EXPERIMENTA INDIA @ Videoex Festival 2012 Zürich
EXPERIMENTA INDIA showcases compelling moving image art from India at the 14th edition of VIDEOEX, International Experimental film & Video Festival Zürich. [dated June 2012]
VIDEOEX, International Experimental film & Video Festival Zürich have invited EXPERIMENTA INDIA to showcase compelling moving image art from India at the festival this year. The participation has been supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
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VIDEOEX International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival Zürich 14TH EDITION 26 May - 3 June 2012
International Competition Schweizer Wettbewerb CH Fokus Klaus Lutz Guestcities Warschau und Lodz
Fimoteka Muzeum Art on TV Polish Found Footage Films Polish Women Artists of the 1970s and 1980s
Animationsstudio Se-Ma-For
Zbigniew Rybczynski Polish Period Music-Videos New Technologies
Experimenta India
From Tradition to Modernity – historical (60/70s) Identities – contemporary Changing Realities – contemporary
For complete festival programme click here
For more information visit: VIDEOEX - www.videoex.ch/videoex2012/festival.php
Experimenta India - http://experimenta.in/about-2/
Announcing recipients of Studio Residencies in 2013/2014
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council announces the names of Indian and Swiss artists who have been selected by the jury to avail of the Studio Residency it offers. [ dated June 2012]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council announces the names of the artists who have been awarded Studio Residencies for 2013/ 2014.
Indian artists:
Anitha Balachandran (Visual Arts) Gitanjali Dang ( Visual Arts ) Pratik Sagar ( Visual Arts )
Swiss artists:
Barblina Meierhans (Performing Arts) Benjamin Valenza (Visual Arts ) Gilles Aubry (Performing Arts)
The applications received from the above artists were in concurrence with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Art Council’s current mandate. The jury made its decision depending on the application's individual merit as well as on being able to find an appropriate host in Switzerland. Besides, preference is given to artists who are able to demonstrate the possibility of generating follow-up projects.
The selection in India was made by a jury comprising Girish Shahane, an art historian, curator and columnist; Zuleikha Chaudhari, theatre director, artist and light designer; Surekha Anil Kumar, an artist from Bangalore, and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Head Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
The selection has been corroborated by Pro Helvetia's Specialist Departments in Zurich.
For more information on Residencies offered by Pro Helvetia click here
FICA Emerging Artist Award 2012
The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art invites applications for the Emerging Artist Award 2012 which seeks to promote young artists who demonstrate promise in the visual arts. [dated June 2012]
The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art invites applications for the Emerging Artist Award 2012 which seeks to promote young artists studying or practicing in India who demonstrate extraordinary skill and promise in the visual arts. Pro Helvetia New Delhi is pleased to collaborate with FICA for the third consecutive year. The Emerging Artist Award 2012 includes a twelve-week residency in Switzerland.
Selected by an independent jury of distinguished artists and professionals in the field, the recipient gets the opportunity to travel and work in an international residency and exhibit in a solo show in India.
FICA is pleased to be collaborating with Pro Helvetia-Swiss Art Council, New Delhi, and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, for the Emerging Artist Award 2012.
The award includes:
• A twelve-week residency in Switzerland, round trip air travel from Mumbai or Delhi, a per diem during the time of the residency, and access to the residency’s technical equipments.
• A solo exhibition at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
For further information please contact: The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art D 53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 or info(at)ficart.org
Sound scores for dance
Swiss musician Christophe Robert Polese, referred to as POL, will be in New Delhi to mentor, choreograph, conduct workshops and work with sound artists at the Gati Summer Dance Residency. [dated June 2012]
Gati Summer Dance Residency 2012 presents “ALL WARMED UP 2012”
Thursday & Friday, 21 & 22 June 2012 at 7.30pm Shri Ram Centre, 4 Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi 110001
For passes, please call 9971406113.
The mentors for GSDR 2012 are Swiss sound artist POL , theatre director Sankar Venkateswaran and German choreographers Susanne Linke & Urs Dietrich.
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Swiss musician POL was in New Delhi to conduct workshops and work with sound artists at the Gati Summer Dance Residency 2012 in New Delhi.
Christophe Polese (popularly known as POL) from Switzerland will be part of the Gati Summer Dance Residency in New Delhi from 10 May to 2 June 2012 and will be mentoring choreographers, conducting workshops and working with sound artist to develop sound for dance.
About the workshop
The workshop will concentrated on specific pieces of every decade with a focus on works of Gilles Jobin, Franz Treichler and Cristian Vogel. POL shared his personal recipe of methods and philosophy. The workshop included exercises/games derived from the numerous methods used by famous electronic composers during the last 60 years. This workshop is especially designed for dancers, choreographers and musicians. The workshops was held on 12 & 13 May 2012.
About POL
Electronic music producer since the dawn of the nineties, nested between the persistant hammering of an electro dancefloor and the dark backstages of the post-industrial civilisation, POL infiltrates his music into the world by every mean. On screens, his productions have insinuated themselves in the arty zombies movie of cult director Bruce LaBruce and also in the very French Quand j’étais chanteur, with Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu. He has co-written Water Lilly’s music, electro-techno with a touch of pop glamour and cosmic atmospheres. Today, he pursues his conquest of space as a solo pilot.
For more information contact: The Gati Dance Forum at gatidance@gmail.com or visit www.gatidance.com
Swiss List – new titles now on the shelf
With the latest addition to the Swiss List published by Seagull Books, the number of books in English by Swiss writers now on the stands is seven. Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council supports translation.
With the latest addition to the Swiss List published by Seagull Books, the number of books in English by Swiss writers now on the stands is seven. Hugo Loetscher’s, Noah translated by Samuel P. Willcocks has just been published. Others in the list include Urs Widmer’s My Mother's Lover and My Father's Book translated by Donal Mc Laughlin, Frisch/Dürrenmatt’s, Correspondence translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte, Dorothee Elmiger’s Invitation to the Bold of Heart translated by Cathy Derbyshire and Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s, Lyric Novella and All the Roads are Open translated by Lucy Renner Jones and Isabel Fargo Cole respectively.
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council supports translation. The publication of the Swiss List in partnership with Seagull Books is an effort to bring Swiss literature to readers around the world. An extension of the initiative «Moving Words», the Swiss List has had demonstrable impact. Audiences across the globe now have access to Swiss Literature and literary translators from varying nationalities have had the opportunity to network and engage with Swiss writers.
The number of translations of Swiss literature will continue to increase, with Seagull Books looking at publishing another few titles by year end.
Noah by Hugo Loetscher Translated by Samuel P. Willcocks.
My Mother's Lover by Urs Widmer Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin
My Father's Book by Urs Widmer Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin
Correspondence by Frisch/Dürrenmatt’s Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Invitation to the Bold of Heart by Dorothee Elmiger Translated by Cathy Derbyshire
Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach Translated by Lucy Renner Jones
All the Roads are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
Links www: http://www.seagullindia.com/books/defaultnew.asp?cbosearch=category&txtkeyword=swiss%20list
Play Gravity Lander, a game from «GameCulture»
«Gravity Lander», a game for the «GameCulture» programme of Pro Helvetia was developed by Büro Destruct, Bern. «Gravity Lander» can be enjoyed online on GameCulture.ch [dated 2012]
«Gravity Lander», a game for the «GameCulture» programme of Pro Helvetia was developed by Büro Destruct, Bern. «Gravity Lander» can be enjoyed online on GameCulture.ch and on iPhone and Android (v2.2 or better) mobile phones. The Game: Gravity Lander – 3 Cosmonauts bite the dust of MarsWhat goes up must come down. One way or another.Help 3 Cosmonauts on a not so stellar mission to cleanup debris cluttering the Mars base.Be challenged to land the rocket safely on the M...ars base. Vaporize or explode debris out of your way down. Use boosts and tilt gravity to escape a bad course. Acrobatic steering skills and a healthy portion of luck will help you to succeed the 40 missions. To play «Gravity Lander – 3 Cosmonauts bite the dust of Mars» online click here
About Game Cluture: GameCulture – a programme of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Computers have become our most important tool – and also our favourite toy. Games are now part of everyday culture. The market is booming and the games sector has turned into the segment of the culture industry with the highest turnover. It employs an increasing number of people producing ever more complex digital worlds. Games manufacturers commission artists of all kinds, ranging from designers to scriptwriters and composers. So it’s high time for organizations that promote the arts to tackle this new medium.
With its GameCulture programme, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is drawing attention to the social, economic and aesthetic aspects of computer games and exploring the characteristics of the genre as a new art form. Pro Helvetia will be exploring the medium of computer games from autumn 2010 to 2012, staging three different exhibitions, a call for projects and a number of panel discussions and conferences.
As part of this programme, Pro Helvetia is launching the online platform www.gameculture.ch in cooperation with its partners. The content is being prepared jointly with Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), the International Game Developers Association, Swiss Chapter (IGDA) and the Swiss Gamers Network (SGN).
Contact: gameculture(at)prohelvetia.ch
Come back to earth
An artist-in-residence, Ruth Buck’s current body of work is an expedition and aims to experience India through an uninhibited look. The focus is on the ground, on which we stand with our own two feet. [dated 2012]
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council presents Swiss artist Ruth Buck who is currently on a residency in India. Project: come back to earth Foto installation, foto prints on barite paper, size each: 2.75 feet x 2feet (a body of 300 images)
Ruth Buck’s current body of work <<come back="" to="" earth=""></come>> is an expedition and aims to experience India through an uninhibited look. The focus is on the ground, on which we stand with our own two feet. The ground that we step on daily and unconsciously speaks volumes about the society and its conditions and its relation to public spaces. Conspicuous in each photograph is the inclusion of Ruth’s own foot, bringing to each visual, a feeling of a personal experience, a close encounter and an experience of an intimate nature. What does the ground tell us about itself and abut society at large? It talks about... people, habits, culture, believes, needs, pleasure, beauty, fears, ideals, hopes....difficulties......
The effect and impact of these images totally changes when they are up on the wall right in front of our faces. A hard hitting reality that one more than often misses because it’s usually not in our field of vision. Ruth will be at her studio at Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi until 31 March 2012.
An iaab exchange artist, Ruth Buck will be working on an audio-visual art project. She will be recording sounds in public spaces and then creating an audio data in the studio. In her works, Ruth goes beyond the margins of art genres and operates in different art media. She produces tactile works, conceptual works with words, photo light boxes that are objects in the space and sounds that create soundscapes.
Artist's statement:
My residency in India has been an important phase in my journey as an artist. The experience has been enriching and immensely inspiring. It has given me a totally different view to my own culture. Through cultural differences and difficulties I learnt a lot and feel that I have grown, not just as an individual but as an artist. The outcome is that I now have a different perspective to my own culture. My work happens in the arena where my personal concern and society meet. Questions about of human existence in general and its orientation make me and my work move.
Lucerne University showcasing '50 years of National Institute of Design'
The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts introduces its collaboration with the National Institute of Design, India’s most prestigious design institute with an exhibition of “50 years of NID”. [dated 2012]
The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts introduces its collaboration with the National Institute of Design, India’s most prestigious design institute with an exhibition of “50 years of NID” on the occasion of their annual Bachelor and Master graduation show in Lucerne.
Note from Prof M.A. Ursula Bachman Associate Dean Head of Interdisciplinary and International Programmes, The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts:
"The collaboration between the NID and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts dates ten years back. Various and repeated contacts between faculty showed the way and led to mutual regard and esteem. In February 2011 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by both institutions with the aim to expand their partnership and grant continuous student and staff exchange and implement a close collaboration on various fields of research. With the aim to close the bonds of this partnership, both parties agreed to evaluate the progress of the collaboration and take a regular look at past achievements and projects.
Today, our department is proud to introduce this collaboration with India’s most prestigious Design Institute to a broader Swiss audience with an exhibition of “50 years of NID” on the occasion of our annual Bachelor and Master graduation show in Lucerne. Two of our professors, Mr Rolf Bächler and Mr Pierre Thomé, who were invited by Pro Helvetia, visited the NID during this academic year and undertook first preparations for this show. The following departments of the NID will be included: - Animation/Film/GD - Illustration - Textile Design/Object Design Furthermore projects involving Indian crafts, including craft documentation and research as well as the NIDs legacy in changing the very living conditions of craft people all over India. On display will be materials, objects, textiles, business ideas and the presentations of mutual research achievements The further goals of our partnership focus on the development of common research projects in the fields of object and textile design and illustration and will hopefully lead to new business ideas and opportunities."
Prof M.A. Ursula Bachman
Associate Dean Head of Interdisciplinary and International Programmes
February 13, 2012
Babur in London to premiere in Zurich
Babur in London, a new contemporary chamber opera presented by The Opera Group in collaboration with Pro Helvetia and British Council will premiere in Zurich on 28 March 2012, and tour Switzerland in March/April. [dated March 2012]
Babur in London, a new contemporary chamber opera presented by The Opera Group in collaboration with Pro Helvetia and British Council will premiere in Zurich on 28 March 2012, and tour Switzerland in March/April. Featuring opera singers from the UK and India, and six musicians from the ensemble fuer neue musik Zurich in Switzerland, Babur in London is an exciting international collaboration. The Opera Group in collaboration with Pro Helvetia and the British Council present Babur in London The ghost of Babur, here, lost in the UK? He’s a long way from home.
Music: Edward Rushton
Words: Jeet Thayil
Director: John Fulljames
In a London suburb, four young men and women are preparing an act of violence. They are disturbed by a visit from the ghost of Babur, first Emperor of the Mughal Dynasty: a sophisticated artist and ruthless warrior, who praises God in poetry as he recounts his glorious deeds. As their mission draws closer, Babur urges his companions to escape the violent cycle of history and look to a more hopeful future. Babur in London is a brand new contemporary chamber opera exploring the complexities of faith and multiculturalism, through a haunting story of lives and love cut short by anger, persecution, and revenge. Startling, resonant and at times wickedly funny, Babur in London explores a dialogue of religion, politics and cultural identity in modern day society. Featuring five opera singers from the UK and India, and six musicians from the Ensemble fur Neue Musik Zurich in Switzerland, Babur in London is a genuine international collaboration, the talents of three countries working together to achieve one coherent vision.
Touring in 2012 Babur in London will premiere in Zurich on 28 March 2012, and tour Switzerland in March/April. It will then tour to seven cities in the UK, including the prestigious Cheltenham Music Festival, in June/July 2012.
Babur in London is set to tour India on the following dates:
16/17 November - Chennai (as part of The Hindu Music Festival)
20/21 November - Kolkata
23/24 November - Bangalore (part of The Hindu Music Festival)
27/28 November - Delhi
30 November / 1 December - Mumbai
About the creative team
Edward Rushton is a British composer now living in Zurich, and is one of the leading operatic composers of his generation. His acclaimed contemporary operas include Birds. Barks. Bones, The Shops and The Young Man with the Carnation.
Jeet Thayil is one of India’s most widely acclaimed contemporary poets writing in English, having published four collections of poetry. In 2011 he published Narcopolis, his first novel. Jeet lives in Delhi.
John Fulljames co-founded The Opera Group and was its Artistic Director from 1997 to 2011: he is now Associate Director of Opera at The Royal Opera House. He is widely known for bringing together emerging and established talents to develop new work which pushes boundaries in content and artistic form.
For Edith Piaf
Organised by the Embassy of Switzerland, on occasion of the week of the Francophonie, <<For Edith Piaf>> is a musical journey in the France of the Thirties and Fifties through Edith Piaf’s songs. [date 2012]
On occasion of the week of the Francophonie, the Embassy of Switzerland presents For Edith Piaf, a musical journey in the France of the Thirties and Fifties through Edith Piaf’s songs.
Direction: Pino Di Buduo
With: Nathalie Mentha
Duration: 60 minutes
Programme:
Pudducherry
Date: Sunday, 11th March 2012
Venue: Tantidhara International Theatre Festival, Pudducherry
Ahmedabad
Date: Saturday, 17th March 2012, 8.00 pm
Venue: Gujarati Sahitya Kala Parishad auditorium, Ahmedabad; Entry free
Date: Sunday, 18th March 2012
Ahmedabad Theatre Workshop: Voice and Movement with Fanatika Theatre Club
Kolkota
Date: Tuesday, 20th March 2012, 6.30 pm
Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata
New Delhi
Date: Saturday, 22nd March 2012, 7.00 pm
Venue: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, Entry Free
Brief
The performance is a musical journey in the France of the Thirties and Fifties through Edith Piaf‟s songs. Stories of lives in the environment of the French gangsters, stories of women in love, stories of passions, of dreams, of memories. It is the tale of a period, 1939, a historical moment highly alive through all Europe. It is the period of Jacques Prévert‟s poetry, of Cartier-Bresson‟s photography, of Jean Cocteau‟s theatre tales, of the coming of the Second World War which destroys so many families, of the songs for Charlie Chaplin‟s films, of the images of the characters of De Sica‟s film “Roma Città Aperta”, of the Frech Resistance, of the struggle for life, for love. The performance theme, the soul which ties the stories, and maybe more Edith Piaf‟s soul seems to be: “don‟t ever stop believing in love, whatever happens”. Performances: Salvador de Bahia; Rieti; Fara Sabina (RI); Abbiategrasso (MI); Bari; Bergamo; Roma; Caserta.
Nathalie Mentha
Nathalie Mentha was born in Geneva. After completing school, she joined the Theatre School of the Swiss Clown Dimitri. From 1979 Nathalie Mentha lives in Italy and works with the Potlach Theatre. She has worked in the productions like “The Dry Tree‟s Dances”, “Pearls Fishermen”, “Before the Fest is over” , “Sailors‟ Dreams” , “Joan of the Spirits”, “Opera Tango‟s Emigrants”, “The Conductors”, “Images Page 3 of 6 Parade”, “Turandot”, “Shakespeare Project”, “Mediterranean Myths”, “Imaginary Ambassadors”, “Felliniana”, “Viva la Vita”, “To Edith Piaf”, “Hotel Europa”, “20.000 Leagues under the seas”. With the Potlach Theater Nathalie Mentha also works as a pedagogue in schools and universities and has synthesised her experience in two work demonstrations: Memories, Sand Tales. She conducts workshops on Voice and Space, Fights of Clowns, Street Theater, Marco Polo project. Since 1991 she has been participating in the conception and organisation of INVISIBLE CITIES (Intercultural and interdisciplinary project with local associations and professional artists from every part of the world) directed by Pino Di Buduo .
Organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in partnership with Tantidhara International Theatre Festival, Pudducherry Alliances Françaises in Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Delhi Fanatika Theatre Club, Ahmedabad Titagarh Wagons Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata
Swiss film ‘Familientreffen’ at the Fanatika Theatre Film Festival
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad present the Swiss documentary Familientreffen (Family Reunion) at the 1st Fanatika Theatre Documentary Film Festival. [dated February 2012]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad present the Swiss documentary film Familientreffen (Family Reunion) at the 1st Fanatika Theatre Documentary Film Festival. The festival has been organised by the Fanatika Theatre Club which is the confluence of Alliance Francaise and Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
The Film : FAMILY REUNION
Swiss documentary ‘Familientreffen’
at the Fanatika Theatre Documentary Film Festival, Ahmedabad
Language: German with English subtitles
Festival dates: 3-5 February 2012
Venue: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad
Date: Saturday 4 February at 7:00 pm
Entry: Open to public
Documentary, Switzerland 2009 / 60 minutes / 52 minutes, digital video, colour.
As carpets are rolled and furniture covered, a grand hotel in the Swiss alps ushers in the off season. Melancholy song floods the empty halls as director Christoph Marthaler and his theatrical family rob the hotel of its sleep with endless choir practices – for six long weeks, right up until opening night. But one person is missing from the rehearsals: Jürg Kienberger, scion of the hotel family and veteran musician-member of Marthaler’s ensemble, is recovering from an operation on his knees, killing time with a one-man show at the rehab clinic. Aloof from the goings-on, Kienberger reflects with subtle irony on the evolution of a Marthaler production, airing the secret of the cult phenomenon without giving it away. Meanwhile, the troupe are raising ghosts from 100 years of the hotel’s history. Both jovial and saturnine, the quirky loners are united when they sing. The film escorts its viewers to a feast of music and poetry, and invites them to join a theatrical family.
Credits
Writer and director: Sarah Derendinger
Cinematography: Matthias Kälin, Sarah Derendinger
Producers Stella Händler, Claudia Frei
Director: Christoph Marthaler
Narrator: Jürg Kienberger
Actors and Musicians: Claudia Carigiet, Raphael Clamer, Jan Czajkowski, Bendix Dethleffsen, Olivia Grigolli, Rosemary Hardy, Christoph Homberger, Ueli Jäggi, Josef Ostendorf, Sasha Rau, Nic Rosat, Bettina Stucky, Graham Valentine.
Director’s statement
In Family Reunion I go in search of Marthaler’s secret. At the same time, however, I am careful not to explain that secret, but simply to display it, and to let the viewers get as close as possible to his process - to let them become members of the «Marthaler family». When I heard that Christoph Marthaler and his theatre troupe were working on a performance at the Hotel Waldhaus in Sils Maria during the off season, I was seized by the urge to capture their rehearsals on film. I also learned that Jürg Kienberger, a key member of the Marthaler family as well as a scion of the hotel dynasty, was unable to take part in the preparations, which allowed me to use him, from his position at a remove from events, as a narrator in my film. The biggest hurdle, I believed, would be getting Christoph Marthaler on board, because he had famously never before permitted an outsider to attend his rehearsals. So I was amazed when the celebrated director immediately and enthusiastic agreed to my request! His sole condition was that I film the rehearsals as camerawoman myself; and since I actually do have the requisite experience, I was able to agree to this stipulation, not with reluctance, but in anticipation of a welcome challenge.
In Family Reunion, spectators sense the spirit of complete openness in which the Marthaler family enters the blank space of the creative process. It’s wonderfully exciting to observe the evolution of a new Marthaler theatrical production – despite the glacial pace at which it proceeds – and to notice the way the many songs they use help the members to bear the emptiness out of which a finished work is born. I am delighted to be able to take all those who watch my film on a timeless musical journey into the splendid isolation of Sils Maria.
Organiser and Partner: Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad
SIGMASIX to participate at UNBOX and Baajaa Gaajaa 2012
Geneva based SIGMASIX to conduct a workshop at the UNBOX Festival in New Delhi and will collaborate with Dhamaal, featuring Indian percussionists, at the Baajaa Gaajaa. [dated 2012]
Geneva based SIGMASIX, a company that experiments in the fields of visual creation, will conduct a workshop at the UNBOX Festival in New Delhi and will collaborate with Dhamaal, featuring Indian percussionists, at the Baajaa Gaajaa 2012 Festival in Pune.
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UnBox Festival: workshop by Swiss company SIGMASIX Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Unbox Festival has invited Eric Morzier and Florian Pittet from the Swiss company SIGMASIX to conduct workshops and perform at the festival. SIGMASIX is a Geneva based company whose aim is to experiment in the fields of visual creation. They make music videos and custom experimental installations for customers large and small.
PROGRAMME
Presentation at Conference: Friday 3 February 2012 at 12 noon
Venue: British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi Entry: By registration / please contact register@unboxfestival.com
Workshop: Friday 3 February 2012 from 4:00 – 6:00pm
Venue: British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi
Entry: By registration / please contact register@unboxfestival.com
Performance: Sunday 5 February 2012
Venue: Shroom, The Crescent Mall, Lado Sarai, Mehrauli, New Delhi
Entry: Festival rules apply
The UnBox Festival celebrates interdisciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action. It is a response to the emergence of a new subculture: one that straddles the spirit of innovation and invites the engagement of all senses. UnBox manifests itself as a blend of different events - including a conference, workshops, exhibitions and performances - designed in sync with one another, to stimulate thought, debate and action.
Organiser and Partner: Unbox Festival unboxfestival.com
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SIGMASIX to collaborate with Dhamaal at Baajaa Gaajaa Festival, Pune
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Baajaa Gaajaa Music Festival has invited Eric Morzier from the Swiss company SIGMASIX to collaborate with Dhamaal during the festival. SIGMASIX is a Geneva based company whose aim is to experiment in the fields of visual creation. They make music videos and custom experimental installations for customers large and small.
Date: 10 – 12 February 2012
The Baajaa Gaajaa Music Festival at Ishanya, Pune The Baajaa Gaajaa Music Conclave at Vivanta by Taj – Blue Diamond, Pune. Entry: Open to Public
Baajaa Gaajaa is an annual music festival curated by Indian musicians Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan. During the festival Eric Morzier of SIGMA6 will collaborate and rehearse with Indian percussionists from all parts of India from 6-10 February. The final piece will be presented at Baaja Gaaja on 12 February 2012. DHAMAAL is a celebration of drumming traditions from India and other musical cultures. Folk drummers from various parts of the country collaborate with other percussionists, vocalists and guitarists, to weave a tapestry of rhythm. Organiser and Partner: Baajaa Gaajaa Festival - baajaagaajaa.com
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SIGMASIX
SIGMASIX is a Geneva based company whose aim is to experiment in the fields of visual creation. They make music videos and custom experimental installations for customers large and small. They see the future like a playground, trying new technologies and new ways of mixing different kind of media. SIGMASIX is Eric Morzier and Florian Pittet.
For more information visit: http://www.sigma6.ch/
LAYOUT - A location based collaborative construction
LAYOUT - A location based collaborative construction [dated February 2012]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi is delighted to be associated with the project L A Y O U T, a location based collaborative construction and to present Swiss artist Navid Tschopp, who is currently on a residency in India. The project is being presented in collaboration with W+K Exp.
Artists involved in this collaborative project are: Navid Tschopp, M Pravat, Sayantan Maitra Boka and Susanta Mandal
Venue : C - 198, Neb Sarai, Next to IGNOU, New Delhi - 68.
Opening on Sunday, January the 22nd, 2012, 4 pm onward
On view until 10 February 2012.
The construction will be accessible 24 hours a day.
Artist: Navid Tschopp
Art Form: Visual Arts Residency date: 1 January- 10 March 2012
Navid’s field of work lies between the orient and the occident and contains the many layers between image and action. His research is about identity in the field of transcultural images and in context art. He is interested in the Indian pictorial world, on which the Persian art history is based. The aim of his work is to create a ‘third space’ between orient and occident / European and eastern culture where a new concept of identity based on learning from each other can grow. Navid wants to focus his study on the Parsi community that resides in India.
Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12
Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12 - a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and Suchet Malhotra. [dated 2012]
Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12 Pro Helvetia New Delhi is delighted to be associated with KHOJLIVE12 an evening of live performances organised by the KHOJ International Artists' Association and to present Chhota Paisa (small money) a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and Suchet Malhotra.
Friday, 27th January, 2012 from 4:00pm to 9:30pm
at BlueFROG, The Kila, Seven Style Mile, Opposite Qutub Minar, Mehrauli, New Delhi
The work Chhota Paisa (small money) is a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and was commissioned by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in 2011.
Dario Gamboni’s lecture series
Dario Gamboni’s lecture series to be held in Mumbai on January 23 & 24 2012. [dated January 2012]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Mohile Parikh Center, NCPA, Mumbai invite you for the Dario Gamboni’s lecture series on modern and contemporary art on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm and Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, Mumbai
Speaker: Dario Gamboni
Discussant: Shukla Sawant
Programme Details:
January 23, 2012
RECYCLING NEOLITHIC URNS AND VINYL RECORDS: MATERIAL AND METAMORPHOSIS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
In the first half of the twentieth century, the “truth to materials aesthetics” defended the notion that the materials of art were agents in the artistic process. Since then, the digital revolution and the delegation of artistic production to “fabricators” seem to have relegated materials to the role of passive, interchangeable instruments or to have let them disappear altogether. Recently, however, artists have given a renewed prominence to unexpected materials such as overpainted prehistoric ceramics and melted vinyl records. This lecture will examine works by these (very diverse) artists, such as Ai Weiwei and Dario Robleto, and compare the new meanings they give to materiality with developments in archaeology, popular music, and genetics.
January 24, 2012
ART IN A PHYSICAL CONTEXT: CHANGES IN THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VISUAL ARTS, SPACE, AND TERRITORY
“Globalization” also means an ever increasing circulation of images and artefacts. Around 1800, keen observers such as Goethe noted that this movement had already begun and that henceforth, works of art would no longer be seen and appreciated primarily in the location for which they had been made. The very idea of art became associated with sitelessness, an independence from place as well as from time and history. Ever since, however, some artists and theoreticians have tried to counter this “dislocation” by creating and praising works meant to be “site-specific”. The history of art has been deeply involved in these contradictory tendencies and it is only recently that a “geography of art” has started to gain a foothold in the English language.
Dario Gamboni is professor of art history at the University of Geneva since 2004. He was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellow at CASVA, Washington DC, Meret Oppenheim Prize 2006, Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, and Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. He was also a guest professor at the universities of Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, Freiburg im Breisgau, Mexico, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. He has (co)curated exhibitions including Iconoclash (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2002) and Une image peut en cacher une autre (Grand Palais, Paris, 2009). He has published many books and articles including La plume et le pinceau. Odilon Redon et la littérature (Paris 1989), The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (New Haven/London 1997), and Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (London 2002).
Shukla Sawant is a visual artist and currently an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include Contemporary Art and Art in Colonial India. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of London and studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts Paris. Shukla works with photography, installation, and printmaking and her theoretical interests extend to writing on contemporary art. She has lectured extensively in various institutions and has been actively associated with artists’ initiatives. This programme is organised by Mohile Parikh Center, NCPA, Mumbai in collaboration with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi and supported by Hivos, Deon Foundation, Mondriaan Foundation and Arts Collaboratory.
Admission free and open to all.
Runners-up of SKODA Prize 2011 to be awarded residency
Swiss curator, Heike Munder, an international jury member will be in India to participate at the The SKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. [dated January 2012]
Swiss curator, Heike Munder, who was the international jury member for the award will be in India to participate at the The ŠKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Events: The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011
Exhibition opening on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Award ceremony: Saturday 28 January 2012
Entry: By invitation only
Heike Munder, director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich has participated as an international jury member for the prestigious SKODA Prize 2011. Heike is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg and the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe. The jury members have shortlisted the final three whose works can be viewed at www.theskodaprize.com The final announcement of the winner and the award ceremony will take place on Saturday 28 January 2011 in front of the jury members and reputed members of the art fraternity.
The award ceremony will be preceded by The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011, an exhibition showcasing the works of the shortlisted finalists Jitish Kallat, L N Tallur, and Navin Thomas. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland, awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Heike Munder
Heike Munder is the director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and has held the post for the last ten years. She is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, founded in 1995 and was its co-director up to the year 2001. She is also the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe.
Munder has been actively curating art shows whose concerns revolve around psychological spaces and collective memory, hedonistic and glamorous strategies, performative startegies and conceptual humour. Among the most important exhibitions curated by her are "The Garden of the Forking Paths" for Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg in 2008, "Identity Troubles" (co-curated) for Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e. V. in 2004 and for Nurture, New York in 2005 and "Disfunctional Places" (co-curated) in Belgrade in 2001. In 1999, she was awarded the Jürgen-Ponto Prize for "Junge Kunst in Kunstvereinen". Munder studied Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg. She has held teaching positions at Goldsmith College, London, Department Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg and Department Art at University of Bern. She currently teaches at the Academy of Art, Zürich.
For more information please visit: www.theskodaprize.com
Nadia Schneider Willen to lead curated walks at India Art Fair 2012
Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen, a freelance curator from Zurich, has been invited by India Art Fair 2012 to lead a curated walk through the fair. [dated January 2012]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with the India Art Fair have invited Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen to lead a curated walk through the fair. Nadia will also lead and mentor students of art history and young curators in designing and leading their tours around the art fair.
Date: 25 – 29 January 2012
Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi
Timings: 2:30, 4:00 and 5:30 pm
Meeting Point: Information Desk
Entry: Art Fair rules apply
For more information visit: www.indiaartfair.in/curated-walks.aspx
India Art Fair 2012 will enable galleries from around the world to showcase their artworks to discerning collectors, artists, curators, students and art enthusiasts. Guided tours curated by artists and students of art history well-versed with the artworks on display will offer a unique opportunity to the visitors to get an insight and wholesome experience of the art fair. A tentative schedule for Curated Walks for India Art Fair 2012 will be made available shortly. Each walk will be about a half hour long, maximum 40 minutes.
Nadia Schneider Willen
Nadia Schneider Willen, born 1971 in Bern, is a freelance curator based in Zurich. She studied French literature and history of art at the University of Zurich. From 2001 to 2007 she was director and curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus and after that conservator of modern and contemporary art at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. In 2005 she co-curated the exhibition "In Times Like These“ at the International Biennale in Prague (National Gallery). Since 2007 she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and is currently a member of the Turner Prize jury 2011. In Geneva, she was responsible for the exhibitions „Alexandre Perrier (1862-1936)“, Musée d'art et d'histoire, and the retrospective of Alberto Giacometti at the Musée Rath.
In the Kunsthaus Glarus she curated contemporary exhibitions with international artists such as Gillian Wearing, Julika Rudelius, Jim Shaw, Annelise Coste, Gary Webb, Tobias Zielony, David Thorpe, Jeanne Faust, Hammwöhner/Jakob/Vormstein, Peter Piller und Swiss artists such as Hanspeter Hofmann, Pierre Vadi, Philippe Decrauzat, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Markus Müller, Vaclav Pozarek, Rolf Graf, Ingrid Wildi, Goran Galic/Gianreto Gredig.
For more information please visit: www.indiaartfair.in
HORNBILL Public Art 2011
Ruth Buck, a Swiss artist will be participating in the Hornbill Public Art Festival, which is part of the Hornbill Festival at Kohima, Nagaland. Ruth is currently on a residency in India. [ dated December 2011]
Ruth Buck, a visual artist from Switzerland will be participating in the Hornbill Public Art Festival, which is part of the Hornbill Festival to be held from 1 to 7 December 2011 at Kohima, Nagaland. Ruth is currently on a residency in India.
Date: 1 to 7 December 2011
Venue: Kisama Model Village, Kohima, Nagaland
Entry: Festival rules apply
The artist: Ruth’s studio apartment at Sanskriti Foundation is drowned in the cackle of a thousand birds, the unusual calls building up to a cacophony in sudden crescendos, crashing like waves against our ear drums. Recorded at Percé, Qué in Canada, Ruth Buck intends to use these sounds at the Nagaland public art festival in December. Previously having played these sounds at a metro station at Montreal, Canada, the artist piqued the curiosity of the passersby, overlaying their regular associations of the space with new ones. Released from their origin to an urban or geographic setting where they did not belong, Ruth used the sound scapes to create new meanings, deconstructing their notions and experience of that space.
During her ongoing Pro Helvetia studio residency in Delhi, the artist has been continually fascinated with what she is able to see and find on the ground on her walks around the city, evocative of the contrast and diversity that she thinks epitomizes India. From garbage to manicured lawns to the coolness of the stone flooring beneath her feet at a Mughal tomb, Ruth is currently working on a project where she wants to ‘hang’ pictures of the ground on the wall. Using light as her constant source of inspiration and expression, an artwork of hers that the artist wants to carry to Nagaland to work on with the people there, apart from her sound-scapes, is her photo-performance. Titled ‘Blind Date’- the installation, initially put up in 2003 at her residency in Canada, consisted of light boxes with ethereal pictures of the artist in different body postures. Hidden behind the gauze screen, would be the bodies and stories of the Nagas whose faces need to be seen, who are an inconspicuous part of the country today. It is such mediums of expression that the artist works with, where there are multiple meanings new meanings to be discovered where the result cannot be known.
For more information please visit: www.hornbillart.blogspot.com/2011/11/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
Organiser and Partner: Shelter Promotion Council, India The Art Festival is being supported by Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Nagaland and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
EXPERIMENTA, the International Festival for Moving Image Art
ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland will participate in EXPERIMENTA 2011, the International Festival for Moving Image Art in India. ANYMA & Marc will work together with ISRO. [dated December 2011]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with EXPERIMENTA 2011 is pleased to invite artists ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland to participate in EXPERIMENTA 2011, The International Festival for Moving Image Art in India.
ANYMA & Marc Duseiller will work together with Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO) from Bangalore to perform live and to conduct an open workshop.
Date: Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2011
Venue: Bangalore
Schedule:
Friday 2 December / 11 am to 2:00 pm at JagaaWorkshop on DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics. For registration please contact music.returntosender(at)gmail.com
Saturday 3 December / 6:30 pm onwards at 7 High Street (7HS) Improvised electronics music and videos, a live performance by (ISRO/ ANYMA and Marc Duseiller (dusjagr).
Entry: Please check partner website
EXPERIMENTA, India’s only film festival celebrating artists’ film and video continues to play an integral role in showcasing uncompromising, fresh and compelling moving image art from across the world. EXPERIMENTA will host a retrospective of the cinema of Adolfas Mekas, a central figure in the western avant garde independent film movement. The competition programme presents a fresh selection of international films and videos.
The Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore will collaborate on a sound performance with Swiss artists ANYMA and Marc Duseiller (dusjagr). The artists will perform live with electronic music toys and create visuals with the VIDEOBASS invented by Michael Egger (member of ANYMA) who has also invented several open source visual music instruments. The award winning VIDEOBASS is a bass guitar that plays images instead of sounds, lets you choose a video clip on the strings with your left hand, and trigger it in rhythm with your right. The visual artists and musicians will work in an improvisational dialogue. This performance promises to be both musical and cinematographic –a layering of textures that forms abstract visual poems.
Indian Sonic Research Organisation, Bangalore, ANYMA and Marc Duseiller will together conduct an open workshop on DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics.
For more informatin visit: experimenta.in/2011/11/experimenta-2011/
The Yellow Line Project
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Gati Dance Forum has invited Frédéric Lombard, filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer to participate in the Yellow Line Project. [dated December 2011]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with Gati Dance Forum has invited Frédéric Lombard, filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer to participate in the Yellow Line Project. Frédéric will work together with Indian choreographer Surjit Nongmeikapam.
Date:
Open screenings:
Gurgaon Premiere- 17 December 2011
Delhi Premiere- 18 December 2011
Venue: New Delhi (tbc - for venue details please check partner website)
The Project:
The Yellow Line Project (YLP) aims to create an experimental space for collaborative interactions between dance, film and the city of New Delhi. YLP will invite collaborations between 6 choreographers and 6 media-artists. Each choreographer will work with a media artist to produce a short, 4-6 minute dance-film. The residency begins with an intensive week of explorations into the genre of dance-films as well as workshops on site-specific performance, the city and specifically the city of Delhi. This first week will be led by Indian and international experts in these areas, and will serve as an intensive R&D period for the residents. Built into the structure of the residency, therefore, are opportunities for dialogue and debate, exchange and exposure to new ideas and skills.
Frédéric Lombard
Frédéric Lombard was born in France in 1975 and is based in Berlin. He is a filmmaker, video artist, and stage light designer. Frédéric graduated from the Fine Arts University of Marseille France in 2002. He studied cinema in University Arcis, Santiago de Chile. Frédéric has collaborated as a filmmaker with numerous Swiss choreographers like Young Soon Cho Jaquet, Perrine Valli Geneva, Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon CIE 7273 and Estelle Héritier. Frédéric Lombard’s films Champignon ( 2005) and Dry Fish (2007) were selected by the Cinematheque of Lausanne Switzerland. His films Durée déterminée (2005) and A5 (2004) were selected in Festival Dance on Screen London, video dance Athens and the Cinematheque of Lausanne Switzerland. Frédéric Lombard is known for his innovate video art. The Wall / Projet : La Palestine comment? (2008), terrain vague (2007) and Voluptas (2006) are worth a mention.
Surjit Nongmeikapam
Surjit Nongmeikapam studied Choreography from Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography. He was part of the Natya Stem Dance Kampni and Natya Maya, Bangalore as a contemporary and traditional dancer. He has trained in different forms of movement and continues to learn from different Gurus/Mentors. He is the founder of "Nachom Arts of Contemporary Dance Company" based in Manipur (2008). He also performs with other choreographers and directors as a freelance dancer.
Organiser and Partner: Gati Dance Forum - www.gatidance.com
