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…

From the first International Workshop in 1997, to Khoj Live 2008 (a six-day Live Art festival) and most recently through a series of international residencies devoted to performance and time-based practices, Khoj has consistently engaged with the genre of Live Art. In an attempt to further explore the possibilities of the genre, specifically within the context of contemporary cultural production in India, Khoj…

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…

In the matter Re: Rights of Nature – A Staged Hearing Conceived by Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari, in collaboration with lawyer Harish Mehla; ‘In the matter Re: Rights of Nature’ is a staged hearing which foregrounds the Rights of Nature as an expansion of the Right to Life as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.…

For the Delhi leg of the Live Arts Workshop, Khoj wishes to locate the body as central to the making of live arts, and thus simultaneously locate the quality of liveness that emanates from the body. In this framework, the body emerges as an ever-sensing tool, interacting with atmospheres, architectures, materials, technologies, interfaces and communities, mediating affect. The body becomes…

Come BREATHE with us Come LIVE with us Come ADOPT a piece of the sky with us Come PLAY with us Come IMAGINE a future with us Masks. Air Purifiers. Anti-Smog Guns. Smog Towers. Wearable Ion Generating Purifiers. Techno-scientific innovations are seen as the most desirable solutions for toxic airs by a neoliberal society. The first episode of Does the…

“Can man live elsewhere than in air?” – Luce Irigray Air is the site of “smell, breath, wind, weather, air conditioning, air pollution, science, sound, oxygen, smoking —the tactility of the atmosphere.” – Timothy Choy To live in New Delhi is to be in constant and intimate communion with toxicity— being marked in a bodily way by where you live…

INDOOR DANCEWALKS – RETROPERSPECTIVES AND VOYAGE 4 December 2019, at 6PM The indoor Dancewalk is a paradox that will be an initiation to the outdoor Dancewalk. The local and indoor Dancewalk let’s one apprehend with intimacy, the freedom of traveling through dance, in body and spirit, but within enclosed space(s). It is also an analytical and historical account of the…

The project originally developed out of discussions between the Johannesburg and New Delhi offices of Pro Helvetia and Jay Pather of the Institute for the Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town in 2017. The first edition of the project was convened in Cape Town in March/April 2019 with specialist practitioners and programming partners from New Delhi (Khoj), Cape Town (ICA), Maputo (Culturarte),…

The 2006 Performance Art residency was curated with the intention to bring together various practices within ‘performance’ and ‘live art’ and create a potpourri of talents aimed at re-energising and redefining the conceptual nature and practice of ‘performance’ in India. To pursue this direction, the residency expanded to include seven artists. Each artist came from a diverse trajectory and each,…