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A three-day festival will showcase more than 70 projects in arts research, done by scholars, curators and creative practitioners.
These projects have been funded and implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in the last 10 years as part of their Arts Research programme.
The festival, ‘Past Forward: the Pleasure, Purpose and Practice of Art Research’, will feature a multitude of activities. Panellists will reflect on how arts research intersects with socio-political changes. A discussion titled ‘Decolonising the Image’ is scheduled for Day 1.
Films such as ‘Makhfi’, ‘Songs of our Soil’ and ‘Palai — Landscapes of Longing’ will be screened. Performances will depict how artistes respond to the world around them.
Exhibitions and installations proposing alternative futures will be showcased. Conversations on archival research, biographies and bookmaking are also part of the line-up.
IFA’s executive director Menaka Rodriguez, says the festival is an invitation to “reflect on the many possibilities that arts research can offer — from new ways of thinking to giving visibility to lost histories.”
October 25 to 27 at Bangalore International Centre, Domlur. Entry free. Details on indiaifa.org