Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
TALK: Magnum Photographer Chien-Chi Chang - Friday 23rd @ 19.00
At the
Alliance Française de Bangalore, Chien-Chi Chang will present some of his major
works in the photo essay and multimedia formats.
MAGNUM
PHOTOGRAPHER CHIEN-CHI CHANG is dedicated to investigating the ties that bind
one person to another, drawing on his own deeply divided immigrant experience.
In his work,
Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and
connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in
Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001)
and the Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002). The life-sized photographs of pairs of
patients literally chained together resonate with Chang’s jaundiced look at the
less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two books—I do I
do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in
Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a brutal depiction of the business of
selling brides in Vietnam. The ties of family and of culture are also the
themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 20 years, Chang has
photographed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s
Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian.
Kuchipudi - Tuesday 29th @ 20:00
Black & White | Saleem Shoyab - Wednesday 30th @ 20.00
YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM: Black & White by Saleem Shoyab
All day | 30th of September – 20th of October | Alliance Française Atrium
In the fourth exhibition of the 2015 series, Alliance Francaise will exhibit artworks of Saleem Shoyab - who has acquired his Master of Visual Arts in Painting this year from College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat (CKP).
He is the recipient of scholarships from Sameeksha Foundation (2015) and Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy (2013).
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Endless Godheads | Jérôme Chazeix - Saturday 19th @ 18.30
"Chazeix’ extensive use of fetishising practices is never just a matter of affirmative adaptation and an obsessive repetition compulsion. Rather, he hijacks the omnipotent fetish apparatus of the fashion system. He not only makes use of commodities and images that the system generates but also, as a brand maker, conquers the production aspect. And he invites fellow protagonists to playfully exploit the opportunities this appropriation offers in order to transgress established patterns. Working with fetishism makes for a productive and reflective use of fetishised codes. For Chazeix, it signifies establishing and destabilising the fetish through an outrageously accumulative production."
- Ursula Schöndeling, Katalog "10 Jahre ZEIX Berlin", Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2011
Monday, September 14, 2015
Taj Residency & SKE Projects - Friday 18th @ 18.30
Three of the current residents will present their research and work.
Mumbai-based artist Madhu D*, whose practice explores the possibilities inherent in combining mediums in site-specific and interactive interventions, will present an overview of his work.
Delhi-based artist and designer Ishan Khosla, who is interested in projects that involve society, culture and politics, will give a talk titled Understanding Design through Village India.
Delhi-based artist and member of the artistic collective WALA, Paribartana Mohanty who works in video, performance, text and painting, will do a lecture performance titled Glass of Water.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
The Invisible (R)evolutions | Philippe Borrel - Friday 18th @ 19.00 (followed by a discussion with the Director, Philippe Borrel)
We’ve entered into the era of global acceleration. Speed and immediacy have become society’s norm, at work first of all, but also in daily life. Intoxicated by technological acceleration, or by the fear of exclusion, we try and keep up. Some people, individually or collectively, have however decided to oppose this acceleration march, choosing to opt for a slower rhythm, reoccupying time in order to “live well”. Every day they work towards giving real meaning to time and to the way in which one lives with it, looking at the simple verbs of cultivating, feeding, producing, constructing, educating, healing, creating, sharing, communicating, through their very actions… Outside of the dominant model, on the margins and beyond media coverage. This film is a travel around the world to meet those rebels who made the decision to live offbeat.
“Beyond a certain threshold, speed is no longer a gain but a cost for society as a whole” affirm the first ones to resist the feeling of acceleration which affects us all a little more every day, at work and elsewhere. Their combat is not only about defending their own, personal lot, but also about inventing other models of society. These men and women have deliberately decided to escape from the diktat of urgency which, according to them, is making society ill, and is leaving behind those who are no longer capable of following such a rhythm. Just about everywhere across Europe, the United States, and even in Latin America or in some parts of India, this same desire to downshift is making ground.
Such alternative proposals, for the invention of other kinds of relationships towards time, are still pretty much unknown and when we hear about them, we tend to think of them as an utopia. However, they unsettle us in our reality because they thumb their noses at the ideological bedrock of our society, bound as it is to the cult of “progress” since the Enlightenment. Progress which has lost its meaning, because it’s no longer keeping its promise of emancipation or autonomy, in a society that’s more and more unequal and a world that’s losing its references.These oases of resistance to acceleration are multiplying fast, and rejoining, through their actions, the analysis of critical minds, whether philosophers, sociologists, economists, politicians or scientists. French, German, British and American thinkers are worried about the increasingly negative impact this progressive mutation of time is imposing on us all… Edgar Morin, Hartmut Rosa, Jeremy Rifkin, Pierre Rabhi, Rob Hopkins and Douglass Rushkof, amongst the most emblematic, will be regularly seen in the film, evoking their analyses of our world in its critical state, and the need, according to them, to change the paradigm. These movements want to give a new meaning to the notion of time and the way we live with it, with their real-life experiences. The film tries to render such movements more visible, audible, and – why not – desirable?
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
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