Indian artists and authors contribute to Beam me up
Beam me up is an internet publication with scientific and artistic essays. The online project invited artists and authors to concern themselves with space concepts. [dated June 2010]
Beam me up is an internet publication with scientific and artistic essays for our present-day idea of space. The online project invited Indian artists and authors to concern themselves with space concepts in the form of art contributions and essays. Interpretations of space concepts based on both pictures and texts, on artistic and philosophical models as well as on scientific experience emerge.
The project develops its treatise on the space topic in the worldwide as well as space-negating medium Internet, the technology of which is based on flat, framed picture displays. Hence, the artists cannot draw up space-consuming installations, sculptures and architectures for their contribution to the project, but are medially tied back to texts, sounds and the central-perspective picture space as are the scientific authors. Which kind of expanded possibilities the artists will find in the net-medium we’ll see in the course of our project. Hence, the publication Beam me up offers a polyphonic reflection within the medium of a still young and global communication channel accessible to many people.
Hauz-i-Shamsi by Vishal Rawlley
Hauz-i-Shamsi, a reservoir, built by Iltumish – who ruled Delhi in the 13th century – still holds water. Legend has it that it was in a dream that Prophet Muhammad revealed where Iltumish should build the reservoir. On inspecting the site, Iltumish is said to have found a hoof print of Muhammad’s horse (Burak); around this he erected the reservoir. Hauz-i-Shamsi will now be presented online via webcam. A mobile sculpture of Burak will float on it waters and visitors, in the vicinity and online, will be able to interact with the Burak through phone or web.
More: www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php
Buraq and the Hauz-e Shamsi. Or, The Residue of Dreams by Anand Vivek Taneja
A mobile sculpture of Buraq will float on the waters of the Hauz, the dream-horse returning to the reservoir it inspired...
More: www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php
#cloudrumble56 by Abhishek Hazra
of twittering performing archives under the influence of thermal ionization
More: www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php
Twitterneurons by Nilanjana Roy
Five Brief Meditations on Beam Me Up/ #cloudrumble56 Mor: www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php
scotty's back by Gitanjali Dang
scotty gets caught up with tim berners-lee
More: www.beam-me.net/beitragdetail.php
Where Three Dreams Cross at Fotomuseum Winterthur
'Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh' opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur. [dated June 2010]
Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Jahre Fotografie aus Indien, Pakistan und Bangladesch is organised by Whitechapel Gallery in London in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur. The curators are Sunil Gupta, Radhika Singh, Hammad Nasar, Shahidul Alam, Kirsty Ogg and Urs Stahel.
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Main Gallery & Gallery & Gallery of Collections)
Opening: Friday, 11 June 2010 On display from 12 June 2010 to 22 August 2010
A comprehensive catalogue of the exhibition is published by Steidl ( 200 images and essays by Sabeena Gadihoke, Geeta Kapur and Christopher Pinney).
On the weekend of the official opening a two-day international symposium on South-Asian photography will take place (in English).
Programme of the presentations:
Saturday June 12, 13.00 to 18.30
13.00–13.15 Greeting delivered by Urs Stahel, Director of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
13.15–14.00 Pramod Kumar KG: Grandees of the Realm; Photographic Portraits in Princely India 1840s - 1947
14.00–14.45 Akshaya Tankha: Early Precedents: Ethnography through the Eye of Photography, Bombay 1855-70
14.45–15.30 Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer – My Book Story
16.00–16.45 Sabeena Gadihoke: Everyday Encounters: Press and Magazine Photography after Independence
16.45–17.30 Shahidul Alam: Confessions of a Storyteller
Sunday June 13, 13.00 to 18.00
13.00–13.45 Suryanandini Narain: Photographing the Feminine: Women in Photographic Studios of India 13.45–14.30 Aveek Sen: Beyond Photography
14.30–15.15 Sunil Gupta: Love and Light: My Journey with Photography
15.45–16.30 Hammad Nasar: Contemporary Approaches to Photography in Pakistan
16.30–17.15 Bani Abidi: Artist’s Talk
17.15–18.30 Panel discussion
Brief on the project
Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and the United States. The exhibition Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and the publication accompanying it articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia. It does not reiterate a western view of the east, but celebrates how successive generations of photographers from the subcontinent have portrayed themselves and their eras.
Where Three Dreams Cross spans the transition of the South Asian peninsula – once defined as ‘the immense rhomboid’ bordered by the Himalayas in the north and the ocean to the south – from a heterogeneous yet single entity defined by the Indus river to its subdivision into three nations: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The fast time of political upheaval and technology and the slow time of family, culture and ritual are captured through the lens of some 80 artists. Their work also demonstrates formal experimentation and aesthetic lines of enquiry that are indigenous yet of universal interest.
This project traces the characteristics of contemporary photography through its historical precedents, revealing the roots of the medium’s development over the past 150 years. Its starting point is the crucial moment when the power to hold a camera, frame and capture images was no longer exclusively the preserve of colonial or European photographers. This sense of self-determination and self-representation is evident in hundreds of remarkable photographs brought together here, for the first time. They have been made by a wide variety of practitioners from amateurs to photojournalists, documentary photographers and artists.
This survey is structured thematically, taking an innovative approach to integrating historical material and contemporary works within five broad areas. The clustering of works and the essays analysing them trace the following thematics: The Portrait, The Performance, The Family, The Street and The Body Politic.
Supported by:
BTS Investment Advisors / Volkart Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Holcim Ltd. and Philippe Reich
For more information: http://www.fotomuseum.ch/PRESS.3.0.html?&L=1
Passages issue 52
Passages, Pro Helvetia’s cultural magazine. [dated May 2010]
Cultural Magazine Passages
Find out about art and culture from Switzerland, follow the current debates on cultural policy and read more about cultural exchange between Switzerland and other countries. Passages, Pro Helvetia's cultural magazine, has been reflecting the latest events in Swiss culture and cultural exchange for more than 20 years.
Well known authors from Switzerland and abroad write for the magazine, which appears in German, French and English, and has a readership in more than 60 countries.
Passages appears three times a year. A subscription is free of charge, as are downloads of the electronic version.
To view current issue click here.
Launch of Camerawork Delhi issue 6
Pro Helvetia New Delhi supports Camerawork Delhi, a publication dedicated to independent photography. [dated April 2010]
Camerawork Delhi, Vadehra Art Gallery & Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Councilinvite you to the launch of Issue No 6.
Tobias Hitsch (Switzerland) and other photographers will show and tell.
Come by to celebrate with us!
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 5.30 - 8.00 pm
Vadehra Art Gallery BOOK|STORE D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
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Pro Helvetia New Delhi supports Camerawork Delhi, a publication dedicated to independent photography.
April 2010 will see the launch of the second issue of the photographic journal ‘Camerawork Delhi’, which has been supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council.
Camerawork Delhi, a tri-annual publication that is distributed free to a local, national and international audience, aims to provide a forum for independent photography. Its objectives are to provide opportunities for photographers and writers to publish their work, and, to develop new audiences. The primary focus of the journal is education and not the market place. With that in mind, it features extensive coverage of archives, history, theory and developments in formal and non-formal education. It is currently edited by Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, well known Indian photographers and curators.
While the previous issue carried an interview with William Ewing, Director of the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland by Gauri Gill, the forthcoming issue carries Urs Stahel in conversation with Sunil Gupta.
Camerawork Delhi Vol I Issue VI.pdf
Camerawork Delhi Vol I Issue VI (COVER).pdf
Archive
Camerawork Delhi Vol I Issue V.pdf
Beam Me Up _ Project India
An Internet-based art and text project, Beam Me Up deals with aspects of symbolic, virtual and physical space. Curated by Gitanjali Dang, the project focuses on net art floated by Vishal Rawlley and Abhishek Hazra, with essays by Anand Vivek Taneja and Nilanjana S Roy.
Beam Me Up_Project India
Curated by Gitanjali Dang
This project is supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
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Artists: Vishal Rawlley and Abhishek Hazra
Essays: Nilanjana S Roy and Anand Vivek Taneja
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Beam Me Up_Project India goes live on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
Vishal’s project will be live online till 20 April 2010.
On 20 March Abhishek will do a collaborative online performance from 14.00 hrs – 16.00 hrs
For access to works, texts and further details click here.
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An overview
knock. knock.
who’s there?
scotty.
scotty, who?
scotty. disembodied scotty. for tim berners-lee’s sake. *rolls eyes* for sir timothy john ‘tim’ berners-lee’s sake. open up. let this not be 404 error.
if you are the true child of popular culture then you ought to have uttered the words, beam me up, scotty!, on more than one occasion. we have all variously opened the door to scotty and happily let him in. because in the bigger picture that flashes on the lcd, with backlight led, we are the servers and the clients. and that really is why we have congressed here in cyberspace seeking interface by way of virtuality.
the computer and its extensions such as the www and the internet have quickly transmogrified into the fulcrum of epistemological debate. through human–computer interaction, net art projects, such as those encompassed by beam me up, tackle enigmatic riddles vis-à-vis cyberspace, artificial intelligence, endophysics and the like. in this vastly vast virtual, representation and communication exist purely within the framework of snaking networks. through protracted exposures to this charged domain of electromagnetics, both abhishek hazra and vishal rawlley have familiarised themselves with the crinkles the big iron can steam out, and those it thus far hasn’t.
abhishek and vishal combine the performative and the conceptual in #cloudrumble56 and hauz-i-shamsi, their net art for beam me up_project india. in order to do so, they employ seemingly new fangled hardware and software, from automated attendants to microblogging. but let yourself not get caught up in the farcical provisionality of the new. despite the employment of certain thingamajigs both the artists return full circle to linger on the key notions of representation and communication.
excerpt from Gitanjali Dang’s essay
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Project: Hauz‐i‐Shamsi
Artist: Vishal Rawlley
Note: Hauz-i-Shamsi, a water reservoir, built by Iltumish – who ruled Delhi in the 13th century – still holds water in Mehrauli. Legend has it that it was in a dream that Prophet Muhammad revealed where Iltumish should build the reservoir. On inspecting the site, Iltumish is said to have found a hoof print of Muhammad’s horse (Burak); around this he erected the reservoir.
Hauz-i-Shamsi will now be presented online via webcam. A mobile sculpture of Burak will float on it waters and visitors, in the vicinity and online, will be able to interact with the Burak through phone or web.
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Project: #cloudrumble56
Artist: Abhishek Hazra
Note: i am yet to be a tweet – but i hope to pop on your timeline soon. you can find me and my first, second and other n order tweetcousins by searching for #cloudrumble56 on hashtags.org or on twitter.com. if you want to participate in generating me, please ping me at cloudrumble.livetweet@gmail.com
if all goes well, i should have a data connection to an artists’ performance this saturday, march 20th. as part of the performance, cantordust will try to conjecture on dr. cloudrumble saha’s tenure at delhi’s legendary ionization chamber from 1952 to 1956.
during these years dr.cloudrumble, who was otherwise famous for sticking a thermometer into the sun’s belly, demonstrated to the august members of the ionization chamber, the planned way to swim through a river in full spate. cantordust might rehearse some of saha’s moves while weaving an asymptotic life jacket for himself and his participant‐observerlivetweetmakers.
For access to works, texts and further details click here.
Cartographies
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Cartographies is a project created by Compagnie Philippe Saire which will be screened at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
A series of films on choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Cartographies is a project created by Compagnie Philippe Saire. The dance videos will be screened at the India International Centre, as part of Dance Platform 2010 organised jointly by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan.
Film Screening: Thursday 11 March 2010 6:30 pm onwards
at the Indian International Centre Auditorium
The screening is open to public.
There will be six films in all, lasting 85 minutes:
mini-golf - Cartographie 1
les arches - Cartographie 2
Interface - Cartographie 3
(Ha Ha Hey) What are you doing ? - Cartographie 4
rue Centrale 17-19 - Cartographie 5
la vallée de la jeunesse - Cartographie 6
Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company. CARTOGRAPHIES are a series of short films also termed as videodance, which are choreographic interventions in the urban landscape of Lausanne, Switzerland. The aim is to search for new ways of printing bodies on landscapes and creating fresh identities for urban spaces. In order to make a permanent record of these ephemeral interventions in the cityscape, the work is filmed thus giving a specific for to the interpretation, identity and memory of the city.
Saire will be present to answer questions from the audience.
Biography of Philippe Saire
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also supports dance performances by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre’s annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre’s regular activities.
The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.
For more information visit: www.philippesaire.ch
Dance Platform 2010 New Delhi 8 – 14 March 2010
Dance Platform 2010, comprising of a week of seminar, workshops and work-in-progress performances, seeks to provide, to those engaged with contemporary dance in India, an opportunity to exchange views on its current practice with their peers in India and specialists from Switzerland and Germany. The objective of the platform is to facilitate a discourse on the field of contemporary choreography, thus enabling an exchange of ideas, views and techniques.
An initiative jointly developed by Pro Helvetia New Delhi and the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, the platform will bring together choreographers and dance practitioners from India, Switzerland and Germany, for a week of deliberations and shared practice. The project is designed to encourage sharing and increase an understanding of each participant's notion of 'contemporary'. The week-long interaction will initiate a professional exchange between all participants.
Carnatic Vibes Zoom
Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas Niggli and Karthik S will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
When Karthik S, a young and established percussionist from Bangalore, India met the immensely talented and well-known Swiss percussionist Lucas Niggli in Zurich in September 2007 during his Residency, the atmosphere reverberated with the sounds of percussion instruments that hailed from across continents. Keen to take their music to new and unexplored spaces after a very fruitful and productive tour in India, Lucas and Karthik will now play with other members of the ZOOM trio and Sarah Büchi (vocals) in Switzerland.
25 March 2010 Uster, Qbus in der Reihe PAM at 2030
26 March 2010 Bern, Vidmarhallen at 2030
27 March 2010 St Gallen, Gambrinus at 2030
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion
Karthik Mani (Karthik Subramanya) - percussion
Nils Wogram - trombone
Philipp Schaufelberger – guitar
Sarah Büchi - vocals
Lucas Niggli percussion - drums
Lucas Niggli was born in 1968 in West Kamerun. He then moved to Switzerland. Between 1987 and 1995, he played at the experimental New Jazz formation ‘Kieloor Entartet’. In 1995 he founded the avant-core band ‘Steamboat Switzerland’ with Dominik Blum and Marino Pliakas. More than 150 concerts, 4 CDs and 2 vinyl recordings testify to the group's passion and hard work. ‘Lucas Niggli's Zoom’ was founded in 1999. The trio have performed at all of Europe's big festivals, (Moers, Saalfelden, Willisau, and Le Mans) as well as in Vancouver and have recorded many CDs. Lucas Niggli has had the chance to work with musicians from all over the world and belonging to a range of different scenes. Lucas has played along the likes of Barry Guy, John Cale, Pierre Favre, Butch Morris, Trevor Watts, Fred Frith, Hans Koch, Peter Kowald, Peter Waters, Samul Nori, Tom Cora, Ikue Mori, Tenko, Michel Doneda, Michel Wintsch, Collegium Novum, Urs Leimgruber, Arkadij Shilklopper, Jean-Luis Matinier, Martin Schütz, Irene Schweizer, Susanne Abbuehl, Wu Wei, Phil Minton, the filmmaker Peter Mettler, Susanne Abbuehl, Erika Stucky, ARTE Quartet, Andrew Cyrille and many more.
Karthik Mani percussion – drum
Karthik Mani, a Bangalore based percussionist is known for his expertise on the Mridangam. Karthik is energetic and has a solid foundation in South Indian Classical Music. He hails from a family of musicians – his father, TAS Mani is a renowned percussionist of "The Karnataka College of Percussion", and his mother R.A. Ramamani is a reputed ground breaking Carnatic maestro. Karthik Mani started learning how to play the mridangam, as well as Carnatic Classical music at a very early age. He gradually moved on to other percussion instruments. Karthik Mani has performed internationally and with noted musicians. To name a few: Louis Banks, Karl Peters, Keith Peters, Amith Heri, Ranjit Barot, Ramesh Shotham, Mike Herting, Carnatic maestro Mandolin U. Sreenivas, Carnatic flute Maestro N. Ramani and Vasundhara Das. He has also played for an album with the internationally renowned Jazz legend Saxophonist Charlie Mariano. Karthik was selected by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council to visit Zurich on a residency in September 2007, where he attended workshops with Lucas Niggli.
Nils Wogram trombone
Nils Wogram was born on 7 November 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany. From 1984 to 1992, Nils took music-lessons at the municipal conservatory of Braunschweig, from Reinhard Feldmann (member of the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra), at Hannover from ‘Helmut Seifert’ (member of Northern German broadcasting company Symphony Orchestra) and Martin Göß (member of the “Bamberger Symphoniker"). Nils has been a soloist in New Music for the Krahnenbaum Company which was nominated for the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize. He is credited for various compositions and has conducted trombone-workshops at the Conservatory of Hannover. Nils Wogram is counted as one of the most important musicians of the younger generation in Europe. He appears in many important festivals and tours Europe and other continents extensively. Nils Wogram records his own music every year and releases them on labels like enja records. He is currently a member of many bands, namely Root 70, Nostalgia Trio, Nils Wogram Septett and Lush. He also plays as a duo with Simon Nabatov and Conny Bauer. Nils has received numerous awards such as the culture-prize of the ‘Münchner Abendzeitung’ (Munich newspaper), the culture-prize of the State of Northrhine Westphalia, the jazz-prize of the city of Nürnberg and the Festival Jazz East-West, the SWF (Southern German Broadcasting Company) Jazzprize and the Cologne Artists Scholarship in 1999. He also received a prize at the International Julius Hemphill Competition, USA. Nils has released several CDs which include ‘Speedlife’, ‘Odd and Awkward’, ‘Root 70’ and ‘Starting a Story’ to name a few. Since September 2004, Nils Wogram teaches at the Luzern Music Conservatory.
Philipp Schaufelberger guitar
Philipp Schaufelberger was born in Göttingen in 1970. He has been touring and recording for almost 20 years with the groups of Harald Haerter, Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli and has performed with musicians like Dewey Redman, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Arthur Blythe, Jim Black and many others. Phillipp has been part of tours in various parts of Europe, Canada, USA and recently even China. He has participated in prestigious Festivals at Montreux, Willisau, North Sea, Moers, Leverkusen, Vancouver, Shanghai, Bath, Amsterdam, Rome, etc. As a producer and composer he can be heard on 'measured & detale' as well as on numerous radio dramas for Swiss and German National Broadcasts. Philipp hosts the 'Fizrok Show', a bimonthly improv, broadcast out of Zurich.
Sarah Büchi vocal
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1981, Sarah learned to play the violin, the piano and the electric guitar at an early age. During high school she started studying western classical singing and performed in different formations. In 2000 she finished school with an award for a musical which she wrote herself. Since 2001 she conducts different projects and choirs. In 2002 she began studying jazz singing at the Jazz School of Lucerne with Lauren Newton and Susanne Abbuehl. In October 2005, she traveled to Bangalore India to study Carnatic classical music & Konnakkol from Vid. R.A. Ramamani, and Vid. T.A.S. Mani. Her latest project is titled ‘Thali - the South-Indian meal’ which is a fusion between jazz and Carnatic music.
More: http://www.lucasniggli.ch/english/0400_daten/index.asp
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin by Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland is an hour-long performative installation of thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing.
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
in collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi presents
Blue Remix - a journey through the skin
an hour-long performative installation by
Yann Marussich, a contemporary artist and choreographer from Switzerland
on Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 7:30 pm
at Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Entry is open to all
Brief
Blue Remix is a journey through the skin – an hour-long motionless performance of Yann Marussich in a transparent container. Through thermal regulation and precisely calculated timing, the artist creates a controlled biochemical choreography of methylene blue, which progressively seeps out of all the orifices in his body; from eyes, mouth and nose to eventually the pores in his skin. This way, Marussich opened the paths between the inside and the outside world - secret passages from the unconscious, straight to the conscious. The performer’s outer immobility draws the spectators’ attention towards the contrasting continuous inner movement of the body. Marussich presents universal themes of the body by externalizing the internal, through the permeable membrane of the skin. The sounds have also been taken from the inside of the performer’s body and remixed by a local musician for the performance.
Each time the spectacle is performed, a different (local) musician accompanies Yann. This exceptional - unique and one-time - confrontation of a musician with a performance establishes a new relation between the sound and the created image. The spontaneous meeting of two artists brings an element of risk and uniqueness to the event, as if the music explored the spectacle over and over again and depicted new ways of perception.
Yann Marussich
Born in 1966, Yann Marussich, a unique character in contemporary dance, delivers performances which have a true impact on the audience. In parallel he evolves from 1993 to 2000 in the field of artistic programmation as a director of the « Théâtre de l’Usine » (Geneva) where he programs almost excusivelly contemporary dance and more specifically new forms of expression. He is the founder of the ADC Studio (Geneva) created in 1993. In 2001, Yann Marussich choreographed Bleu Provisoire, his first completely immobile piece. Today he is moving towards solo, performance and Body-art which he sees as genres as themselves.
At present, Yann is on a residency in India. The Residency has been supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Dance Platform 2010
An initiative to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography.
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
present
Dance Platform 2010
New Delhi 7 – 14 March 2010
with participation by choreographers
Philippe Saire from Switzerland and
Eszter Salamon from Germany.
The Dance Platform 2010 is an initiative jointly developed by the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia New Delhi. It will bring together artists from Switzerland, Germany and India for a week of workshops and work-in-progress performances.
The dance platform seeks to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography. It is a project designed to share ideas and increase an understanding of each participant's notion of 'contemporary' along with initiating a professional exchange between all participants.
PROGRAMME:
Dance For Nothing
a performance by Eszter Salamon
on Sunday 7 March 2010 at 6.30 pm at the arts-i, Scindia House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
open to public
Seminar
understanding the contemporary in dance
chaired by the cultural theorist, Sadanand Menon
on 8 March 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Lecture Room at India International Centre Annexe
open to public
Workshops
with Eszter Salomon and Philippe Saire from 9 to 13 March 2010
at the Conference Room (2nd Flr) India International Centre and GATI
open to selected participants only
Film Screenings
Cartographies
presented by Philippe Saire / Thursday 11 March 2010 at 6:30 pm
venue: India International Centre Auditorium
open to public
Rhythm is it
by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch / Friday 12 March 2010 at 6:30 pm
venue: India International Centre Auditorium
open to public
Work-in-progress presentations
14 March 2010 from 11am to 4pm
at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
entry by invitation only
Biography of Philippe Saire
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also programmes dance by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre’s annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre’s regular activities.
The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. The Company also performs regularly at exhibitions and art galleries, in gardens, urban spaces and other outdoor venues. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.
Biography of Eszter Salamon
Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin. Following her classical dance studies at the National Academy of Dance in Budapest, she moved to France in 1992 and worked with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier and Francois Verret. Since 2001, she creates her own work: the solos "What A Body You Have, Honey" and "Giszelle" in collaboration with Xavier le Roy for 'Le vif du sujet' at the Festival d'Avignon and the group pieces "Reproduction" at Podewil (Berlin) where she is artist-in-residence. She also worked with Hungarian folk dancers and musicians at the Les Intranquilles festival in Lyon and at the PACT Zollverein (Essen).
Eszter created the film-choreography "AND THEN" (2007) at Les Subsistances (Lyon) and the concert-performance "Without You I Am Nothing" in collaboration with Aranxta Martinez. Her latest work is a duo with Christine De Smedt. In 2008, she participated in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on self-organisation and self-education at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. Salamon assisted in the direction of the opera Theater der Wiederholungen by Bernhard Lang at Steirischer Herbst (Graz - cultural capital 2003). She also staged the music of Karim Haddad in the frame of the project Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin).
Classical Music Re-imagined
Claudia Rüegg, a musician from Switzerland, who is currently on a residency in India will perform at Olive, New Delhi. The evening will also include a solo guitar performance by Shyamant Behal and live visuals by BLOT.
Claudia Rüegg, a musician from Switzerland, who is currently on a residency in India will perform at Olive, New Delhi. The evening will also include a solo guitar performance by Shyamant Behal and live visuals by BLOT.
Piano Solo -Claudia Rüegg
Guitar Solo - Shyamant Behal
Live Visuals - Basic Love of Things (BLOT)
Venue: Olive, Mehrauli, New Delhi
Sunday 21 February 2010
Time: 8 pm onwards
Claudia Rüegg
Claudia Rüegg is a soloist and chamber musician who performs in concerts across Europe and North America. Her broad repertoire includes en emphasis on 20th century music. Rüegg works as an interpreter often in an interdisciplinary context together with artists, dancers and film makers. Claudia Rüegg is the producer of „forum andere musik“, a series of contemporary music, arts and literature in Switzerland (www.forumanderemusik.ch).
Claudia is on a residency in India from 5 Sep 2009 - 24 Feb 2010
The residency is supported by Pro Helvetia.
Seminar on ‘Governance and Diversity: Comparing Media Systems’
Seminar at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance (CCMG), Jamia Millia Islamia with delegates from the Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung (IPMZ), University of Zurich, Zurich.
The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance (CCMG), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi is organising a seminar on ‘Governance and Diversity: Comparing Media Systems’ from 16 to 18 Feb, 2010.
Prof. Dr Michael Latzer, Prof. Dr Frank Esser, Prof. Dr Gabriele Siegert, Dr Matthias Künzler and Dr Manuel Puppis from the Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung (IPMZ), University of Zurich, Zurich, have been invited to speak at the seminar. This is an important step in academic and institutional collaboration between CCMG and IPMZ, both departments specialising in the field of media policy, in their respective countries. This initiative has been supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
Date: 16-17 February
Venue: Tagore Hall, JMI
Session 1: “Culture, Diversity and the Media”
Chair: Prof. Yogendra Singh
Matthias Künzler
Dealing with Diversity: How Switzerland provides mass communication in a fragmented media system.
Biswajit Das
Media, Democracy, Diversity
Session 2: “Researching Broadcast News”
Frank Esser
Comparing Political News Cultures: Western Perspectives. And beyond?
Saima Saeed
Towards a Political Economy of Television News in India: The Corporatization of News Content
Somnath Batabyal
Constructing the middle class audience: The end of imagination in Indian television newsrooms
Session 3: “The Economies of Meaning”
Gabriele Siegert
Comparing Advertising Systems
Devalina Mookerjee
Mediated Cultural Diversity: The Case of the National Rural Health Mission
Session 4: “Institutional Reform and Governance”
Supriya Chotani
Media Diversity in Indian Broadcasting: Actors, Issues and Practices
Michael Latzer
Emerging Governance Patterns for Convergent Communications Markets
Vibodh Parthasarathi
In the Aftermath of Deregulation: Contests & Constraints
Manuel Puppis
Comparing Media Policy and Regulation
Entry: By invitation only
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Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC & CaC 2010)
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is supporting CeC & CaC 2010 with a Swiss Room with exclusive Swiss content as part of the event.
The annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2010) is scheduled in February 2010. The carnival will have participation of e-Creative practitioners from around the world. CeC & CaC (pronounced "Sek & Sak") is an annual global occasion to collectively seek out, manifest, learn from, connect with and enjoy a studied broad canvas of cutting-edge participation & content from India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of human endeavour.
At Sattal Estate near Bhimtal on 19, 20 and 21 February 2010
CeC & CaC has been developed and driven primarily by The Academy of Electronic Arts.
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is supporting CeC & CaC 2010 with a Swiss Room with exclusive Swiss content as part of the event.
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Baajaa Gaajaa 2010
In an effort to promote the contemporary music scene in Switzerland, Pro Helvetia New Delhi is participating in Baajaa Gaajaa 2010, a unique music expo that brings musicians and scholars on one platform.
In an effort to promote the contemporary music scene in Switzerland, Pro Helvetia New Delhi is participating in Baajaa Gaajaa 2010, a unique music expo that brings musicians, scholars, instrument makers, indie record labels, publishers and technicians together on one platform.
Baajaa Gaajaa is a four-day event dedicated to Indian music in all its diversity and richness. Scheduled to take place from 5 to 7 of February 2010 in Pune, it will bring together organisations and individuals connected with music and music-making in 21st century India. The event provides a platform for seminars on a variety of themes related to the music industry. Film screenings on music are followed by interactive sessions where the audience can interact with directors and musicians.
Carine Zuber, Member of the Pro Helvetia Board will be visiting India in February 2010. Carine is also the Director of the Cully Jazz Festival. She will participate in the Baajaa Gaajaa Festival in Pune between 5 and 7 February.
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KRUNK by Les Bamboches
A puppet theatre company from Switzerland performs at the Ishara International Puppet festival 2010.
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council presents
KRUNK by Les Bamboches,
a puppet theatre company from Switzerland
at the Ishara International Puppet festival 2010
KRUNKLES BAMBOCHES - SWITZERLAND
Directed by Ms Katia Larvego
13th Feb 2010: India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 6.00 pm & 7.30 pm,
15th Feb 2010: NCPA, Mumbai
A large egg discovered on a farm is hatched by Melanie Vanille the goat. The grey chick called Krunk is funny and adorable but no one knows where he comes from with dog hair, webbed feet and a bird beak. Krunk wants to know who he is. This delightful journey of discovery raises questions of friendship, solidarity and identity.
More: www.lesbamboches.ch
A Long Night of Literature
Readings from German prose and poetry hosted jointly by the Max Mueller Bhavan, Pro Helvetia New Delhi, Austrian Cultural Forum and The German Book Office in collaboration with the India International Centre.
In an effort to build audiences for contemporary writing in German in the Indian subcontinent the Austrian Cultural Forum, the German Book Office, Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia New Delhi will jointly host readings from prose and poetry in collaboration with the India International Centre on the occasion of the World Book Fair.
The authors will read from the original. Translations will be available for those interested and the sessions will be moderated in English by local literary experts.
Date: Saturday 30 January 2010
Time: 7 pm onwards
Venue: India International Centre Annexe Lecture Room
Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003
Schedule
7.20 pm Welcome by Marilen Daum, Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi
7.30 pm Arnold Stadler with Puneet Kaur
8.00 pm Peter Rosei
8.30 pm Break
8.45 pm Nora Eugenie Gomringer with Dr Brinda Bose
9.15 pm Peter Pannke with Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato
9.45 pm Break
10.00 pm Stephan Thome with Mridula Koshy
10.30 pm Bas Boettcher and Dalibor Markovic
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer, Switzerland
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer, born in 1980, has published four volumes of poetry, articles,radio plays, short stories and prose miniatures. She has received several awards for poetry and fellowships, and her collaboration with musicians, painters and performers gave her the opportunity to spend months working in Russia, Venice, the US, Canada and Norway. She holds an MA in American and German Literature and another in Art History. She is currently finishing her PhD. Starting April 2010 she will be principal of an international artist residency in Bamberg, Germany. Nora's poetry is translated into Swedish, French, English and Polish.
Moderated by Dr Brinda Bose, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi
Peter Pannke, Germany
Peter Pannke, a German indologist, sinologist and musicologist describes himself as a singer, dreamer and storyteller. He is a well-known broadcaster with more than 4,000 features and radio plays to his credit. He has contributed immensely to bringing Indian traditions to culturally interested audiences in Germany and was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Prize in October 2009. His book Dreamtalker - Songs, Poems, Essays has been released by Daastaan, New Delhi in January 2010. Moderated by Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato, Publisher, Daastaan.
Peter Rosei, Austria
Peter Rosei was born in Vienna in 1946. He obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1968 and commenced his career as a writer in 1972, and gained critical acclaim with his novel Wer war Edgar Allan? (Who was Edgar Allan?) (1977) which was turned into a movie by director Michael Haneke in 1984. A majority of his work has been translated into English, and he has won many awards. His latest novel, Das große Töten (The Big Kill), was published in 2009. Peter Rosei also works as a translator and editor.
Stephan Thome, Germany
Stephan Thome was born in 1972 in Biedenkopf in Germany. He studied Philosophy at Freie Universität in Berlin and spent three years studying Chinese and Japanese at universities in Nanking, Taipei and Tokyo. After obtaining his PhD in Philosophy in 2004 he moved to Taipei where he still lives and does research on modern Confucian philosophy. His first novel Grenzgang (Walking the Border) was published by Suhrkamp in 2009 and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. It was awarded the aspekte-Literaturpreis for best first novel of 2009. Moderated by Mridula Koshy, Writer.
Arnold Stadler, Germany
Arnold Stadler was born in 1954, and studied Catholic Theology in Munich and Rome, then German Literature in Freiburg and Cologne. The author, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Freie Universität in Berlin in 2006, lives in Küsten and Berlin. Stadler has won numerous literary awards, including the 1999 Georg Büchner Prize and the 2009 Kleist Prize. He will read from his novel A Charming Scrap Dealer.
Moderated by Puneet Kaur, Faculty Member, Max Mueller Bhavan.
Bas Boettcher, Germany
Bas Boettcher, born 1974, is one of the most outstanding German spoken word poets. Being famous for his sophisticated poetry style, Bas has been active in the German poetry slam scene since the early 1990s – his dynamic and rhythmic poetry has won him one prize after another at numerous slam competitions since. The performer’s reputation has earned him invitations to perform all over the world, always enthusing his audience by his captivating lyrics and his highly developed linguistic skills. “Neonomade” is Bas’ latest publication.
India Through The Lenses Of Alain Daniélou & Raymond Burnier
A selection of photographs by Raymond Burnier, renowned photographer from Switzerland and Alain Daniélou, Indologist, musician, painter and art historian from France. (1936-54)
India Through The Lenses Of Alain Daniélou And Raymond Burnier is an initiative of the Alain Daniélou India Committee in collaboration with the India International Centre (IIC)m ProHelvetia (New Delhi) the Alain Daniélou Centre (Zagarolo,Italy). Curated by Samuel Berthet and Anne Tual.
Date: 21 to 28January 2010
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
A selection of photographs by Raymond Burnier, renowned photographer from Switzerland and Alain Daniélou, Indologist, musician, painter and art historian from France. Burnier and Daniélou lived in Varanasi for almost twenty years (1936-54) and documented temple sculpture and recorded Indian music. The photographs on view reveal life in India from the middle of 1930s to the end of the 1950s
Raymond Burnier and Alain Daniélou's remarkable work of creating an artistic inventory of the motives and sculptures found on mediaeval temples, remains today an invaluable heritage for the aesthetic and semantic apprehension of the civilization of the subcontinent. It has laid a milestone with regards to anterior and posterior photograph collections dedicated to India. It conjugates a scientific approach, either by the artists' collaboration with art historians like Stella Kramrisch and Alice Boner, or by Alain Daniélou's personal production. It was used to accompany the prolific and pioneering series of world music realized under the banner of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation, as well as for numerous publications on Indian culture, thought and arts under the aegis of Unesco.
Whether it was music or sculpture Alain Daniélou’s constant concern was with valuing the artists behind the work of art we admire hence their originality. Moreover, as he says in his texts, he places himself in a relationship of singularity and “momentariness” as a lever of universalism and timelessness.
Some of these photographs made up what was the first photograph exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1949, an exhibition that was held in India in 1948, in Calcutta, and later in France in 1950. Before settling in Benares, the two artists’ first anchorage is Santiniketan. They are special guests of Rabindranath Tagore. From 1932 to 1937, they shared the life of the poet’s asram during long stays. In Benares, Daniélou carried out a documentation of Indian music and dance. He became a recognized musicologist and with Omkarnath Thakur he founded the first musicology department of the Benares Hindu University. Their house Rewa Kothi was transformed into a salon de musique and a recording studio that saw artists like Ravi Shankar, Alla Akbar, Ragunath Prasanna, Hiran Lal and Shyam Lal, Swami Parvatikar etc.
Photos by Raymond Burnier were exhibited in Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne in 1982 and where included in the retrospective on India the next year along with photos by Cartier Bresson or Ella Maillard. The photo displayed in this catalogue and this exhibition are a unique selection made from the original collection by the Alain Daniélou India Committee on the occasion of the first international seminar dedicated to his work and legacy in 2008 held in Benares and in Delhi.
Strange Lines
An international multilingual theatre collaboration based on the graphic novel anthology ‘When Kulbhushan Met Stöckli’ at the 12th Bharat Rang Mahotsav organised by the National School of Drama, New Delhi.
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council presents
Strange Lines
an international multilingual theatre collaboration
based on the graphic novel anthology ‘When Kulbhushan Met Stöckli’
at the 12th Bharat Rang Mahotsav organised by the National School of Drama, New Delhi
on Sunday 10 January 2010 at 2:30 pm and 6:00 pm
at Bahumukh, National School of Drama Bahawalpur House
1 Bhagwandas Road New Delhi 110 001
Cast
Amit Saxena & Julia Perazzini
Concept and Direction
Amitesh Grover
Credits
Text Work & New Writing – Amit Saxena, Julia Perazzini and Keshav Kumar
Video Design – Michel Weber
Sound Design - Ish S
Drawing – Dheerendra Dwivedi
Production – Mukesh
Documentation & Exhibition – Philippe Daerendinger
Lights Design – Srikant
Design & Assistant Direction – Kumaradas T N
Synopsis
The departure point of this theatrical collaboration is a comics collaboration – When Kulbhushan Met Stockli - recently released by HarperCollins Publishers, India. It is created by 19 graphic novelists who express the shock, strangeness & humour in encountering the ‘other’ land/people in their stories and drawings. In Strange Lines, two people write letters to each other. They write about themselves, their lives, their cities and their nations. They draw their bodies and imagine the other’s. And then, they meet. The project seeks to play with the young art of graphic novel, the theatricality in drawing and ways in which drawing and theatre can come together to present notions of ‘Home and Away’, ‘Nativity and Foreignness’. Some stories from the book are adapted to form the narrative for the show, while others are improvised from the performers’ own lives.
Profile of the Director
Amitesh Grover is a theatre director, multimedia artist and pedagogue. Born 1980, he has created 15 Performances & Mixed-Media Installations, which have taken a total of 85 shows across 6 countries till December 2009. His practice has focused on exploring the live interface between the body and the media in performance. His work has been shown in Switzerland, United Kingdom, China, Romania, Oman and India. He is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi (Bismillah Khan) Award for Theatre Direction (2009), was awarded Pro Helvetia Grant for Artist Residency in Switzerland (2008) and received The Charles Wallace Scholarship Award (2005). He has also been on the jury of TheatreSpektakel’08. A National School of Drama, India alumnus, he completed his MA (Performance Arts) from University of Arts London, UK in 2006. At present, he lectures at National School of Drama, India and is a freelance artist. His work, thoughts & media reviews are available online at http://amiteshgrover.blogspot.com/
Entry:
For tickets contact National School of Drama at 011 - 23073647 or visit www.nsdtheatrefest.com
