Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices | October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019 | Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
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The arts enable us to ask questions of our pasts, investigate the present, and imagine possible collective futures. The Arts Practice programme at India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) over the past five years has supported artists engaged in critical practices in the arts to challenge, disrupt and build the many worlds we inhabit in space and time. Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices brings together 40 projects across disciplines such as photography, visual arts, theatre, film, augmented reality, gaming, graphic art, sound, music, dance, and puppetry through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, exhibitions and workshops, presented under the themes of Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Engaging Communities, Making Meanings of Myths, Thinking Audiences and Imagining Futures.
INTERROGATING PASTS
Panel Discussion: Padmini Chettur, Pushpamala N, Sarbajit Sen, Sharanya Ramprakash, Susnato Chowdhury
Jonathan Barlow (Moderator)
Exhibition: Lakshmi Subramanian (CSSSC), Sarbajit Sen
Performance: Abhishek Majumdar, Shruthi Vishwanath
Film Screening: Wanphrang Diengdoh
CONFLUENCE OF FORMS
Panel Discussion: Barun Chattopadhyay, Jyoti Dogra, Madhuja Mukherjee, Umashankar Mantravadi
Justin McCarthy (Moderator)
Exhibition: Dhruv Jani
Performance: Jyoti Dogra
Film Screening: Anitha Balachandran, Avik Mukhopadhayay, Prantik Basu
Workshop: Preethi Athreya
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES
Panel Discussion: Alakananda Nag, Ekta Mittal, Soumya Sankar Bose, Sumona Chakravarthy
Sumana Chandrashekar (Moderator)
Exhibition: Alakananda Nag, Soumya Sankar Bose
Performance: Ronidkumar Chingangbam (Akhu)
MAKING MEANINGS OF MYTHS
Panel Discussion: Deepika Arwind, George Mathen (Appupen), Ranjini Krishnan, S Murugaboopathy, Shena Gamat
Gitanjali Rao (Moderator)
Exhibition: Ranjini Krishnan
Performance: Shena Gamat
THINKING AUDIENCES
Panel Discussion: Bassu Khan, Bikram Ghosh, Deepa Rajkumar, Mandeep Singh Raikhy, Rajkumar Rajak
Neelam Man Singh (Moderator)
Exhibition: Abul Kalam Azad
Performance: Bikram Ghosh
Workshop: Mandeep Singh Raikhy
IMAGINING FUTURES
Panel Discussion: Anurupa Roy, Pallavi Paul, Rajiv Krishnan, Ranjana Pandey, Sahej Rahal
Sanjay Kak (Moderator)
Performance: Kavish Seth
Film Screening: Pallavi Paul and Sahej Rahal
We would like to thank our philanthropy partners – Bangalore International Centre, Biocon Limited, C. Krishniah Chetty Group Of Jewellers, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, RMZ Foundation, Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation, and Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao; and outreach partner – Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, for supporting this festival.