The Serendipity Arts Foundation and Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) are delighted to announce the culmination of this year’s month-long course-collaboration, 'ON-SITE: A workshop exploring process, dialogue and experimentation' with an OPEN DAY which is open to the public to view.
The OPEN DAY is a chance for the participants to share some of the processes and outcomes of this workshop. The group comprising ten young artists - Ankan Dutta, Dhrubajit Sarma, Gyanwant Yadav, Maksud Ali Mondal, Selvam P, Shikha Sreenivas, Shweta Sharma, Tanaya Rao Raj, Umesh Singh, and V Prabhu - has been mining and forming their own support structures, engaged in constant dialogue around ideas of site, research, documentation, and ways of seeing and responding.
Mentored by educators Peter Roesel, Vidya Shivadas, Sanchayan Ghosh, and Krishnapriya C P, the participants were exposed to notions of site and site-specificity across three modules, through a series of immersive engagements with a variety of spaces, places, concepts and materials. Additional sessions with ethnographer Sarover Zaidi, artists Bhagwati Prasad and Sujith Kumar Malick, field visits to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (to engage with the research project, Smell Assembly, conducted by Mohammed Sayeed and Ishita Dey, and curated by Akansha Rastogi), and Farm 8, Aya Nagar, a project dealing with sustainable agrarian and ecological practices spearheaded by artist Rashmi Kaleka supplemented the different perspectives and understandings addressed throughout the course.
With extensive inputs from practising artists, this group of young practitioners were provided with a chance to explore ideas, techniques and mediums that they would have not had access to within the formal art college programmes. Invaluable experience in curriculum building, the course helped them map the complex engagements of generating a public sphere and the diverse ways in which 'site' is being constructed, addressed and explored within the parameters of their practise itself - bringing into question key areas like authorship, community and activation
The OPEN DAY is a chance for the participants to share some of the processes and outcomes of this workshop. The group comprising ten young artists - Ankan Dutta, Dhrubajit Sarma, Gyanwant Yadav, Maksud Ali Mondal, Selvam P, Shikha Sreenivas, Shweta Sharma, Tanaya Rao Raj, Umesh Singh, and V Prabhu - has been mining and forming their own support structures, engaged in constant dialogue around ideas of site, research, documentation, and ways of seeing and responding.
Mentored by educators Peter Roesel, Vidya Shivadas, Sanchayan Ghosh, and Krishnapriya C P, the participants were exposed to notions of site and site-specificity across three modules, through a series of immersive engagements with a variety of spaces, places, concepts and materials. Additional sessions with ethnographer Sarover Zaidi, artists Bhagwati Prasad and Sujith Kumar Malick, field visits to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (to engage with the research project, Smell Assembly, conducted by Mohammed Sayeed and Ishita Dey, and curated by Akansha Rastogi), and Farm 8, Aya Nagar, a project dealing with sustainable agrarian and ecological practices spearheaded by artist Rashmi Kaleka supplemented the different perspectives and understandings addressed throughout the course.
With extensive inputs from practising artists, this group of young practitioners were provided with a chance to explore ideas, techniques and mediums that they would have not had access to within the formal art college programmes. Invaluable experience in curriculum building, the course helped them map the complex engagements of generating a public sphere and the diverse ways in which 'site' is being constructed, addressed and explored within the parameters of their practise itself - bringing into question key areas like authorship, community and activation