The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi invites you to a nodal event of the Srinagar Biennale in New Delhi.
Srinagar Biennale Panel Discussion
Members of the Srinagar Biennale core group, Inder Salim, Showkat Katjoo, Syed Mujtaba Rizvi, Veer Munshi, Gowhar Fazili, Vivek Raina, and Maria Hearty
Will be in conversation with Vidya Shivadas
06 April 2016, 6:00 pm onward | Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
This is the first public event of the Srinagar Biennale in New Delhi. The core group of the Srinagar Biennale will present their ideas on the development of the Biennale so far and seeks to reach out to artists, performers, thinkers, film makers, scholars and students to join them in discussion about the potential and making of the Biennale itself. Keeping with the rhizomatic structure of the Biennale, this nodal event is the first of many to come to the capital, to explore ideas that the Biennale proposes to investigate.
Srinagar Biennale
Srinagar ( city ) is anywhere, everywhere, nowhere. Nothing happens in Srinagar. Something always keeps happening in Srinagar. It is unpredictable. It keeps growing. In Srinagar ideas are tasted and encountered differently. Hospitality and hostility play out an even game. The boundaries between ideas, affects and effects shift constantly and get challenged endlessly. This is a true plane to invigorate practice; a plane that can enrich and remake our sense of contemporaneity, simultaneity and multiplicity.
The air of Srinagar city is ancient, a city held together by a songlike yet sad, shrinking yet unpredictable river. Amidst its ruins, vibrant gardens and lakes are embedded part spoken and part unspoken, part twisted and part folded histories; ordinary dreams made extraordinary, part legible, part illegible; part fragrant melodies, shying mountains and polluted water bodies; part whispering, part yearning for everyone to come and tell a story.
Srinagar Biennale sees itself as a RHIZOMATIC composition. With a node in Srinagar, it is best served by the appearance of other nodes, in other places, ranging from the most unpredictable and inhospitable landscapes, to the most enlightened and hospitable of locations. It dances to multiple frequencies with an expansive movement.
Srinagar Biennale forsakes claims to attention as a single event, and instead stretches across time — breaks its banks, overflows, and demands a different, non rivalrous order of consideration. It sees itself as an eruption that transmits possibilities and interactions, to keep disturbing and repositioning the partition of the sensible. www.srinagarbiennale.org
Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s non-profit cultural institution established to promote knowledge of German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. By drawing on its worldwide cultural and language based exchanges, the Goethe-Institut engenders a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on German culture, society and politics through its exchange of cultural initiatives and varied programming. The Goethe-Institut endeavors not only to promote wide-ranging cultural exchange but also engages in cultural dialogues rooted in local partnerships and collaborations. Through its programming, the Goethe-Institut strives to develop innovative concepts for a world made more human through mutual understanding, where cultural diversity is seen as an asset.
For more information on the nodal event write to FICA at info@ficart.org | For more information on the Srinagar Biennale write to srinagarbiennale@gmail.com
