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…

Beyond the Blueprint: Reimagining the City is a socially engaged art project that seeks to rethink and renegotiate public spaces and cities as infrastructures of care, as well as expressions of inclusivity. The project is a collective reimagining of urbanscapes for women and gender minorities. As a continuation of Khoj’s work in its neighborhood Khirki, and more recently the long-term socially engaged art…

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…

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…

we are opposite like that is a series of interdisciplinary works that comprises mythologies from the poles, told from the non-human perspective of an elder that has witnessed deep time: the ice. It beckons the ghosts hidden in landscapes and turns them into echoes, listening in on the resonances of potential futures. The book is an almanac, a messy collection of…

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…

Students of Swarna Public School re-visited the Khirkee Masjid for a drawing session organized by KHOJ.  Radha and Ishita from the KHOJ team helped the students break down elements of the 14th century monument through the lenses of perspective, the play of light and shadow, texture and scale. Most of them were using charcoal for the first time and were…

Aapki Sadak was a consultative project of urban design founded by architects, designers, artists and the local community. This initiative explored multiple participatory pathways that would enable the use of pedestrianism as a creative methodology to develop a sense of common ground and equality within the economically diverse localities positioned between Malviya Nagar Metro and BRT in South Delhi. __…

Moving ahead from the age-old debates of whether photography can be termed as ‘art’ at all and the photographer an ‘artist’, photography has found its rightful place in the dominant perception of the contemporary art scenario in 2010. In an era of fast-paced digital innovation and with an ever increasing focus on technologically advanced equipment and high-end sophisticated gadgets, Shifting…