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Sajad Rasool Malik | Archival & Museum Fellowships | | 2020
Project/Grant Period: One year and six months
For the making of a short animation film that looks at the life of a cat and her kitten, in Downtown Srinagar, the old part of this city in Kashmir. The film will be composed with over 6000 drawings, pushing the boundaries of practice for the artist who is a graphic novelist and writer. The outcome of this project will be a 15 minute animation film. The grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the film, process images and high resolution film stills. Grant funds will pay for equipment hire, professional fees, local conveyance and an accountant’s fee.
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Arjun Motwani | Archival & Museum Fellowships | | 2020
Project/Grant Period: One year
For the implementation of a Foundation project by IFA, which will result in an essay titled Indian Commodities and Commodified Indians in Late Eighteenth Century Portraiture based on the paintings at the Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) Kolkata. The paintings by European artists, commissioned by the European administrators in India, present Europeans amidst their dazzling material objects and the ‘natives’ who were ever present to serve them. While the essay will focus on the biography of the exotic objects and the lived reality of the native labourers in the paintings, it will also offer insights into larger questions around the ‘Orient’, transcontinental trade and the material culture of colonial India in the eighteenth century. The outcome will be the essay, an online exhibition or a website, an interactive social media platform, as well as talks at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The Principal Investigator's deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the essay, the exhibition or website, and recordings of the talks. This is a collaboration with the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. Project funds will pay for honorarium, website, travel, books and resources, and stationery.
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Madhuja Mukherjee | Archival & Museum Fellowships | | 2020
Project/Grant Period: One year
For the implementation of a foundation project to create a site-specific exhibition titled Route no 033, comprising photographs, images, videos, voices, sounds, and noise. The installation will present a centre-less, rhizomatic map of certain sites in Kolkata that will make visible the multiple narratives of the city. The intention is to show that a city is like a palimpsest that is layered with overlapping histories, intersecting maps, and inter-meshed stories with numerous entries and exits. The outcome will be the exhibition, and talks and lectures. The Principal Investigator's deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the documentation of the exhibition, recordings of the talks and lectures, and other textual material if any. This is a collaboration with the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, and will draw materials from their rich photo archive. Project funds will pay for production cost, honorarium, professional fees, equipment hire, travel and consumables, and events.
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Keshav Waghmare | Archival & Museum Fellowships | | 2020
Project/Grant Period: One year
For the implementation of a Foundation project by IFA, which will result in an audio-visual documentation titled Influential Shahirs: Narratives from Marathwada, an archive of eight shahirs – poet performers - four men and four women in Maharashtra. These shahirs inspired by Dr B R Ambedkar’s ideals of social revolution, have been a source of great inspiration for the masses and their songs have helped to sustain the Dalit movement in the rural areas of the region. Yet little is known about the poets or the compositions, as their work has been completely ignored by the mainstream establishment. This project seeks to recognise, acknowledge and archive their work and their role in the promotion and sustenance of a long socio-political movement. The outcome will be a series of eight articles and eight audio/video recordings of live performances. The Principal Investigator's deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the eight articles, the audio/video recordings and transcripts of the songs. This is a collaboration with the People’s Archive of Rural India - PARI. Project funds will pay for honorarium, travel, stationery and books and resources.
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Nobina Gupta | Archival & Museum Fellowships | | 2020
Project/Grant Period: One year
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, to create Jol-a-bhumi r Golpo Katha / Stories of the Wetland that will document and disseminate the stories of the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) as experienced by the community, created by young people of the community. The EKW - the largest stretch of sewage-fed wetlands in the world that sustains a population of over a lakh, and a diverse species of flora and fauna - is under threat today. This project will empower children from the EKW community to tell their own stories to the world through the PARI (People’s Archive of Rural India) platform. The outcome will be a series of research and workshop-based narratives that will take multiple forms such as podcasts, paintings, photo-stories, comics, and so on. The Principal Investigator's deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the narratives, together with video recordings of the workshops. This is a collaboration with PARI. Project funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, travel, stationery, and equipment rental.
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