Request for Proposals: Arts Research Programme

Request for Proposals: Arts Research Programme

Thu Apr 2, 2015 11:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"India Foundation for the Arts"

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announces
Arts Research Programme
Request for Proposals

The Arts Research programme supports scholars, researchers and practitioners to undertake research into the various histories and expressions of artistic practices in India. It seeks to foster wider perspectives, understandings, interpretations and engagements in the arts.
Proposals are invited across the arts and humanities from researchers and practitioners who are interested in undertaking research projects that could investigate marginalised or relatively unexplored areas; who intend to create spaces for dialogue between theory and practice; who offer new readings/frameworks of artistic practices; and who use interdisciplinary approaches to break new conceptual ground, among other things.
IFA specifically encourages projects in Indian languages other than English, so as to contribute to discourse in particular language contexts
Research projects should have clear research objectives, in-depth background survey, critical research questions, rigorous methodologies and specific outcomes that will be shared in the public domain. The outcomes could be books, essays, films, etc.
Who can apply?
The programme is open to proposals from scholars, researchers and practitioners across disciplines.
You are eligible to apply if you are an Indian national, a registered non-profit Indian organisation, or have been resident in India for at least five years.
If you are applying on behalf of an institution, please include background information on the organisation as well as the memorandum of association/trust deed, annual reports, and audited statements of accounts for the past three years.
Application Process
You may choose to write your proposal in any Indian language including English. The IFA staff would be glad to answer your questions regarding this programme. You can approach us to discuss your ideas or send us a draft proposal for our suggestions and comments.
Your proposal will be assessed with the help of external evaluators and all decisions on grants made by IFA will be final.
Please include the following in your proposal, so it is not considered incomplete:

The content of the proposal should have clear research objectives, in-depth background survey, critical research questions, rigorous methodologies and specific outcomes;
Supporting material, if any, which gives us a sense of your work;
Your bio-data;
A detailed budget breakdown that explains how funds will be used. Please also mention funds anticipated from other sources, if any; and
Your address, telephone numbers, and e-mail address

Duration of the Project
Your project may have a minimum duration of one year and a maximum duration of one year and six months.
Budget 
You can request for support up to Rs 4 (four) lakh.
You may budget for an honorarium of Rs 12,000 per month, subject to a maximum limit of Rs 1,44,000, for the entire duration of the grant. Please note that the total grant amount is inclusive of the honorarium.
Deadlines
You can send us your draft proposal by email but your final proposal, including your bio-data, supporting material, should be in hard copy only.
Draft proposals should reach us no later than May 31, 2015
Final proposals should reach us no later than June 30, 2015
No supporting material will be sent back to the applicant.
General Information:

Our funds will cover only project-related personnel costs, activities and travel, and can provide for modest equipment hire and materials, if necessary. Please ensure that each budget category pertains to a specific item of project-related expenditure
If you are an individual, please budget for an accountant upto Rs 3000 only
Please do not budget for institutional overheads, building costs and infrastructural development. We do not support buying of equipment either, but if you must buy  equipment for the project, you must return it to IFA after the project is completed.
If your proposal is short-listed, you may be requested to respond to questions that arise out of the evaluation process
The selected grants will be announced in October 2015

Please address your application and all other communications to:

Tanveer Ajsi
Programme Executive, Arts Research
India Foundation for the Arts,
'Apurva' Ground Floor, No 259, 4th Cross,
Raj Mahal Vilas 2nd Stage, 2nd Block,
Bangalore-560 094.
Phone: 080-2341 4681 / 82
Translations of this circular will be available in other Indian languages on request and can be downloaded from www.indiaifa.org

ALWAR BALASUBRAMANIAM layers of wind, lines of time @ TALWAR GALLERY C-84, Neeti Bagh New Delhi – 110049

ALWAR BALASUBRAMANIAM layers of wind, lines of time January 28 through May 2, 2015 Opening Preview, Tuesday, January 27, 6-9pm @ TALWAR GALLERY C-84, Neeti Bagh New Delhi – 110049 Talwar Gallery is pleased to present layers of wind, lines of time, , a solo exhibition of recent works by Alwar Balasubramaniam. In his latest work, Balasubramaniam, more commonly known as Bala, deepens his exploration of the natural forces around us. layers of wind, lines of time creates an environment of life-in-formation: forms receding into the depth of the walls, or stalactites seeming to grow spontaneously out of them. Drawing on and collaborating with nature, Bala creates works from wood, stone and metal that seem indistinguishable from those formed over millennia in the natural environment. Partly an homage to nature, partly a challenge to create something of beauty and simplicity that may appear to be natural, here Bala’s hand is felt as much as seen, present in the ways it moves like the wind through the matter around it. Inspired by a form shaped by the sea, Into One took Bala over three years to create, and to bring to a human-scale pitch of intensity. Highlighting the stratified way the natural world is shaped over time, Bala builds his works gradually, by way of accumulation and condensation. His wind works, created over months, employ movements of air: terrains of deposited dust and pigment that become timescapes on canvas. In Bloom and In-conversation, each thin layer of wood not only adds to but modifies the last, forming works that seem to emanate in waves. Complex but unified, the lines and layers of Bala’s work reveal the energies that, although imperceptible in any given instant, are constantly shaping and re-shaping the material world. Throughout his career, Bala has engaged with those forces we normally think of as peripheral – light, shadow, gravity – forces that nevertheless give form to our experience. Foregrounding the perceptual in his work, which often surprises or confounds, Bala playfully challenges viewers to question and ultimately expand the limits of their perception. Always more than meets the eye, each of his pieces is, as he says, “the trace of a thought,” evidence of the indelible marriage between form and idea. Bala’s work gives new weight to the tangible – weight at once symbolic, spiritual, and distinctly human. Alwar Balasubramaniam was born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, India. His works have been featured in international exhibitions and institutions including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; Essl Museum, Austria; École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; 1st Singapore Biennale; and 18th Sydney Biennale. Bala has been a guest lecturer at the Art Department of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a featured speaker at TED. Alwar Balasbubramaniam lives and works in Southern India. __________________________________ Currently @ Talwar Gallery, New York MUHANNDED CADER Jungle Tide Through February 14, 2015    __________________________________ TALWAR GALLERY New York | New Delhi www.talwargallery.com

#HappyNewYear2015maketheMostofYourGoodTimesToCome!

Launch of Art Week 1st to 7th December, 2014

Art Week: 1st to 7th December, 2014

Standing true to their basic philosophy of making art more accessible, this year GoodHomes plans to launch 

their third edition of the Art Week at the JJ School of Fine Arts on 27th November, 2014. 

They aim to integrate art into all walks of our life.

 From Art Flash Mobs, to live public performances and showcases,

 from interactive art sessions for children and adults alike, they hope that with this year’s art week, Art will permeate everywhere.

The Press Conference will be attended by the GoodHomes Editor, Ronitaa Italia Dhanu, WWM CEO Mr. Tarun Rai, actress and celebrity Raveena Tandon, 

artist Jayasri Burman, Dean of J.J School of Fine Arts, Vishwanath Sable among other well known personalities of the art and media industry.

Request you to join us at the press conference and soak in the unique art experience!

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About GoodHomes for Art

GoodHomes for Art – a public art initiative is pioneered by GoodHomes – a décor and design magazine.

A week-long celebration of art which explores the possibilities of blurring the boundaries between art and the common man. 

The thought was to break the mindset that art is elitist and thereby creating awareness and encouraging education about art.  

The philosophy was to make art an integral part of our lives, to integrate art into our cityscape, and to know art in all its manifestations.

GoodHomes for Art – 2013

The second edition of the Art Week took forward its activities with renewed impetus to excellence. We opened with a show dedicated to the various forms of art curated Chameleon Art Projects, and held at Gallery 7, Mumbai. The first day witnessed a live installation conceptualized by sculptor Arzan Khambatta at the Phoenix Market City, the showcasing of Reena Kallat’s installation ‘Light leaks, winds meet where the waters spill deceit’ at the Times Tower, Lower Parel and an art competition for students of art at The Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay. The days that followed saw an Art Flea Market, Live Performances and installations, Exhibitions, Pop-up Art Galleries, Art Trails etc.

You can take a look at last year’s video montage on GoodHomes for Art, to get a better understanding of the eventshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGm0pJTfuw

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.





Very rare pictures of Adolf Hitler
Rare photos of Adolf Hitler. One of the worst person of the twentieth century.

Rare Photo Collection of Adolf Hitler.

 

 

Very rare pictures of Adolf Hitler  Rare photos of Adolf Hitler. One of the worst person of the twentieth century.

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Ranjani Shettar: Night skies and daydreams

The New York Times Art in Review

Ranjani Shettar: Night skies and daydreams By Holland Cotter | September 12, 2014 Ranjani Shettar’s ‘Flight of the Butterfly’ in coffee tree wood, with automobile paint and boltsTalwar Gallery, New York | New Delhi One of Ranjani Shettar’s diaphanous, constellation-like sculptures of hand-molded wax beads and cotton thread, installed at the entrance to “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century,” at the Museum of Modern Art, made a stellar introduction to that 2010 show. A new, similar piece, called “Tuntoroo,” fills a room at Talwar Gallery. And here, in a way that wasn’t obvious at MoMA, light plays a big role in the work, as patterns of shadows cast on the wall compound its intricacy and emphasize its apparent fragility.  Ms. Shettar was trained in art school in Bangalore, India, but has always found formal sources for her abstract work in materials associated with the craft traditions of Karnataka, the southwestern state where she lives and works.  For another, very different suspended piece from 2007, “Fire in the Belly,” she carved more than a dozen largish biomorphic shapes from local acacia wood, painted them a glossy, metallic yellow-green and suspended them at varying heights. They suggest a school of morphing amoebas, or a bunch of Brancusis gone rogue.  A 2014 sculpture, “Flight of the Butterfly,” stands on the floor but looks as if it could easily lift off. It’s composed of gnarly lightweight coffee-wood branches bolted together to form a tangled enclosure and colored with bright turquoise automotive paint. The branches are oddly homely; they look like bones. The paint is thick and unpretty. Ms. Shettar has done nothing to hide the metal bolts that hold everything together.  A resulting slight sense of awkwardness is what makes her art so persuasive: It indicates that the hand is there; the material is unelevated; the technology is organic. Pure abstraction, with its implication of perfection, is beside the point. In Ms. Shettar’s transubstantiated modernism, local nature and culture have their way.  ______________________ TALWAR  GALLERY New York | New Delhi 108 East 16 Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 673-3096 www.talwargallery.com