Five Million Incidents: Kolkata
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Five Million Incidents Is Back!
Due to the COVID pandemic we were unable to present the Five Million Incidents programmes/projects that would have taken place until 18.04.2020, but we have been working behind the scenes to create a plan to share the projects differently.
We are happy to announce that these Incidents will now be presented digitally. We will soon share precise details about how you can watch, listen and participate in this novel occupation of time and space.
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Team Five Million Incidents.
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Five Million Incidents is a year-long project by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and Kolkata. It marks the centenary of the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind, signed by an international consortium of artists, intellectuals and philosophers that included Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland.
Unfolding at the premises of both the Goethe-Instituts from April 2019 to April 2020, Five Million Incidents is conceptualized in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective and facilitated by the teams of the Goethe-Instituts and external jury members.
Five Million Incidents aims at expanding our notion of art as an extension of the everyday experiences of life. Actors, dancers, visual artists, film makers, photographers, writers, social and cultural activists as well as educationists will explore the “process of making” as a moment of sharing and interaction with their audience.
Five Million Incidents is a process of generating temporal and sometimes ephemeral collective moments of working, learning, listening, sharing, and engaging and of becoming. It is a process of bridging the gap between disciplinary process and our everyday activities.
It is an invitation to experiment with the possibilities of public space, time, artistic media, communication and interaction, to recognize and insist on new forms of artistic and intellectual work, and to invigorate existing forms with fresh thought and content.
Incidents will emerge and dissolve around the Instituts. They will transcend and transform our everyday relationship with the Goethe-Institut premises and its daily activities through intrusion, intervention, disruption and participation by artists from all over India.
The nature of each incident will reveal itself only in your presence, sometimes in the span of an hour, sometimes in the course of several weeks or even months.
The project commenced in Kolkata from 17 August 2019.
Events 2019
Events
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5 GMS | 70 GSM | 1000 X 1000 incidents
Installation | By Sangeeta Rana
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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100 Velocity Pieces
Installation | By Amitesh Grover
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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Cover Uncover
Installation | By Nilanjana Nandy
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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A museum in my mind / A Museum for the city
Exhibition / Workshop
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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Dictionary of Nonsense
Discussion / Workshop
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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A man, some trees and a dog
Animation
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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A Secret Visuality of Injustice
Lecture
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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Body – A – Fair
Exhibition / Workshop
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata
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Chaat Meets…A New World Order
Five Million Incidents | Game/Action/Happening | By Shraddha Borawake
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Online Kolkata
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English
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Registrations Open: Body-a-Fair Online Workshop
Five Million Incidents | Workshop | By Nikita Teresa Sarkar
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Online Kolkata
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Moments before the Fall
Five Million Incidents | Simulation | By Pranay Dutta
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Online Kolkata
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Coming Out Party For The Androgynous Tree
Five Million Incidents | Happening | By Anish Cherian
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Online Kolkata
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Loss of Horizon and Converging Acts
Five Million Incidents | Happening & Podcast | Von Sujit Mallik
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Online Kolkata
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Traffic as a Metaphor
Five Million Incidents | Panel Discussion | By Hemavathy Guha
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Online Kolkata
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Dalit Art Archive
Five Million Incidents | Open Call | Open Call: Submissions for Dalit Art Archive
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Online Kolkata
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A Man, Some Trees and Dog: In a virtual space
Five Million Incidents | Animation | By Sukanya Ghosh
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Online Kolkata
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An Index/ On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there
Five Million Incidents | Sonic Intervention | By Suvani Suri
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Online Kolkata
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Open call for Performers: Age Sex Location
Five Million Incidents | Chatroom | By Ranjana Dave
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Online Kolkata
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Train No: 54703 - A podcast series
Five Million Incidents | Podcast Series | By Navkiran Natt
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Online Kolkata
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Lihaaf (The Quilt)
Five Million Incidents | Happening | By Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
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Online Kolkata
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In Search of Suvendu
Five Million Incidents | Photography | By Suvendu Chatterjee
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Online Kolkata
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Silverfish
Five Million Incidents | Discussion | By Atufa Rais, Tayyab Husain and Reshma Khatoon
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Online Kolkata
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Comic Theorytelling: An Interview with the Gorilla General
Five Million Incidents | Interview | By John Xaviers
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Online Kolkata
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Bed Bug Intimacy: Do let the bedbugs bite
Five Million Incidents | Intervention/Performance | By Bazik Thlana
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Online Kolkata
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Dalit Art Archive
Five Million Incidents | Workshop | Community Archiving Workshops
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Online Kolkata
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Bed Bug Intimacy: Arms From The Teeth
Five Million Incidents | Poetry Jam | By Bazik Thlana
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Online Kolkata
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annica-Network: Phone Call to Nowhere: A Lecture Poiesis on anicca
Five Million Incidents | Lecture Poiesis | By M R Vishnuprasad
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Online Kolkata
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Yarn Array: We The Photons - An Image-Sound Collaboration
Five Million Incidents | Presentation | By Deepa Jayaraman
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Online Kolkata
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The Reanimated Corpse: Meeting with Rafique Baghdadi
Five Million Incidents | Happening | By Anuj Malhotra & Suraj Prasad
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Online Kolkata
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A Splitting/ On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there
Five Million Incidents | Sonic Happening | By Suvani Suri
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Online Kolkata
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A Secret Visuality of Injustice
اک ناانصافی کی پوشیدہ بسارتFive Million Incidents | Presentation & Discussion | By Namoos Bukhari
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Online Kolkata
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The Dictionary of Nonsense
Five Million Incidents | Panel Discussion | By Krishnapriya CP & Narendran K.
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Online Kolkata
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Found in Translation: Incidents, Excerpts, Notes, Poems & Conversations
Five Million Incidents | Happening | By Khwaab Tanha Collective
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Online Kolkata
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Hindi, Urdu, English, German, Punjabi, Persian
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