KHOJ International Artists’ Association in partnership with Goethe Institut organised 13 curated exhibitions which were the culmination of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2018 that brought together Fellows from Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Unparalleled as one of the only programs of its kind, CISA aims to develop the next generation of promising curators in South Asia.
The exhibitions simultaneously opened at both KHOJ and Studio Khirkee.
List of Exhibitions & Curators:
Sania Galundia (Jaipur, India)
‘Somewhere in Between’
Sharareh Bajracharya (Kathmandu, Nepal)
‘Sediments: Resisting Anonymity’
Rahul Gudipudi (Banglore, India)
‘The Unspoken Word’
Aziz Sohail (Karachi, Pakistan)
‘Making Place’
Sumitra (Banglore, India)
‘So You Think You Know the Closet?’
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati (Kathmandu, Nepal)
‘The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project’
Sumedha Bhattacharya (Calcutta, India) & Hediyeh Azma (Tehran, Iran)
‘The Body as Archive’
Nayomi Apsara (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
‘Loafing Art’
Naveen Mahantesh (Banglore, India)
‘Could Be Urbanism | Shayad Shahari Hai’
Anuj Daga (Mumbai, India)
‘Under Construction’
Yasaman Tamizkar (Tehran, Iran)
‘Ilaj’
Shimul Saha (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
‘Past Doesn’t Have Any Vanishing Point’
Programming Schedule:
Wednesday, 5 Dec 2018
5:00pm – Opening + Walk-through
6:15pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Hediyeh Azma, Studio Khirkee
6:40pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Sumedha Bhattacharyya, Studio Khirkee
Thursday, 6 Dec 2018
11:30am – 6:00pm – Strange Intimacies – An Immersive Performance for One, KHOJ Studios
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Talk by Nandini Sundar, KHOJ Studios
Friday, 7 Dec 2019
11:30am – 6:00pm – Strange Intimacies – An Immersive Performance for One, KHOJ Studios
5:15pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Sumedha Bhattacharyya, Studio Khirkee
Saturday, 8 Dec 2019
8:30am – 11:30am – Curated walk-through/performance by WALA + Niroj Satpathy, Gazipur Landfill
11:30am – 6:00pm – Strange Intimacies – An Immersive Performance for One, KHOJ Studios
5:15pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Hediyeh Azma, Studio Khirkee
5:40pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Sumedha Bhattacharyya Studio Khirkee
Sunday, 9 Dec 2019
11:30am – 6:00pm – Strange Intimacies – An Immersive Performance for One, KHOJ Studios
5:15pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Hediyeh Azma, Studio Khirkee
5:40pm – Body as Archive, Performance by Sumedha Bhattacharyya Studio Khirkee
6:00 – 7:30 pm – Alone Together: in Media Res by Lara Baladi | Screening, KHOJ Studios
Monday, 10 Dec 2019
11:30am – 6:00pm – Strange Intimacies – Strange Intimacies – An Immersive Performance for One, KHOJ Studios
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