Ursula Biemann presents Deep Weather at Photosphere 2016
Deep Weather, a video essay by Ursula Biemann will be on view at Photosphere 2016 in Delhi until 31 December 2016.

Deep Weather
a video essay by Ursula Biemann

on view from 1 - 31 December 2016 
at the Open Palm Court, Visual Arts Gallery India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003

About Deep Weather
The impact humans are currently inflicting on the planet and its climate is of an order that surpasses common understanding. Deep Weather alludes to the world ecology as an interconnected system in which the effect of heavy fossil fuel extractions made in the boreal woods of Northern Canada are experienced by Delta inhabitants in Bangladesh who struggle to protect themselves from rising sea levels.

About Ursula Biemann
Ursula Biemann is an artist, writer, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations. Her recent fieldwork has taken her to the forests of Amazonia and Borneo as well as the Arctic region. Engaging with the political ecology of oil, ice and water, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage, SF poetry and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality.

Ursula's video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials in Sao Paulo, Gwangju, Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Istanbul, Montreal, and Venice. She had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k.; Lentos Museum Linz and Helmhaus Zurich. Biemann has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. She received a doctor honoris causa in Humanities by the Swedish University Umea and the Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art. 
More: www.geobodies.org

Deep Weather is part of Habitat PHOTOSPHERE, an initiative of Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The objective of the festival is to raise environmental awareness through photography. www.indiahabitat.org/vag

Partners: Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Nathalie Herschdorfer invited by Photosphere 2016

Nathalie Herschdorfer, Swiss curator and art historian and Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland will be in Delhi to conduct a workshop.  

Nathalie Herschdorfer, Swiss curator and art historian and Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland has been invited by HABITAT PHOTOSPHERE 2016to conduct a workshop on Curating and Thinking about Photography in Exhibitions and Books  

Dates 6 & 7 Dec 2016 / entry by registration

at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003

The workshop will explore the different ways of 'image-showing' and curation in exhibitions and books.

Nathalie has also been invited by the festival directorate to conduct portfolio reviews.

About Nathalie Herschdorfer

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is currently Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. In 2010 she was named director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for which she curated two years of programming. She has also been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography for several years. Previously, she was a curator at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked for twelve years on major exhibitions, including Face: the Death of the Portrait, and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. 

Nathalie is the author of Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011), editor of Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography (2012) and co-author, with William A. Ewing, of reGeneration: Tomorrow's Photographers Today, two books dedicated to emerging photography on the international scene. Among her recent projects are a Dictionary of Photography including over 1,200 concise yet fully detailed entries on all aspects of the subject (Thames & Hudson/Editions de La Martinière, 2015), the book NewSwissArchitecture (2015), and Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, an exhibition produced by FEP and accompanied by a book published in six editions.

More: www.fep-photo.org/curator/herschdorfer/

Habitat PHOTOSPHERE is an initiative of Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The objective of the festival is to raise environmental awareness through photography. www.indiahabitat.org/vag

Possible Futures by Marie Velardi at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

Marie Velardi employs fact and fiction, to both imagine and question the future. 'Possible Futures' showcases works developed by her during an ongoing residency in Mumbai.

Possible Futures / येत्या काळाचं मंथन 

an exhibition by Swiss artist Marie Velardi 

at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

Preview: Friday 2 December 2016 at 6:30 pm

The artist will be present to conduct a walk-through

On view from 3 December 2016 until 28 February 2017

From 10:30 am - 5:30 pm. Wednesdays closed

Entry as per museum rules

About Possible Futures / येत्या काळाचं मंथन

Swiss artist Marie Velardi employs fact and fiction, to both imagine and question the future. Her work closely examines movements of the earth, such as the continuous shift between land and sea, or inhabited islands disappearing into the ocean due to rising water levels.

'Possible Futures' showcases new works developed by Marie Velardi during an ongoing residency in Mumbai.

How can we represent the passage of time through colours and shapes?

Pages of a hypothetical Book of Possible Futures, with a series of watercolour drawings named 'Temporal Maps' includes short texts in English and Marathi, inspired by discussions with Indian women on their hopes for the future. 'Temporal Maps' attempt to represent time in a disorienting multi-directional way. This work is also inspired by the Sparrow Archive- Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, based in Mumbai.

Terre-Mer, or 'Sea-Land', is an ongoing research project about the movement of different coastal lines through time. The works exhibited in this show depict the zone in between the land and the sea along the coast of Mumbai, from the past to the possible future. In these cartographical drawings the ancient islands that once existed reappear and reclaimed lands return to the sea.Could the futures join the past?

About the artist

Marie Velardi was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She lives and works in Geneva and Paris. Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and the UK. In 2014-2015 she represented Switzerland at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India. She has won various awards; among them the '2015 Scholarship of the City of Geneva' for her on-going research project called "Terre-Mer" ("Sea-Land"). In 2016 she was selected by Pro Helvetia for a three-month residency in India (in Delhi and Mumbai). Marie Velardi - Marie Velardi: http://marie.velardi.ch/

Partner: Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum - www.bdlmuseum.org

Poetry in percussion | Mumbai, Goa & Delhi

Swiss music legends Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli and tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together this December to present their collaborative work.

Indo - Swiss percussion trio to perform in Mumbai, Goa and Delhi 

Tour schedule: 
15 Dec 2016 - The Cuckoo Club, Mumbai 
17 Dec 2016 -  Art Chamber, Goa 
19 Dec 2016 - OddBird, Delhi 
Entry as per venue rules. Please contact the venue directly for details.

Swiss music legends Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli and Tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan from India will come together this November to present an evening of rhythms, beats and friendship. The tour follows an initiative of Pro Helvetia New Delhi to bring together leading percussionists from Switzerland and India to create work during an intensive workshop last year. Lucas Niggli, Pierre Favre from Switzerland and Aneesh Pradhan from India met in March 2015 at Peninsula Studios in Delhi to prepare these and other compositions. 

Line-up: 
Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli (drums) 
Aneesh Pradhan (tablas) 

About the artists: 
Pierre Favre: www.pierrefavre.ch/pierre.html?lang=en 
Aneesh Pradhan: www.aneeshpradhan.com 
Lucas Niggli: www.lucasniggli.ch/english/index.asp