TAKE on art presents THE BOOK ENSEMBLE Curated by Anushka Rajendran and Bhavna Kakar A part of TAKE ON WRITING series Conceptualised by Bhavna Kakar Date: 17th – 19th December, New Delhi Venue: Sanskriti Kendra Anandagram, Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, New Delhi – 110047 17th December at Latitude 28 6.30 – 8.30 pm: Preview of ‘Weaving […]
TAKE on art announces its OPEN CALL for a workshop under its ongoing TAKE on Writing series. The workshop ‘The Book – The New Writing Group’ is led by curator, art historian, and writer Chus Martinez and novelist, writer, and artist Ingo Niermann. TAKE is deeply invested in sustaining critical writing practices and with this […]
The final, closed-door session was led by Ajay Sinha with interventions by Geeta Kapur & Parul Dave-Mukherji. Sinha began with the observation that the broad-ranging discussion over the past few days has articulated a broad notion of what a book literally is, and this is a testament to how contemporary art broadens culture. Some of […]
Appropriately then, artist Amar Kanwar concluded the session with a presentation addressing his experience in documenting the lives of various subjects, in particular Burmese people, for his video, photography and installation work. Bringing to mind the earlier discussion prompted by Martinez’s encounter with the Benjamin archives, Kanwar feels overwhelmed by the volume of oral material […]
One is two, two is one, proposed Övül O. Durmusoglu in a presentation which took as its departure point the inclusion of a mirror in an exhibition ‘Future Queer’ which considered the overlap of past, present and future in gender poetics. Via Rumi’s story of two rooms in which Chinese painters create a masterpiece while […]
The final bloc of ‘Curating as Writing/Exhibition as Book’ asked whether, in a world that is in collapse, continuously dismantling itself, the exhibition is a narrative form that is able to capture transient and liminal states of being experienced collectively, through a shift from a solitary, and perhaps personal act, to an interdisciplinary and communal […]
In the following presentation Learning about Relevance in a World that does not Read, Chus Martínez recalled a reluctant visit to the archives of Walter Benjamin, in which she encountered the scholar’s radically unusual codification and configuration of files. Martinez considered this experience in the context of contemporary codes, declaring that Benjamin was not trying […]
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