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
LIVE ART 2011, Bangalore
Swiss artists Dorothea Rust, Monica Klingler, Markus Goessi and Susann Wintsch to participate in LIVE ART 2011, a performance festival organised by Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR1). [ dated November 2011]
Swiss artists Dorothea Rust, Monica Klingler, Markus Goessi and Susann Wintsch to participate in LIVE ART 2011, a performance festival organised by Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR1) from 11 to 25 November 2011.
Mimetic at India Music Week 2011
Jerome Soudan of Mimetic, Art Zoyd returns to India to perform at the India Music Week in New Delhi after a successful collaboration with B.L.O.T. at the Electron Festival in Geneva. [dated November 2011]
Jerome Soudan of Mimetic, Art Zoyd returns to India to perform at the India Music Week in New Delhi. After a successful collaboration with B.L.O.T. at the Electron Festival in Geneva in April 2011, Avinash Kumar of B.L.O.T. will once again partner with Jerome to present a rare audio-visual treat.
On the India tour, Jerome Soudan is accompanied by Benoît Perrier, a journalist who covers contemporary music for the Swiss daily paper Le Courrier.
India Music Week 2011 / Gig schedule Mimetic & B.L.O.T wil perform in three cities:
New Delhi / Thursday 17 November 2011 Venue: Circa 1193 at 9:00 pm
Mumbai / Friday 18 November 2011 Venue: Bonobo
Bangalore / Saturday 19 November 2011 Venue: ICE, Taj Vivanta, MG Road
Panel discussion
Jerome Soudan and Benoit Perrier will be participating in the panel discussion on Thursday 17th November
Topic: Sustainable Networks
Time: 5:00 to 5:45 pm
Venue: Eros Intercontinental, Nehru Place, New Delhi
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About MIMETIC
Jerome Soudan started music at the age of 5 years old in the Conservatory of Chambery France. He learned consequently orchestral percussions, clarinet and later on acoustic and electronic drums. He obtained a Master degree of Musicology of the 20th century at the University of Lyon France with congratulation of the jury in 1993.
He then settled in Paris where he worked with numerous composers such as Kasper T.Toeplitz for the GRM (Maison de Radio France) or with rock bands such as LES TETINES NOIRES or Industrial bands such as VON MAGNET. In 1996 he moved to Berlin where he started to work as composer and percussion player with the experimental band COLUMN ONE. In 1998 he started his own solo project named MIMETIC.
In 2000 he settled in Geneva Switzerland and began to work with the contemporary rock and new music formation ART ZOYD in France. Since then, Jerome released numerous CD’s or vinyl’s with various bands on different labels such as ANT ZEN, HANDS, PARAMETRIC, MOLOKO+, PRIKOSNOVENIE, ORKHESTRA, SCULTURED SOUNDS, KK RDS, THISCO, SPECTRE, etc… and was participating to several concerts, live acts, dj sets or performances all over the world (Europe, USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan,…). Since 2000 he is one of the official composer for the choreograph Carol Brown (coming from New Zealand but established in London UK) for whom he composed for dance performances as well as for video installations. Other choreographs with who Jerome have worked are Jan Linkens (Comic Opera of Berlin) and Lionel Hoche (Neerdeland Dans Theater 2 in Den Haag NL).
In 2005 he won the best design and artwork packaging for electronic music at the French QWARTZ awards for the cover box of MIMETIC DANCING “The Changing Room” released on HANDS in Germany and designed by Nicola Bork. In 2006 he released his first DVD with MIMETIC on the German label ANT ZEN. Today, he is still working with ART ZOYD for different special shows such as METROPOLIS (with the movie), THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (with the movie), LE CHAMP DES LARMES, EYE CATCHER (with Cecile Babiole) or for a collaborative project for the American composer GLENN BRANCA. One of his newest projects is the danceable WAI PI WAI he founded together with Herman Klapholz from Ah Cama-sotz.
For more information on MIMETIC visit: www.electronfestival.ch www.presenceselectroniques.ch
See If It Can Happen, an audio-visual installation
A collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist Rashmi Kaleka, ‘See If It Can Happen’ will transcend sounds. [dated November 2011]
A collaborative presentation by the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist Rashmi Kaleka, ‘See If It Can Happen’ will transcend sounds as moments of energy will be ensnared between music and voices of real people and real situations. An electronic synthesis that arrives at a coherent sound design.
Date: Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 6:30 pm
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi-Garhi Artist Studios, Kalka Devi Marg, East of Kailash, New Delhi - 110065
Project brief:
Hawkers voices are of real people whose survival roles decree their own rules, it's a form of 'surrender'. A whole life can be written around them - voices that spawn amazing ways of singing, the idea is to use the form and to play with its expectations. It's an unknown territory that has the potential to produce a 'sonic' pleasure. A social aspect of music that has the possibility of losing its own 'self' is what interests me. To use the old monument in Garhi as a backdrop for that night is to suture indigenous with the 'western', -'western' as manifested in the mainstream)
The idea is to ensnare moments of energy between music and a voice - point of departure and return, new and old, past and present. I was thinking what would come closer to creating a 'within': in regards to musical instruments, many are able to morph into a variety of sounds that echo a human voice. The closest in today's sounds that has an electronic beat that pulses around a one-note baseline, has to be Radiohead's song The Butcher. It slides and glides around shadows that rise and fall. The other seven minute song Supercollider is beautifully calm, electronic pulse, riffs of synth, unpredictable chorus, the synth crescendo merges beautifully with Yorke's, (lead singer), falsetto. I wanted very much to create a symphony of music which combine live instruments as well as electronic apparatus, weird chord sequences, strange keys which can be musically challenging. The innovation of today's time is a combination of live instruments and a sonic pleasure created with recordings, (voices) and electronic synth to arrive at a coherent sound design.
Rashmi Kaleka
New Delhi 2011
SWISS BOX at Dilli Haat
Four languages. Four fairy tales. One country: Switzerland. A puppet performance by Swiss puppeteer Frida Leon in collaboration with Dilli Haat & The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust. [dated November 2011]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Dilli Haat & The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust presents
SWISS BOX
Four languages. Four fairy tales.
One country: Switzerland.
A seven-minute puppet performance that brings Switzerland to you right here in New Delhi! on Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 November 2011 can be viewed by two persons at a time from 5 to 9 pm at Dilli Haat, Sri Aurobindo Marg, (opposite INA Market) New Delhi - 110016
Puppeteers:
Anurupa Roy, Vivek Kumar, Pawan Waghmare, Asha and Swiss puppeteer Frida Leon.
Story tellers: Nina Taho Zanetti, Astride Schläfli, Katharina Baldauf and Roman Weishaupt.
Entry: Admission as per Dilli Haat regulations.
Language: German with strong visual impressions. Comprehensible to all.
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Swiss puppeteer, Frida Leon Béraud is currently in India on a Studio Residency.
Frida is a puppeteer and an actress from Zurich. She has specialised in doll-theatre and has travelled extensively with her performances in USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She studied puppetry at the «Ernst Busch» Drama College in Berlin. After gaining experience in acting, street and movement theatre, Frida Leon Béraud joined hands with musician Frauke Jakobi to establish the Dalang Puppencompany in 2004. A freelance director and scenographer, Frida is also the co-founder of ‘Chamäleon’.
Maja Weyermann featured in PIX
Photographs by Swiss photographer Maja Weyermann, on the architecture of Chandigarh and the work of Le Corbusier, feature in the current issue of PIX, a photography quarterly. [dated November 2011]
Maja Weyermann featured in PIX Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council is delighted to be associated with PIX, a photography quarterly published in India and to present the work of Swiss photographer Maja Weyermann.
Maja Weyermann’s photographs on the architecture of Chandigarh and the work of Le Corbusier feature in the issue of PIX based on the theme ‘imaginaries: exploring photo art’
The launch of the above issue of PIX and the opening of the exhibition ‘IMAGINARIES: exploring photo art’ will be held on Thursday 27 October 2011 at 7:00 pm at Siddhartha Hall, Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhawan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001.
The exhibition will be on view till 3 November 2011.
Maja Weyermann
Maja Weyermann studied visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at the University of Fine Arts UdK in Berlin. She has won numerous prizes for her work. Most recently, Weyermann’s works were featured in the Fondation de l’ Architecure et de l’ Ingénierie in Luxembourg and at the Fondation Suisse- Pavillon Le Corbusier in Paris.
PIX, a photography quarterly
PIX is about investigating and engaging with broad and expansive fields of contemporary photographic practice in India, ranging from the application, conceptual standing and adaptability of photography to its subjects: its movement, transmission, appropriation and distinct relation to the allied arts. The quarterly will seek not only to present photography in temporal, spatial or historical terms, but also in personal, self-conscious and aesthetic ways.
For more information on PIX visit: www.pixquarterly.in
Nainsukh-the 18th century pahari painter
Pro Helvetia presents lectures by Dr Eberhard Fischer and Prof B.N Goswamy and a biographical film by Amit Dutta from 18 to 30 November in Chandigarh, Jammu, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. [ dated November 2011]
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in partnership with Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Amar Mahal Museum and Library Jammu, India International Centre New Delhi, National Institute of Design Ahmedabad and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai presents
“Nainsukh” - the 18th century pahari painter
lectures by Dr Eberhard Fischer and Prof B.N Goswamy and biographical film by Amit Dutta (Venice Film Festival 2010)
Schedule:
Chandigarh / 18 November 2011
Venue: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi / Government Museum & Art Gallery at 5:30 pm
Programme: film (with brief introduction)
Partner: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
Jammu / 20 November 2011
Venue: Amar Mahal Museum and Library at 10:30 am
Programme: lecture & film
Partner: Amar Mahal Museum and Library
New Delhi / 23 &24 November 2011
Venue: India International Centre at 6:30 pm
Programme: lecture & film (respectively)
Partner: India International Centre
Ahmedabad / 26 November 2011
Venue: National Institute of Design
Programme: lecture & film
Partner: National Institute of Design
Mumbai / 29 & 30 November 2011
Venue: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at 2:30 pm
Programme: lecture & film (respectively)
Partner: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
The Film
Nainsukh (c. 1710 - 1778) was trained in a traditional Pahari painters' family-workshop at Guler in today's Kangra District (H.P.) and became the major retained artist at the court of Jasrota (J&K). Famous for his intimate, well observed and precise, sometimes humorous, often somewhat enigmatic, always sensitively drawn pictures, especially of his long-time patron Balwant Singh, Nainsukh is today considered the most extraordinary Indian artist of his time. His biography and extensive oeuvre as researched and reconstructed by Prof. B. N. Goswamy has been the basis of the film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta, produced by Dr. Eberhard Fischer.
The film ‘Nainsukh, the Great Pahari Painter of the 18th Century’, premiered at the Venice Film Festiva in 2010.
Film Credit:
Producer: Dr Eberhard Fischer
Research and guidance: Prof. B. N. Goswamy
Director: Amit Dutta
Miniature artist who plays Nainsukh: Manish Soni
The Lecture
Eberhard Fischer has researched, propagated and collected Nainsukh's unique artistic work for the last thirty years. In his lecture, he will present pictures, art-historical documents and major sites connected with Nainsukh's life and discuss this painter's extraordinary achievements. This background information will serve for a better understanding of the exquisite film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta.
For information on Swiss art-anthropologist Dr Eberhard Fischer, Indian art historian Prof B. N. Goswamy and film director Amit Dutta click here.
Photoink presents a photo books exhibition
As part of the Delhi Photo Festival 2011, Photoink presents an exhibition of books on photography published by Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. [dated October 2011]
As part of the Delhi Photo Festival 2011, Photoink presents an exhibition of books on photography published by Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. This photo books exhibition has been made possible by the support of Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
Books by Fotomuseum Winterthur Edited by Urs Stahel, Director and Curator Fotomuseum Winterthur Discussions and debates on “visual literacy” have been widespread for years now. Early on Umberto Eco remarked that we are entering an era in which visual communication will be at least as important as language—if not more important. This statement is now over twenty years old. In the meantime we have entered into a new visual, networked epoch. In our everyday life, at work, in the media, in the culture of the Internet, we experience the incredible degree to which the word is being replaced by the image; how enormously the word is even repressed by images. Yet we are not being educated in pictures, in understanding pictures, in the language of pictures, in communicating with and manipulating pictures. We are facing the situation that we are all consumers of audiovisual images, but in the end we are all illiterate. So investigating these structures and functions has an eminently educational significance: we must be educated in pictures in order to be outfitted for communication in the present and for the future.
It is not only crucial to learn to read and understand photographs, but to recognize that photography does not only document events, but also that it very much produces them. In a world saturated by the media, only what is “spoken,” what is shown, what is documented is considered important; everything else does not exist, is not there, not present. Photography produces the world through its image, which we remember and want to remember. Photography generates visual ideas about our world. Photography forms our future images of the world and forms of action. Regarding this the book is one of the very best medias to make us understand photography – and through it reality, our life, the circumstances we are dealing with.
For more informatin on Fotomuseum, Winterthur click here.
For more information on Photoink, New Delhi click here.
