Through this workshop, participants will explore the relation of land and labour through the medium of text and image. Participants will think about how the land and labour relation takes shape across imaginations and interpretations of its many metaphors, through the poetics of making and reading together.

For the reading session, we invite all participants to bring with them short excerpts of texts that explore or express in some form the expanse of the topic and its associated visuals, metaphors, poetics, and politics. With these texts, we will be structuring a collectively sourced pool of readings and digital/drawn images that will serve as raw material for the image-making/collage exercise.

The texts can be in any language, and we encourage participants to consider poetic references. We welcome texts from across genres of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and/or critical writing. As we will be reading aloud our collectively sourced texts together, please excerpt up to only 1 - 2 paragraphs of long prose or poem otherwise short texts; would be ideal

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Basic drawing and writing material will be provided. Participants are requested to bring anything additional they may wish to carry with them, including but not limited to drawing implements, notebooks, diaries etc. Those working with digital media are welcome to bring their devices (laptops, iPads, tablets) with them. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

A formal training in Visual Arts combined with his lived experiences– engagement with local people and their everyday realities in many hinterlands of India has given Anupam Roy’s artistic practices a distinct characteristic. His works emanate a grounded vitality that is palpably people centric and often an expression of his strong dissent against the dominating dystopian regimes and development aggression.

Anupam has a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Ambedkar University Delhi in the year 2016 and a second Master’s in Fine Arts from the De Montfort University Leicester, UK in 2020. His works were part of the 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum New York. He also took part in several group shows and art fairs including Frieze Fair, London; Indian Art Fair, Delhi and “Historical Materialism”, Montreal. In 2019 Anupam has his first gallery solo at Project 88 Mumbai. He has presented his works and thoughts in many seminars, panel discussions and workshops at the premier institutes like SOAS London and Bordeaux Montaigne University. He had his most recent solo show in December 2022 in Vadhera Art Gallery Delhi. Anupam is a recipient of the Charles Wallace long-term scholarship (2019-2020) and the FICA Emerging Artists Award (2018).

Besides showing his works in the galleries and arts spaces Anupam works tirelessly as a designer-campaigner, designing political posters, signages and graffiti and installing them at the site, often the site of an ongoing protest. In December 2022 Anupam joined as an Associate professor at Department of Art, Media and Performance, Shiv Nadar University, SNIOE, Greater Noida.

A square is said to represent orientation and direction, proper structure, balance, logic and law and order. For the past 3 years now Chetnaa’s practice has been revolving around disintegrating this basic shape: an exploration of balance between positive and negative space, presence and absence. A square has offered many possibilities within a set parameter yet forced me to always go beyond its limits.

This one-day workshop titled ‘Within A Square’, intends the participant to go deeper in understanding and exploring the various facets and possibilities that can be offered within a four sided shape. A Square can be dissected, painted, elevated, divided mathematically into further squares to create a unique symphony of its own.

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Bio: Chetnaa

Born in 1981 in New Delhi, Chetnaa completed her Master’s degree in Painting from the College of Art in New Delhi. Her geometric abstractions are drawn largely from the landscape and architecture of her city : keen observations of the metropolis translated into an eloquent schematic of lines and markers. Initiated as symmetrical arrangements, Chetnaa’s work reveals the need to deconstruct the order she once sought, so as to build a new geometric logic that feeds her minimalist aesthetic. She recently presented a solo focus booth, ‘Sacred Square : 101 Meditations on Paper’, at the India Art Fair 2022 with Anupa Mehta Arts & Advisory and has had four solo shows, with a special online & a physical solo presentation ‘P = 4L, {Deconstructing Square Space}’ & has participated in many exhibitions in India and around the world. She has been a part of Inner Life of Things : Around Anatomies & Armatures, Group show, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 2022; State of Mind: Between Dysphoria & Hope, group show, curated by Sayali Mundye, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2021; Abstract Notations, online group show, curated by Jesal Thacker, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2020 ; All is Not Lost 20:20:20, group show curated by Saloni Doshi at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2020 and many others such exhibitions.

Methods : A series of artist led medium workshops organized by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

This Intensive on Performance Art explores the practice and repertoire specific to the two artists, Inder Salim and Nancy Popp through dialogic lectures and participative workshops.

Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the lecture and workshop on both the days.

Inder Salim was born in Kashmir in 1960. He is a conceptual performance artist and poet practicing for over 30 years. Reflecting upon the relationship between art and its relevance to the world he lives in, Inder Salim has performed at different venues in India and abroad. He curated Art Karavan International in 2010, where 30 artists from India and aboard travelled for two and a half months through nine cities in Northern India, with the objective of experimenting with open-ended interactive processes of art. He Created Harkat series of Performance Art at Sarai basement in 2011. He was a Mentor at City-as-studio programme by Raqs Media Collective, 2012. He also received the India Foundation for Arts grant and Fellowship in 2013. In 2021, his works during the pandemic got featured at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai and Hangzhou Triennial 2022. He is a Visiting faculty at Ambedkar University Delhi, National School of Drama and has conducted workshops at various colleges and universities in India. Currently he is working on two books, Ghazal Numa ( book of images ) and a book of poems about Kashmir and other places. The artists lives and works in Delhi.

Nancy Popp, a Los Angeles-born artist, educator, and organizer, creates performances, direct political interventions, and community work which engages architectural and public space and addresses issues of land use and tenants’ rights. Popp’s practice centers around performance works and direct political interventions exploring relations between bodies, the situational context enveloping them, and the nodes interconnecting them. An educator for nearly 20 years, she has taught at institutions such as Harvard-Westlake School, OTIS College of Art and Design’s Public Practice Master’s Program, and Idyllwild Arts Academy as the Interdisciplinary Arts Department Chair. A writer for various magazines and websites on art, education, and politics, Popp holds degrees from Art Center College of Design and the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently working on a Juris Doctorate. As part of her Fulbright-Nehru project, Popp is currently teaching public art, site-specific art, and performance art practices as a visiting artist/guest lecturer at Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal.

Methods : A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Module curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri

In this one day ‘Drawing Intervention’ workshop, participants will explore the idea of making sculptures with paper and delve into the process of intervening a site. The workshop will help participants address questions such as how does one see and respond to a location as well as the forms paper evolves into when cut. The workshop will tackle these basic enquiries and understand the tension between seeing a location and working with paper.

Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Gagan Singh primarily defines himself as a Delhi-based object, and a visual artist dabbling in drawing - different modes of narration including illustrations, installations, storytelling, wall art and artist books. He is influenced by perception and explores various themes including everyday life, relationships, human nature through a satirical lens with the element of humour acting as an access point.

Born in 1975, Singh graduated from the Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK in 2005 with a Masters in Drawing. He has showcased his works in various solo and group exhibitions across the world including What I did Everyday (2019), Line Bombs (2014) in Mumbai; Mati Ghar (2014) in New Delhi; and The Drawing Project (2013) in Florida among others.

Methods : A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Module curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri

A landscape refers to “all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal”. During this workshop we will create individual artworks exploring the idea of a landscape by the process of stitching and using layers of cloth. Instead of paints and brushes, we will employ shape, color and texture along with basic hand stitching to execute the artworks. The malleable qualities of the textile allow it to absorb and withstand imprints, knitting, plating, bunching, tearing, and stitching.

Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring their own images related to the topic as well as cloth scraps/old textile pieces that can be used. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Nidhi Khurana is an artist and educator based in New Delhi. Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, she completed her Bachelors in Visual Arts with a specialization in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat in 2003 followed by a Masters in Art from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her studio work takes the form of drawings, textiles, carpets, prints, artist-books, and sculptures to reflect upon the role of the human within nature. In her recent works she explores her relationship with the natural world by mapping her experiences as cyclical graphs of time, inspired by a diversity in cognitive approaches such as the Australian aboriginal dreamtime, the Mappaemundi, the yatra or pilgrimage maps and representations from Mughal and Islamic cosmological diagrams. Nidhi has completed a yearlong Artist residency program at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, funded by the State of Lower Saxony (BS Projects Scholarship 2018-19) Germany.

Methods: A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA.

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Program curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri

Creating a map can be seen as one way to organize information to make sense of the world. We study maps to understand cultural markers of a specific time. In the present, maps can be accessed in real time over digital imaging devices. This makes the older maps redundant in terms of their use. The very idea that gave birth to a map (of collecting and relating/relaying specific information) has been turned upon its head. If the map was never an accurate document, then why do we see it as one?

Used in the broadest sense, a map reflects the time it is created in. Over a period of time, physical spaces evolve into sites for exploration and provide an opportunity for first-hand mapping to take place. We each have our own maps, our own sense of time in how we see the world. This workshop uses the process of cyanotype to think about maps and the process of map making.

Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Nidhi Khurana is an artist and educator based in New Delhi. Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, she completed her Bachelors in Visual Arts with a specialization in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat in 2003 followed by a Masters in Art from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her studio work takes the form of drawings, textiles, carpets, prints, artist-books, and sculptures to reflect upon the role of the human within nature. In her recent works she explores her relationship with the natural world by mapping her experiences as cyclical graphs of time, inspired by a diversity in cognitive approaches such as the Australian aboriginal dreamtime, the Mappaemundi, the yatra or pilgrimage maps and representations from Mughal and Islamic cosmological diagrams. Nidhi has completed a yearlong Artist residency program at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, funded by the State of Lower Saxony (BS Projects Scholarship 2018-19) Germany.

Jaimini Jariwala is a visual artist and printmaker based in Surat. She completed her Masters in printmaking and graphics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara in 2017. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual arts (painting) from Surat School of Fine Arts, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Jaimini has received the Space Studio Craft Residency 2022 and was a resident artist at Priyashri Studio in Vadodara in 2019. She has been a part of many workshops and exhibitions including the Verna Biennale in 2018 and the Pune Biennale in 2015. Jaimini is a recipient of the Prafulla Dahanukar Gujarat State Award in 2017.

Methods: A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Program curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri

The workshop facilitated by Shefalee Jain from BlueJackal will open up discussions around caregiving through storytelling and visualization. The participants will be introduced to various forms in which they could narrate as well as visually depict their stories of care.

BlueJackal is a platform for engaging with, creating and publishing visual narratives, comics, picture books and initiating dialogue and learning within these contexts through interactive programs. It is run by three core members, Shivangi Singh, Shefalee Jain and Lokesh Khodke and projects team member Sharvari Deshpande.

Methods: A series of artist led medium workshops organised by KNMA

The force driving at the crux of the segment has been to re-examine the mandate of a medium centric ‘workshop’ and looks beyond the usual format of craft-hobby workroom sessions. At the heart of each session is a chosen artist with their unique style of expression and fashioned in an actively interactive module of facilitator-participant format. This KNMA series highlights how the paradigmatic shifts in contemporary art making need to be registered at individual levels and not merely as institutional applied skill dissemination. The workshop opens up room for both artists and non-artists as well as keen learners to interact with practitioners from a wide spectrum of styles and media to reimagine the tools and raw material for art making - ranging from drawings, maps, personal memories to printing techniques to textual excerpts to found or broken objects, just to name a few.

Program curators: Neha Tickoo and Madhurima Chaudhuri