Call For Entry: Athens Video Art Festival 2014

The 10th edition of the International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival, to be held in May, is calling for entries under various categories. Submissions are invited in Video Art, Animation, Installations, Applications, Performances, Music, Web Art and Digital Image categories.

The entries can be submitted before 10th March 2014 (date of postmark), by registering at their website. For more information, log on to http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/2014-edition/

Athens Video Art Festival was started with the aim to create an international meeting platform that would bring out current trends in contemporary digital art. As in previous years, the main categories will be accompanied with art acts, presentations and workshops.

The Memory Trail...with Tomson Highway (Cree Playwright, Performer, Canada)

The Arshinagar Project in association with Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Ebong Amra and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Presents:

The Memory Trail...with Tomson Highway (Cree Playwright, Performer, Canada)

February 5-9, 2014

On the 5th evening, Tomson will lead a story weaving session at Space, C521 Lake Gardens, while on the 6th evening, he will perform with Rahim Chitrakar, India at the same venue

Tomson will also lead a masterclass on the 6th morning at Space, which will culminate in a small sharing along with Tomson and Rahim's performance that evening. 

On the 7th and 8th, there will be a workshop with the members of Ebong Amra at their space, Tepantar Theatre Village, in Satkahuniya, West Bengal. This workshop is open to a limited number of external participants. 

To register for the events, please call 9831731422 (Arka) or 9836003314 (Dheeman)

Please refer to the attached PDF for further details.

The Arshinagar Project Team

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The Arshinagar Project is envisioned as a collective of artists
and cultural practitioners from different traditional and contemporary 
disciplines, as well as practitioners from other disciplines such as 
anthropology, education and ecology, for research into performance 
as transformational action.
'Arshinagar' means 'the city of mirrors', and the name is derived 
from a song by Lalon Phokir, one of the greatest masters among 
the Bauls of Bengal - wandering mystical musician-performers who 
through embodied practice attempt to touch the unbodied.The logo 
represents the 'ektara' (literally 'one-stringed') - a drone-like 
instrument used in different forms and names in different Asian 
cultures, which has come to symbolize the Bauls.
The Arshinagar Project aims to foster a spirit of freedom, respect for 
human diversity, ecological harmony and love, among young adults, 
youth in colleges and universities, educators and others, through 
performances, immersive workshops in urban and natural settings 
based on traditions of mystical performance and practice as well as 
contemporary performance-craft, through lecture-demonstrations, 
seminars, and journeys through inner and outer spaces

The New York Times Nasreen Mohamedi: ‘Becoming One’

The New York Times                   Nasreen Mohamedi: ‘Becoming One’

 

By Holland Cotter | January 17 , 2014

 

 

An untitled work by Nasreen Mohamedi from one of her notebooks, part of the “Becoming One” show at Talwar Gallery. Talwar Gallery 108 East 16 Street Through January 25    When Nasreen Mohamedi died in 1990, at 53, in India, few people outside a group of artist friends in her home country knew of her. That has changed. A retrospective at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi last year was rapturously received. She is now recognized as a key figure of South Asian Modernism. Her recognition in New York has been slow but steady. The perspicacious Queens Museum introduced her in its 1998 group show “Out of India.” Talwar Gallery presented an exhibition of her nearly abstract photographs in 2003, followed by another of her fine-line abstract drawings. “Becoming One” has examples of both, covering some 20 years, along with a handful of her written notebooks. The show reveals, among other things, how original and personal her art was. As an international traveler, she was well versed in European art, but it would be a mistake to try to find her roots in Western movements like Constructivism and Minimalism. Her primary inspirations were more culturally specific and concrete. Her photographs of details of Indian architecture, urban and Islamic, of desert landscape and of weaving still on the loom were the visual sources for many of the drawings. And, as her notebooks suggest, her drawing was, functionally, as intimate as formal handwriting, in which discipline and expressivity were inseparable. Mohamedi died of a neurological disorder similar in its symptoms to Parkinson’s disease. Tremors made both drawing and writing extremely difficult, but she continued to do both. In her last journal entry, she writes: “Vibrations multiply. Intensity of sweep. Undulative. Curve slowly comes to a …,” and the writing falters, jumps, drifts off like a thread unspooling, but finally forms a closed circle. I can’t imagine seeing a more beautiful and tender gallery solo this winter.

UPCOMING

RANJANI SHETTAR Between the sky and earth @ Talwar Gallery, New Delhi C-84 Neeti Bagh, New Delhi 110049 January 29 through March 29, 2014

Avid Acceleration 1st to 9th Feb 2014, at ICIA art gallery- kala Ghoda Arts festival

SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM FAURSCHOU FOUNDATION BEIJING MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Nasreen Mohamedi BECOMING ONE September 13 through November 23, 2013,New York

Nasreen Mohamedi BECOMING ONE September 13 through November 23, 2013 Opening Preview, Friday, September 13, 6-8pm @ TALWAR GALLERY 108 East 16 Street New York 10003 www.talwargallery.com       Talwar Gallery is delighted to present Becoming One, an exhibition of photographs, drawings and the diaries of Nasreen Mohamedi (1931-1990). Drawn from across her practice the works on view offer a unique insight into the focused vision that characterizes her oeuvre, including some of her last works and some that have never before been exhibited.  Possessing a totality of perspective, unity of thought and action, and absolute surrender to purpose, Mohamedi continued her unflinching quest to examine, inquire and strive for a cohesion of all that was – inside or outside, human or beyond. Whether creating with ink on paper or through a lens on film, she strove to bring together what seemed singular and separate to a connected, co-dependent whole. This was a constant and a continuous process where time did not matter and space was infinite, not one with a destination but a direction. Mohamedi distilled the structure and order around her to an essence, of form. ThePhotographs, neither representational nor abstract, are sited in simple encounters of the tangible, pared down to light and dark, seeming to reveal universal truths beyond the logical. Intensely personal, and as controlled as the gaze of the artist, they reach outside the self, to perceive and connect. The convergence of individual and nature, form and space that emerges from her photographs is further revealed by the recently discovered photographs by Mohamedi of her own drawings. This inverted gaze, reversing the processes of her practice, instills a remarkable equilibrium to her oeuvre, leading the curve to a complete circle.    Her drawings, modest in scale and monumental in experience, are palpable, living systems. In the Series on graph paper they seem like embryonic stages of a life form, continuously connected to the one before and after, almost identical except for the gentle variance of a single breath of a line.    The intimate palm-sized scale of Mohamedi’s Diaries (1968-1988) are in contrast to the immensity of what they hold. Spanning over two decades, they astonish and underscore the strength and consistency of Mohamedi’s focus and commitment. On these pages, words and forms, inspirations and struggles, life and art coexist – poetic, humbling and exhilarating. Here Nasreen Becomes One.    Mohamedi returned to India in the early 1960s after studying in London and Paris. Open and inquisitive, she embarked on a practice with no precedent in the narrative art dominant in the India of the times. Sensitive to the barely perceptible while resolute to her vision, Mohamedi created a distinctive space for herself, which would later mark a pinnacle for Indian art and become essential for modernism.     Nasreen Mohamedi was born in 1937 in Karachi, India and passed away in 1990 in Kihim, India. Her works have been on view in exhibitions and institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany; Drawing Center, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Currently an exhibition of her works is on view at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with Talwar Gallery over the last decade.     The Estate of Nasreen Mohamedi is represented by Talwar Gallery.

Printmaking Colloqium at NGMA , Mumbai, on 24th Aug 6 pm