Das Narrenschiff/ The Ship Of The Fools, 2012
A video- installation by Indian artist Iram Ghufran, who is currently on a residency at iaab, Basel. The work draws its title from Sebastian Brandt's satire 'Das Narrenschiff'. [dated June 2012]
A video- installation by Indian artist Iram Ghufran, who is currently on a residency at iaab, Basel. The work draws its title from Sebastian Brandt's satire 'Das Narrenschiff' published from Basel in 1494. The video uses images from the Basel State Archive and the archives of the Burgholzli Clinic, Psychiatry Department, Zurich University.
The Swiss Experience, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau June 15 - 24, 2012
Works
1] There Is Something In The Air, 2011DV/ 28'25/ Col & BW/
Sound Work developed during the Residency
2] This Glass Refused To Be Fixed, 2012Broken glass, glue
3] Das Narrenschiff/ The Ship Of The Fools, 2012DV/ 04'44/ Col/ Sound
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Project Brief:
Das Narrenschiff/ The Ship Of The Fools, 2012 A ship of fools had set sail from Basel sometime in the 15th century… its cargo of lunatics, renegades and renunciators destined to travel through centuries of philosophy, history and art… not landing on any particular shore, but always available as an allegory to draw from.
A work in progress, 'Das Narrenschiff/ The Ship Of The Fools' emerges from a reflection on the medieval European practice, wherein cities and towns would get rid of the insane, and deviant population by casting them away on ships and boats, while at the same time, welcoming a cargo of foreign lunatics aboard other ships as entertainment. The work draws its title from Sebastian Brandt's satire 'Das Narrenschiff' published from Basel in 1494. A critique of the medieval Church, Das Narrenschiff is known for its woodcuts by Albrecht Durer, some of which may have inspired Bosch's famous 'Ship of Fools'.
The video / installation includes a video projected on part of a canvas with paper boats made from Brandt's Das Narrenschiff, adrift on a black charcoal sea. The video also uses images from the Basel State Archive, photographs from the archives of the Burgholzli Clinic, now part of the Psychiatry Department of the Zurich University, images of art work by the clinically insane inmates of several hospitals and clinics of Switzerland from the 1850 onwards. 'Das Narrenschiff/ The Ship of Fools' is a travelogue, a reflection on the history of people who travelled on ships and sometimes went missing.
The artist:
An award winning filmmaker, Iram Ghufran’s work largely emerges from various interdisciplinary practices - filmmaking, photography, research and writing. Her work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts. She was a member of the Sarai Media Lab from 2004 to 2011 and has been teaching photography at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia University. Iram’s first documentary There is Something in the Air, won her the National Award this year.
‘Project CINEMA CITY’ screening at Rote Fabrik, Zurich
Shreyas Karle, currently on a residency in Switzerland is taking the opportunity to present ‘Project CINEMA CITY, Research Art & Documentary Practices’, at Rote Fabrik. [dated June 2012]
‘Project CINEMA CITY’ screening at Rote Fabrik, Zurich Shreyas Karle, currently on a residency in Switzerland is taking the opportunity to present ‘Project CINEMA CITY, Research Art & Documentary Practices’, to Swiss audiences at Rote Fabrik on Wednesday 20 June. The series of documentaries are part of an archival project that is produced by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
For more information on the screenings click here
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Project brief:
Project CINEMA CITY Research Art & Documentary Practices
The city and the cinema are twins of the 20th century. In the Asian region especially, the post-colonial cities, huge metropolises and ever-moving populations of this century have contributed to the evolution of a discipline which is as much about an imagination of the city as about a distinct cinematic practice. The histories of these contemporary cities, then, are inextricably linked to their ‘cinemascape’, and vice versa.
Project Cinema City is a set of enquiries into the labour, imagination, desire, access, spaces, locations, iconization, materiality, languages, migrant peoples, viewing conventions, and hidden processes that create the cinema sthe city makes, and also the citiesits cinema produces. The enquiries are then processed into productions of text, film, art, cartography. The multi-disciplinary research work, produced output and all the residuals together form a cinema city archive that is transient and open-ended – to facilitate further readings, more works.
This show, a part of Project Cinema City, focuses on the cinema of the city of Bombay/Mumbai: its production processes and ancillary cultures; its stations of reception and recognition that run through a complex set of networks; the bazaars and streets of the city that hawk the footprints of cinema; and the city-zens’ memory of the contemporary that revolves around cinema. The Project will, in time, include cinema cities across Asia.
Presented by Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Curator–Producer Madhusree Dutta
Co-Curator Archana Hande A Majlis initiative in collaboration with KRVIA
Curator's note
The City and Cinema: twins in the large clan of wars, moving peoples and goods, technology-based modernity, and colonial and post-colonial identities of the 20th century. They have never been separated in a crowded fair, and so have never got a chance to rediscover each other at the peak of their youth and at the height of their adrenalin rush. Instead, they have spun a thicker plot in which to impersonate each other, hawk moulds of one another and, most importantly, lay down a set of signs to codify the other.
The relationship between the city and its cinema is imaginary yet tactile, complementary and also ambivalent, momentary and still recyclable – in short, it speaks of a form and its apparition as well. Their relative size and perspective, however, remain fluid and interchangeable, often making the apparition seem much larger than the form itself.
Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices is a collaborative endeavour in search of the joints between the form and its apparition, between the city and its cinema. The collaboration is modelled on contemporary, urban systems of post-industrial production: networks of assembling, processing, manufacturing, recycling all independent and yet interdependent. In this show, we display works that are simultaneously products of research, collation, pedagogy, creativity, criticality, and then, an attempt at archiving. In this endeavour of inter-disciplinary collaboration the authors are many, but they are distinct and not faceless. We have attempted a methodology whereby each one’s work exists independently, and yet attains fullness and exuberance only in relation to the works of others. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the series of public shows of Project Cinema City begins in the year that marks 100 years of the cinema in Bombay/Mumbai.
Madhusree Dutta
EXPERIMENTA INDIA @ Videoex Festival 2012 Zürich
EXPERIMENTA INDIA showcases compelling moving image art from India at the 14th edition of VIDEOEX, International Experimental film & Video Festival Zürich. [dated June 2012]
VIDEOEX, International Experimental film & Video Festival Zürich have invited EXPERIMENTA INDIA to showcase compelling moving image art from India at the festival this year. The participation has been supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
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VIDEOEX International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival Zürich 14TH EDITION 26 May - 3 June 2012
International Competition Schweizer Wettbewerb CH Fokus Klaus Lutz Guestcities Warschau und Lodz
Fimoteka Muzeum Art on TV Polish Found Footage Films Polish Women Artists of the 1970s and 1980s
Animationsstudio Se-Ma-For
Zbigniew Rybczynski Polish Period Music-Videos New Technologies
Experimenta India
From Tradition to Modernity – historical (60/70s) Identities – contemporary Changing Realities – contemporary
For complete festival programme click here
For more information visit: VIDEOEX - www.videoex.ch/videoex2012/festival.php
Experimenta India - http://experimenta.in/about-2/
Announcing recipients of Studio Residencies in 2013/2014
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council announces the names of Indian and Swiss artists who have been selected by the jury to avail of the Studio Residency it offers. [ dated June 2012]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council announces the names of the artists who have been awarded Studio Residencies for 2013/ 2014.
Indian artists:
Anitha Balachandran (Visual Arts) Gitanjali Dang ( Visual Arts ) Pratik Sagar ( Visual Arts )
Swiss artists:
Barblina Meierhans (Performing Arts) Benjamin Valenza (Visual Arts ) Gilles Aubry (Performing Arts)
The applications received from the above artists were in concurrence with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Art Council’s current mandate. The jury made its decision depending on the application's individual merit as well as on being able to find an appropriate host in Switzerland. Besides, preference is given to artists who are able to demonstrate the possibility of generating follow-up projects.
The selection in India was made by a jury comprising Girish Shahane, an art historian, curator and columnist; Zuleikha Chaudhari, theatre director, artist and light designer; Surekha Anil Kumar, an artist from Bangalore, and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Head Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
The selection has been corroborated by Pro Helvetia's Specialist Departments in Zurich.
For more information on Residencies offered by Pro Helvetia click here
FICA Emerging Artist Award 2012
The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art invites applications for the Emerging Artist Award 2012 which seeks to promote young artists who demonstrate promise in the visual arts. [dated June 2012]
The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art invites applications for the Emerging Artist Award 2012 which seeks to promote young artists studying or practicing in India who demonstrate extraordinary skill and promise in the visual arts. Pro Helvetia New Delhi is pleased to collaborate with FICA for the third consecutive year. The Emerging Artist Award 2012 includes a twelve-week residency in Switzerland.
Selected by an independent jury of distinguished artists and professionals in the field, the recipient gets the opportunity to travel and work in an international residency and exhibit in a solo show in India.
FICA is pleased to be collaborating with Pro Helvetia-Swiss Art Council, New Delhi, and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, for the Emerging Artist Award 2012.
The award includes:
• A twelve-week residency in Switzerland, round trip air travel from Mumbai or Delhi, a per diem during the time of the residency, and access to the residency’s technical equipments.
• A solo exhibition at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.
For further information please contact: The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art D 53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 or info(at)ficart.org
Sound scores for dance
Swiss musician Christophe Robert Polese, referred to as POL, will be in New Delhi to mentor, choreograph, conduct workshops and work with sound artists at the Gati Summer Dance Residency. [dated June 2012]
Gati Summer Dance Residency 2012 presents “ALL WARMED UP 2012”
Thursday & Friday, 21 & 22 June 2012 at 7.30pm Shri Ram Centre, 4 Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi 110001
For passes, please call 9971406113.
The mentors for GSDR 2012 are Swiss sound artist POL , theatre director Sankar Venkateswaran and German choreographers Susanne Linke & Urs Dietrich.
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Swiss musician POL was in New Delhi to conduct workshops and work with sound artists at the Gati Summer Dance Residency 2012 in New Delhi.
Christophe Polese (popularly known as POL) from Switzerland will be part of the Gati Summer Dance Residency in New Delhi from 10 May to 2 June 2012 and will be mentoring choreographers, conducting workshops and working with sound artist to develop sound for dance.
About the workshop
The workshop will concentrated on specific pieces of every decade with a focus on works of Gilles Jobin, Franz Treichler and Cristian Vogel. POL shared his personal recipe of methods and philosophy. The workshop included exercises/games derived from the numerous methods used by famous electronic composers during the last 60 years. This workshop is especially designed for dancers, choreographers and musicians. The workshops was held on 12 & 13 May 2012.
About POL
Electronic music producer since the dawn of the nineties, nested between the persistant hammering of an electro dancefloor and the dark backstages of the post-industrial civilisation, POL infiltrates his music into the world by every mean. On screens, his productions have insinuated themselves in the arty zombies movie of cult director Bruce LaBruce and also in the very French Quand j’étais chanteur, with Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu. He has co-written Water Lilly’s music, electro-techno with a touch of pop glamour and cosmic atmospheres. Today, he pursues his conquest of space as a solo pilot.
For more information contact: The Gati Dance Forum at gatidance@gmail.com or visit www.gatidance.com
