exploration
Kolkata | 'if there is nothing but now' chapter 01 at Kolkata with Anupam Saikia, Abhijit Ray, Smritaparna S ,Tanzina H Aarshi, Tanaya Kundu , Kaur ChiMuk.
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Kolata | 17|01|2017, TAC looking forward to this module as an 'Overlapping Spaces with the memory of embracement''. It will be a very simple exercise idea, where we can look back to the core idea of a ‘how and where is the public space’ and at the same time rediscover the pulse from the space by individual ‘intimacy’. As a symbol of the action, TAC chose 'HUG'/ 'HUGGING' as a form of metaphor. Over time, we all knew that Performative actions always tried to embrace time and space side beside.
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Gujrat| elongated
#escapekipaf18 - one the day 14, month february, in the year 2018. titled as: "on the year seventy", we landed where the Lotus-eaters live "વર્ષ સિત્તેર", અમે જ્યાં ઉતર્યા લોટસ-ઇટર જીવંત છે. ~ this performance conceptualize as triptych format, extract from Odyssey, Book 9(the land of lotus eater). | Baroda, Gujrat. |
Shantiniketan, West bengal * How to place your body for a reading - what is the best way to listen?
* How to read a text in a collective form? * If the text is a collaged script which consists a quality like a collective choir...then how to intervene that on the real time? * How to experience a collective reading, not as singular body rather collective whole(like multiple bodies inside a common space)..... * How to differentiate the collective knowledge and individual perception by using the method 'Collective readings '? |
Nepal | Luna Poets Presents ~ Expression-Expedition in collaboration with Tracing a City. TAC now with the new chapter. This time Nepal with new curatorial team and Luna Poets. #TAC will be there with publication & documentation archiving support(#tacfuturejournal), with #EE2018. | key area - Public Space, Collective Participation Local Practice.
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Istanbul | A journey from HVDD to HDCW | Greetings from India <3
'...Though I strongly believe the process of curation can’t just end with single attempt but we tried the best to connect a few existing artist’s initiatives within the short time frame. There are two main areas of this project. First, understanding the relationship between human rights and the basic right to access ‘water’ for urban-civilization. Secondly, we have been thinking for a long time within the larger collective practice that how art can be influenced and seen from an alternative way of activism, something different from the conventional one. Consider this online exhibition also as an effort towards a new way of viewing art and society. More than another exhibition, it is a method of searching for collective awareness with Istanbul Performance Art.' | Sincerely yours Kaur Chimuk |
India-Denmark | Why binary should have all the pun is a primarily a cross-disciplinary curation about the artistic perspective on the patterns of urban community spaces and critical insight in how the idea of the binary works as a language in the social-political collective spaces. We will re-engage with the various notions of ‘new’ media practice and map methodologies of creative development as an experimental and collective process, opening both potentials and resistance within the binary. For this curatorial research, we will engage with the questions on What is new about a medium? | How to design the confusion in linear space especially between method and habit?...
with Lasse Mouritzen and Kaur Chimuk #inbetween | in collaboration with Tracing a City |
Working Title: To the queer resistance and fragment of subversion ~ unwrapping the idea ‘Queering’ from the South-Asian suburban panoramic perspective.
Kaur Chimuk In collaboration with Soumya M. and Keepa M. Perspective: The key spirit behind this transcendental concept will be the process of making a plural relationship between global understanding about the non-hegemonical cultural expression and south-Asian subaltern fluid perspective. The entire experience is deconstructed into four spheres, It is a panoramic situation where the idea(s) of queerness is arising from sub-versive marginal political perceptions. In this durational collective project, we tried to map the duality and the void in between performative gender and unrecognized curiosity. We are working with specific four non-binary color codes*(yellow, white, purple and black). THE VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL CARE INSPECTORATE* 10-13/10 2019, Malmö Konsthall
The collective agent Metood initiated a 4 day program taking place in various locations within the walls of Malmö Konsthall. During Inspektionen för Våld och Omsorg, Mikael Rakowitz work” The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist” is on show. With care he tries to keep and maintain the histories and memories tied to places and objects that due to war and terror has been dispersed or destroyed. Claiming that ”..the objects that have disappeared need their ghosts”, his artistic mission is bent on generating them.. |
Mnemonic Territory | Edition 3
Can we live together inside 10X10 with open harmony? Mnemonic Territory is a new curatorial expansion by Tracing A City (hastac.weebly.com). TAC is an inclusive collective curatorial where we are interested to explore the various cities' marginal critical interests by using plural performative instincts. Mnemonic Territory is not a project for making new cultural production, rather we consider it as an open initiative for practicing the essential elements in terms of subversive curatorial language. {It is also a continuous progression from our last collaborative project that we did together a couple of times in between Kolkata-Delhi. In our previous edition, we collaborated with Taxi (Artist Collective), Subhrojyoti M. (Writer-Editor-Visual Content Maker), Partha D. (Experimental Video Art-production Designer), Tomo S (Performance Artist).} Curatorial PropositionFor #kyta2019, Tracing A City would like to share the new curatorial derivates in collaboration with Hidden Area (Namgial A,Dawa L, Jigmat C, Edzes D, Tsewang L, Jigmat L, Stanzin R, Stanzin N, Nawang T, Tsering T, Thewlay N, Tsewang N, Tsewang N, Stanzin J), Kyta19 (in associated with Tsering Motup, Shazeb S., Hashim Q., Ratan N., Sachin S.P). The majority of the conceptual expression has been contextualized during the last one-month curatorial research period especially in the process taking wonder workshop (Hidden Area| hastaghiddenarea.weebly.com) in association with Siddhartha High School, Stok. Proposition 1: Consider this room is a union of plural spaces, comparatively open but not completely autonomous in terms of selection- abbreviation and conceptualization. Proposition 2: This room is trying to depict the possibilities of the in-between paradigm with the multiple common nodes of the subculture of cold political #hastivism. Proposition 3: Feel free and explore the time-space with your unborn solidarity. Sources: collective amnesia - participatory action mapping - a mundane room with the abandoned anarchist substance - prolonged marginal body-space and political conflict. Kyta 2019 at Ladhak Arts and Media Organization and Kaya Cafe, Stokh. |
‘Negotiating Neighborhood’ | chapter 1
- cultural lab program for interdependent participatory research Let’s observe these two terms separately, from our local context - the word negotiation has long collective understanding especially in connection with the migrated memories around the partition history (especially historical border between two Bengals). On the other hand, the city(for this edition, Howrah) where we are planning to start up this program is a space which fundamentally a city which is known as the city’s for the working class with a culture of a vibrant neighborhood. (For various reasons, the idea of neighboring is becoming an inclusive quality this cityscape hold for many centuries - we can relate this nature with subaltern livelihood and also possibly because of the culture of leftist diaspora. ) But when we are approaching this idea as a collective phase (‘Negotiating Neighborhood’)- then we found there are other opportunities over there in terms of exploring the post-truth cultural realism and future possibilities collective negotiation. some key areas- - It also comes as curatorial mapping of the neighborhood from the extension of cultural composition. -We also like to see it is as tracing of unseen possibilities of socio-cultural ecology. -It will create new marginal aesthetics, also it is a subtle response to the ongoing culture of urban public-art practice. We are not going to determine any medium, practitioners are free to choose the format and timeline. From the curatorial point of view, this project is designed to encourage participatory research and allow practitioners to able to connect back with the local eco-system. Tracing A City will only play the curatorial research support system - rest we have to finalize as a collective unit |
'walking within occurs when', a performative dialogue series at Chitkara University.
Can we imagine an unborn dream, where the time and space co-exist without the urban toxic structure and linear articulation? walking within occurs when - is not a 'synthetic' lecture series, where we don't have to follow any pre-curriculum and established statistics. We are free to evolve together with mindfulness and non-meaningful dialogues. We can take it as an opportunity where we will have space to relax - remap and regrow like fermented friendship. walking within occurs when - is a conceptual bridge where we are trying to unplug and unfold the hidden substance from within our 'body-space', It will be a durational re-engagement in a positive sense with the idea of 'toxic global silence' beyond its physical and cultural boundaries in the context of 'de-texting' the heteronormative linearity.
special thanks to Dr. Madhu Chitkara (Vice Chancellor), Dr. Ranjan Mallik, Ritesh (Dean), Rajesh Chandran(International Affairs), B Ajay Sharma, Ishpreet singh sodhi, Ritesh ranjan, Payal dar, the entire Visual Art's internal team and the queer future commune.
A performative dialogue initiated by TAC in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound and Student from Fine Arts Department ( thank you Gouri Aggarwal and Smriti Jangra for your kind support and care).
at Chitkara University in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound | #hastac2020
Can we imagine an unborn dream, where the time and space co-exist without the urban toxic structure and linear articulation? walking within occurs when - is not a 'synthetic' lecture series, where we don't have to follow any pre-curriculum and established statistics. We are free to evolve together with mindfulness and non-meaningful dialogues. We can take it as an opportunity where we will have space to relax - remap and regrow like fermented friendship. walking within occurs when - is a conceptual bridge where we are trying to unplug and unfold the hidden substance from within our 'body-space', It will be a durational re-engagement in a positive sense with the idea of 'toxic global silence' beyond its physical and cultural boundaries in the context of 'de-texting' the heteronormative linearity.
special thanks to Dr. Madhu Chitkara (Vice Chancellor), Dr. Ranjan Mallik, Ritesh (Dean), Rajesh Chandran(International Affairs), B Ajay Sharma, Ishpreet singh sodhi, Ritesh ranjan, Payal dar, the entire Visual Art's internal team and the queer future commune.
A performative dialogue initiated by TAC in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound and Student from Fine Arts Department ( thank you Gouri Aggarwal and Smriti Jangra for your kind support and care).
at Chitkara University in collaboration with Philosophy Unbound | #hastac2020
'We live in toxic times. By using the concept of «Anthropocene», we try to make sense of our ecologically catastrophic condition of global warming, mass extinction, rising sea level, CO2 and acidification levels. Toxic pollutants such as sulfur dioxides, plastics and aerosols are marking more and more of our landscapes, which will take millennia to recover....How to live within toxic lands and discourses? How to create a saner place within madness? How to minimize toxicity without becoming poisoned? How to decompose the status quo in order to create more sustainable relations of living and dying on this planet?' by Philosophy Unbound | 2020
(photo-credits: B Ajay Sharma(faculty, Fine Arts), Gouri Aggarwal(Student, Fine Arts) )
(photo-credits: B Ajay Sharma(faculty, Fine Arts), Gouri Aggarwal(Student, Fine Arts) )
‘what about today’ @vedafactory | Versova, Mumbai | tea-(workshop-exchange-screening)-talk | Duration - 05:00 pm - 09:00 pm
Schedule: workshop: acceptance of plural perspective - 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm (Understanding Movement - Invisible Emotions - Collective Body)
Artist talk - 06:30 pm -07:30 pm (creative practice-community art-subcultural interest) | film screening + Q&A- 7:30pm - 08:40 pm (cross-cultural practice, future of ecological binaries, freedom of expression)
Schedule: workshop: acceptance of plural perspective - 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm (Understanding Movement - Invisible Emotions - Collective Body)
Artist talk - 06:30 pm -07:30 pm (creative practice-community art-subcultural interest) | film screening + Q&A- 7:30pm - 08:40 pm (cross-cultural practice, future of ecological binaries, freedom of expression)
Friends and Folks, Tracing A City would like to share with you about our low-profile micro initiative will be present oncoming Feb 29, 2020 @ Veda Factory, Mumbai – If you are around the city, please feel free to come, it will be a safe space for creative communication and userfriendly exchange in context of urban anxiety, global silence, future independent sub-cultural interest. This is an interdependent initiative by Sukant P. and Kaur Chimuk. This principal interest behind this exchange will be one and only about making a fluid connection between Urban Commune's interest and Sustainable Cultural Practice. #hastag29 | hastac.weebly.com
Negotiating Neighborhood chapter 2 (A micro-residency for participatory research) . can we reengage with a phase(consider it as regular/irregular space) beyond its metaphorical value? If we closely observe and dissect some of the existing cultural units ( in here Negotiating & Neighborhood) - then there are subtle probabilities, that we might able to read the larger potentiality beyond the cultural jargonistic experience. for your interest-
- the word negotiation has a mutual understanding here especially in the context of local migrated histories. -on the other hand, the city(for this edition, Gandhinagar) - where two creatively curious people are planning to extend the previous chapter but a different perspective. This time, we are interested to make a conversation around the idea of social cages-participatory practice-collective observation In terms of subjectivity - site-specificity and (sub)cultural binaries. During our micro-residency period, we are planning to approach the idea of history more from our present time context. We will have two inhouse collaborators, one is interested to map the idea of the cage from the urbanist perspective especially in the context of a body as a site of disposable archive and the other person is like dedicate the time with silence-practice of listening the ecology and pop-cultural interest regarding nature and its harmony. hastagnn.blogspot.in - #NN2 | #hastac | #TAC |
'little thing matter' is initiative by TAC - to start-up in house conversation series like duration dialogue, it is our 3rd edition and we are looking forward to having you with us. We are curious if we can create a safe space for presentation where we are to represent the marginal perspective beyond the 'hetronormative perspective'. let's dissolve the classic way of making presentation, so what if there is no PPT - so what if we don't have nothing to project - so what if our words are enough like a collective presence. | March 2020
we would like to play with static presentation format - here we will have two sessions, in each session we would like to invite two presenters, they are free to share their working interest but in the mode of observing the previous presenter's perspective so they can initiate the sharing from a common creative bridge.TAC will only like to hold the role of moderator without occupying/censored any plural intention, your feedback is crucial for our mutual development.
21/3/20 - in house presentation by Milton B., Suchandra K., Suvojit R., Soumik G.
22/3/20 - an open day for a participatory workshop in collaboration with #hiddenarea .
thanks in advance.
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21/3/20 - in house presentation by Milton B., Suchandra K., Suvojit R., Soumik G.
22/3/20 - an open day for a participatory workshop in collaboration with #hiddenarea .
thanks in advance.
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‘A Tribute to My Friend on 25th April’. This project is collaboration with Dipa Mahbuba Yasmin, Founder & Director -Epiphania-Visuals | www.epiphaniabd.com RUN AFTER LIFE - an experiential glitch by Partha Paa. It is a visual tribute to the marginal past with inclusive collective solidarity. R.A.L is conceptualised by one of our dear comrades, he likes to pronounce his name as Partha Paa. 25.04.2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Since last year, he is constantly working on a new experiential visual palate which is also known as Half Cut series. From our curatorial interest, his experiment seems less exclusive but at the same time participatory and mundane. His recent exercise series is still quite undefined and neutral - we can find his journey over the page- Glitch Pass(Instagram handler).
This particular work is dedicated to our friend - Xulhaz Mannan, and Tanoy Mahbub- more than video presentation, he considered it is a lucid dream where we are unconditionally equal without heteronormative expectation. Please consider, Run After Life not as a film but a conceptual warm hole with lots of peace and greater harmony.
pIAR virtual studio tour _ 30th May'20 - 10pm(IST) | @tracingacity will be live in conversation with @perfocraze_international .We would like to share a greetings to LIVE HIVE- Goa (@nathmitali ) for connecting us with this durational conversation series.
Couple of areas we are curious to share during the interaction- 1.Idea of collective studio practice. 2.Disposable space and curatorial interest. 3.Extended studio practice and social communication. 4.Non-binary viewership and fluid participation. It's kind of interesting observation that TAC doesn't have any site-specific studio space especially because from the beginning we have a dream to expand the curatorial interest more in decentralised manner. Please feel free to join if you are around. With care and solidarity. ✊🏼🏳🌈✊🏼 |
HYPOTHETICAL SPACE: SESSION # 5 – MODERATED BY TRACING A CITY(TAC) (in collaboration with KAUR CHIMUK) Date- 31st May’ 2020 - Session#5 -A – 05:00 pm – 06:30 pm (IST) | Speakers- Mahmoud Makta, Lars Crosby, Suresh Kumar G. | | Session 2 – 07:30 pm – 09:00 pm or 19:30 hrs.- 21:00 hrs. (IST) | Speakers- Jeetin Rangher, Lola Lustosa, Yuri Bongers. an in_process initiative | year 2020 (know more) |
womyn at work “womyn at work” is a collaborative non-binary art intervention from South Asia started in the year 2020. We introduce a unique participatory process of observing artistic expressions by formulating four interactive segments that stimulates the essence of the work by womyn artists from around the globe specially in the context of the fourth wave-feminism/non binary cross cultural interest. |
Cyber Park Virtual Summit is an international research and exchange platform for the cybernetic organism around the glocal post-conceptual practice in a virtual format. In this curatorial experiment, we will exhibit and promotes works created at the intersections of contemporary digital aesthetics and new technologies, including various new normal art expression especially considering the currents global transition. Cyber Park is dynamic and also fluid by the principal nature that allows plural perspective, conceptual temporality, post-continuity, the culture of pixelations, the notion of cyber interruptions, and also questioning the forms and traditional relationship with fore and background.This edition of cyber park is initiated by kaur chimuk in collaboration with in house curatorial team.
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little things matter - is conceptualized as an experimental format in terms of sharing the complexity of 'happening' in the mode of generating subtle performative experience. In this format, we wouldn't like to offer any sort of conclusion in the name of 'artistic impulse' rather collectively, we are more towards the non-linear side of the unexplored narrative where discourse is essential and dialogue is healthy. This is our fourth chapter, in collaboration studio 6/6, Dhaka. in collaboration with Tilottama B.*.
*Tilottama B. (pronoun as they), is a practitioner of creative intersectionality and art facilitator. They have a keen interest in making zine, graphic books, and comics as a mode of communication. They have around a decade of experience in facilitating learning in the multimedia creative languages focusing on interpersonal creative development especially with children and also fluid womxn's social issues broadly in the mode of co-learning process. They like to apply interactive learning and cultural media as a tool for collective development. In search of that fluid communication, tilottama majorly explores audio-visual ideas through brush-color, pen-pencil, virtual language, digital camera, and also other hybrid methods. |
We, at the Shores of Serenity Project supported by Dot Line Space Art Foundation, are dedicated to engaging in a participatory residential project around Chilika (Balugaon), Khordha, Odisha, with a profound commitment to exploring the future of the biodiverse Chilka through a collective sustainability approach. At the initial level, we plan to collaborate with seven visual practitioners from the Eastern part and north-eastern region of India. Our vision is to develop a committed creative dialogue that seeks to explore and celebrate the diverse ecological landscapes around Chilika Lake in Odisha, one of the largest brackish water lagoons in Asia. This ambitious initiative aims to create a comprehensive visual representation of ecology, emphasizing the importance of environmental awareness, conservation, and the interconnectedness of ecosystems. The study focuses on understanding the effects of climate-induced changes on the ecosystem services of Chilika Lake in Odisha. We aspire to build a sustainable art model that not only encourages the future of India to reengage with deep ecological consciousness but also operates silently as a guardian advocating for ecological protection in the context of climate justice.
Curatorial Perspective: In this edition, curator Kaur Chimuk aims to highlight a participatory curatorial model that seeks to generate unfiltered, non-linear inquiries through creative intersections. Rather than mere construction, Kaur is intrigued by the prospect of rebuilding the missing links that have been overshadowed for years amidst urban chaos. This becomes a collaborative process where, in association with 7 practitioners, Kaur will engage in Reverse (knowledge) and Detext (narrative) aka R&D methodologies. On one hand, they will trace unseen ecological chronicles through their creative senses, allowing imagination to frame new narratives beyond post-colonial knowledge hierarchies. The goal is to initiate a collective dialogue involving the local community and practitioners, addressing the ongoing habitat loss. Optimistically, Kaur looks forward to fostering a synchronized exchange during the residency, providing an opportunity to delve into the intersection of artistic research, extending beyond mere production, and ecological inquiries.
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