To mark the launch of TAKE Fiction, in collaboration with Piramal Museum of Art, TAKE on Art hosted the panel discussion ‘Fiction as Criticality’ on 9 September 2017.

The panel includes Girish Shahane, V Sanjay Kumar and Rustom Bharucha. Bharti Lalwani was the discussant, and the session was moderated by Anushka Rajendran.

TAKE Fiction

This issue of TAKE, returns to an often-quoted maxim: “Writing about art is like dancing about architecture.” There is perhaps some truth to this. Is writing any less of a creative exercise than art making? Or does the creative in writing reside only in its fiction? Artists and writers of fiction have always been inspired by each other, occasionally drawing further close to generate analyses of each other’s work. Art writers have for long woven entire characters, histories and narratives around a single line. They have woven stories too. But unlike critique in fiction vis-a-vis allegory, fictio-criticism has been an underrated, under-practiced art form.

This issue, as several of our issues have been, is an homage to art criticism, by emphasizing its equivalence to its subject, salvaging it from the footnotes of art history. On the other hand, it is also an experiment in publishing art writing that takes on a language comparable to that of art making, a narrative that is ostensibly an instance of creative practice.

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