A blood bank is scarcely the place you would expect to see an art exhibition. So, it was both wryly ironic and curiously apt that Counter-Canon, CounterCulture, curated by Nancy Adajania was mounted in one during the Serendipity Arts Festival, held from the 15th to the 22nd of December in Panjim, Goa. In the exhibition, Adajania drew on her two-decades-long practice to deviate from the dominant narratives of Indian art history and look, as she outlined in her curatorial note, at all the “wrong places.” These included trade fairs, nightclubs, movie makers’ archives, inter-disciplinary workshops, design schools, architects’ marginalia and youth subcultures, to unearth “a series of ‘pre-histories’ for India’s new media art between the 1940s and 1980s.”
Magic was one of the tropes that Adajania ventured to employ, opening the show rather unusually with the documentation of illusionist P.C. Sorcar and his ability to bedazzle the foreign broadcast media. She then went on to forge linkages with the “magic of early cinema” and experimental films.
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Parts, Wholes And The Spaces In Between
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"The Fine Art of Going to the Pictures."
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"To Finally Have Something of Your Own to Mine."
Dayanita Singh is the recipient of the coveted 2022 Hasselblad Award. Keeping the photograph at the centre, she speaks to Shreevatsa Nevatia about books, book objects, photo novels, exhibitions and museums.
OF DIVINE LOSS
Shaurya Kumar explores the relationship between the subject and object of devotion, finds Aranya.
THE PAST AND ITS SHADOWS
Neha Mitra visits two shows and three artists in Mumbai.
FORCE OF NATURE
Alwar Balasubramaniam dwells on absences and ephemeralities in his new work, states Meera Menezes.
SHAPES OF WATER
Devika Sundar's works delineate the murky, malleable boundaries between the human body and the organic world, says Joshua Muyiwa.
INTIMATIONS OF INTIMACY
Sunil Gupta shares his journey with Gautami Reddy.
THE FRACTURED PROSPECT
Nocturnal landscapes as ruins in the making? Adwait Singh looks at Biraaj Dodiya's scenes of loss.
TEETERING BEYOND OUR GRASP
Meera Menezes traces Mahesh Baliga's journey from Moodabidri to London.