Talks

LIVING ON AN INCLINE

6 October 2017

Two days of performances, readings and discussion sessions at the HANGAR FOR THE PASSERBY

Curated by Akansha Rastogi

This two day symposium ‘Living on an Incline’ is organised in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Hangar for the Passerby’ curated by Akansha Rastogi at KNMA-Noida. It brings together artists and scholars from different generations who have been part of artists’ collectives or worked in collaborative environments. Choreographed as the second meeting at the Hangar, a laboratory-storage-repairing studio, the two intense days will open up conversations on artist’s time and what constitutes artistic work, slime molds, exhibition design and expand on ideas around collectivity and moments of transference across generations and artists-groups in India as presented in the exhibition. The program is interspersed with performances by Murari Jha, Preeti Singh and Neha Tickoo, and reading of letter exchanges between artist Haku Shah and art historian Stella Kramrisch during the period of their co-curating ‘India Unknown’ exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1965. On the occasion of this gathering new works by Preeti Singh, Niroj Sathpathy, Suryakant Swain and Rashmi Kaleka have been added to the Hangar.

Program details:

6 October 2017, Friday

11am | THE CURATORIAL WILL | Akansha Rastogi

12.00-1.30pm | MEETING AT THE FAÇADE | Prayas Abhinav and Mochu

Lunch

2.30-3.00pm | INDIA UNKNOWN – FROM THE SOUVENIR SHOP | Stella Kramrisch and Haku Shah | Reading by Nitish Arora and Sukhmehak

Tea Break

3.00-4.30pm |  THE SWING | A Performance by Preeti Singh

5.30-7.00 | SLIME MOLD IS AN ORGANISM AND A STATE  | Clark House Initiative (Yogesh Barve) and Belinder Dhanoa (Kasauli Art Centre)

7 October 2017, Saturday

11.00-12.30pm | NEGOTIATING WORK AND FINANCE  | Erik Bordeleau, Amitesh Grover and Arnika Ahldag

12.30-1.00pm | CHED | A Performance by Murari Jha

Lunch

2.00-3.30pm | ON AMPLIFICATION | Umashankar Manthravadi and Inder Salim

3.30-4.00pm | A Performance by Neha Tickoo

Tea Break

4.30-6.00pm | ARTIST’S TIME | Monica Narula and Mrigank Madhukaillya

6.00-6.30pm | SILENCE AND CLAMOUR OF TOOLS  | Bhagwati  Prasad