Urban Visualities – Sites and Sights of Street Art
All the artists would love an art work shop. Urban visualities is an artist workshop, international seminar and more. For details continue reading.
This is organized by DakshinaChitra, to know details about DakshinaChitra see our earlier post
Urban visualities is a series of events consisting of an artist workshop, international seminar, and exhibition on art and spectacle in public places in India and beyond. It explores image circulations in and contests of the public realm. The types of visualities addressed here range from cinema imagery, religious hoardings, advertizing images to political statues and murals.
Artist workshop
Prior to the seminar, an artist workshop will be held in which artists from various backgrounds from India and beyond will produce several works together. The results of the artist workshop will be exhibited in an exhibition dedicated to the theme. The exhibition will be opened at the start of the seminar. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute during the workshop. Please send us an email roosgerritsen@yahoo.com or mcfindia@gmail.com, or call 9841011785 / 9176476322.
Exhibition
The exhibition displays the work of Sundeep Bali, David Blamey, Ranjan De, Murugan, Ramachandran, Ravikanth & Prabath Kumar (Raqs Media Collective), Vishal Rawlley, Yousuf Saeed, Ebenezer Singh, Joyston Vaz, and photos by Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya, Roos Gerritsen, Kiran Keswani, Joanna Kirkpatrick, and Kathryn Myers.
The opening reception of the exhibition will be on January 28 18:00 pm at DakshinaChitra.
Seminar
The 3-day seminar will be an interdisciplinary and international platform that brings together (art) historians, anthropologists, artists, and curators who collectively address these issues of visuality and urbanity.
For the seminar, please register (Rs. 350/day, including lunch. Without lunch: Rs. 90/day or Rs. 30/day for students) mcfindia@gmail.com
ph: 9841011785 / 9176476322
Address DakshinaChitra
East Coast Road
Muttukadu
Chingleput District
For detailed program Visit : http://dakshinachitra.net/pdfs/urban-visualities-program17012011.pdf
Download brochure here: http://dakshinachitra.net/pdfs/Brochure-Street_Art.pdf
Program
ARTIST WORKSHOP
January 26 – 27 AT DAKSHINACHITRA
SEMINAR
DAY 1: JANUARY 28 INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
9:30 – 10:15 REGISTRATION & COFFEE
10:15 – 10:30 INAUGURATION
10:30 – 13:00 panel SITES & SIGHTS OF THE CITY
Moderator: Shivaji Panikkar
Roos Gerritsen
Vignettes of the city: Urban Visualities and the access to urban space
Vishal Rawlley
Street Toys and Popular Media
Kiran Keswani
Territoriality in the Indian Bazaar
David Blamey
Urban Visions of India: Notes to Self
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 17:30 panel VISUAL GEOGRAPHIES
Moderator: Sadanand Menon
Baishali Ghosh
Visuals as Links in-Between Lords, Lands and Religious Architecture
Yousuf Saeed
Visual pastiche as symbol of religious pluralism in south Asian Muslim popular media
Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya
Tiled gods appear on Mumbai’s streets: Negotiating through strictly delineated spaces of the megacity, exploring their transformation into curious zones of urban propriety
Patricia Spyer
From Visible to Invisible Backdrop and Beyond: Muslim and Christian Sidewalk Art and Photographic Studios in Postwar Maluku, Indonesia
17:30 – 18:00 BREAK
18:00 OPENING EXHIBITION
18:30 GHANA PERFORMANCE
19:30 DINNER AT DAKSHINACHITRA
DAY 2: JANUARY 29
9:30 – 10:00 ARRIVAL & COFFEE
10:00 – 12:30 panel REFRAMING THE VERNACULAR
Moderator: Sadanand Menon
Ranjan De
Political and Religious Graffiti on the Chennai City walls
Minna Valjakka
From scenic sights to streets and art galleries – the impact of site on graffiti in China
Swapna Sathish
The Sacred and the Profane: Authenticity and Hybridity in Contemporary Temple Painting
Partha Mitter
Popular Prints and the Rise of Indian Nationalism
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 16:00 panel SPECTACLE AND APPEAL
Moderator: Shivaji Panikkar
Philip Lutgendorf
Chai Why? Toward a Social History of the (North) Indian “National Drink”
N. Ramachandran
Light Hoardings of Tamil Nadu
Margaret Thomas
(Im)Possible: Possibilities of Digitally Enhanced Imagery in Tamil Cinema Advertising
Kathryn Myers
Re-visiting/visualizing home, the work of Sundeep Bali, Rajesh Sagara, Ebenezer Sunder Singh
Neeta Omprakash
Street as Exhibition Space: Transformation of Space – from Mundane to Sacred & Festive Presentation
16:00 – 19:00 EXCURSION CHENNAI
20:00 DINNER AT CHOLAMANDAL
DAY 3: JANUARY 30
9:30 – 10:00 ARRIVAL & COFFEE
10:00 – 12:30 Panel MONUMENTALITY AND THE MUSEUM
Moderator: Shivaji Panikkar & Sadanand Menon
Jayashree Venkatadurai
Placing Kannagi on the Beach Road: An Inquiry about Iconic Valences
Martijn de Rooij
What makes it to the museum? Processes of museological valorization in India
Santhosh Sakhinala
Regional Nationalism and the urban context – icons, representation and politics
A. Srivathsan Statues and the Politics of Urban Space in Chennai
12:30-13:00 SUMMING UP: art on streets by Stephen Inglis
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 16:00 SCREENING OF
Jannat ki Rail (The Train to Heaven) (7min.) by Yousuf Saeed
video using religious posters and a popular qawwali song.
DesKilling of Art (30 min.) by Gita Hudson
Banner art has been around for a long time. The makers of banners were skilled craftspeople. Some were truly inspirational artists. But the production of the banners seen in our towns and cities today has been transformed by new technologies and materials. Skills with paint and brush have been subsumed within the mass-produced output of the computer graphics industry. The former and the artists of yesterday are left in history’s wake.
16:00 VISIT TO MAHABALIPURAM & DINNER
DakshinaChitra
East Coast Road, Muttukadu, Chinglepet District – 600 118.
Phone 044 27472603 / 044 27472783
Madras Craft Foundation 044 24462435 / 044 24918943
For details visit : http://dakshinachitra.net/scripts/seminar-info.asp
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