Working conditions for artistic practices | A workshop by Vijai Maia Patchineelam
Working conditions for artistic practices
A workshop with Vijai Maia Patchineelam
Dates: 17 - 20 April 2024
Timings: 11 AM - 5 PM
Venue: The FICA Reading Room, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024
Working conditions for artistic practices is a workshop developed for artists, but also welcomes curators, art writers and other cultural workers, to have their practices engage in a dialogue with each other’s. It focuses on the articulation between practices, by exercising ways of co-learning and facilitating the entanglement to one another. The workshop looks to tackle the important issue of negotiating and advocating for better working conditions for artists, the individual, by momentarily switching focus to the conditions needed for artistic practices to develop.
Looking at the overlaps and differences between the two, in order to speculate on the potential of developing artistic practices that are capable to expand onto other practices such as the curatorial, teaching, mediating—towards complex practices indebted to artistic thinking that are capable of articulating its own criticality into an exercise of resilience.
We will explore over the four days of the workshop with different pedagogical tools borrowed from the Performing Arts that foster spaces of co-learning and practicing together. The workshop develops from daily presentations and discussions complemented
with sessions of collective readings and screenings. Mixing different forms of being together—presenting, discussing, reading, viewing—giving emphasis to learning through peers, by way of sharing, accumulating and comparing different experiences. Due to its shape-shifting format the workshop will at times resemble a study group, cine-club and/or reading group.
Dates: 17 - 20 April 2024
Timings: 11 AM - 5 PM
Venue: The FICA Reading Room, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
Please note:
The four-day intensive workshop is open for up to 10 participants.
Applications from artists, curators, art writers and other cultural workers are welcomed.
Participants must be willing to commit to all four days of the workshops from 11 AM - 5 PM.
To apply, please fill the Google Form linked below.
Applications sent via email will not be considered. For any queries, please write to info@ficart.org.
About the resource person:
Vijai Maia Patchineelam’s artistic practice focuses on the dialogue between the artist and the art institution. Placing the role of the artist as a worker in the foreground, Vijai’s research-driven artistic practice experiments with and argues for a more permanent role for artists — one in which artists become a constitutive part of the inner workings of art institutions. This displacement of roles is part of a larger trajectory of his Ph.D. research titled, The Artist Job Description: A Practice Led Research for the Employment of the Artist, as an Artist, Inside the Art Institution (2016-2022) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, the University of Antwerp and a.pass, advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels. As a final outcome of his doctoral thesis, Vijai has published the book The Artist Job Description: for the Employment of the Artist, as an Artist, Inside the Art Institution (2022) with Track Report (Antwerp), in collaboration with OAZA (Zagreb) and a.pass (Brussels). Vijai is currently collaborating with the art-space KIOSK (Ghent, BE) towards the implementation of the position “artist as public mediator” as part of its paid staff.