Speakers:

Introduction by Bhavna Kakar (Founder & Editor, TAKE on Art)

Panel Discussion with Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Honorary Professor of History, CSSSC),
Anshuman Dasgupta (Prof. History of Art, Visva Bharati University),
and Epsita Halder (Prof Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University),
moderated by Dilpreet Bhullar (Writer & Researcher)

The dual desire for the creation and exploration of archives is an engagement with a sense of enchantment to complicate, not just trace the points of origins and relations of connections. With the onset of decolonization, the repository of the empirical knowledge systems was challenged, to lay bare its absolutism – an extension to mobilise the kaleidoscopic view of memory. In the current times of hyper-populism, the necessity to identify gaps in mainstream history and fascination to document marginalised narratives has once again reactivated the role of an archivist. A gesture by artists, researchers and cultural activists to navigate the fluidity of memory in the present. The interventionist approach embraced by the speakers of the panel discussion is aimed to revitalise the many possibilities of archive and its making, to initiate the discussions around nuanced political struggle, and cultural capitalization and is an identity-making exercise at large.

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