From dak at sarai.net Mon Sep 12 12:18:03 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:18:03 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Harkat@Sarai Series: The Second Performance Evening Message-ID: <4E6DAB23.4070902@sarai.net> *HARKAT at SARAI: The Second Performance Evening * ** *Date: Saturday, 17th September, 2011 Venue: Sarai Basement Time: 5- 8 P.M * ** /Harkat at Sarai /is a working title for a series of events which Sarai will engage with over the coming months. The first event of /Harkat @Sarai /on the 27^th of August saw young artists from Delhi College of Art, Jamia Milia Islamia University, College of Art (Patna), and artists from Bangalore and Kashmir, prepared to experiment with performance art as a form. On the 17^th of September, we continue with another evening of conceptual performance art with artists and enthusiasts from Delhi. Join us for an evening with Aishwarya Sultania, Amitabh Pandey, Anil Dayanand, Bhuvesh Kumar, Inder Salim , Kaushal Sonkar ,Navtej Johar, Neha Choksi, Neha Tickoo, Pari Baishya, and Vivek Raina . Looking forward to seeing you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Fri Sep 30 16:53:59 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:53:59 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Harkat@Sarai: Sufi Spoken Word Message-ID: <4E85A6CF.5010504@sarai.net> *HARKAT at SARAI 3: An Evening of Sufi Poetry* *Date: Friday, 30th September, 2011 Venue: Sarai Basement Time: 5.30- 8 P.M * The medium is /words/, and your /presence/. The challenge is to recite a not-your-own-poem or not-your-own-couplet from this genre called Sufi poetry. Language is not a barrier. One can read a poem in any chosen position, say, facing the wall, being supine, head upside down, or any other strangest ideas that may enhance the beauty and understanding of a particular verse. This is an experiment with special, ready made Sufi-Verses-In-Our-Hearts. Any use of material, say special garments, a burning or extinguished candle, the use of colour, some electronic light on the face, is welcome. The easiest is to hold a paper with your favourite verse, and recite it from an earmarked space for everybody to hear and celebrate, which will be no less significant. Some pressing interpretations/translations in English or Hindustani are most welcome. Somewhere in FB, a single frame defines Sufism as care, love , affection, peace, friendship, humanity, knowledge, know(ing) thyself, serving the poor, awareness, resisting tyranny, and sincerity. Nothing is excluded, and if so, all those verses, contemplated for the evening, may fill the atmosphere with all that what we feel contains all of the above and more. These verses, which are deeply embedded in our souls, come out at will and help us to transform ourselves and transmit the most vital sensibility of our life. We carry forward these special verses in our hearts, mixed it with our own special tone and inner voice for others to hear and share. We hope that on the 30th of September evening, these verses will emerge, perhaps after some reinvigoration. If you wish to participate, please register at least one day before Friday. Please write to indersalim at gmail.com , or phone 9968075965 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Tue Sep 27 14:52:36 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:52:36 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Announcing Fellows for City as Studio Edition 02 Message-ID: <4E8195DC.3010602@sarai.net> City as Studio 02 The City as Studio initiative will create contexts for high intensity inter-disciplinary processes at different locations in Delhi and at the Sarai space at CSDS. Sometimes these process(es) may be rendered as an exhibition, at other times as a gathering, as a library, as a temporary archive or as an occasion for performances, conversations and debates. The studio process plans to bring together artists, filmmakers, photographers, discursive interlocutors, architects, writers, urbanists, scientists, architects, social actors and cultural workers, neighbourhood initiatives and diverse audiences to create art works, participatory performances, media works, and transmissions of different kinds of signals. *Associate Fellows * *1. Agat Sharma*/ agatsharm at gmail dot com Agat is a designer based in Jaipur. He has done his Master's in Communication Design from NIFT, Delhi. He is is interested in reiterating design as a more inclusive interdisciplinary practice that is critical and responsive. His explorations for the Studio will entail a response to the particular modernity of Delhi Metro. *2. Anirban Gupta-Nigam*/**revdwickscherrycoke at gmail dot com Anirban is a research student at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU. Anirban wishes to experiment with the world as installation or museum space, revisiting governmentality by viewing the act of curating space, of arranging objects in relation to human beings, as part of a series of aesthetic-design choices made in the realm of what is usually called 'the political'. His work is tentatively titled /Curatorial Governmentality/. *3. Asim Waqif*/ asim dot waqif at gmail dot com Asim is an artist and architect based in Delhi, where he currently teaches at the School of Planning and Architecture. He has worked as an art director for film and television and has done independent videos and documentaries before moving into a dedicated art space. His work for the Studio, /Invisible Urbanity/, will seek to look at derelict spaces, which can be interesting spaces for those who do not fit into the formal Masterplan of the City. *4. Dyuti Mittal*/ dyuti dot mittal at gmail dot com Dyuti is based in Delhi and is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Her area of interest lies in visual/sequential narration, information design and illustration. She has worked on a self-initiated graphic novel/artist book, called Flaw. Her exploration in the Studio, titled /The Paused City/, will seek to look at the city as though she has never seen it before, and re-vision this strange place with new eyes. *5. Gowhar Yaqoob*/ gowharjacob at yahoomail dot co dot in Gowhar is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centrre for Historical Studies, JNU, and is interested in the interface between history and literature, translations, creative writing, photography and visual art. Gowhar's work, tentatively titled /Tri-Pitch: City-Me-Space Portraits of a City: Interpretation of Life as Time/, will seek to experiment with the photographic representation of the city (space), to evolve a dialogue between the visual and the textual, and understand the ways in which the individual comes to gain urban experience in today's urbanity. *6. Pratik Sagar*/ pratiksagar at rediffmail dot com Pratik lives and works in Baroda, and has done his MFA from College of Arts, Delhi. He wishes to work on what he has titled /Unpacking Social Networks/, in which he will investigate faith as a potential tool for environmental health. During this project, he would like to create a space with edible contents, to attract living organisms to interact with it. He wishes to see the city as composed of more than the human subject, by bringing into his practice the space of other organic beings, and work through films, small sculptures and space-based instlallations. *7. Rashmi Munikempanna */ rashmi at rashmimunikempanna dot com Rashmi has worked with various art forms such as theatre, film and photography, exploring and interrogating ways of addressing identity, especially around gender, sexuality and language. Her work during the Fellowship will explore and intervene in the city basing herself within the space of gender. She is interested in leaving texts, images, objects, in spaces that are used only by women, such as women's toilets, changing rooms, hostels, etc. *8. Sajit Mallick*/ surcas at gmail dot com Sajit is based in Delhi and has done his Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. Living in the outskirts of Delhi, he worked with the fictional character of kachra seth, who roams in the kachra of the city, looking for traces. He wishes to extend this narrative and take///kachra seth's///performances to places like Badarpur border, Najafgarh, Dhasa border and Kapasera border. *9. Tanya Goel*/ tanyagoel01 at gmail dot com Tanya is based in Delhi, and has done her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art, USA. Her interests are in figuring out a (non) system that opens up the act of making and seeing painting in today's time. Her work for the Studio, tentatively titled /Locating Empty [Spaces]/ will attempt to locate a space that can be visually identified as empty, challenging out own perception of what can or cannot be identified as empty spaces. *10. Ujjwal Utkarsh*/ ujjwal dot utkarsh at gmail dot com Ujjwal is a film-maker based in Bellary, Karnataka. He wishes to make a series of short films to capture the oscillation between aloneness and belonging, home and homelessness, in certain portions of cities which are always in flux. He wishes to look at these spaces as homes, exploring the temporal-spatial connections in the 'city'. *Visiting Fellows* *Gitanjali Dang *is an independent curator-critic based out of Bombay. Her current interests include the ontologies of art and technology; these she intersects regularly with post-Duchampian humour and caprice. She has curated several exhibitions, including the net art endeavour /Beam Me Up _ Project India/, and has contributed to local and international publications. Her work for the studio residency will involve flash happenings.* * *Thomas Crowley *is a researcher at the Delhi-based NGO Intercultural Resources. He is currently exploring the history and the current status of the Delhi Ridge forest. He also leads bicycle tours in historic parts of the city. Thomas first came to India from the U.S. in 2008. He has since researched and written on a variety of topics, including Ganesh Chaturthi, Sant Tukaram and Maggi noodles. Thomas enjoys making digital and analog music, and creating interactive performance environments with the software Max/MSP, and his work for the Studio will involve games in the Delhi Ridge. *Vishwajyoti Ghosh *is a graphic novelist and cartoonist based in New Delhi. He is the author of the graphic novel 'Delhi Calm' and also author of the cartoon column 'Full Toss' that appears in Hindustan Times Edit Page, every Sunday. He is currently working on a mapping project in the workers' clusters of Gurgaon, titled WORKERS WANTED which will be his project with City As Studio. He seeks to explore other mediums like photography, spaces like site specific mini exhibitions or installations and extend his practice not only through mediums but also narratives. *Rapporteur and Editor* *Jyoti Dhar*is an independent art writer and curator who lives in Delhi. Recently she was the Critic-in-Residence for KHOJ's residency on Art, Science and Ecology. Curatorial projects include "In Decay," Ralf Ziervogel's solo exhibition at Carbon 12 gallery in Dubai and several initiatives as curator for the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). As an art writer she regularly contributes to publications such as Modern Painters, Art Asia Pacific, Contemporary Practices and Flash Art. *Vivek Narayanan, Inder Salim, Solomon Benjamin and the Raqs Media Collective *are the mentors of the City as Studio Programme . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Thu Sep 29 14:03:38 2011 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:03:38 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Text as Material Message-ID: <4E842D62.5010709@sarai.net> */Text as Material/* *Date: Saturday, 15th October, 2011* *Venue: Sarai Basement* *Time: 4.00 PM- 7.00 PM* / Text as Material/ is the working title for a loose combination of public conversations and experimental text workshop that will start with poetry without ending there: investigating, in a variety of ways, through different genres and disciplines, how writing comes to be made. The public events will include readings and performances, as well as panel discussions, interviews and debates. In the /non-pedagogical/ workshop, participants will think and work together with a wide range of possible practices, depending on individual and collective interest -including found text, erasure, collaborative composition, creative translation, invented verse forms, performance, visual text, etc - and culminating in one or more small publications or events at the end of the series. Participants will be encouraged to look at text - and language-as material to work with, which is to say not just as singular, "authentic" self-expression, but as something that could be multiplied - ie., discussed, argued, cut, spliced, mirrored, reworked, edited, rewritten, translated, etc. - by others, without cancelling the initial manifestation. The workshop will also include "reading together" for ideas and potentials. As for genre, prose and any genre is acceptable, as long as participants have an open mind. The public events will happen once a month; the workshop will run parallel and also have a physical meet once a month. In the first workshop session---October 15, 4.30 pm---Vivek Narayanan will begin by introducing some of the radical and innovative methods and processes that have been used by poets, especially since the 1960s. We might look at both recent and older stuff, peeping into the possibilities created by the work of poets as diverse as Apollinaire, Raul Zurita, Susan Howe, David Antin, Myriam Moscona, Adil Jussawalla, Cathy Park Hong, Christian Bok, M. NourbeSe Williams, C.D. Wright, bp nichols, B.S. Mardhekar, Maria Negroni, Edwin Morgan, etc., who all, in their own ways, upset the applecart of what poetry was expected to be. This is an element that can continue into future meetings of the workshop, depending on participant interest and contribution. 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Message-ID: <4E8433D5.4080800@sarai.net> *_INVITATION TO A SEMINAR_* *Centre for the Study of Developing Societies* *Muslim Studies Project* invites you to a seminar by Professor Barbara Metcalf on *Reinventing Reality: The Consorts, Conduct, and Constructions of Bhopal's Begums in Colonial India* The seminar is scheduled to be held on *October 3, 2011, 3.00 PM at CSDS Conference Hall.* Please find attached the abstract of her talk and brief bio-sketch for your ready reference. You are invited to attend the seminar. *Shail Mayaram Hilal Ahmed* *CSDS CSDS* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MSP11-2.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 12710 bytes Desc: not available URL: