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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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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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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Kafka’s The Burrow tells us the story of a wounded person caught in tension between the self and the world. The protagonist digs a burrow and tries to hide the physical and metaphorical self and body from the gaze of the world.
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With a series of changes, India Art Fair 2018 came out in a new cloak; and commenced its journey in a new direction. We take a deeper look at the direction and potholes on this path.
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Initiated by Gauri Gandhi, faculty at the FLAME University, the 21-day artist residency inaugurated on 8th January was awarded to artists Garima Gupta and Roshan Chhabria, who in the subsequent days, presented their ideas and conversed about personal experiences and inspirations.
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At the Curators Hub (2014), Adam Szymczyk spent a brief moment breaking open the originary fragments that form the term ‘curating’. The action verb ‘to curate’, he said was etymologically rooted in the idea of care, derived from the Latin word cura, implying that the curator’s role was care of the art object.
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A decade can be defined by immense transformation and growth, and Astaguru’s story reflects this metamorphosis. The online auction house that is based out of Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, embarked on their journey in the year 2008, functioning as a boutique auction house that dealt primarily in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art.
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The first Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, sponsored by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the Gwangju Metropolitan City, was held from August 24th to September 20th. The participants selected, were 26 young curators from 15 different countries.
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