimenting with a variety of forms - ranging from the canticle to the cycle, the adapted sonnet to the passionate apostrophe — Hoskoté expresses the anxieties and delights of a transitive self that constantly shifts location, and evokes strikingly the worlds that can open up at the edges of memory, identity and language." (Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and independent curator. He is the author of ten books; most recently, of The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala (Eminence Designs/ National Gallery of Modern Art, 2005), Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual (Afterimage, 2006) and Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006). His poems will appear in German translation later this year, as Die Ankunft der Vögel (Hanser Verlag, 2006.) ======================================================= Book-reading and discussion @ Sarai: "Far Far and Away" ======================================================= Far Far and Away: Book Reading and Discussion Marnie Slater 6:00 P.M., Friday 7 July 2006, Interface Zone What defines independent publishing? What are the conceptual possibilities provided by the medium of text, image and graphic? What are the practical avenues available to independent publishers? Self-publishing, whether it be in a collective or individually, comes with its own particular parameters and potential. Marnie Slater combines the launch of her recent publication FAR, FAR AWAY with an evening of conversation addressing some of the issues surrounding independent publishing. You are invited to bring along your own book, zine, magazine or catalogue and exchange them for a copy of FAR, FAR AWAY. All exchanged material will go into the developing library of Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. FAR, FAR AWAY is a collection of drawings made during Marnie’s stay in India. Concerned with the historic documentation and exchange of the ‘exotic’, FAR, FAR AWAY engages the book as a site of fiction, capable of inhabiting multiple locations simultaneously. (Marnie Slater is an artist, writer and curator based in Wellington, New Zealand and is a current trust member of the artist run project space Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Marnie has been living in Bombay for the last 5 months with the assistance of a Commonwealth Foundation Arts and Crafts Award.) ====================== Open Mic / Open Screen ====================== The 5th Sarai Open Mic, and the 1st in our new cycle of 2006 events, is finally here! For those who have not attended them before, how it works is, everyone gets 1 - 10 minutes to screen/play video/audio works, and read/perform text based work. You can share video, audio,poetry, spoken word, a short prose piece, a performance, singly or in groups, in any language (though do be prepared to translate for those uninitiated :) The screening/performance is decided on a first-come-first-serve basis. Films, Video and Audio pieces should be between 1- 10 minutes long, and on DVD/VCD/CD format only. Alternatively you can also pipe from a laptop. You can share a complete work, parts of a work, a work in progress, even stills, in B/W and or colour. This time, while we will stay with our usual "bring-what-you-wish" ethic, we also have a special one hour thematic feature on - "Permament Address and Perpetual Motion: Dwelling In Delhi": what are the ways in which we can think through inhabiting this city we call "home"? Featured Performances/Screenings: - Nangla Maachi Lab, Cybermohalla - Aman Sethi: News of the World and Other Stories from Bara Tutti - Umang Bhattacharya: Curious Green - Anand V. Taneja: Letters to the Lord of the Djinns. - Gautam Bhan, Nigah Media Collective You can choose to address our theme for the evening, or not, and bring whatever you wish. Do come, to participate and listen, tell your friends and share an evening with us! Write to aarti at sarai.net for further details. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [[RESOURCES]] Forthcoming: Sarai.txt 3.2: DRAFT (June 15 - AUGUST 15, 2006) Through what registers can we try to articulate the experience of dwelling in the city. What lies enclosed, and enfolded, in the interiors of the city. Sarai.txt is a quaterly broadsheet of Sarai. Content includes: - The Journey After – Rakesh, Practitioner, Cybermohalla, Sarai-CSDS - Halfway House - Bodhisattva Kar and Shubhalakshmi Roy, Sarai Independent Fellows 2004 - 2005 - On Thaneer – Karen Coelho, Sarai Independent Fellow, 2004 - 2005 - Unquiet Wardrobe - Notes from the History, Memory, Identity workshop Sarai-CSDS - Nightmare - Arshad Hamid, Sarai Independent Fellow, 2005 - 2006 - Rooftop Conversation – Transcription, Bunty Aur Babli, 2005. - Bua's Bedroom – Zainab Bawa, Researcher, Sarai-CSDS - Shiny Bright Kitchen – U. Kalpagam, Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies - Tapasya - Gaurav Dixit, Sarai Student Stipendiary, 2004 - 2005 - The Strange Case of the Monkeyman - Aditya Nigam, Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everday Life. - Majaa - Miriam Meenacherry Chandy, Sarai Independent Fellow, 2004 - 2005 Write to broadsheet at sarai.net for feedback and for print copies of Sarai.txt 3.2. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ END OF NEWSLETTER The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net Info: dak at sarai.net.To 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 See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/calendar/newsletter.htm