Since its inception in 2003, the gallery and residence at 1Shanthiroad have evolved into a popular meeting point for national and international artists. 1Shanthiroad offers a platform for several artists to create installations, performances and exhibitions. It provides space for local artists and a networking hub with international artists. It supports emerging artists from around the world, who want to realise their vision, whereby interaction, creative exchange and the experience with the local art community are integral elements.

CULTURE + COMMUNITY + CREATIVITY

As is well known to its large circle of well-wishers, 1Shanthiroad has acted as an eclectic and alternative art and social space for dialogue, discussions and creativity. Since its conception, 1Shanthiroad has supported emerging artists who might otherwise have few opportunities for showcasing their work, as well as nurtured talks and shows by seasoned artists and scholars.

1Shanthiroad’s inclusive and creative approaches have helped it become very rapidly a critical hub for visual culture not only in Bangalore but also within the country and outside, as is evident from the several artists and scholars from the US, Australia, Europe as well as other South Asian countries who have used this residency for creative symbiosis. In the process, 1Shanthiroad has helped challenge and push the boundaries of visual art practice.

Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"The art residencies at 1Shanthiroad support international art exchanges that venture deeper into socio-cultural and emotionally-involved dialogues between the host, local art community and the artist-in-residence. We encourage collaboration, critique and conversation as the main building blocks that foster a relationship with us.  We are keen to work with artists who are able to react and work in local circumstances, through their intent in the wider field of visual arts. This season we are keen to with work with artists in the fields of book art, urban archiving and mapping, curatorial practice and photography."

- Suresh Jayaram

Please note:
1Shanthiroad is the oldest bangaloREsidency and Suresh Jayaram is an experienced host who has helped numerous artists realise their projects.

The Archives at NCBS is a public centre for the history of science in contemporary India that opened in February 2019. It has three main objectives going forward: 
♦ continuing to build up archives as spaces to strengthen the commons
♦ a focus on education through archival material and
♦ to build a broader consortium of archives with a discovery layer for the public to find, describe and share archival material and stories.

NCBS is a centre for research and teaching in frontier areas of biology in India. Situated in Bangalore, research at NCBS covers a diverse set of subjects in areas of modern biology ranging in scope from atomic to population level studies. 

The campus encourages scientific and cultural interactions by hosting events such as lectures, workshops and exhibitions periodically, thus enhancing the exchange of ideas and knowledge between scholars involved with the programme and the community at large. 

Our Artist-in-Residency Programme is an extension of this effort. Artists-in-Residence are free to work with any lab or group on campus. The campus is situated in a lush environment that provides steady support for its residents.

Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (ACMA) is India’s premiere organisation working in the field of contemporary movement arts. Programmes include Education and Outreach, a Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media, a Certificate Course in Movement Arts and Pedagogy, an Incubation Centre for the Arts and Media (ICAM), Research and Documentation, an archive of Indian Somatic Traditions and Contemporary Expressions called NAGARIKA, TransMedia Technologies, the Attakkalari India Biennial and the Attakkalari Dance Company. Established in 1992 and currently based in Bangalore, ACMA is headed by its Artistic Director, Jayachandran Palazhy.

ACMA is working on expanding its horizons and establishing a new “Centre for Innovation in Performing Arts” (CIPA) in the city. The proposed Centre for Innovation in Performing Arts will bring multiple performing art forms, allied disciplines and activities such as dance, theatre, music, stage technologies, visual and digital arts, literature as well as transdisciplinary endeavours, in a beautifully designed, lush campus in Bangalore. We hope to see it grow into a cultural hub that encourages resident and associated artists and organisations to experiment and explore out-of-the-box strategies that nurture artistic excellence in the community.

Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media
This path-breaking project in the Indian contemporary dance scene, started in September 2006 and is led by eminent national and international artists. The curriculum emphasises vocational skills development and advanced training in various techniques focusing on performance, dance pedagogy, choreography, dance therapy, interdisciplinary studies, aesthetics, dance theory and arts management. The Diploma programme aims to help launch young dance artistes from the South Asia region as performers, choreographers and teachers in the national and international scene.

Building on ACMA's tremendous track record, the course is structured to provide overall fitness and body awareness, deeper insight into working with the concepts, principles and techniques of Indian physical and performance traditions as well as contemporary dance idioms, opportunities for research, working knowledge in stage technologies, tools for choreography and teaching.

Certificate Course in Movement Arts and Pedagogy
This unique, comprehensive and professional dance education programme draws from India’s rich physical and performance traditions and combines it with the latest developments in the global contemporary dance scene. It includes inputs in pedagogy, modules in fitness and stage technologies, and an extended apprenticeship. The programme is powered by ACMA’s huge expertise and experience gained over the years, through its interdisciplinary networks. Along with equipping young dancers with performance-oriented skills, the programme also aims to provide them with pedagogical training so that they may be able conduct classes on their own in the future. A carefully crafted internship programme at Attakkalari also offers students much needed work experience that helps them build their careers. The emphasis is on introducing students to physical skills and safe practices while nurturing their creativity and providing them in-depth experience in pedagogical methods and strategies.

The Incubation Centre for the Arts and Media (ICAM)
ICAM provides opportunities for artists to engage in transdisciplinary exploration involving dance and performing arts. Leveraging the fast-evolving ecology of creative entrepreneurship of Bangalore and the presence of an increasing number of arts practitioners from diverse backgrounds in the city, ICAM will help to forge creative collaborations and partnerships among artists and organisations. Working with Attakkalari’s national and international partners, ICAM strives to bring artists and resources under a collective umbrella to offer a safe, supportive and encouraging space to engage in creative experimentation leading to prototyping, production and performance of original performance works.

Attakkalari Studios
Attakkalari Studios are fully equipped spacious studios with mirrors, sprung wooden dance floor, and Wifi. We are able to provide technical equipment such as light, sound, camera and projectors. Attakkalari also has an intimate performance space called ‘Rangamandala’ which can host dance, theatre, conference, music, workshop or any other event format. We offer participants active mentoring support and studio space during the development of their work as well as limited production and technical support for the performance outcome. The resulting work may be showcased in Bangalore.

Profile of our next bangaloREsident: "The artist must be fluent in English. He/she/they will be working with local artists under our ICAM initiative as well as with our students in the Certificate Course and the Diploma programme.

The bangaloREsident should be prepared to work with all levels of dancers/students. Teaching assignments are expected of the bangaloREsident, for which details should be clarified directly with the host before the start of the residency."

- Jayachandran Palazhy

Indian Music Experience Museum (IME) is India’s only museum dedicated to showcasing the history and development of music in India. It is also one among a handful of experimental music museums around the world. The Museum’s work is spread across exhibitions, programmes, community outreach events and education. As an institution, its vision is to spread awareness of India’s rich musical heritage to diverse audiences, especially the youth. Spread across nine galleries, the museum has audio-visual interactives, a stunning display of 100+ instruments, a recording studio, instruments and memorabilia from renowned Indian musicians. Besides its nine galleries, the museum has a sound garden, a learning centre for music education, several performance spaces and a café.

For the bangaloREsidency we encourage artists and musicians in the following directions:

• Digital archive of Indian music – There is ample material in the museum to spark inspiration and encourage artists in residence to work on project ideas with materials in the museum and also form collaborations with local musicians for study, research or performances.

• Create an expression (performing, visual, digital) based on the museum’s collection – IME provides an enriching and conducive environment for artists to immerse themselves in a musical heritage that is many centuries old and has influences from around the world. This is ideal for artists seeking inspiration from the different forms of Indian music, and to exploring local forms of music traditions and practices.

• Interpreting our collection – IME invites musicologists, historians, artists and professionals working in the field of music to interpret the museum’s collection through different lenses to offer new perspectives that may broaden the scope of scholarship around the museum’s collection.

• Music across borders – Music knows no borders. There are countless accounts of several path-breaking Indian musicians who have travelled the world and collaborated with international artists to produce seminal works of fusion in the museum. There is ample scope to research and unravel interesting stories on fusion music, the socio-political contexts in which they evolved, the influences they imbibed along the way, and their significance today that could make for a great exhibition, documentary or paper.

We also encourage artists to go through our website and develop their own residency ideas based on their areas of interest in music and their artistic practice.

The Indian Sonic Research Organisation (The ISRO) is a collective dedicated to the proliferation of creative music and experiments in sound. They are instrument builders and artists. Performances incorporate DIY and home-made instruments made with discarded electronics and other found objects.

They also run a community music lab and record label which disseminates works by Asian composers, sound artists and musicians.

Kāṇike translates as gift in Kannada. Kāṇike is both a collective and space intended for the practice of contemporary art with an intention to foster creativity and shape new directions in learning. It is also a space for artists from various disciplines to share, respond and collaborate in an unrestrained environment.

Kāṇike aims to build a community of similar minds, and be a sanctuary for exchanges and conversations. Kāṇike was originally conceptualised and founded by Indu Antony and Vivek Muthuramalingam in October 2019, when they felt a strong need for a conducive space to practice art, and encourage progressive thinking around it. They believed such a space can also be a conduit to engage with the community through collaborations and co-learnings. The collective was formed with Krishanu Chatterjee and Aparna Nori and with their varied backgrounds it turned into a collective of diverse practitioners held together by a passion to incorporate time-tested, organic and handcrafted processes into their work. 

Kāṇike is located on the edge of an upscale, liberal neighbourhood on one side, while on the other is a locality of marginalised, daily-wage workers and migrants. It therefore offers a good vantage point into understanding the communities’ interdependence, tensions and cultural variances.

At the heart of the studio is a dark room specifically designed for the practice of alternative and historical processes of photographic printing. These include - cyanotypes, salted paper prints, albumen prints, Van Dyke brown prints, gum bichromates, wet plate collodion processes like ambrotypes and tintypes. Artists who are familiar with any of these processes, or those desirous of adopting them into their practice, would find the studio particularly interesting. The studio is adequately stocked with chemicals and papers, has an etching press, and conventional film processing and printing (both B&W and colour) can also be practised.

Kāṇike is located centrally in Bangalore and housed in an independent two-floor building with a terrace, in the old neighbourhood of Cooke Town. Visiting artists get a separate room with an attached bath, and a fully-functional common kitchen.

Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
In keeping with the spirit of Kāṇike, we would like to support artists who are keen on engaging with local communities and create work in collaboration with or in response to them.