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KOLKATA CITY LAB: City as an Archive Open to the Field of Experiments
In recent times, the discipline of arts and art institutions has been working to address the lack of critical spaces for discourse and deliberation. When a city like Kolkata, with its deep, penetrating roots—nurturing a dense forest of diverse artistic and aesthetic voices—is considered, how can one overlook its presence in the contemporary art-making scene? KAEE Kolkata City Lab (KKCL) by KAEE Contemporary in Kolkata, established by Ambica Beri, is one such promising residency programme, conceived and curated by Premjish Achari. The residency excavates the multiple layers of Kolkata to explore both the tangible and intangible salient features of the city. Curators, writers, architects, designers, and scientists have collaborated to investigate the city’s cultural heritage.
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TAKE Calendar: The South Asian Edit 2024
The South Asian arts scene has been at its peak. With experimentation in mediums and innovative platforms, South Asia and its diasporic artists constantly strive to push the envelope of contemporary art. To bolster this wave of energy, there are multiple key events that highlight, empower and uplift South Asian visual voices. Here is a curated guide to important art events across the globe that all South Asian art connoisseurs must bookmark. The year is marked with a promising line up of art fairs, festivals, public installations, and biennales. Let the 2024 art hop begin!
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TAKE on Writing Workshop, Jaipur 2018
Following a series of art-writing workshops aimed to foster the practice of critical art writing in India TAKE was invited to organise a four-day workshop on art writing, from ‘Breaking Ground’, the first Indian Ceramics Triennale at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur in November 2018.
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Live Stream—Performance Art Pavilion at the 18th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh
As suggested by Nam June Paik, that ‘noise’ occurred in two-way communication, and mistranslation was also a way of delivering messages. Within this system, Paik gave equal importance to both the role of the sender and that of the receiver.
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Liverpool Biennale 2018
The Oratory building sits at the northern edge of the iconic and imposing Liverpool Cathedral. Built in the extravagant Greek Revival style, it serves as the perfect home for a newly commissioned work by Austrian filmmaker Mathias Poledna.
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