For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Neighbourhood Engagements, which will create a series of video vignettes capturing stories of the gold and silver crafting community in Cubbonpete and Anchepete. The project will document the diversity of the industry, its community and the changing dynamics of the pete. The outcome of this project will be the video vignettes, which will be shared with the community through a series of art interventions. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be process documentation of research and interactions, photographs and video vignettes, and documentation of the final sharing. Project funds will pay for exhibition cost, equipment rental, honorarium, printing and stationery, travel.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Neighbourhood Engagements, which will create a series of zines that documents the history and lived experiences of residents of Rustum Bagh. Through detailed research and conversations with residents, as well as members of the Kothavala family, the project will culminate in a zine-making workshop with young residents to bring alive the stories of the neighbourhood. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition of the zine series in the neighbourhood. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be process documentation of research and interactions, images from the zines and documentation of the exhibition. Project funds will pay for workshop costs, equipment hire, printing and publication, and exhibition.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations, which will engage with three popular children’s television shows from the late 1990s, as cultural documents in media that trace shifts in our lives in post-liberalisation India. Through this endeavour the project will reflect on the larger processes of urbanisation, globalisation, and representation in neo-liberal times. The outcome of the project will be drawings on ‘magic slates’. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a documentation of the drawings. Project funds will pay for materials, purchase of books and honorarium.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations, which will be a collaboration between four contemporary dancers, rethinking and re-embodying ideas of community and co-work through a series of weekly or bi-weekly shared journeys. These four dancers, who are teacher-trainees of the Alexander technique, will examine ways to unite their solo investigations into a sustainable collective practice, focussing on process instead of production. The outcome of the project will be the process documentation and a collective journal in physical, digital or hybrid form. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be this process documentation, including those of the interactive open studio improvs and a collective journal in physical, digital or hybrid form. Project funds will pay for professional fees, space hire, honorarium, equipment hire and online subscriptions.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Productions, to create a performance that seeks to reinvent Bharatanatyam by bringing in values of pluralism. Based on the lived experiences of a non-binary, Muslim Zoroastrian dancer practising the Hindu temple dance form, the performance will be centred on the Alarippu—the traditional Bharatanatyam dance sequence—reimagining the form through layered movement, sound influences from Islam, and lyrics from Bhakti and Sufi traditions. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be audio recordings of interviews and still and video documentation of the process and the final production. Project funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, equipment hire, venue hire and studio hire.
For research that will attempt to explore the hitherto unresearched and marginalised narratives of lead actresses of the mainstage as well as frontline comic actresses of the Company Theatre in Kannada (1960 to present). It will examine ways in which they define and defy notions of female respectability and vulgarity through their performances and selfhood. The outcomes of this project will be a series of essays in Kannada, a photo essay and a script outline for a theatre performance. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final reports will be the essays, the photo-essay, the script, and audiovisual documentation of the present day Company Theatre performances in Karnataka. Grant funds will pay for travel and living costs, honorarium, professional fee, consumables and an accountant’s fees.
For a series of artistic engagements exploring the ecology of birds in the Kammanahalli neighbourhood of Bangalore. By inviting residents to experience, share and create spaces for birds, the project will attempt to build their connections to the environment and encourage accountability towards it. The outcome of the project will be the artistic interventions that the residents will undertake, and a film documenting their reflections. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photo-documentation of the process and the artistic interventions and the film. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, materials, and installation costs.
For the creation of an online soundscape of the city, drawn from journeys undertaken on the route of the No 201 series of buses in Bangalore. Weaving together personal and shared experiences on Bangalore’s bus journeys, this project, through the sensorial experience of sound and written text, aims to understand the persona of the city through sonic experiences on the bus. The outcomes of the project will be a curated bus album of soundscapes and songs played in the bus, a website containing the bus route maps embedded with the sounds on these routes and a journal of personal impressions from the bus trips. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be audio recordings of the bus journeys, the curated bus album, the maps of the routes of the bus with embedded sound and texts, a copy of the journal, and the website downloaded on a drive. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, professional fee, local conveyance and an accountant’s fee.
For an exploration into the distinct smells that make up the city of Bangalore. Drawing upon interviews and research, the project seeks to understand the relationship between memory, associations, people and places through olfactory perceptions and imaginations. The outcomes of this project will be a book containing photographs, research text and an olfactory map of Bangalore with specially created samples of perfume. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photographs, audio and video documentation, and the book. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, materials, printing, equipment hire, honorarium, local conveyance and an accountant’s fee.
This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.
For the making of an experimental docu-fiction film which will explore the precariousness of the lives and work of freelance Computer Graphics (CG) and Visual Effects (VFX) artists in the South Indian film industry. It will explore the dual invisibility of these artists - within the organised film studio system as well as in the aspired anonymity of the CG image itself - making their existence fragile and tenuous. The outcomes of the project will be the film and part of the work hosted on an online portal as interactive digital fictions. The grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a high-resolution copy of the film and an offline version of the interactive online portal on a hard disk. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, travel and living, equipment hire, website creation, purchase of e-books and online subscriptions and an accountant’s fee.
