A performative interplay
Bauhaus in Germany and Santiniketan in India proposed a counter idea of modernity 100 years back that looked upon modernity not as a rupture from tradition, but a conversation between the rural and the urban. They explored art activity not just as a formal exercise but towards an integrated relationship of lifestyle and livelihood. In this respect both Bauhaus and Santiniketan experimented with art and design and the spaces they were seen in to propose a far more daily engagement with location and site and explored a direct connection between artists and audiences/viewership. The formality of a museum / gallery space opened up, inviting new ways of engaging with the arts. For the closing event of the exhibition, choreographers Mandeep Raikhy and Vikram Iyengar approach the form, content and spatial structure of the exhibition through a sense of playfulness.
Play is both individual and collective, always imbued with a fun - along with quirkiness, imagination, learning, discovery, relaxation and delight. Play is essentially irreverent, but can we ‘respectfully’ employ it to create genuine relationships with the arts and the spaces that house them
This programme will mark the end of the exhibition ‘Responding to Bauhaus Imaginista - Collected Research at the Indian Museum, Kolkata’ jointly curated by Marion von Osten, Grant Watson and Sanchayan Ghosh.
About the Artists:
VIKRAM IYENGAR
Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.
MANDEEP RAIKHY
Mandeep Raikhy is a choreographer, dance practitioner, pedagogue based in Delhi with a particular interest in exploring the intersections between dance creation, performance, research and pedagogy. He studied BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban and subsequently worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London, between 2005-09. Since Mandeep has created several dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013), Queen-size (2016) and Anatomy of Belief (2019).
Mandeep has been working at Gati Dance Forum since 2009 and has set up Studio Khirki as a collectively managed dance space. GATI has done extensive research into performance spaces in Delhi. Mandeep has a particular interest in programmes that feed into the dance community ecosystem and growing a community around those spaces.
The programme is open to all.
COVID protocols applied.
Bauhaus in Germany and Santiniketan in India proposed a counter idea of modernity 100 years back that looked upon modernity not as a rupture from tradition, but a conversation between the rural and the urban. They explored art activity not just as a formal exercise but towards an integrated relationship of lifestyle and livelihood. In this respect both Bauhaus and Santiniketan experimented with art and design and the spaces they were seen in to propose a far more daily engagement with location and site and explored a direct connection between artists and audiences/viewership. The formality of a museum / gallery space opened up, inviting new ways of engaging with the arts. For the closing event of the exhibition, choreographers Mandeep Raikhy and Vikram Iyengar approach the form, content and spatial structure of the exhibition through a sense of playfulness.
Play is both individual and collective, always imbued with a fun - along with quirkiness, imagination, learning, discovery, relaxation and delight. Play is essentially irreverent, but can we ‘respectfully’ employ it to create genuine relationships with the arts and the spaces that house them
This programme will mark the end of the exhibition ‘Responding to Bauhaus Imaginista - Collected Research at the Indian Museum, Kolkata’ jointly curated by Marion von Osten, Grant Watson and Sanchayan Ghosh.
About the Artists:
VIKRAM IYENGAR
Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.
MANDEEP RAIKHY
Mandeep Raikhy is a choreographer, dance practitioner, pedagogue based in Delhi with a particular interest in exploring the intersections between dance creation, performance, research and pedagogy. He studied BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban and subsequently worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London, between 2005-09. Since Mandeep has created several dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013), Queen-size (2016) and Anatomy of Belief (2019).
Mandeep has been working at Gati Dance Forum since 2009 and has set up Studio Khirki as a collectively managed dance space. GATI has done extensive research into performance spaces in Delhi. Mandeep has a particular interest in programmes that feed into the dance community ecosystem and growing a community around those spaces.
The programme is open to all.
COVID protocols applied.
Location
Indian Museum
27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata
700016
India
27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata
700016
India
Location
Indian Museum
27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata
700016
India
27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata
700016
India