The ArtWalk | Saturday 8th @ 17.30

String Attached | Jayanti Kumaresa & R Kumaresh

Double Road - Wednesday 28th @ 20.00

Beastly Tales | Naseeruddin Shah - Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd @ 15.00 + 18.30

Fantasy for two | Kapylova & Alizarchyk - Friday 7th @ 19.00

Mash Chukki - Friday 30th @ 18.00

Amshu Chukki

Amshu graduated with MVA (Painting) in 2014 and BVA (Painting) in 2012 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University Baroda.

Amshu was listed in the 'Forbes India 30 under 30, 2016', in 2016. He was awarded the INLAKS Fine Arts Award in 2014. The Kalpana Reddy Memorial Award in Photography for the final year Bachelors of Visual Arts display in the year 2012, The Nasreen Mohammadi Award for best display for the year 2010-2011 and In 2010 he was awarded the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Award for Painting in the 'Fine Art Students' category in the 50th State Art Exhibition.

Some of the group exhibitions he was part of are, 'Home', at Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai (2015); Videos by Amshu Chukki and Chinmoyi Patel, a curated exhibition by Dominic Nurre, Helpers Projects, Brooklyn, New York (2015); 'India: Maximum City', curated by Birgid Uccia at Chesa Planta, Zuoz, St.Moritz Art Masters 2014, St.Moritz, Switzerland (2014); Art for young collectors III at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai (2014); Indian Vocabulary, ZOCA, The Gallery Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad (2013). 

The residencies and workshops he was part of are, The Darling Foundry, India - Quebec Residency (2015); 'Coriolis Effect: Currents across India and Africa', KHOJ, New Delhi (2015); Refracting Rooms, KHOJ International Workshop, Pune (2015); The St. Moritz Art Masters Residency Programme, St.Moritz, Switzerland (2014); The KHOJ peers, KHOJ New Delhi (2014).

He is represented by Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai.

Amshu Chukki's practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and sculpture. In his ongoing engagements with the notion of fictionalized spaces and narratives of dystopias, he is interested in the manner in which the boundaries between the real and illusory can fold into one another, keeping in mind an understanding of the filmic and in particular, the tropes of film noir. Further, questioning the ideas of the 'site', 'site specificity' and 'site informativity', his work tries to invite and involve audiences to speculate on the meaning and nature of the fictionalized worlds brought to life. 

The People without History | Indira Chowdhury - Sunday 2nd @ 18.30

RE-LOOK [35] : Lectures on Indian Art Curated by Pushpamala N.  The "People without History": Forms of Cultural Memory and the Post-Colonial Archive a lecture by Indira Chowdhury Scholar and Archivist, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore On Sunday 2 July 2017 at 6.30 pm at 1.Shanthi Road Studio/ Gallery, First Floor, Shanthinagar, Bangalore 560027 About the Talk This presentation draws on my attempts over the last decade and a half to create archives of different institutions and organisations and the insights gained from these attempts into the practice of archiving. Echoing the title of Eric Wolf’s 1982 book, Europe and the People Without History (1983) and drawing on the conceptual framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1979), this presentation looks back at the colonial collections of archives and material culture in India and asks in what ways is it possible to put together an archive within a postcolonial context? If colonial discourse defined Indians as being steeped in backward traditions and lacking in history, what conceptual problems do we encounter when trying to assemble an archive of a formerly colonised people? Beginning with my visit to a settlement of snake charmers near Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh, who claimed they knew nothing about snakes, I go on to look at the collection of botanical paintings at Lalbagh, and the subsequent setting up of the institutional archives of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata,The Economic and Political Weekly and the Indian Museum. What does the process of archiving tell us about our relationship to the past? In what ways did institutions that originated in the colonial period reinvent their identities post-1947? How do the colonial foundations of academic disciplines shape the way our museums relate to the past? What roles do state interventions and notions of national identity play in the evolving sense of self? Do conceptualisations of education, development and progress erase forms of cultural memory and oral traditions and create reinvented identities? This presentation will attempt to show how we might re-understand the idea of collecting an archive and the critical ways in which we might interpret them.   ​                    About the Speaker ​  ​   Indira Chowdhury is Founder-Director of the Centre for Public History at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bengaluru. Formerly professor  ​ of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, she is also the founder of Archival Resources for Contemporary History (ARCH), Bengaluru, now known as ARCH@Srishti. She has a PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and her book, The Frail Hero and Virile History (Delhi, OUP, 1998) won the Tagore prize in 2001. In 2010 she published A Masterful Spirit: Homi Bhabha 1909-1966 (Delhi: Penguin, 2010). She was awarded the New India Fellowship to work on the manuscript of her recently published book titled Growing the Tree of Science: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (OUP: 2016).  Indira Chowdhury has been keenly interested in setting up archival resources for research – particularly oral history archives. She began the Urban History Documentation Project at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata in 1993. She set up the Archives of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (2002-2006) and curated several archival exhibitions at TIFR including Partners in Science: JRD Tata and TIFR in 2005 and Homi Bhabha: The Cambridge Connection in 2007. Through ARCH she has created several archival books - Citizens and Revolutionaries: An Oral History of IIM Calcutta (Delhi: Rupa: 2012), Looking Back, Looking Forward: An Oral History of IMSc (2016) and The Lives of Objects: Stories from the Indian Museum (forthcoming​)​ ​ Indira is a founding member of the Oral History Association of India. She was President of the Oral History Association of India (2013-2016) and President of th​e ​ ​ International Oral History Association (2014-2016).

Elephant in the room - Saturday 24th @ 15.00 & 20.00

Karina Colis Trio - Saturday 24th @ 21'00

Parvaaz | outset-live - Saturday 10th @ 21.00

Indian Cartoon Gallery | 10th anniversary - Wednesday 14th @ 11.30

Bodhisattwa Trio + Shonai + Rohan Ganguli Quartet + The Neel Sarkar Project - Saturday 3rd June

Oleanna | David Mamet - from 9th