Event series
Five Million Incidents: Kolkata
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Five Million Incidents Is Back!
Due to the COVID pandemic we were unable to present the Five Million Incidents programmes/projects that would have taken place until 18.04.2020, but we have been working behind the scenes to create a plan to share the projects differently.
We are happy to announce that these Incidents will now be presented digitally. We will soon share precise details about how you can watch, listen and participate in this novel occupation of time and space.
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Team Five Million Incidents.
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Five Million Incidents is a year-long project by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi and Kolkata. It marks the centenary of the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind, signed by an international consortium of artists, intellectuals and philosophers that included Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland.
Unfolding at the premises of both the Goethe-Instituts from April 2019 to April 2020, Five Million Incidents is conceptualized in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective and facilitated by the teams of the Goethe-Instituts and external jury members.
Five Million Incidents aims at expanding our notion of art as an extension of the everyday experiences of life. Actors, dancers, visual artists, film makers, photographers, writers, social and cultural activists as well as educationists will explore the “process of making” as a moment of sharing and interaction with their audience.
Five Million Incidents is a process of generating temporal and sometimes ephemeral collective moments of working, learning, listening, sharing, and engaging and of becoming. It is a process of bridging the gap between disciplinary process and our everyday activities.
It is an invitation to experiment with the possibilities of public space, time, artistic media, communication and interaction, to recognize and insist on new forms of artistic and intellectual work, and to invigorate existing forms with fresh thought and content.
Incidents will emerge and dissolve around the Instituts. They will transcend and transform our everyday relationship with the Goethe-Institut premises and its daily activities through intrusion, intervention, disruption and participation by artists from all over India.
The nature of each incident will reveal itself only in your presence, sometimes in the span of an hour, sometimes in the course of several weeks or even months.
The project commenced in Kolkata from 17 August 2019.
Events 2019
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5 GMS | 70 GSM | 1000 X 1000 incidents
Installation
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100 Velocity Pieces
Installation
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Cover Uncover
Installation
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Heads in the clouds
Interaction
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Pre Inflict Phase
Exhibition
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A museum in my mind / A Museum for the city
Exhibition / Workshop
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The Blind Spot / The Blind Art
Art
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Dictionary of Nonsense
Discussion / Workshop
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Dalit Art Archive
Workshop
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A man, some trees and a dog
Animation
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Pakistan से पानी
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A Secret Visuality of Injustice
7:00 PM | Lecture
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Body – A – Fair
Exhibition / Workshop
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Chaat Meets…A New World Order
Five Million Incidents | Game/Action/Happening
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Fieldness
Five Million Incidents | Platform
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Open call for Performers: Age Sex Location
Five Million Incidents | Chatroom
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Registrations Open: Body-a-Fair Online Workshop
Five Million Incidents | Workshop
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Moments before the Fall
9:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Simulation
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Coming Out Party For The Androgynous Tree
Five Million Incidents | Happening
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Loss of Horizon and Converging Acts
Five Million Incidents | Happening & Podcast
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The Shepard Tone
Five Million Incidents | Game
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Heads In The Cloud V2.0
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Traffic as a Metaphor
11:00 AM | Five Million Incidents | Panel Discussion
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Dalit Art Archive
Five Million Incidents | Open Call
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Kairoi Time Auction
Five Million Incidents | Time Auction
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Seeking Lahore
Five Million Incidents | Happening
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An Index/ On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there
8:30 PM | Five Million Incidents | Sonic Intervention
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Train No: 54703 - A podcast series
Five Million Incidents | Podcast Series
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Lihaaf (The Quilt)
10:00 AM | Five Million Incidents | Happening
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In Search of Suvendu
Five Million Incidents | Photography
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Silverfish
6:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Discussion
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Comic Theorytelling: An Interview with the Gorilla General
5:30 PM | Five Million Incidents | Interview
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Bed Bug Intimacy: Do let the bedbugs bite
Five Million Incidents | Intervention/Performance
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Dalit Art Archive
5:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Workshop
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Power & Pulp
11:00 AM | Five Million Incidents | Performance
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Bed Bug Intimacy: Arms From The Teeth
3:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Poetry Jam
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annica-Network: Phone Call to Nowhere: A Lecture Poiesis on anicca
7:30 PM | Five Million Incidents | Lecture Poiesis
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Yarn Array: We The Photons - An Image-Sound Collaboration
6:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Presentation
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The Reanimated Corpse: Meeting with Rafique Baghdadi
11:59 AM | Five Million Incidents | Happening
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A Splitting/ On mining the ear for the nearly-but-not-quite-there
5:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Sonic Happening
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A Secret Visuality of Injustice
اک ناانصافی کی پوشیدہ بسارت
7:00 PM | Five Million Incidents | Presentation & Discussion
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A Man, Some Trees and Dog: In a virtual space
Five Million Incidents | Animation
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The Dictionary of Nonsense
10:00 AM | Five Million Incidents | Panel Discussion
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Found in Translation: Incidents, Excerpts, Notes, Poems & Conversations
Five Million Incidents | Happening