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Founded in 2010, a union of artists based in Bombay. Clark House Initiative is a curatorial collaborative and a union of artists based in Bombay, established in 2010 by Zasha Colah and Sumesh Sharma concerned with ideas of freedom. Strategies of equality have informed their work, while experiments in re-reading of histories, and concerns of representation and visibility, are ways to imagine alternative economies and freedom. Clark House Initiative intends to actively recall political and artistic figures into contemporaneity and to question the recent rise of fascism in India based on exaggerated rumours of economic prosperity and nationalist pride. Membership arises from basic tenets of humanism - Friendship, Anti-Racism, Sexual Freedom, Anti-Homophobia, Anti-Islamophobia, Feminism, Secularism and understanding the project of Modernism as an economic and political reality outside the occident. 17 artists run the union that gathers many more and are based across many seas. Nikhil Raunak + Sachin Bonde, Rupali Patil + Prabhakar Pachpute, Amol Patil + Poonam Jain & Yogesh Barve, who together became the artist collective Shunya in 2011, were the founding artists and are the permanent members of the Clark House.
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Exhibition Partner | Pune
TIFA began its residency program in 2015 with the aim of supporting emerging artists and art practice through local engagement and global exchange. The TIFA Residency Program hosts practitioners to create work in a new cultural context by deeply immersing themselves in it. It facilitates experimentation, collaboration, research, making and presentation through critical discussion and feedback. Located in Pune, the Residency unfolds at TIFA’s 1940s former Art Deco heritage hotel in the marked centre of the city. The architecture reveals small surprises: the nook under the stairs, the upper wooden bridge and the empty elevator shaft carrying in light at every level. There are 16 interlinked studios, not 2 of which are the same. The nature of the residency encourages creative practitioners to contextualize, challenge and further their practice during their time here. TIFA’s multi-disciplinary ethos and strong community network extends support to makers and practitioners to conduct critical contact across disciplines. The residency provides a critical and contemporary space for production, experimentation, collaboration, and presentation.
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CONA is an artists-run initiative that aims at creating an avenue for students, artists, designers, and professionals from different fields to come together. It intends to function as an ongoing mind space, a point of contact that shall kindle ideas, facilitate discourse, stimulating both thought and action. In a word, here is an adda for ideas, perspectives, happenings and people to meet, where they can work, think, participate in activities and projects that encompass disciplines, genres, times and lives Cona will work with the active and contributive involvement of every visitor participator. We intend to build a digital archive, a resource that can be accessed by all. For this we encourage all to volunteer, share and contribute in any form of data, footage, images, audio or other. A further extension of this archive would be collective engagements in the form of screenings or talks.Cona also offers part of the space as a venue for artist residencies and will also initiate a design centre.Our intention: neither to act as an exhibition space nor just a digital archive, but to be an active catalyst in a continuous situation where thoughts and experiences can be shared and can grow
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PhotoPeer is an endeavour to quench the thirst of restless creative souls. The desire to create, nurture and share has always existed in our world. From time immemorial, it has manifested itself as some form of human expression. For some, it is poetry, for some it’s theatre or even molecular biology. For the people who conceived PhotoPeer, it was the form of visual storytelling. We don’t know when this desire became strong enough to manifest itself. Maybe the misty winter mornings did its trick! Or maybe the urge to document the present and write history compelled fellow photographers to begin this initiative. In 2010, PhotoPeer officially came into existence as a platform for upcoming visual storytellers to portray new ways of seeing. Today, it functions as a reference library, an archive, an institution for the dissemination of various forms of arts, as well as providing a meeting point for holding debates and discussions on the various arts and their influence in our life and times.
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Tracing A City | India
TAC is an independent initiative from India by a group of individual.TAC neither encourages performance production or new public event, we rather trying to build an invert observation very silently without any spectacle.TAC is free from one geospace, over the time we will travel and explore different areas inside and outside the idea "city". Currently, we are five performers/actionist in the admin panel for maintaining the basic anatomy of the idea. This collective is not working only with some dialogues or public meet but also working with publication in terms of post action memories. This collective was founded in November 2017 with one simple agenda: to rediscover the form out of the popular format, stay out of touch with what was going on around us in the realm of performative or performance. It is an attempt to make a serious journal out of our close intimate memory from research. We five are all individual and practicing our own creative discourse at the same time, TAC is non-profitable space where we come and exchange our queries, boredom, and curiosity |