Panel Discussion
curated by V.Divakar
19.06.2009
6.30 p.m.
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
In collaboration with Artflute.com and Goethe-Institute, Bangalore
All are welcome!
“The relation between aesthetic and historical is neither one between ‘levels’ within the text, nor between the work as aesthetic fact and its encircling historical conditions; it is rather that those historical conditions, in the form of the ideological, become the very determinant structure of that process of textual self-production which is in its entirety, ‘aesthetic’,”
- Terry Eagleton (Criticism and Ideology)
The Art and Activism seminar organised by the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, M.S.University, Baroda in 2004, was a significant attempt to bring together activists from various disciplines pertaining to the arts to debate upon issues regarding activism in resisting elitist tendencies and other inconsistencies within the practice of art making.
Interventions, the present curation of a series of lectures/discussions takes its references from this seminar and attempts to work as an alternative space in order to critically engage with the works of few artists who have intervened in the cultural milieu through their artistic practices. So also, this initiative attempts to draw insights from the critics who have been vocal in articulating their concerns regarding the aspects of the social and the political in cultural practices. The intention is to engage in a serious dialogue where both disciplines of art writing and art making can necessarily share identical areas of concern for action. Interventions then is aiming at a gathering of artists and writers who would share with students, cultural practitioners, art lovers and concerned public their respective experiences regarding their practice.
The peculiarities/specificities of each strategy the artists/writers have employed would enable the younger generation of art practitioners and writers to widen the possibilities of approaching their own practices with a more nuanced understanding of society in general. In this regard the first Interventions panel discussion was held at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in February 2009 with participation from Alex Mathew, Hyderabad and art critic Santhosh Sadanand from Baroda.
In continuation of the series, the second Interventions will be structured around the theme “On Collectives”.
The participants include:
Professor Shivaji K. Panikkar
Archana Prasad
Raghavendra Rao K.V.
Sunil G.
Professor Suresh Jayaram
Related links:
Goethe-Institute, Bangalore
curated by V.Divakar
19.06.2009
6.30 p.m.
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
In collaboration with Artflute.com and Goethe-Institute, Bangalore
All are welcome!
“The relation between aesthetic and historical is neither one between ‘levels’ within the text, nor between the work as aesthetic fact and its encircling historical conditions; it is rather that those historical conditions, in the form of the ideological, become the very determinant structure of that process of textual self-production which is in its entirety, ‘aesthetic’,”
- Terry Eagleton (Criticism and Ideology)
The Art and Activism seminar organised by the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, M.S.University, Baroda in 2004, was a significant attempt to bring together activists from various disciplines pertaining to the arts to debate upon issues regarding activism in resisting elitist tendencies and other inconsistencies within the practice of art making.
Interventions, the present curation of a series of lectures/discussions takes its references from this seminar and attempts to work as an alternative space in order to critically engage with the works of few artists who have intervened in the cultural milieu through their artistic practices. So also, this initiative attempts to draw insights from the critics who have been vocal in articulating their concerns regarding the aspects of the social and the political in cultural practices. The intention is to engage in a serious dialogue where both disciplines of art writing and art making can necessarily share identical areas of concern for action. Interventions then is aiming at a gathering of artists and writers who would share with students, cultural practitioners, art lovers and concerned public their respective experiences regarding their practice.
The peculiarities/specificities of each strategy the artists/writers have employed would enable the younger generation of art practitioners and writers to widen the possibilities of approaching their own practices with a more nuanced understanding of society in general. In this regard the first Interventions panel discussion was held at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath in February 2009 with participation from Alex Mathew, Hyderabad and art critic Santhosh Sadanand from Baroda.
In continuation of the series, the second Interventions will be structured around the theme “On Collectives”.
The participants include:
Professor Shivaji K. Panikkar
Archana Prasad
Raghavendra Rao K.V.
Sunil G.
Professor Suresh Jayaram
Related links:
Goethe-Institute, Bangalore
