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  • Each workshop will have 15 participants including M.A. level students and interested arts professionals with eight seats reserved for local/regional participants.
  • There will be four to five resource persons (with one international resource person) for each workshop, which will be held for a span of six days.
  • A collection of materials consisting of eight to ten key essays on curation and museum practices will be circulated one month in advance to the participants, along with a detailed bibliography of important books and articles.
  • Each workshop will be structured as a research oriented project, which will include presentations by the resource persons, with discussions around each presentation.
  • It will also include a thorough discussion of the key reading material as well as the curatorial projects conceived by the participants.
  • The contents of each workshop after its completion will be published on the website for the project to enable further discussion around the subject.
  • All of this data will be key reference material for the creation of the colloquium towards creating an academic curriculum.
  
  The Possible Resource Persons for the Workshops  
 
  • Geeta Kapur (Art Historian & Art Critic)
  • Chaitanya Sambrani (Art Critic and Curator)
  • Annapurna Garimella (Art Historian)
  • Jayaram Poduval (Art Historian)
  • Himanshu Desai (Art Critic/gallery curator)
  • Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Cultural Studies)
  • Gayatri Sinha (Art Writer)
  • Vidya Shivadas (Curator)
  • Madhushree Dutta (Filmmaker; founder of Majlis)
  • Sudhir Patwardhan (Artist)
  • M.S.S Pandian (Cultural/Film Studies)
  • Jyotindra Jain (Art Historian and anthropologist)
  • Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Cultural/Film Studies)
  • Susie Tharu (Cultural Studies)
  • Krishnamachari Bose (Artist)
  • Parul Dave Mukherjee (Art Historian)
  • Alakananda Patel (Musicologist)
  • Pushpamala N (Artist)
  • R. Sivakumar (Art Historian and Art Critic)
  • Rahab Alana (Curator)
  • Sadanand Menon (Art Critic)
  • Vivan Sundaram (Artist)
  • Kaushik Bhowmik (Curator)
  • Amrit Gangar (Film curator)
  • Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi (London)
  • Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh)
  • Lu Jie (China)
  • Jack Pesekian (Palestine)
  • Hamid Severi, Rashid Rana (Pakistan)
  • Grant Kester (USA)
  • Kaja Pawelek (Poland)
  • Arshia Lokhandwala (Curator)
  • Naman Ahuja (Art Historian)
  • Kavita Singh (Art Historian)
  • Anuradha Kapur (Theatre Historian)
  • G.M. Sheikh (Artist/Art Critic)
  • Rustom Bharucha (Theatre and Cultural Studies)
  • Deeptha Achar (Cultural Studies)
  • Kaushik Mukhopadhyay (Artist)
  • Shukla Savant (Artist/Art Historian)
  • Sanchayan Ghosh (Artist)
  • Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Artist/Writer)
  • Parvez Kabir (Art Historian)
  • Tejal Shah (Artist)
  • Aleya Hamza (Cairo)
  • Grant Watson (Netherlands)
  • Jorge Villacorta (Peru)
  
 
 

The General Framework of Subjects to be Covered Through the Workshop Series

  
  History of Curation
This would include a brief analysis of the history of curation in general, and a detailed study on the nature of curatorial practices of the last 30-40 years. Special emphasis will be given to thoroughly analyzing various major Indian curatorial projects that have taken place in the past. This historical analysis will also include festivals (film and theatre) in India, in order to strengthen the understanding about various aspects of curatorial practices and allow for our curatorial imagination to be informed by a broader sense of culture and history.

History of Museums/Public displays
This would include an extensive study of the history of museums and their public displays, a historical overview of these practices and contemporary debates/criticism around and about the ideologies of existing practices. A selected bibliography will also be prepared in advance for this purpose.

Practical Aspects of Curation
This part of the workshop will exclusively and extensively deal with the practical/technical aspects of curation. It will include a discussion by one of the experts about the practical/technical difficulties involved in this critical practice by bringing concrete instances of this sort from her/his curatorial venture(s). Further, this part will also deal with the technological advancements in display practices (especially in the context of in-house curations) with regard to framing, lights etc. and also engage with the distinct problems involved in both museum and gallery practices. Finally, the workshop will also address the technical/institutional/legal formalities/obligations, which are involved in the hiring of works of art/artifacts from any institutions/collectors for a curatorial project. A systematic analysis of different curatorial modes will be initiated, bringing into focus how the meaning of cultural artifacts shifts according to the conceptual frameworks of curators.

Current Curatorial Challenges
This would include an analysis of the complexities involved in cultural production and dissemination, and the function of curation in the public sphere today. A critique of contemporary curatorial practices will also be initiated, both in terms of conceptual integrity as well as in terms of pragmatic feasibility. In short, this part of the workshop will highlight the necessity for conceptual rigor and raise critical questions around how to frame the art object, keeping in mind the complex social processes that produce cultural artifacts.

Cultural Practices as Curatorial Practices
This part extensively deals with the recent shifts in cultural/art practices in general with regard to the emergence of Conceptual, Performative, Site-Specific and New Media Art practices. This part also involves discussions around various modes of film festivals curation especially in the context of new technological apparatuses.		  
  The Topics to be covered Through the Workshop Series  
 
  • History of curation in India.
  • Curating popular culture.
  • Curating New Media Art.
  • Curating regional art and culture.
  • Conceptual paradigms of curation.
  • Curating international art.
  • Curation and photography.
  • Curation and retrospectives.
  • Curating Cinema.
  • Curating minority cultures.
  • Curation as a critical cultural practice
  • Future of curation.
  • Critique of curatorial projects.
 
 

The Schedule

  
 

Workshop at Baroda/ Vadodara – 13 to 18 September 2010.
Workshop at Cochin/Tripunithura – February 2011
Workshop at Hyderabad/Bangalore – August 2011
Workshop at Jammu – February 2012
Workshop at Shillong – August 2012
Colloquium at Baroda/ Vadodara – December 2012
Curriculum submission – March 2012

Note: The above order and locations are tentative. These will be finalized depending on the convenience of the host institution and the co-coordinators. On conclusion of the final workshop, the project co-coordinators will conduct a colloquium and develop a curriculum for a curatorial studies programme.