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3 Masters, 8 Films
20 March 2023
Publication details:
A French language Film Festival featuring legendary filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and François Truffaut
In collaboration with French Institute, India.
24 March 2023, Friday: Louis Malle: May Fools (1.48h) – 2PM onwards, Zazie in the Metro (1.29h) 5pm onwards
25 March 2023, Saturday: Jean Luc Godard : Pierrot Le Fou (1.52h) – 2.00pm onwards, Le Mépris (1.50 hrs) - 5pm onwards
31 March 2023, Friday : François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (1.33h) – 2pm onwards, The Last Metro (2.08) - 5pm onwards
1 April 2023, Saturday: Godard – A Bout de Souffle (1.30h) – 11AM onwards La Chinoise (1.36h) – 2.30PM onwards
All Films are with English subtitles Entry free for all. Seating based on first come first serve.
Bout De Souffle (Breathless)
by Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Poiccard steals a car in Marseille and shoots a policeman on the side of the road. In Paris, he meets Patricia, a young American girl who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs Elysées. She takes him in, they wander from one bank to the other, he looks for money from his old friends. The police hunt him down, Patricia turns him in. Michel Poiccard is shot dead in a street in Montparnasse.
Le Mépris (Contempt)
by Jean-Luc Godard
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal, a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal, who becomes aloof with Paul after being left alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.
Pierrot le Fou (Pierrot the Fool)
by Jean-Luc Godard
Ferdinand Griffon is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After attending a mindless party full of shallow discussions in Paris, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with his baby-sitter, an ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife and children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand soon discovers that Marianne is being chased by Algerian gangsters, two of whom they barely escape.
La Chinoise
by Jean-Luc Godard
In an apartment whose walls are covered with little red books, young people study Marxist-Leninist thought. Their leader, Véronique, proposes to the group the assassination of a personality. Directed one year before the events of May 68, the Chinese woman is considered a prophetic film.
Zazie in the Metro
By Louis Malle
When the mother of Zazie comes to Paris to meet her lover, she leaves her daughter with her uncle Gabriel. However the reckless and uncontrollable nephew leaves Gabriel's apartment and decides to visit Paris by subway. However the employees are on strike and the runaway girl gets Gabriel into trouble in a chaotic Paris.
May Fools
By Louis Malle
Madame Vieuzac has just passed away in her house in Southwestern France, far from the hue and cry of Paris in May, 1968. Her son, Milou, who has always lived with his mother, summons the rest of the family for the funeral. Children and grand-children of the dear departed are delighted or displeased to find themselves together again. But the "events" happening in Paris catch up with them : the grave - diggers are on strike and the funeral cannot be held.
The 400 Blows
Francoise Truffaut
A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.
The Last Metro
Francoise Truffaut
All Marion Steiner can think about is rehearsals for a new play she is staging at the Montmartre Theater, where she has taken over as director in place of her Jewish husband, who has disappeared. Everyone believes that Lucas Steiner has fled France, but he is, in fact, hiding in the basement of the theater.
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Book Launch: Ganesh Haloi - A Rhythm Surfaces in the Mind
Speakers: Adam Szymczyk in conversation with Roobina Karode
05 January 2023, KNMA Saket
5 January 2023
Publication details:
Ganesh Haloi - A Rhythm Surfaces in the Mind
Edited by Natasha Ginwala and Jesal Thacker
Authors: Iftikhar Dadi, Adam Szymczyk, Lawrence Rinder, Soumik Nandy Majumdar, Roobina Karode, Natasha Ginwala and Jesal Thacker
Published by Akar Prakar in association with Mapin Publishing
Ganesh Haloi, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh), moved to Calcutta after the Partition in 1950. Witness to India’s resilient culture, freedom and struggle for its secular modernism, Haloi is among the artists of the generation who have played a significant role in the shaping of Indian modern art. Ganesh Haloi has cultivated a singular vocabulary of abstraction and landscape. This painterly world is textured with knowledge references that the artist is attuned to over decades—from realms as diverse as archaeology, ancient architecture, art history, sacred philosophy and poetry. His works are exercises in bringing life to the genre of landscape painting through the assembly of disparate symbolic forms.
Throughout Haloi’s oeuvre, as in his thinking, there is never a separation between the nature within and the nature without. With extensive essays by eminent art critics and interspersed with previously unpublished illustrated folios and sketches of work from throughout his life, this monograph documents Haloi’s earth-toned abstract vocabulary that has drawn overtime on a vast breadth of iconography, ideas, and movements. In his paintings, Haloi is an itinerant traveller and so is the viewer. Within strangely unbound time, one takes passage across the vastness of the landscape, a floating geometry, the seduction of lines.
Facilitated by Manmeet Sandhu and Shrabani Dasgupta
29 July 2022 | 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Venue: KNMA Saket
On Global Tiger Day, we are pleased to present a zine making workshop, in collaboration with WWF India. The interactive and educational workshop will cover different ways of making zines while relaying important information related to tigers in India. The workshop will be facilitated by Manmeet Sandhu and Shrabani Dasgupta, part of the artist collective Vichar k Achaar.
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.
Don’t forget to check out WWF India merchandise at KNMA Saket on 29 and 30 July between 10:30 am to 6:30 pm! Proceeds of sales support conservation.
About WWF India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India) was founded with the express objective of ensuring the conservation of the country's wildlife and natural habitats. Set up initially as a charitable trust on 27 November 1969 and then known as the World Wildlife Fund, its journey began in Mumbai.
In its mission to take forward the environmental protection agenda, WWF India works with groups of individuals and institutions across the society. These alliances strive to address the common goal of conserving biodiversity. By sustainably using natural resources and maintaining ecosystems and ecosystem services for the survival of wildlife and people depending on them.
Manmeet Sandhu is a Delhi based artist whose interest lies in assemblages, urban interventions and sequential art. She is presently pursuing her Ph.D in Fine Arts from the University of Delhi.
Shrabani Dasgupta is an artist and graphic designer who loves sequential art and printmaking. Based in Delhi, she practices art from her home studio.
Tiger In & As Me
A Display of Zines
By Mahila Zine (An Initiative by Vichar k Achaar)
29 – 30 July 2022 | 11:00 am to 6:30 pm at KNMA Saket
1 January 1970
On Global Tiger Day, we are pleased to present a zine display at the museum in collaboration with Mahila Zine. This issue of Mahila Zine is intent on exploring and tracing the presence of the tiger as a being and a metaphor in our life. The tiger has been an inherent part of the ecological, mythological and cultural landscape of the Indian subcontinent, and has been filtered in our subconscious as a symbol of Power & Strength. The display of zines will trace these aspects by looking into the contemporary interpretation of the same.
Come explore the world of tigers through this zine display! The event is open to all!
Mahila zine is a collection of different voices, narratives, montages from women, women artists and all those who associate with the female gender. Primarily visual in text, the stories/narrative range from at times drawing and analyzing the everyday, to observing the altering roles of women in urban sphere (from domestic to professional, sexual to social, emotion to economical), reflecting upon the embodied experiences as/ of living under the given social construct of the gender, to shouting out for gender equality and understanding intersectionality. Mahila Zine is part of Vichar k Achaar, artist collective founded in 2017. It is a self-published initiative dedicated to a specific theme every issue in the form of comics, narrative, poster, poems, photo essays, sequential drawings, etc.
Global Tiger Day is celebrated every year on 29 July as a way to raise awareness about this magnificent but endangered big cat. The day was founded in 2010, when the 13 tiger range countries came together to create Tx2 – the global goal to double the number of wild tigers by the year 2022.
Daud Lagata Aaya Bagh
Story Telling Session by Usha Chhabra
Friday, 29 July 2022 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm at KNMA Saket
1 January 1970
KNMA celebrates Global Tiger Day with stories revolving around the magnificent big cat with a storytelling session conducted by Usha Chabbra!
The storytelling session led by Usha Chhabra brings into focus facts and references from popular and folk cultures, be it from literature in form of poems and from cinema. Using props and oration, Usha builds the flow of the session narrating in her unique style about the elusive Tiger as an animal and as a concept of collective imagination, slowly bringing awareness over the issue of the loss of tigers and as a significant link in bio-diversity and ecosystem. She re-tells stories from folklore as well as stories from wildlife conservation re-iterating the urgent need to safeguard the ecosystems, especially the Tigers.
All are welcome to join the enthralling session that will explore the world of tigers! The story telling session is open to all (free entry). Refreshments will be provided after the session ends.
Usha Chhabra is an educator, author and storyteller. Having taught Hindi for 24 years at Delhi Public School, she ventured into conducting storytelling sessions, teachers’ and parents’ orientation programmes and workshops for children on creative writing and dramatics across India. She has taken sessions at the World Book Fair, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, National Museum, National Bal Bhawan, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Dilli Haat (INA& Janakpuri) and various NGOs across India. She was also part of Jaipur Literature Festival Outreach Programme, Bhiwani Children Literature Festival, Kanpur Literature Festival, Katha Karnival Katha Utsav and Gwalior Art and Literature Festival.
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Saraikella Chhau Performance
By Padma Shri Guru Shashadhar Acharya with disciples
Saturday, 23 July 2022 | 6:30 pm at KNMA Saket
20 July 2022
KNMA presents a unique evening of Saraikella Chhau dance as a beautiful way of experiencing the exhibitions 'K Ramanujam: Into the Moonlight Parade' and 'Atul Dodiya: Walking with the Waves.'
The event has been conceived as a spatial as well as an episodic journey from one exhibition to another, from one story to another, within the interiors of the museum area. Laden with rich visuals and imagery the performances carry narratives as if moving through a dream-scape. The evening will stand witness to resonances within visual and performing arts, complementing each other, and how! From the enchanting moonlit world of K Ramanujam, full of celestial apparitions there is a gradual movement towards the splendid tides wading the imagination of Atul Dodiya. Both dance pieces 'Ratri' and 'Naavik' respectively find the narrative flow as a response to the displayed artworks. The choreographed pieces are distinct in concepts and execution in the same way both exhibitions are, yet connected on the same drifting plane of lucid imagination.
The program is initiated and conceptualized by Neha Tickoo
The dance is presented by Padma Shri Guru Shashadhar Acharya with disciples Gunjan Joshi and Shubham Acharya.
Ratri | Raaga: Yaman and Marubihag, Tala- 12 matra | Duration: 15 minutes
Ratri literally translates into the night and in the style of Seraikella Chhau is a composition that echoes the Vedic concept of celebrating forces in nature. This is inspired from the Ratri Sukta, a verse in the Rig Veda that personifies night into a goddess. A Goddess that protects the world and its beings from the threatening forces that may lurk in her darkness. Night is welcomed ritually in traditional Indian homes with the lighting of an oil lamp. In this choreography the woman doing her ritual arti is symbolically represented by Sandhya or dusk, whose exit marks the entry of night. Her magnificent presence stills the evening with tranquility… reveling in her profound darkness, she scatters stars to adorn her midnight skies. The composition also uses the abstract imagery of an elusive moon with whom she gently plays until the first rays of light take him away.
Naavik | Local tune, Tala-7 matras | Duration: 13 minutes
A boatman and his wife navigating waters create a unique allegorical interpretation of the metaphoric journey of life. The boatman tenaciously faces the joys and perils with the silent strength of his beloved, who in turn seeks his protection. Reveling in each other’s love and support they thus sail on their tiny boat through the changing times of life.
Padma Shri Guri Shashadhar Acharya is a fifth-generation dancer from his family. He learned Chhau from his father, Guru Lingaraj Acharya, and then from Guru Natshekhar Bana Bihari Pattnaik, Vikram Karmakar, Kedarnath Sahu, and Sudhendranath Singhdeo. In the early 1990s, he left Saraikela to work at the Gurukul Dance Academy and then at the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai. He is a faculty member at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune and at the National School of Drama, New Delhi. He teaches at the New Delhi-based Triveni Kala Sangam. In 2020, he received the Padma Shri honour for his contribution in the field of Arts.
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#WeekendsatKNMA Ft. Sound Healing
Saturday,9th July 2022, 6pm onwards at KNMA, Saket
4 July 2022
Sound has been utilized in various cultures for thousands of years as a tool for healing. Sound healing is an ancient meditative practice that uses different musical implements to create healing vibrations around the body in a meditative state.
Dr. Sanjay Arora and Deepti Lalwani will lead you through a guided sound healing meditation and sound therapy experience using hung drums, singing bowls, and Gongs at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Saket in an attempt to find inner peace and tranquility.
Light Meal will be provided after the session.
Dr Sanjay Arora
A dental surgeon by profession, Dr Sanjay Arora has had a keen ear for music and percussion since childhood. An avid follower and student of rhythm, drums have always taken his fascination. A multi percussionist, he is adept at playing various percussion instruments such as, Djembe, Cajon, Bongos, Darbuka and Hand pan. Dr Arora has also worked extensively with children with special needs, helping improve their cognitive abilities and to express themselves by way of drumming and drum therapy.
He was introduced to the melodious healing sounds of the hand pan about 3 years ago and from there he embarked on a journey as a hand pan player. Ever since, he has enthralled one and many and continues to do so with his inimitable style and healing melodies on the hand pan.
Deepti Lalwani
A sound healing Trainer, Practitioner, Rebirther and a wonderful Gong Player – Ms. Lalwani holds an experience of over 12 years in the field of wellness where she truly shares what she believes and applies in her own life first. She shares her passion with people & conducts training workshops as well as one-on-one healing sessions and has helped many transforms and rediscover their true essence.
She also believes that Celebration is life and we all must celebrate life in every moment and with this intention of spreading celebration with awareness she co-founded Soul Setu wellness Foundation, a platform for psychological growth & holistic well-being.
Instructions
- Eat Light before the session and have a gap of minimum 1 hour in the meal and session.
- Wear loose comfortable clothes preferably light color.
- Please avoid wearing any accessories like crystals, gold or leather as we won't want their frequency to mingle with the frequencies of the bowls and gongs.
Note: This program has limited seating for 30 people only. All Covid protocols will be followed.
Address: KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, SOUTH COURT MALL, SAKET, DELHI
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Dhrupad at the Museum
With Dhrupad vocalist Pelva Naik
Accompanied by PT. Sanjay Agle on Pakhawaj
18 May 2022
Celebrate International Museum Day 2022 with a musical evening ‘Dhrupad at the Museum’ with Dhrupad vocalist Pelva Naik accompanied by Pt. Sanjay Agle on Pakhawaj.
The event held at KNMA Saket is open to all (free entry). Refreshments will be served following the concert.
Pelva Naik has been trained in the Dhrupad style of vocal music under the eminent Dagar School of Indian classical Music. She is a disciple of legendary Dhrupad maestro Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar. She has also received proficient guidance from Rudraveena maestro Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar. In her music, Pelva endeavors to adhere sincerely to these traditional elements- so complete in themselves; at the same time, with the help of the great liberty that the discipline of dhrupad offers, she strives to cultivate fresh characteristics that are personal and distinct.
As a solo Dhrupad vocalist, she believes, that even though performance of this unique art form is a central aspect of her ‘being’ as an artist; teaching and edification of Dhrupad must remain the most integral element for a practitioner. Teaching and sharing the nuances of the art of Dhrupad is an integral part of her life and practice. Pelva teaches and performs Dhrupad in India and overseas.
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Moving Worlds
Online Exhibition | Teaching Fellowship 2019-20
28 June 2020
Artreach India and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in partnership with TARA Homes, Delhi, present artworks made by 18 young people who participated in the yearlong Teaching Fellowship programme.
Moving Worlds’ young artists are: Noorjahan, Kamaljeet, Sharwan, Manoj, Raj, Vishal, Vanshika, Noorie, Sikander, Shyamu, Rashid, Lokesh, Nandini, Sachin, Sameer, Piyush, Roshni, Jyoti, from TARA Girls and TARA Boys Homes.
The exhibition includes expressive charcoal drawings, vibrant collage still-life works, captivating stop-motion animations, clay-relief tiles, reflective self-portraits and detailed nature observation drawings. Since the beginning of March 2020, regular workshops were led online, due to the lockdown; the drawings, paintings and zines made during this period are a valuable component of this online exhibition. This year’s artist Tahsin Akhtar led the program at TARA Homes.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by workshops that reflected on the future, posing questions to participants of what they imagine becoming, what the world might be like and where they feel they’d find themselves at, twenty years from now. The group also felt this title aptly fits the many transitions they are experiencing and learning about from across geographies, today, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visit the online exhibition ‘Moving Worlds’ here - www.teachingfellowship.net and get inspired with the vibrant energy, creativity and dream-worlds of the young artists of Tara Homes.
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Antar Samvaad
World Music Day with Vidya Rao and Dr. Preeti Bahadur
21 June 2020
On the occasion of World Music Day, KNMA invited well known Hindustani vocalist Vidya Rao in conversation with art historian Dr Preeti Bahadur. Antar Samvaad as the talk was titled focused on the aspects of music as a medium for introspection in times of pandemic and desolation. Dr Bahadur began the talk by talking about a Kedar ragini miniature where a destitute wanderer is sitting in contemplation, listening to a Rudra-veena player. After discussing the nuances of classical Hindustani Raagas, the course of the talk then moved towards Vidya Rao speaking about discipline and dedication, from her own perspective of working on the verses of Kabir and other Sufi poets, as important factors in experiencing the essence of music and life in general. The talk ended with discussing about the survival of performing arts and artists during pandemic inflicted Lockdown and how the entire artist community is struggling for livelihood and sustenance. The talk was conducted via Zoom on KNMA Facebook live pages and saw a decent attendance from arts and music aficionados.
