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Review

Collective Actions to Haul Muffled Voices from an Abyss of Convoluted Noise – A Staged Hearing ‘In the Matter Re: Rights of Nature’

The fourth episode of the 3-year-long project 'Does the Blue Sky Lie: Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities' is a staged hearing titled 'In the matter Re: Rights of Nature'. Conceived by Khoj International Artists' Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari, in collaboration with lawyer Harish Mehla, the hearing leads an inquiry into the suspended histories of agrarian communities and the environment through the naturalist and socio-economic standpoints.

Essay

The Lure of Collaboration: Dissecting Consensus

By Premjish Achari

In the hierarchical structures of the global contemporary art world, the lure of self organisation holds immense power over alienated art workers. Strategies of artistic collaboration to come together, be together, and work together are foregrounded in the name of collectivism as a remedy to create alliances against the exclusive nature of the art world. In this book, Premjish Achari unravels the problems of the deliberative processes of consensus building in collaboration, exposing the exclusive nature of these procedures of decision-making.

Review

Coming full circle: Pre and post Pandemic Art

By Tanya Dutt

Manchester-based curator Alnoor Mitha curated his very first show in India at Art Centrix Space, 'The Circle of Life', which ran from 12th November 2022 to 12th January 2023. Combining films, painting, drawing, installation, mixed media, and sculpture, the show was conceived in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit and came to fruition after 2 years and 9 months.

Review

Engulfed by impediments, Kochi-Muziris Biennale survived to return with the 5th edition

By Dilpreet Bhullar

The fifth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale "In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire", curated by Singapore-based Indian origin artist Shubigi Rao, opened in its entirety on December 23, 2022.

Review

Between Warp and Weft: On Kallol Datta’s Textile Objects

By Najrin Islam

Datta’s objects carry secrets around knots and folds at the kernel, and point to his practice of cutting patterns in a circular fashion at the formative stage. The circular pattern-cutting registers as an attempt to eliminate the possibility of waste, where the leftover fabric is turned into appendages for the installations.

International Reviews

The Milk of Dreams: 59th Venice Biennale

By Alka Pande

As a long-time viewer of the Venice Biennale, I was particularly struck by the challenges of the post-human condition which Alemani engaged with. Ecology, technology, mental health, and the human body became key concerns for Alemani.

Review

The Street and the Gallery: Shahidul Alam’s Archives of Practices

By Ranu Roychoudhuri

In bearing witness to the historical and the everyday, Alam continuously blurs the boundaries between the aesthetic, the political and the personal. Simultaneously, the retrospective showcased Alam’s critique of the Global South’s erasure from the history of photography and how his prominent presence in the “West” is a corrective towards decolonizing photography.

Essay

Partition and Departure: The Memory Trope in the Works of Jogen Chowdhury and Ganesh Haloi

By Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Poised at two ends of the same spectrum Ganesh Haloi and Jogen Chowdhury tend to negotiate memory in remarkably individual ways, where a sense of optimism and renewal of life glow as radiantly as the underlying passages of pain and pathos.

Review

Pinning History to Paper

By Arushi Vats

In the recent works of Manisha Gera Baswani, repair and tending are transformative acts with complex contours, reminding us that healing and growing are interlaced with pain and grief, and that the fabric of life is studded with harvest and hibernation.

Editor’s Note

TAKE Memory: Editor’s Note

By Bhavna Kakar

The TAKE Memory is an endeavour to expand the many meanings entailed in the discipline of memory. The issue emerges from this context to identify the ground of inclusive perspective on the lived experiences by extending critical inquiry on the constellation of photo-archives, monuments, memorials, visual culture and digital technology.

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