No.
Panel Name
Date
Time
1
CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES: WHERE ART
AND LITERATURE MEET
Panel curated by Asia Art Archive
While boundaries between different art forms
and practices are becoming increasingly
blurred in recent times, this panel invites two
cultural figures who have worked at the
crossroads of multiple disciplines for several
decades. This panel will bring to the fore the
inspiration they have continued to draw from
literatures across cultures and civilizations to
their oeuvre.
Friday, 29 January
11:30-12:30
2
THE ARTIST AND THE GALLERIST
A conversation between Sunitha Kumar
Emmart and Sudarshan Shetty about how
they each negotiate space and inform each
other's work.
3
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT
A discussion highlighting the roles of private
collections in growth markets in the absence
of public infrastructures for the arts, and the
patrons devising alternative models of how
Moderator
Speakers
Javed Akhtar , Poet, lyricist, & Scriptwriter
Gayatri Sinha, Art editor,
critic and curator
Gulammohammed Sheikh , Artist &
Poet
Sunitha Kumar Emmart, Founder,
GallerySKE
Friday, 29 January
Friday, 29 January
13:00-14:00
Negar Azimi, writer,
senior editor, Bidoun
15:00-16:30
Tariq al Jaidah, patron, founder of
Katara Art Centre, Owner- Partner of
Nazneen Shafi, executive
Al Jaidah Brothers, Doha
director, Engage Me Art|
Haro Cumbusyan, founder of
Cultura Consultancy &
Collectorspace, Istanbul
Engagement
Lu Xun, collector and founder of the
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
Sudarshan Shetty, artist, curator of
Kochi Biennale 2016
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4
5
6
GODREJ INDIA CULTURE LAB POP UP 1 COLLABORATION AND KNOWLEDGE
A panel discussion exploring how new forms
of knowledge are created due to experimental
pop ups, collaborations, festivals and
collective spaces.
Kiran Nadar, chairperson KNMA
Friday, 29 January
BETWEEN TRADEGY & FARCE: TAKES ON THE
PERFOMRANCE ARCHIVE
Panel curated by Asia Art Archive
Moderated by dramaturge and culture
theorist Rustom Bharucha, this panel brings Saturday, 30 January
together leading international artists Nikhil
Chopra and Ray Langenbach to address what
to them are the most pressing concerns for
contemporary performance art.
ACCESS AND INTEGRATION IN THE ARTS
ACROSS SOUTH ASIA
The emergence of the mega cultural events in
Saturday, 30 January
South Asia has created cross connections and
collaborations that enable the region to stand
together as a common voice and yet cultivate
its own national cultural identity. The session
17:00-18:30
Archana Prasad, founder, Jaaga
Bangalore
Vaibhav Chabbra co-founder, Makers
Parmesh Shahani, Head - Asylum, Mumbai and Delhi
Godrej India Culture Lab. Ayush Chauhan, founder, Quicksand
and co-founder Unbox Festival, Delhi
William Ray Langenbach, Performance
Artist, Professor of Live Art and
Performance Studies, University of the
Arts Helsinki.
11:30-12:30
Rustum
Bharucha,Professor of
Theatre and Performance
Studies, School of Arts
and Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nikhil Chopra, performance artist
University, New Delhi.
13:00-14:30
Annoushka Hempel, founder and
director, Colombo Art Biennale
Dr. Dina Bangdel, associate professor
Amit Jain, associate vice
and director, Art History Programme,
president - client realions,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
Saffron Art
Qatar, Nepal Arts Council
Osman Waheed, Chairman, Lahore
Biennale Foundation
will investigate the complexities of working in
this region and how these events find
themselves both as a national and a regional
voice.
7
8
9
10
Sabih Ahmad, senior researcher Asia
Art Archive
A NEW GENERATION OF SOUTH ASIAN
COLLECTORS
Saturday, 30 January
Four collectors from across South Asia discuss
the trajectories and aims of their collections
GODREJ INDIA CULTURE LAB POP UP 2 - THE
GREAT INDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL
A panel discussion featuring India's leading Saturday, 30 January
graphic novelists on the past and future of
graphic novels in the Indian context.
SOFT POWER, HARD PURPOSE: THE QUEER
HISTORY OF QUEST MAGAZINE
Strange, delightful, controversial, and mostly
forgotten, Quest is singular in the history of
Indian magazines of the last century.
ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE: DISTRIBUTION
AND COLLECTION
This panel discussion will explore the cultural
and economic trajectories of artists' film and
15:00-16:30
17:00-18:30
Vishal Mehta, collector, India
Zain Masud, international Khurram Kasim, collector, Pakistan
Aarti Lohia, collector, Singapore
director, India Art Fair
Shohidul Choudhury, collector, Dubai
Vishwajyoti Ghosh, author, Delhi
Calm,
Orijit Sen author, River of Stories
Parmesh Shahani, head - Sarnath Banerjee, author, The
Godrej India Culture Lab. Harappa Files
Aparajita Ninan, co-author, A
Gardener in the Wasteland
Negar Azimi, senior editor, Bidoun
Magazine
Sunday, 31January
Sunday, 31January
11:30- 12:30
14:00-15:30
Conversation
Shai Heredia, director,
Experimenta, fimmaker
and curator
Achal Prabhala, writer and researcher
in Bangalore, India, frequent
contributor to Bidoun, and an editor of
the anthology The Best Of Quest
Stuart Comer, chief curator of the
department of media and
performance art at The Museum of
Modern Art
Benjamin Cook, director of LUX and
video works, as they negotiate the
institutional, museum and gallery context.
11
12
TOWARDS A CULTURE OF CORPORATE
PATRONAGE
Addressing the role and impact corporate
patronage can have within the cultural sphere
in India and the different models it can adopt.
WORK IN PROGRESS: THE CITY AS A
LANDSCAPE OF INTERRUPTIONS
A discussion that addresses the idea and
experience of rupture as one of the principles
describing, defining and interpreting urban
life.
co-convener of the Mres Art
Amar Kanwar, artist
Sunday, 31January
Sunday, 31January
16:00-17:30
18.00-19.00 pm
Amin Jaffar, internationl
director, Asian art,
Christie's
Abhay Sardesia, editor,
Art India
Thomas Girst, head of cultural
engagement BMW Group
Sangita Jindal, chairperson JSW
Foundation
Namita Saraf, director, Saraf
Foundation for Himalayan Culture and
Traditions
Matias Echanove, founding member
of URBZ
Sahej Rahal, artist
Prasad Shetty, architect and academic