Khoj and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan are inviting applications from early and mid-career curators to apply for the sixth edition of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) program – reimagined this year as a month-long, fully-funded, in-situ research residency program at Khoj Studios in New Delhi, India.  The CISA residency offers curators the opportunity to establish contacts with cultural practitioners,…

The Khoj International Residency will welcome artists in an international residency to explore and expand discourse in the field of craft, design, and technology through innovative artistic inquiry. Craft or crafting refers to the ways in which an object comes to form. Materiality, skill, repetition, tradition, and historicity are core considerations in the process of crafting an object. Sharing histories…

Khoj is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications from young emerging creative practitioners, final year MFA students (including those who graduated 2 years ago), and self-taught artists with a minimum of 2 years of experience in the field, for the 20th edition of the Peers artist residency. Peers is a six-week residency programme at Khoj Studios, New…

Join us for the Open Studio day for The Undivided Mind, Art & Science residency at KHOJ on April 15th, from 5:30 PM onward. BIO·FICTION Film Screening 5:30 PM onward: Selected films from the BIO-FICTION collection will be screened BIO·FICTION is an international Synthetic Biology Science, Art and Film Festival series. It features short films on any aspect of synthetic…

OPEN DAY: 29 March 2018 at KHOJ Studios 6pm onwards: Open Day and exhibition walkthroughs with artists. KHOJ’s interest in Art and Science is in promoting a dialogue between artists and scientific concepts, phenomena and technology through practice. It fosters the creation of new expert knowledge in the arts by extending artists’ practice in connection with fundamental research. Instituted by…

PART I:16th Feb – 28th Feb, 2015 The Undivided Mind was a 6-week residency program at KHOJ, dedicated to exploring the cross-over between the two seemingly unrelated fields of Art and Science. This residency gave opportunities to individuals whose work already sought to explore the ways in which scientific processes and discovery could be coupled with visual art production and…

This residency explored the intersections between art, science, and technology. Bringing together two Indian artists and two international artists for a period of six weeks, the residency aimed to encourage creative and experimental collaborations between scientists and artists and further enhance public engagement with both science and art. Artists – in – Residence The four participating artists came from diverse…

The Observatory: Second Site project, by artists Rohini Devasher and Legion Seven, began with an interrogation of the complicated history of observational astronomy and the ways in which ‘seeing’ is strange and more ambiguous than one might imagine. Since then it has transformed far beyond its original scope. At the core of this new iteration is the question of how perception impacts sight…

Schizoanalysis, as a concept, found currency with the Postermodernist turn, through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Posed as a challenge to the violence of psychoanalysis and the Oedipal understanding of the world, schizoanalysis proposed to move away from the clinical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, breaking out of the hierarchies between the doctor and the patient, to…

The Aerosol Chronicles Capture Omlojan is a six-part sequential exploration with sound, voice, and moving images. Conceptualized in the wake of auto-generated toxicities that swarm in the air, this artwork attempts to spend some time with the question of being in common with ‘our’ atmosphere. It is also an exploration in not forgetting that there exist radically different ways of…

The Does the Blue Sky Lie? exhibition brings together works by Abhishek Hazra, Architecture for Dialogue + Salil Parekh, Hanna Husberg, Thukral and Tagra, Pradip Saha, Saraab (Shahana Rajani, Omer Wasim), and Sharbendu De. Engaging with questions of being in “common” with our atmosphere, the works delve into the effects of extractive infrastructures on landscapes, the hubris of technocratic solutions…

MONITOR 13: Dance on my head scratch my heart invites the viewer to consider the indecipherable traces and charges of the past. It is an invitation to dance to the meditative, moving images in the program. Through letters, biographies, surfaces, sounds and architectures, the curators have assembled the films to gesture not only towards things lost and hidden along the…

Drifting with the Summer Tides draws from allegories of tidal and wave movements to invite you to discover how filmmakers and artists imagine, narrate, represent and re-articulate our being in the world within a living environment with relationships to placemaking, subjectivity, agency, our being as carriers of memory and of a counter-memory of resistance, our being as carriers of ideology and…

Infestations of algorithms are put under the microscope in laboratory-like environments. Each act of unveiling manifests as reimaginations of technological architectures, their histories and futures, and thus, social paradigms. Worldbuilding and mythology come handy as speculative strategies and simulated solutions to capture the shifting categories of truth.  The online residency was followed by a short residency at Khoj Studios for…

INSIDE / OUTSIDE  was an interactive digital art project founded by artists Karen D Thorton (Canada) and Surajit Sarkar (Delhi). Central to this artwork was the idea of bringing the inside to the outside and/or the outside to the outside. This was achieved throughout this work by using fragments of digitally captured life. INSIDE/OUTSIDE drew from video imagery and sound…

This residency aimed to push the idea of fashion, highlight new approaches to it, and take the contemporary wearable garment to new heights. The foundation of this process was cross-disciplinary, motivated by political, social and economic realities, yet inspiration would also be drawn from architecture, philosophy, science, history and technology. The residency and its products examined the role that fashion…