Kiran Nadar Musuem of Art presents a workshop on collagraph printmaking to participants, 18 years and above. Collagraphy refers to the process of taking a print from a collaged textured plate. The term was coined by educator Glen Alps in 1955, who helped in developing this process. This workshop will teach and guide participants to make their own collaged plate and then take a print without using a printing press. The textured surface is made by gluing different materials such as paper, scraps and found objects onto the plate.

The zoom link for the session along with a list of materials that requires to be arranged will be emailed to each registered participant.

This workshop is an invitation to engage in making a reproducible sequential work that involves linear and/ or non-linear narrative. Aided with directives and prompts, participants will be encouraged to explore the emotional architecture embedded in the genre of science fiction and immerse themselves in the possibilities of time-travel, new discovery, sonar communication and extinction among other facets. While engaging with the idea of a book form with diverse potential, the workshop will cover the process of making a zine.

Spread over three intense sessions, of different durations, it is a participatory, hands-on and tactile workshop, exploring zine-making as a form and a medium. With primary focus on the act of making, the program will also look into the possibilities of physical circulation and sharing of zines and expanded publishing through Renuka Rajiv’s own practice. Participation in all three sessions is mandatory and also requires commitment and preparation in between sessions. Preferred age group for participation would be 18 to 50 years old. 15 participants will be selected by artist and workshop facilitator Renuka Rajiv on the basis of interest statements. Further program details, additional material requirements, themes of the zine will be communicated by the artist to all participants via email or telephone prior to the workshop.

Renuka Rajiv has a background in working with paper and fabric primarily. Zines, drawing and personal expressions are central to their practice. They are interested in postal subscription and mailing lists. Currently, they are facilitating a subscription-based zine series involving several wonderful contributors.

Material required (to be arranged by each participant themselves): Paper, pens, colours, adhesive, collage material, any other material, stamps, 5 used a4 sheets that are lying around. Finished zines pages. Adhesive/ stapler/ tape, photocopied sheets, long needle, thread, packing material.

Schedule:

• Session 1: 26 November, Thursday, 4 – 9 pm, Duration - 5 hours
• Session 2: 27 November, Friday, 4 – 6 pm, Duration - 2 hours
• Session 3: 28 November, Saturday, 4 – 8 pm, Duration - 4 hours
  Participants will make parcels of their zines and send them off to fellow participants.
• Session 4: TBD, Date to be mutually decided by the group

This is the third program of ‘The Artists’ Way’ series of experimental workshops, organized virtually by KNMA. These workshops are led by practicing artists who have been using workshops as part of their art making process, often collaborating with different groups and forming their own personal, formal and informal networks of learning and unlearning. The series is imagined as an exploratory platform, with part pedagogic intent and infused with new questions, doubts, playfulness and sometimes also involving a collective/collaborative production towards the end of the workshop. The program is a part of KNMA Education Outreach, with the focus on artistic research as new pedagogies of the future. Each workshop is unique, different in format, scope and methodology, wherein artists also share their related research. ‘The Artists’ Way’ program is outlined by Akansha Rastogi, with Madhurima Chaudhuri, Neha Tickoo, Priya Chandra and Rajshree Poonam Gupta.

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art presents Mapping Cities, an interactive online workshop to guide participants to create individualized city spaces through the art of collage – making. This workshop is in conjunction to the museum’s recent online exhibition, City Tales: From the KNMA Collection, where artists have drawn inspiration from various socio-cultural and political markers, physical and natural elements found within urban spaces to create their artworks. View the exhibition here - https://www.knma.in/city-tales/

“Remember, the biggest enemy is your own image!,” - Enter the Dragon (1973)

An unpredictable ‘self’ with its limits, scale and stakes is essentially the core of the whole existence; more so in the present situation of the pandemic, when we think of social distancing, immunity and the vaccine.

The question of the self has become central, and a lot relies on our individual behaviour. In this “phantasmagoria of bio-politics”, when only individuals/isolated bodies are safe and ‘other’ bodies toxic or contagious, the vulnerable self seems to be surrounded by its own images. The universe is toxic because ‘I’ do not feel safe outside. Who am I then? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Is this movement a forward? Or a free fall? How do I make sense of this world? Am I an individual/singular entity or part of a large community, collective or conspiracy? What about my roots, learnings, morality, ethics, ethnicity, culture, colour and inheritance? How do I unlearn? Is there a future, I am secured for?

Introducing the self to oneself, to another and to the world/universe is a continuous process, that involves time, thinking and working. Repetitively exercising the act of self-introduction could be one of the ways to preserve the core. Carving out an alter ego and ascending or descending to level after level are other ways to sustain oneself in the game.

Conducted over five days, this online workshop is an artistic inquiry to dig deeper into the idea of the ‘self’. It is participatory, conversation-based and performative in nature. Participants will be provided with the resource material (readings, films etc.) in advance and invited to adapt and work in any medium, including drawing, painting, writing, speech, performance, video or games, to create/destroy their own image.

Facilitated by Paribartana Mohanty, this workshop is a continuation of his long-term project ‘Game for Artists and Artists’ Communities’ that focuses on labour, exploitation and resistance in the creative fields, and developed in different intensives at Botin Foundation (Santander, Spain, 2017), Onassis AIR (Athens, Greece, 2019) and National Institute of Design (Gandhinagar, India, 2020). Paribartana Mohanty is a storyteller and an artist based in Delhi. He works in the medium of video, performance-lecture, painting, text-based work, writes for his blog and on social media platforms, and curates. He has exhibited in many group exhibitions, film, festivals, seminars and symposiums.

This is the second program of the ‘The Artists’ Way’ series of experimental workshops, organized virtually by KNMA. These workshops are led by practicing artists who have been using workshops as part of their art making process, often collaborating with different groups and forming their own personal, formal and informal networks of learning and unlearning. The series is imagined as an exploratory platform, with part pedagogic intent and infused with new questions, doubts, playfulness and sometimes also involving a collective/collaborative production towards the end of the workshop. The program is part of KNMA Education Outreach, with the focus on artistic research as new pedagogies of the future. Each workshop is unique, different in format, scope and methodology, wherein artists also share their related research. ‘The Artists’ Way’ program is outlined by Akansha Rastogi, with Madhurima Chaudhuri, Neha Tickoo, Rajshree Poonam Gupta and Priya Chandra.

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A statement repeated during this moment of pandemic and lockdown highlights this as a time to pause and seriously consider how we, collectively, proceed.

Manifestos have often served as a means by which individuals and groups state intentions. Could manifestos play a role in how we envision the future and move forward at this moment? We will discuss manifestos as a form, critically consider the problems and potentials of manifesto-making in our present moment. In this participatory workshop, we take as many steps as possible to construct our own manifestos.

This online workshop is free, participatory in nature and involves working in groups. It will happen over two days and interested participants are expected to commit their presence on both the days and undertake some group work between sessions. The age limit for this workshop is 18 years and above. The workshop will explore the possibility of further collaborative work towards the end.

Kush Badhwar is an interdisciplinary practitioner operating across media, art, cinematic and other social contexts. He is interested in ecology, including the life of sound and images across stretches of time and political change.

The Artists’ Way’ is a series of experimental workshops hosted virtually by KNMA and led by practicing artists who have been using workshops, different pedagogic and collaborative methods to develop projects and ideas. The series is imagined as an exploratory platform, with part pedagogic intent, raise new questions and doubts with playfulness and sometimes involving a collective/collaborative production towards the end of the workshop. This program is part of KNMA Education Outreach, with the focus on artistic research as new pedagogies of the future. Each workshop is unique, different in format, scope and methodology, wherein artists also share their related research with the participants.

‘The Artists’ Way’ program is outlined by Akansha Rastogi, with Madhurima Chaudhuri, Neha Tickoo, Rajshree Poonam Gupta and Priya Chandra.