To mark the launch of TAKE Residency, TAKE on Art and the India Foundation for the Arts, organized a symposium ‘TAKE on Residencies’ presenting reflections by artists, curators, organizations who host residencies, and funders to deliberate upon the educational possibilities, expectations and challenges of residencies. How can creative and critical endeavours be better served through new forms of residencies, and can we embark on a collective imagining of what these new forms might be? The symposium initiated a productive dialogue between the various stake-holders in the residency ecology.

The panel includes Archana Prasad, Ayisha Abraham, Chandrika Grover, Christine Rogers, Christoph Bertram, Diana Campbell Betancourt, Feroze Gujral, Geetha Narayanan, Jayachandran Palazhy, Krishnaraj Chonat, Lina Vincent Sunish, N. Pushpamala, Nancy Adajania, Ranjit Hoskote, Roshini Vadehra, Suman Gopinath, Sumesh Sharma, Suresh Jayaram, and Tara Kelton.

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The history of the idea of the residency stretches far behind in time to over a century ago, contrary to popular assumptions. Most research that exists on this subject occurs within the premises of residencies, not without the constraints of individual interests as well as the organizations that support them. While all discourse is stimulated by varying degrees of subjectivities, TAKE identified the need for a platform where the phenomenon can be discussed on a relatively neutral territory. This issue hopes to fill that role, discussing this proliferation of residencies over the last decade as a practice and as a format, adding to current debate and dialogue with a series of critical and personal reflections and provocations, while bringing together some of the existing resources and references.

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