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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)
    • Prof. Ratan Parimoo (Vardodara)

    Reading List Vadodara Workshop:

    1. Jean Francois Lyotard, ‘Les Immateriaux’, Thinking about Exhibition, Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, (Eds) Routledge, New York, 2006, pp. 114-125.
    2.  Tonny Bennet, ‘The Exhibitionary Complex’,  Thinking about Exhibition, Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, (Eds) Routledge, New York, 2006, pp. 58-80.
    3. Meike Bal, ‘The Discourse of the Museum’, Thinking about Exhibition, Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, (Eds) Routledge, New York, 2006, pp. 145-158.
    4. Paul O’ Neill, ‘The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse’, Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Judith Rugg and Michele Sedwick, (Eds) Intellect, U.K and USA, 2007, pp. 19-28.
    5. Liz Wells, Curatorial Strategies as Critical Intervention: The Genesis of Facing East,Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Judith Rugg and Michele Sedwick, (Eds) Intellect, U.K and USA, 2007, pp. 29-44.
    6. J. J. Charlesworth, Curating Doubts, Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Judith Rugg and Michele Sedwick, (Eds) Intellect, U.K and USA, 2007, 91-100.
    7. ‘The Politics of Display: Ann-Sofi Zide´n’s Warte Mal!, Art History and Social Documentary: A seminar with Laura Bear, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock, and Ann-Sofi Side´n’, Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes (Eds), Exhibition Experiments, Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu (Eds), Blackwell Publishing, UK and USA, 2007.
    8. Bernard Cohn, The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities and Art in 19th Century India, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, OUP, Delhi, 1994.
    9. Tapati Guha Thakurta, ‘The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying’, Chapter 2 in Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post Colonial India, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.
    10. Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Visual Culture In An Indian Metropolis, Towards A New Art History: Studies in Indian Art, (Eds)Shivaji K Panikar, Parul Dave Mukherji, Deeptha Achar, D.K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2003,  (first published as ‘Bombay/ Mumbai 1992-2001’ in Iwona Blazwick (ed.), Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Publishing, London, 2001).
    11. Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Curatorial Note, Chaitanya Sambrani, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2005.


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