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Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2023
Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) is is an initiative of Khoj International Artists’ Association and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan. for young curators from South Asia. It is a fully-funded fellowship programme in the field of curatorial practices relevant to South Asia in the visual arts. The program aims to develop a diversity of perspectives on the medium of the exhibition and to provide a structured and an experimental inquiry into the possibilities of curatorial practice today.
About this edition
The fifth edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2023 returns with tutors Latika Gupta, curator based in Delhi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Raqs Media Collective.
The Phase I of the Intensive is a combination of talks, seminars and workshops that look at histories of exhibition-making, institutions and their limitations. Emerging discussions incorporate a wide range of curatorial frameworks and practices – non-instrumental knowledge that draws from various themes; patches of ideas that could lend themselves to varied contexts. They help further the intent of CISA to develop a diversity of perspectives on the medium of the exhibition and to provide both a structured and an experimental inquiry into the possibilities of curatorial practice today.
The fellows for CISA 2023 are Atefeh Khas (Iran), Bishal Yonjan (Nepal), Bunu Dhungana (Nepal), Jaisingh Nageswaran (India), Jatin Gulati (India), Neda Haffari (Iran), Pramodha Weerasekera (Sri Lanka), Snehal Morey (India), Sukanya Deb (India), and Umair Badheeu (Maldives).
The Fellows will be given the opportunity to independently develop curatorial projects over a period of four months during which they will be mentored by the programme leaders, culminating in exhibitions (Phase II) in December 2023.
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![A detail from Nasal Index Dwarapalaka, titled [Can Mahalanobis Statistics help automate the prophylactic detention of outliers in the dataset?], represents an artwork created explicitly for the exhibition by Abhishek Hazra. Here, we observe the line drawings that simulate Nandlal Bose's interpretation of the classical drawing tradition. Offering a satirical commentary on scientific inquiry during colonial times, Abhishek addresses Mahalanobis Distance—a widely used formula for identifying outliers within a dataset. Mahalanobis developed this concept while engaged in anthropological pursuits. Subsequently, he introduced the Profiloscope, primarily a modified version of a camera—an instrument designed to capture rudimentary measurements of facial features, an elementary version of today’s advanced biometry. The artwork reflects on gatekeeping observed in drafting the datasets.](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAxMjAwIDc1MCIgd2lkdGg9IjEyMDAiIGhlaWdodD0iNzUwIiBkYXRhLXU9Imh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGa2hvai13ZWJzaXRlLnN0b3JhZ2UuZ29vZ2xlYXBpcy5jb20lMkZ3cC1jb250ZW50JTJGdXBsb2FkcyUyRjIwMjMlMkYxMSUyRjI3MTM1MjE2JTJGRGV0YWlsLUFiaGlzaGVrLUhhenJhLTEyLWluLTE1MC1kcGktUkdCLTEyMDB4NzUwLmpwZyIgZGF0YS13PSIxMjAwIiBkYXRhLWg9Ijc1MCIgZGF0YS1iaXA9IiI+PC9zdmc+)
