Our Partners
The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, a reputed atelier in Bangalore with simple, yet pleasant working and living spaces.
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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@1Shanthiroad: ♦ Matthias Beckmann
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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@1Shanthiroad: ♦ Matthias Beckmann
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Abhinaya Taranga.
Abhinaya Taranga, a theatre school that is over 42 years old, is located in South Bangalore, and has been an important part of the cultural milieu of the City. It is an independent theatre school for working professionals from all walks of life, and has a rich history of eminent theatre personalities heading it. While the core activity of the school is theatre education, Abhinaya Taranga is also an intimate space that aims at creating synergies between different artistic, cultural and social diversities. A set up where new ideas are nourished and creative exchanges encouraged.
Abhinaya Taranga is looking for diverse collaborations that its students can benefit from, and is keen to collaborate with multidisciplinary artists who are willing to work with students of theatre and local artistes. We are looking for collaborators who are interested in continued partnerships as well.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Abhinaya Taranga is open to any kind of collaboration that expands the ambit of artistic expression of our theatre students. An active engagement with a select group of our students and our local artistes, that culminates in a performative piece would be our ideal programme. We are looking to host an artiste from the theatre discipline, but are willing to host an artiste from any discipline ready to work with theatre students to create an interdisciplinary project. The residents would be provided living quarters at the institute.
Recent bangaloREsident@Abhinaya Taranga:
♦ Verena Regensburger
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Abhinaya Taranga, a theatre school that is over 42 years old, is located in South Bangalore, and has been an important part of the cultural milieu of the City. It is an independent theatre school for working professionals from all walks of life, and has a rich history of eminent theatre personalities heading it. While the core activity of the school is theatre education, Abhinaya Taranga is also an intimate space that aims at creating synergies between different artistic, cultural and social diversities. A set up where new ideas are nourished and creative exchanges encouraged.
Abhinaya Taranga is looking for diverse collaborations that its students can benefit from, and is keen to collaborate with multidisciplinary artists who are willing to work with students of theatre and local artistes. We are looking for collaborators who are interested in continued partnerships as well.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Abhinaya Taranga is open to any kind of collaboration that expands the ambit of artistic expression of our theatre students. An active engagement with a select group of our students and our local artistes, that culminates in a performative piece would be our ideal programme. We are looking to host an artiste from the theatre discipline, but are willing to host an artiste from any discipline ready to work with theatre students to create an interdisciplinary project. The residents would be provided living quarters at the institute.
Recent bangaloREsident@Abhinaya Taranga:
♦ Verena Regensburger
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Archives at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).
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:
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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@NCBS:
♦ Line Krom
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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.
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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@NCBS:
♦ Line Krom
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts.
Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts 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, Attakkalari is headed by its Artistic Director, Jayachandran Palazhy.
Attakkalari 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 Attakkalari'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 Attakkalari’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
Most recent bangaloREsident@Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts:
♦ Michael Maurissens
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Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts 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, Attakkalari is headed by its Artistic Director, Jayachandran Palazhy.
Attakkalari 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 Attakkalari'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 Attakkalari’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
Most recent bangaloREsident@Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts:
♦ Michael Maurissens
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Blank Noise, a volunteer-led collective committed to addressing street harassment.
Blank Noise is a community/public art project that seeks to confront street harassment, commonly known as eve teasing, in India. The project started out as a student project at the Srishti School of Art Design & Technology in Bangalore and has since spread to other cities in India, such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Lucknow. It tackles the notion of shame and blame through campaigns such as "I Never Ask For It".
The bangaloREsidency with Blank Noise calls for artists with an interest in tackling sexual violence and building safe cities. In its current phase, Blank Noise will focus towards "I Never Ask For It". Most women across geographies remember what they wore when they experienced any form of sexual violence.
The campaign asks women to send that one garment as a witness, a testimonial and a rejection of blame; thereby building a mobile installation of garments saying there is no excuse for sexual violence. Artists from across disciplines, interested in building discourse around rejecting blame are encouraged to apply.
The bangaloREsident will be expected to join hands and be part of the "Action Hero" community working on the campaign. "I Never Ask For It" will build over a period of two years and involves various aspects from film, performance, youtube videos, street actions, street interventions.
The artist will also be expected to make connections with organisations to enable parallel conversations/events in Germany and to create awareness for the project abroad.
Should you wish to address the issue of blame outside of the clothes installation building you are welcome to submit an independent proposal or work along the proposed format of the campaign.
Recent bangaloREsident@Blank Noise:
♦ Lino Heissenberg
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Blank Noise is a community/public art project that seeks to confront street harassment, commonly known as eve teasing, in India. The project started out as a student project at the Srishti School of Art Design & Technology in Bangalore and has since spread to other cities in India, such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Lucknow. It tackles the notion of shame and blame through campaigns such as "I Never Ask For It".
The bangaloREsidency with Blank Noise calls for artists with an interest in tackling sexual violence and building safe cities. In its current phase, Blank Noise will focus towards "I Never Ask For It". Most women across geographies remember what they wore when they experienced any form of sexual violence.
The campaign asks women to send that one garment as a witness, a testimonial and a rejection of blame; thereby building a mobile installation of garments saying there is no excuse for sexual violence. Artists from across disciplines, interested in building discourse around rejecting blame are encouraged to apply.
The bangaloREsident will be expected to join hands and be part of the "Action Hero" community working on the campaign. "I Never Ask For It" will build over a period of two years and involves various aspects from film, performance, youtube videos, street actions, street interventions.
The artist will also be expected to make connections with organisations to enable parallel conversations/events in Germany and to create awareness for the project abroad.
Should you wish to address the issue of blame outside of the clothes installation building you are welcome to submit an independent proposal or work along the proposed format of the campaign.
Recent bangaloREsident@Blank Noise:
♦ Lino Heissenberg
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Daily Dump, a Social Enterprise working at the intersection of design + innovation + human behaviour around urban waste.
Since its inception in 2006, the Brand Daily Dump has come to represent a fresh perspective around waste. Daily Dump pioneered the urban home composting movement in India and has been offering relevant design solutions for the last 10 years in urban India.
It creates fun, engaging stories and products that help urban citizens incorporate changes in the way they think about, use, consume and dispose resources. What keeps Daily Dump excited, interested and busy is a constant search for ways in which the urban citizen can engage with the earth, with nature and with natural systems in their daily lives.
Daily Dump’s experience with compost over the years coupled with an inherent bias to systems thinking has led it to ask questions around soil, its degeneration and regeneration. How can various contrasting realities be juxtaposed and their underlying tensions be explored and utilised to find possible solutions? For instance, degraded soils, heavy use of chemical fertilisers, decreasing biomass for farmers in rural areas, increasing issues of waste management in cities and urban citizens generating compost.
For the bangaloREsidency at Daily Dump we offer a unique platform for interested artists to explore these emerging realities involving earth, waste, art, science and human behaviour.
Recent bangaloREsident@Daily Dump:
♦ Marius Land
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Since its inception in 2006, the Brand Daily Dump has come to represent a fresh perspective around waste. Daily Dump pioneered the urban home composting movement in India and has been offering relevant design solutions for the last 10 years in urban India.
It creates fun, engaging stories and products that help urban citizens incorporate changes in the way they think about, use, consume and dispose resources. What keeps Daily Dump excited, interested and busy is a constant search for ways in which the urban citizen can engage with the earth, with nature and with natural systems in their daily lives.
Daily Dump’s experience with compost over the years coupled with an inherent bias to systems thinking has led it to ask questions around soil, its degeneration and regeneration. How can various contrasting realities be juxtaposed and their underlying tensions be explored and utilised to find possible solutions? For instance, degraded soils, heavy use of chemical fertilisers, decreasing biomass for farmers in rural areas, increasing issues of waste management in cities and urban citizens generating compost.
For the bangaloREsidency at Daily Dump we offer a unique platform for interested artists to explore these emerging realities involving earth, waste, art, science and human behaviour.
Recent bangaloREsident@Daily Dump:
♦ Marius Land
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Experimenta India and Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology.
The resident will be hosted by Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology where she/he will be expected to take experimental film / video workshops, and also get involved with organising Experimenta - the International Festival of Moving Image Art. Experimenta India will facilitate interactions and create networking opportunities for the resident with leading artists, filmmakers, curators, cultural organisations and academic institutions in Bangalore.
Experimenta India is an artist run platform that encourages uncompromising, fresh, compelling and critically urgent experimentation with the moving image in India.
Founded by filmmaker Shai Heredia in 2003, this groundbreaking platform has over the years played a significant role in countering the hegemony of the mainstream Indian film industry. Through nurturing an alternative community that reflects upon, and examines the different traces of Indian artists’ film and video, both historical and contemporary, we engage in a series of projects that bring together Indian and international film artists with similar creative and socio-political concerns.
Besides curating EXPERIMENTA, the critically acclaimed bi-annual festival, we also showcase Indian experimental film and video at international film festivals and art venues like the Tate Modern (London), the Berlinale (Berlin), Images Festival (Toronto), EXiS Festival (Seoul) amongst others.
While bringing Indian moving image art into international prominence, we have also hosted international artists’ residencies in Mumbai and Bangalore, curated regular screenings and conducted film art workshops across India. Ultimately as an alternative community we have played a significant role in evolving independent, new and radical discourse for film as an art practice in India.
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore is a visionary, experimental & curatorial institution of media arts & sciences that seeks to contextualise the latest art, craft & design ideas and practices in the emerging Indian context, producing creative innovations that help understand, communicate and resolve some of the contemporary questions, issues and concerns facing society and culture. Set up in 1996 by a not-for-profit educational trust, Srishti has been offering a range of art & design educational programmes at the undergraduate & postgraduate levels. Education remains its core activity, even as its organic growth has led it into diverse areas of research, curation and practice. Srishti embraces interdisciplinary as its mode of enquiry and creative action.
Recent bangaloREsident@Experimenta India:
♦ Bernd Lützeler
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The resident will be hosted by Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology where she/he will be expected to take experimental film / video workshops, and also get involved with organising Experimenta - the International Festival of Moving Image Art. Experimenta India will facilitate interactions and create networking opportunities for the resident with leading artists, filmmakers, curators, cultural organisations and academic institutions in Bangalore.
Experimenta India is an artist run platform that encourages uncompromising, fresh, compelling and critically urgent experimentation with the moving image in India.
Founded by filmmaker Shai Heredia in 2003, this groundbreaking platform has over the years played a significant role in countering the hegemony of the mainstream Indian film industry. Through nurturing an alternative community that reflects upon, and examines the different traces of Indian artists’ film and video, both historical and contemporary, we engage in a series of projects that bring together Indian and international film artists with similar creative and socio-political concerns.
Besides curating EXPERIMENTA, the critically acclaimed bi-annual festival, we also showcase Indian experimental film and video at international film festivals and art venues like the Tate Modern (London), the Berlinale (Berlin), Images Festival (Toronto), EXiS Festival (Seoul) amongst others.
While bringing Indian moving image art into international prominence, we have also hosted international artists’ residencies in Mumbai and Bangalore, curated regular screenings and conducted film art workshops across India. Ultimately as an alternative community we have played a significant role in evolving independent, new and radical discourse for film as an art practice in India.
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore is a visionary, experimental & curatorial institution of media arts & sciences that seeks to contextualise the latest art, craft & design ideas and practices in the emerging Indian context, producing creative innovations that help understand, communicate and resolve some of the contemporary questions, issues and concerns facing society and culture. Set up in 1996 by a not-for-profit educational trust, Srishti has been offering a range of art & design educational programmes at the undergraduate & postgraduate levels. Education remains its core activity, even as its organic growth has led it into diverse areas of research, curation and practice. Srishti embraces interdisciplinary as its mode of enquiry and creative action.
Recent bangaloREsident@Experimenta India:
♦ Bernd Lützeler
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum.
Trivandrum lies south of Bangalore, an hour away from Bangalore by plane and is therefore integrated into the bangaloREsidency in a slightly different manner.
Apparently, no other Indian region has such a long and deep relationship with Germany like the southern state of Kerala. This relation dates back to the 19th century, when the German missionary Hermann Gundert came and settled down in Tellichery in North Kerala. Gundert learned the local language Malayalam, translated the Bible from English to Malayalam, compiled the first dictionary as well as the first grammar book and a newspaper in Malayalam in the year 1872.
With this long tradition of strong cultural bonds, the Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum was set up in 2008, followed by a branch in Kochi in 2014. Whereas Trivandrum still remains a sleepy administrative capital of the State, Kochi presents itself as a vibrant city in the middle of Kerala, acclaimed for its natural beauty, economic centre stage and the Kochi Biennale.
Ever since its inception, the Goethe-Zentrum has not only been offering German language classes and examinations to thousands of students from Kerala, but it also provides an ideal platform for promoting programmes in the fields of culture, arts, science & technology, literature and politics. Through its language and cultural programmes, the Zentrum attracts a large number of students, researchers, writers, artists, scientists and others from different walks of life in Kerala.
Over the last thirteen years, the Goethe-Zentrum has significantly contributed to the promotion of Indo-German bilateral relations, particularly in the fields of language learning and cultural encounters. With such a strong track record in hand, the Goethe-Zentrum looks forward to welcoming the next batch of bangaloREsidency participants!
Recent bangaloREsident@Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum:
♦ Nora Bibel
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Trivandrum lies south of Bangalore, an hour away from Bangalore by plane and is therefore integrated into the bangaloREsidency in a slightly different manner.
Apparently, no other Indian region has such a long and deep relationship with Germany like the southern state of Kerala. This relation dates back to the 19th century, when the German missionary Hermann Gundert came and settled down in Tellichery in North Kerala. Gundert learned the local language Malayalam, translated the Bible from English to Malayalam, compiled the first dictionary as well as the first grammar book and a newspaper in Malayalam in the year 1872.
With this long tradition of strong cultural bonds, the Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum was set up in 2008, followed by a branch in Kochi in 2014. Whereas Trivandrum still remains a sleepy administrative capital of the State, Kochi presents itself as a vibrant city in the middle of Kerala, acclaimed for its natural beauty, economic centre stage and the Kochi Biennale.
Ever since its inception, the Goethe-Zentrum has not only been offering German language classes and examinations to thousands of students from Kerala, but it also provides an ideal platform for promoting programmes in the fields of culture, arts, science & technology, literature and politics. Through its language and cultural programmes, the Zentrum attracts a large number of students, researchers, writers, artists, scientists and others from different walks of life in Kerala.
Over the last thirteen years, the Goethe-Zentrum has significantly contributed to the promotion of Indo-German bilateral relations, particularly in the fields of language learning and cultural encounters. With such a strong track record in hand, the Goethe-Zentrum looks forward to welcoming the next batch of bangaloREsidency participants!
Recent bangaloREsident@Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum:
♦ Nora Bibel
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Media Lab of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS).
India’s urbanisation is the second largest rural to urban transition in human history. By 2050, at least 800 million Indians will live in cities and they will constitute more than half of India’s population. This is not just a demographic transition. Urbanisation is fundamentally changing India’s economy, society, politics as well as culture. In this context, the IIHS is committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. As a research and education institution, our role is to engage with these changing cultural scenarios along with the changing landscape of urban India.
The Media Lab at IIHS is a platform that engages with questions around the urban through multiple media practices. In a rapidly changing complex world, the Media Lab has created a space where the use of images and sound can be a way of understanding the urban milieu and create new forms of knowledge production.
The Media Lab views the audio-visual medium as a method for research. These films, images and sounds breathe life into facts and data in the form of stories. The Media Lab’s mandate is to build a culture of research, teaching and pedagogy inside and outside the classroom using digital audio-video. The Lab uses a range of approaches to fulfil its mission including short courses on filmmaking and photography, hosting an audio-visual repository on YouTube along with regular screenings and its flagship annual event - the Urban Lens Film Festival.
The IIHS Media Lab is a space where creative expressions on the urban, irrespective of the media form, can be showcased so that multiple ‘ways of seeing’ can lead to a newer and different understanding of the cities.
The Urban Lens Film Festival which will be in its 6th edition is a one of a kind film festival that focusses on cinema and the city. The idea behind the festival is to look at the different ways in which filmmakers/artists engage with the idea of the city through cinema. These fiction, non-fiction and animation films mirror a cinematic truth about cities, framing them beyond their skylines by teasing out individual/collective stories and experiences of people from around the world.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
The Media Lab at IIHS is inviting applications from photographers, sound / audio-visual artists to use the city and its public spaces to find images, sounds and stories that can re-create the urban landscape of Bengaluru. The Media Lab encourages new forms of production and exhibition right from art, installation pieces, new media or the internet.
In addition to the audio-visual equipment and software available at the Media Lab, there is opportunity to refer to the resources of the IIHS library (journals, films, books and maps) to support the resident during their work process. Residents will have access to leading academics and practitioners at the IIHS who work on some of the most pivotal themes, challenges and solutions in the field of the urban.
The residency will culminate with an exhibition / talk about the work produced. There is also an opportunity to display the work in the gallery during the Urban Lens Film Festival. IIHS is a teaching-learning institution and hence the resident is also encouraged to conduct either a workshop or a masterclass at the end of the residency.
Recent bangaloREsidents@IIHS:
♦ Raisa Galofre & Marvin Systermans
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India’s urbanisation is the second largest rural to urban transition in human history. By 2050, at least 800 million Indians will live in cities and they will constitute more than half of India’s population. This is not just a demographic transition. Urbanisation is fundamentally changing India’s economy, society, politics as well as culture. In this context, the IIHS is committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. As a research and education institution, our role is to engage with these changing cultural scenarios along with the changing landscape of urban India.
The Media Lab at IIHS is a platform that engages with questions around the urban through multiple media practices. In a rapidly changing complex world, the Media Lab has created a space where the use of images and sound can be a way of understanding the urban milieu and create new forms of knowledge production.
The Media Lab views the audio-visual medium as a method for research. These films, images and sounds breathe life into facts and data in the form of stories. The Media Lab’s mandate is to build a culture of research, teaching and pedagogy inside and outside the classroom using digital audio-video. The Lab uses a range of approaches to fulfil its mission including short courses on filmmaking and photography, hosting an audio-visual repository on YouTube along with regular screenings and its flagship annual event - the Urban Lens Film Festival.
The IIHS Media Lab is a space where creative expressions on the urban, irrespective of the media form, can be showcased so that multiple ‘ways of seeing’ can lead to a newer and different understanding of the cities.
The Urban Lens Film Festival which will be in its 6th edition is a one of a kind film festival that focusses on cinema and the city. The idea behind the festival is to look at the different ways in which filmmakers/artists engage with the idea of the city through cinema. These fiction, non-fiction and animation films mirror a cinematic truth about cities, framing them beyond their skylines by teasing out individual/collective stories and experiences of people from around the world.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
The Media Lab at IIHS is inviting applications from photographers, sound / audio-visual artists to use the city and its public spaces to find images, sounds and stories that can re-create the urban landscape of Bengaluru. The Media Lab encourages new forms of production and exhibition right from art, installation pieces, new media or the internet.
In addition to the audio-visual equipment and software available at the Media Lab, there is opportunity to refer to the resources of the IIHS library (journals, films, books and maps) to support the resident during their work process. Residents will have access to leading academics and practitioners at the IIHS who work on some of the most pivotal themes, challenges and solutions in the field of the urban.
The residency will culminate with an exhibition / talk about the work produced. There is also an opportunity to display the work in the gallery during the Urban Lens Film Festival. IIHS is a teaching-learning institution and hence the resident is also encouraged to conduct either a workshop or a masterclass at the end of the residency.
Recent bangaloREsidents@IIHS:
♦ Raisa Galofre & Marvin Systermans
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Word Lab at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS).
The Word Lab is an integral part of IIHS which conceptualises how the institution’s erudite scholarship can be made accessible and inclusive. At the Word Lab, we bring diverse voices together to look at how urban experiences are revealed in contemporary art and literature. We edit and publish books, reports and institutional knowledge narratives to advance the frontiers of scholarly knowledge. We create an invigorating environment for our practitioners and researchers by engaging with best practices in writing.
The Lab acts as a bridge between the institute and the public, disseminating our work to a wider audience through accessible writing and public-facing events. We organise an annual writings festival, City Scripts, which is a three-day celebration of writings that bring alive the city as seen through a myriad lenses. The festival has brought together eminent authors, journalists, architects, poets, artists and others, and centre-staged urban contemporary writings across forms through conversations, readings, panel discussions and workshops.
Every year, the festival engages with critical current issues such as climate change, sanitation, disaster risk resilience, identity, language and translation, and digital labour, among other evolving themes from IIHS’s cutting-edge research on urbanisation in the global South.
Profile of our first-ever bangaloREsident:
Through the residency, we are looking for someone who can comparatively / critically / creatively approach issues pertaining to life in cities. Our ideal candidate is someone who can creatively look at field research and data produced by various projects at the institute. The residency will culminate in a performance / exhibition, and will include an opportunity to conduct an internal workshop for the IIHS staff.
The residents can have a background in any discipline, given that IIHS strongly believes in interdisciplinary work. They are welcome to use the vast resources available at the IIHS public reference library. These include a variety of books, audio-visual material, maps, data libraries, and journals. We also have archival collections which give a glimpse into the past of Indian cities.
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The Word Lab is an integral part of IIHS which conceptualises how the institution’s erudite scholarship can be made accessible and inclusive. At the Word Lab, we bring diverse voices together to look at how urban experiences are revealed in contemporary art and literature. We edit and publish books, reports and institutional knowledge narratives to advance the frontiers of scholarly knowledge. We create an invigorating environment for our practitioners and researchers by engaging with best practices in writing.
The Lab acts as a bridge between the institute and the public, disseminating our work to a wider audience through accessible writing and public-facing events. We organise an annual writings festival, City Scripts, which is a three-day celebration of writings that bring alive the city as seen through a myriad lenses. The festival has brought together eminent authors, journalists, architects, poets, artists and others, and centre-staged urban contemporary writings across forms through conversations, readings, panel discussions and workshops.
Every year, the festival engages with critical current issues such as climate change, sanitation, disaster risk resilience, identity, language and translation, and digital labour, among other evolving themes from IIHS’s cutting-edge research on urbanisation in the global South.
Profile of our first-ever bangaloREsident:
Through the residency, we are looking for someone who can comparatively / critically / creatively approach issues pertaining to life in cities. Our ideal candidate is someone who can creatively look at field research and data produced by various projects at the institute. The residency will culminate in a performance / exhibition, and will include an opportunity to conduct an internal workshop for the IIHS staff.
The residents can have a background in any discipline, given that IIHS strongly believes in interdisciplinary work. They are welcome to use the vast resources available at the IIHS public reference library. These include a variety of books, audio-visual material, maps, data libraries, and journals. We also have archival collections which give a glimpse into the past of Indian cities.
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Indian Music Experience (IME), India’s only interactive music 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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@IME:
♦ Julius Gabriel
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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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@IME:
♦ Julius Gabriel
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO).
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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@ISRO:
♦ Kathrin Lambert
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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.
Most recent bangaloREsident@ISRO:
♦ Kathrin Lambert
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Infinite Souls Farm and Artists' Retreat, a 7-acre organic farm and rural artists retreat run by Kirtana Kumar (theatre artist) and Konarak Reddy (musician).
Infinite Souls Farm lies in the shadow of the historic monolith, Savandurga, about 40 km from Bangalore. It is a completely unfunded space that is sustained by the workshops, residencies and performances it hosts. Infinite Souls was inaugurated in 2007 with an International Theatre Residency facilitated by Josefina Baez of Ay Ombe Theatre, New York. Since then it has hosted more than 1000 Indian and international artists from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Taiwan, Germany, UK, Israel, Hungary, Poland, France, Canada and the US. Infinite Souls houses a maximum of 20 people in cottages and 60 in tents and cottages.
Ongoing programmes:
Guitar Gita – sharing of Konarak’s music practice through one-on-one classes and interactions.
Infinite Souls Summer Camps – residential music and theatre camps for young people.
Little Jasmine Films – for the making of documentary and experimental films. Watch Guhya online at pad.ma. Or visit our Youtube channel.
Little Jasmine Theatre Project – a professional theatre-making unit that creates urban Indian plays through the exploration of intersectional issues such as caste, gender, sexuality and identity. Watch a digital work here.
Theatre Lab (Youth) – an annual pedagogical programme for young people run by Kirtana..
World Guitar Nights – a biennial international guitar festival curated and hosted by Konarak
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Infinite Souls is looking for an artist who seeks nature and solitude; who works in the field of arts academia, music, film, theatre and associated practices.
Recent bangaloREsident@Infinite Souls Farm and Artists Retreat:
♦ Kris Merken
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Infinite Souls Farm lies in the shadow of the historic monolith, Savandurga, about 40 km from Bangalore. It is a completely unfunded space that is sustained by the workshops, residencies and performances it hosts. Infinite Souls was inaugurated in 2007 with an International Theatre Residency facilitated by Josefina Baez of Ay Ombe Theatre, New York. Since then it has hosted more than 1000 Indian and international artists from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Taiwan, Germany, UK, Israel, Hungary, Poland, France, Canada and the US. Infinite Souls houses a maximum of 20 people in cottages and 60 in tents and cottages.
Ongoing programmes:
Guitar Gita – sharing of Konarak’s music practice through one-on-one classes and interactions.
Infinite Souls Summer Camps – residential music and theatre camps for young people.
Little Jasmine Films – for the making of documentary and experimental films. Watch Guhya online at pad.ma. Or visit our Youtube channel.
Little Jasmine Theatre Project – a professional theatre-making unit that creates urban Indian plays through the exploration of intersectional issues such as caste, gender, sexuality and identity. Watch a digital work here.
Theatre Lab (Youth) – an annual pedagogical programme for young people run by Kirtana..
World Guitar Nights – a biennial international guitar festival curated and hosted by Konarak
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Infinite Souls is looking for an artist who seeks nature and solitude; who works in the field of arts academia, music, film, theatre and associated practices.
Recent bangaloREsident@Infinite Souls Farm and Artists Retreat:
♦ Kris Merken
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Jaaga.
Jaaga builds collaborative communities to address urban issues through researched arts and design practices in collaboration with public and private, grassroots organisations.
Jaaga is a collaborative co-working community of design, tech and social entrepreneurs. Our co-working space is housed in a 650 sq. m. penthouse in the heart of Bangalore with the city’s most interesting independent techies and designers. Since its inception in 2009, Jaaga has followed an organic framework to encourage meaningful collaborations between individuals working within the fields of art, technology and activism.
Jaaga has incubated BeFantastic.in, a platform that brings together transdisciplinary practices of art and technology with a commitment to envision an open and optimistic vision for the future. BeFantastic emerged from the city’s first TechArt festival titled Bengaluru Fantastic which took place at the heart of the city in December 2017 spread over 3 days. The festival had over 30 pieces of tech-art, in addition to music and dance performances, workshops, talks, panels & screenings. From this first edition, BeFantastic has sought to align the engagements with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and this is a commitment that has persisted through subsequent activities.
BeFantastic facilitates creative interactions for the digital era through their annual online Fellowship programmes. Working specifically at various intersections of art and technology, they have sought to bring together a global community of TechArt enthusiasts through creative and critical engagements through BeFantastic Pivot (2020) and BeFantastic Together (2021). Following the curatorial direction of ‘Techart for Climate Action’, they are organising this year’s flagship Fellowship in 2022, titled BeFantastic Within and BeFantastic Beyond. All these engagements are geared towards a public TechArt festival that is to be organised physically across Bengaluru in 2023 titled Future Fantastic. Also do explore their AI-based chatbots titled Radbots.
Future Fantastic is envisioned as an AI+Art festival that brings together cutting-edge art practices and discourses within this expanded field to Bangalore. Guided by the ethos of climate justice and Jaaga’s dedication to working in public spaces, it hopes to create a space for dialogue around the various dimensions of the ongoing climate emergency through interventions mediated by the leading practitioners in various relevant fields. Towards this end, BeFantastic Within has been conceptualised as a Fellowship marrying the worlds of performance and AI, and BeFantastic Beyond is to revolve around visual art practices that incorporates various emerging technologies. You can explore their more recent activities through the newsletter archive.
Profile of the next bangaloREsident:
Jaaga’s BeFantastic chooses residents based on their work and demonstrated interest to connect and explore cities through participatory creative practice that intersects art, technology and activism. Their team provides a window into the heart of Bangalore’s cultural, tech and activist circles and will guide their guests’ experience of the city through a nuanced and informed lens. Residents are expected to honour the unique perspective and connections on offer with their own work and fresh perspectives, and are invited to hold work collaboratively with selected artists from Bangalore.
If you are a bangaloREsident@Jaaga, you will also be given the opportunity to contribute to Future Fantastic in 2023, alongside key figures working in the fields of AI, TechArt and climate action from around the world. BeFantastic is particularly interested in artists, choreographers, creative directors, creative technologists, filmmakers who are interested in tech, coding, and creating interactive online digital art for performances, or tech-art installations, with a special interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Please note:
We no longer have a dedicated residency space in the city center. Information about accommodation may change at short notice. Our Living Building is nomadic and has moved 6 times in the last ten years.
Recent bangaloREsident@Jaaga:
♦ Walter Solon
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Jaaga builds collaborative communities to address urban issues through researched arts and design practices in collaboration with public and private, grassroots organisations.
Jaaga is a collaborative co-working community of design, tech and social entrepreneurs. Our co-working space is housed in a 650 sq. m. penthouse in the heart of Bangalore with the city’s most interesting independent techies and designers. Since its inception in 2009, Jaaga has followed an organic framework to encourage meaningful collaborations between individuals working within the fields of art, technology and activism.
Jaaga has incubated BeFantastic.in, a platform that brings together transdisciplinary practices of art and technology with a commitment to envision an open and optimistic vision for the future. BeFantastic emerged from the city’s first TechArt festival titled Bengaluru Fantastic which took place at the heart of the city in December 2017 spread over 3 days. The festival had over 30 pieces of tech-art, in addition to music and dance performances, workshops, talks, panels & screenings. From this first edition, BeFantastic has sought to align the engagements with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and this is a commitment that has persisted through subsequent activities.
BeFantastic facilitates creative interactions for the digital era through their annual online Fellowship programmes. Working specifically at various intersections of art and technology, they have sought to bring together a global community of TechArt enthusiasts through creative and critical engagements through BeFantastic Pivot (2020) and BeFantastic Together (2021). Following the curatorial direction of ‘Techart for Climate Action’, they are organising this year’s flagship Fellowship in 2022, titled BeFantastic Within and BeFantastic Beyond. All these engagements are geared towards a public TechArt festival that is to be organised physically across Bengaluru in 2023 titled Future Fantastic. Also do explore their AI-based chatbots titled Radbots.
Future Fantastic is envisioned as an AI+Art festival that brings together cutting-edge art practices and discourses within this expanded field to Bangalore. Guided by the ethos of climate justice and Jaaga’s dedication to working in public spaces, it hopes to create a space for dialogue around the various dimensions of the ongoing climate emergency through interventions mediated by the leading practitioners in various relevant fields. Towards this end, BeFantastic Within has been conceptualised as a Fellowship marrying the worlds of performance and AI, and BeFantastic Beyond is to revolve around visual art practices that incorporates various emerging technologies. You can explore their more recent activities through the newsletter archive.
Profile of the next bangaloREsident:
Jaaga’s BeFantastic chooses residents based on their work and demonstrated interest to connect and explore cities through participatory creative practice that intersects art, technology and activism. Their team provides a window into the heart of Bangalore’s cultural, tech and activist circles and will guide their guests’ experience of the city through a nuanced and informed lens. Residents are expected to honour the unique perspective and connections on offer with their own work and fresh perspectives, and are invited to hold work collaboratively with selected artists from Bangalore.
If you are a bangaloREsident@Jaaga, you will also be given the opportunity to contribute to Future Fantastic in 2023, alongside key figures working in the fields of AI, TechArt and climate action from around the world. BeFantastic is particularly interested in artists, choreographers, creative directors, creative technologists, filmmakers who are interested in tech, coding, and creating interactive online digital art for performances, or tech-art installations, with a special interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Please note:
We no longer have a dedicated residency space in the city center. Information about accommodation may change at short notice. Our Living Building is nomadic and has moved 6 times in the last ten years.
Recent bangaloREsident@Jaaga:
♦ Walter Solon
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Jagriti Theatre.
Artistic Vision
Since Jagriti Theatre opened in January 2011, it has always sought to create and sustain performance art practice in the city. It has continuously supported emerging talent in theatre, music, dance and comedy. As well as young artists in the city, providing professional spaces to showcase talent. It has provided sustainable work opportunities for artists, arts managers and theatre educators.
As we re-examine the idea of performance and live engagement in a post-pandemic world, Jagriti will continue to work towards creating space for artistic collaboration, community engagement through the arts and interdisciplinary arts education opportunities. With a commitment to embrace a more diverse, culturally impactful and inclusive construct of art and performance.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"Jagriti is looking to collaborate with artists who have an interest in creating site-specific work imagining the various spaces and architecture of Jagriti Theatre.
We are keenly interested in collaborating and creating work with performance artists with an interest in multi-disciplinary performance design, integrating cultural practice with performance, and challenging performance language through innovations in design (sound, lighting, body mapping).
We are also interested in collaborations and continued conversations with artists and academics who are challenging existing notions of art practice with respect to gender and the experience of creating work as women in the arts."
- Arundhati Raja
Recent bangaloREsident@Jagriti:
♦ Paul Affeld
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Artistic Vision
Since Jagriti Theatre opened in January 2011, it has always sought to create and sustain performance art practice in the city. It has continuously supported emerging talent in theatre, music, dance and comedy. As well as young artists in the city, providing professional spaces to showcase talent. It has provided sustainable work opportunities for artists, arts managers and theatre educators.
As we re-examine the idea of performance and live engagement in a post-pandemic world, Jagriti will continue to work towards creating space for artistic collaboration, community engagement through the arts and interdisciplinary arts education opportunities. With a commitment to embrace a more diverse, culturally impactful and inclusive construct of art and performance.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"Jagriti is looking to collaborate with artists who have an interest in creating site-specific work imagining the various spaces and architecture of Jagriti Theatre.
We are keenly interested in collaborating and creating work with performance artists with an interest in multi-disciplinary performance design, integrating cultural practice with performance, and challenging performance language through innovations in design (sound, lighting, body mapping).
We are also interested in collaborations and continued conversations with artists and academics who are challenging existing notions of art practice with respect to gender and the experience of creating work as women in the arts."
- Arundhati Raja
Recent bangaloREsident@Jagriti:
♦ Paul Affeld
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Kāṇike.
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.
Profile of our first-ever 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 or in response to them.
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.
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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.
Profile of our first-ever 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 or in response to them.
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.
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Maraa.
Maraa is a media and arts collective founded in 2008. We are registered as a public charitable trust. The collective and the individuals within it share a symbiotic relationship: while the collective is influenced by the ideas, passion and rigour of the individuals within it; they in turn nurture and sustain the collective’s body, its history and its experience.
Rather than a thematic focus on issues, our arts and media practices are located at the intersection of gender, labour, caste and religion. We highlight imaginations and histories that are systematically suppressed, censored and reductively framed. Our work involves research, writing and documentation; practice and production. We work with community media, theatre, music and film.
We believe everyone has a right to access and use media, and work to democratise and diversify its use. Critical of the biases and gaps in mainstream media, our work highlights connections between media ownership, technology and social realities.
In contrast to approaches that use arts and culture instrumentally to achieve other purposes (political or economic), we see cultural politics as a primary site of our work. We are attentive to differences in lived experience, worldviews and aspirations that can challenge the dominant frames within which knowledge is produced. We highlight daily discrimination, violence, resistance and resilience.
A collective structure helps us to critically engage with and strengthen each other’s work while minimising hierarchy and individualism. We collectively determine pay scales. The members of the collective are multilingual, which helps us to imagine the world around us in different textures. We nurture long-term collaborations and friendships with the people we work with: creating, searching and supporting peoples' collectives, artists and unorganised groups. We occupy public, transient and found spaces in the spirit of collaboration and interdependence. We imagine our work as a long continuous journey of learning and unlearning, breaking and forming.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Maraa is currently working on various arts and community media practices. We work closely with theatre artists, musicians, sound artists and film-makers to highlight diverse histories and experiences of the city. We work closely with various communities in Bangalore and across the country, specifically communities that face marginalisation due to their caste, class and religious identities. We are looking for collaborators across any of the above mentioned artistic practices who are interested to explore questions of migrant, memory, place, violence, discrimination and resilience in daily life.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Maraa:
♦ Carlos Andrés Rico
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Maraa is a media and arts collective founded in 2008. We are registered as a public charitable trust. The collective and the individuals within it share a symbiotic relationship: while the collective is influenced by the ideas, passion and rigour of the individuals within it; they in turn nurture and sustain the collective’s body, its history and its experience.
Rather than a thematic focus on issues, our arts and media practices are located at the intersection of gender, labour, caste and religion. We highlight imaginations and histories that are systematically suppressed, censored and reductively framed. Our work involves research, writing and documentation; practice and production. We work with community media, theatre, music and film.
We believe everyone has a right to access and use media, and work to democratise and diversify its use. Critical of the biases and gaps in mainstream media, our work highlights connections between media ownership, technology and social realities.
In contrast to approaches that use arts and culture instrumentally to achieve other purposes (political or economic), we see cultural politics as a primary site of our work. We are attentive to differences in lived experience, worldviews and aspirations that can challenge the dominant frames within which knowledge is produced. We highlight daily discrimination, violence, resistance and resilience.
A collective structure helps us to critically engage with and strengthen each other’s work while minimising hierarchy and individualism. We collectively determine pay scales. The members of the collective are multilingual, which helps us to imagine the world around us in different textures. We nurture long-term collaborations and friendships with the people we work with: creating, searching and supporting peoples' collectives, artists and unorganised groups. We occupy public, transient and found spaces in the spirit of collaboration and interdependence. We imagine our work as a long continuous journey of learning and unlearning, breaking and forming.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
Maraa is currently working on various arts and community media practices. We work closely with theatre artists, musicians, sound artists and film-makers to highlight diverse histories and experiences of the city. We work closely with various communities in Bangalore and across the country, specifically communities that face marginalisation due to their caste, class and religious identities. We are looking for collaborators across any of the above mentioned artistic practices who are interested to explore questions of migrant, memory, place, violence, discrimination and resilience in daily life.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Maraa:
♦ Carlos Andrés Rico
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with MOD Foundation.
MOD Foundation is an interdisciplinary urban action and research institute based in Berlin and Bangalore. It was founded in 2010 to link the scientific gap between the Western and Southern dichotomy of urban planning discourses and to identify application-oriented solutions. MOD’s work focuses on the question of urbanity in all its forms and its representation from the intellectual debate, cultural connotation up to the visualisation of contemporary transformation processes into the urban fabric. The scale of neighbourhood plays an important role in our work – as an anchor for addressing urban design as a practice for everyone.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"MOD is currently working on setting up a City Laboratory at its premises in Cobalt BLR, Church Street, Bangalore and is looking for a resident who can investigate the idea of the document as a mode of engagement. Artists are invited to engage with the city of Bangalore as the documented city using, but not restricted to, ways of mapping and visualising the city. The invitation is to read, investigate and take stock of the city as a body under surgery. The call is open to artists, scholars, photographers, filmmakers and experts across civic society to propose and engage with innovative methods to archive the city as a condition.
The resident will work in close collaboration with the MOD team and work out of Cobalt BLR."
- Naresh Narasimhan
Please note:
Before applying, the proposed project/concept of art in the public space and how it will fit into the urban situation in Bangalore should be clarified.
Most recent bangaloREsident@MOD:
♦ Sandra Havlicek
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MOD Foundation is an interdisciplinary urban action and research institute based in Berlin and Bangalore. It was founded in 2010 to link the scientific gap between the Western and Southern dichotomy of urban planning discourses and to identify application-oriented solutions. MOD’s work focuses on the question of urbanity in all its forms and its representation from the intellectual debate, cultural connotation up to the visualisation of contemporary transformation processes into the urban fabric. The scale of neighbourhood plays an important role in our work – as an anchor for addressing urban design as a practice for everyone.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"MOD is currently working on setting up a City Laboratory at its premises in Cobalt BLR, Church Street, Bangalore and is looking for a resident who can investigate the idea of the document as a mode of engagement. Artists are invited to engage with the city of Bangalore as the documented city using, but not restricted to, ways of mapping and visualising the city. The invitation is to read, investigate and take stock of the city as a body under surgery. The call is open to artists, scholars, photographers, filmmakers and experts across civic society to propose and engage with innovative methods to archive the city as a condition.
The resident will work in close collaboration with the MOD team and work out of Cobalt BLR."
- Naresh Narasimhan
Please note:
Before applying, the proposed project/concept of art in the public space and how it will fit into the urban situation in Bangalore should be clarified.
Most recent bangaloREsident@MOD:
♦ Sandra Havlicek
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Pepper House Residency, an ongoing artist residency project and part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, run by the Kochi Biennale Foundation with the generous support of Malabar Escapes. Kochi lies south of Bangalore, an hour away from Bangalore by plane and is therefore integrated into the bangaloREsidency in a slightly different manner.
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is India’s first biennial festival of contemporary art, held every two years in the historic port city of Kochi and surrounding Islands. Pepper House Residency, that runs between the biennial Festivals, aims to attract both local and international artists, practitioners, scholars and researchers to work together and share information in areas such as art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields.
Please note:
Our bangaloREsidents@Pepper House have had a wonderful experience in Kochi and some of them displayed their works in the Pepper House Residency Exhibition, a collateral event at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Recent bangaloREsidents@Pepper House:
♦ Flo Maak
♦ Juliane Tübke
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The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is India’s first biennial festival of contemporary art, held every two years in the historic port city of Kochi and surrounding Islands. Pepper House Residency, that runs between the biennial Festivals, aims to attract both local and international artists, practitioners, scholars and researchers to work together and share information in areas such as art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields.
Please note:
Our bangaloREsidents@Pepper House have had a wonderful experience in Kochi and some of them displayed their works in the Pepper House Residency Exhibition, a collateral event at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Recent bangaloREsidents@Pepper House:
♦ Flo Maak
♦ Juliane Tübke
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Play Practice. Play Practice is an artist residency programme, started in 2014 as a project from Bangalore Dance Collective, a non-profit organisation initiated by Abhilash Ningappa and various artists/collaborators working together with a firm belief in contemporary performing and movement art projects.
Play Practice organises every year Apprenticeship programs, Residencies for artists to create their own works. Additionally Play Practice organises workshops by teachers from various movement art disciplines as well as martial arts, Indian classical and folk dance, focused mainly for movement researchers.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident: We would like to invite Interdisciplinary movement and performing artists to live and create in a quiet artistic space run by artists from India. We are away from the city and the artists work in a peaceful space for in-depth concentration on research and the creative process, in bangalore's refreshing sunny weather.The resident artist will have a private room in a shared apartment and access to dance studios with wooden sprung floors. Play Practice Artists Residency is primarily a working space for diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice, as well as offering a presentation at the end of the residency. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Bangalore.
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Play Practice organises every year Apprenticeship programs, Residencies for artists to create their own works. Additionally Play Practice organises workshops by teachers from various movement art disciplines as well as martial arts, Indian classical and folk dance, focused mainly for movement researchers.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident: We would like to invite Interdisciplinary movement and performing artists to live and create in a quiet artistic space run by artists from India. We are away from the city and the artists work in a peaceful space for in-depth concentration on research and the creative process, in bangalore's refreshing sunny weather.The resident artist will have a private room in a shared apartment and access to dance studios with wooden sprung floors. Play Practice Artists Residency is primarily a working space for diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice, as well as offering a presentation at the end of the residency. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Bangalore.
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Natya & STEM Dance Kampni, which inhabits the public domain with the belief that dance is a potent medium of both unfettered expression and change.
The Kampni is an amalgamation of two pioneering institutions - one of India’s first academies - The Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography and Bangalore’s first Indian contemporary dance company - the STEM (Space. Time. Energy. Movement) Dance Kampni headed by Choreographer, Artpreneur and Educator, Madhu Nataraj.
The Kampni believes that Dance does not exist in isolation and Collaboration is its leitmotif. The Kampni houses 3 core verticals - 1. Training and Education Division, featuring:
*India’s only dedicated institute for the study of Choreography
*Hybrid Skill diplomas in Choreography and in Kathak (Foundation and Intermediate)
*Proficiency courses and community training in Kathak and Indian Contemporary Dance
2. Performing Unit that has toured more than 36 countries with a unique movement vocabulary and distinct repertoire
3. Outreach projects in the areas of empowerment, creativity, healing, inclusivity and transformation. To mention a few:
- Shiksha - Dance in education projects
- MovEd - Movement arts for children in rural areas and urban slums
- Creativity Unplugged - Creativity & wellness workshops,
- Sankalan - Research, digitising, archiving and dance documentation
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
“Namaskar!
Our Kampni is a fecund ground for limitless, creative possibilities.
Bangalore is a city where tradition and modernity both collide and merge. Our space resonates this ethos in many ways.
In the past, we have had residents ranging from avant-garde photo artists / filmmakers, dance therapists, movement analysts and our wonderful resident for 2022 was a Mixed Realities artist.
At this point we are looking for Movement artists who inhabit the spaces of teaching, pedagogy development and performance.
Our bangaloREsident will get an opportunity to interact and work with diverse communities and travel with the Kampni on projects and performances. Not to mention copious amounts of South Indian filter coffee!"
- Madhu Nataraj
Most recent bangaloREsident@Natya & STEM Dance Kampni:
♦ Björn Lengers
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The Kampni is an amalgamation of two pioneering institutions - one of India’s first academies - The Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography and Bangalore’s first Indian contemporary dance company - the STEM (Space. Time. Energy. Movement) Dance Kampni headed by Choreographer, Artpreneur and Educator, Madhu Nataraj.
The Kampni believes that Dance does not exist in isolation and Collaboration is its leitmotif. The Kampni houses 3 core verticals - 1. Training and Education Division, featuring:
*India’s only dedicated institute for the study of Choreography
*Hybrid Skill diplomas in Choreography and in Kathak (Foundation and Intermediate)
*Proficiency courses and community training in Kathak and Indian Contemporary Dance
2. Performing Unit that has toured more than 36 countries with a unique movement vocabulary and distinct repertoire
3. Outreach projects in the areas of empowerment, creativity, healing, inclusivity and transformation. To mention a few:
- Shiksha - Dance in education projects
- MovEd - Movement arts for children in rural areas and urban slums
- Creativity Unplugged - Creativity & wellness workshops,
- Sankalan - Research, digitising, archiving and dance documentation
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
“Namaskar!
Our Kampni is a fecund ground for limitless, creative possibilities.
Bangalore is a city where tradition and modernity both collide and merge. Our space resonates this ethos in many ways.
In the past, we have had residents ranging from avant-garde photo artists / filmmakers, dance therapists, movement analysts and our wonderful resident for 2022 was a Mixed Realities artist.
At this point we are looking for Movement artists who inhabit the spaces of teaching, pedagogy development and performance.
Our bangaloREsident will get an opportunity to interact and work with diverse communities and travel with the Kampni on projects and performances. Not to mention copious amounts of South Indian filter coffee!"
- Madhu Nataraj
Most recent bangaloREsident@Natya & STEM Dance Kampni:
♦ Björn Lengers
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Ranga Shankara.
Ranga Shankara, a world-class theatre facility, is located in the South of Bangalore. It is the most affordable theatre space in India today. Born from a dream envisioned by actor-director Shankar Nag, the theatre is a celebration of artistic excellence. Theatre actor Arundhati Nag worked tirelessly for 10 years with the support of selfless contributions made by hundreds of donors to make his dream a reality.
Ranga Shankara is dedicated to showcasing theatrical performances from India and abroad, to producing and commissioning new and innovative theatre forms and productions, and facilitating outreach programmes to build audiences for theatre and to impart theatre skills. Although there is no repertory, relentless theatre happens every day at Ranga Shankara; which has become a space for the community to come together through participation, dialogue and celebration of the spirit of the arts, thereby making the space their own. With a thrust stage that has a floor area of 1750 sq ft., four green rooms and the very best of sound, lighting, and technical facilities and capacity of 320, Ranga Shankara has hosted varied forms of theatre right from classical theatre to musicals and experimental theatre, in English and all South Indian and several other regional languages.
Workshops at Ranga Shankara are driven by the idea of enhancing the skills of the theatre community and ensuring that we engender trained and skilled theatre practitioners of all aspects of theatre. Ranga Shankara actively seeks out participants, contacting local theatre troupes and often subsidising registration costs for their members. We look for partners when we conduct our skills workshops so that we can make the best Indian and international faculty available to our participants. In the past, we have partnered with National School of Drama, Schnawwl Theatre, Mannheim, Grips Theatre, and the Goethe-Institut to conduct workshops on lighting and stage design, acting, and scripting.
AHA! is an expression of wonder, excitement and fulfillment that has no language barriers. That’s what we call our children’s theatre programme because those are all the emotions that theatre brings to us, whether as an audience or as performers.
AHA! is Ranga Shankara’s most ambitious programme to date and brings theatre in all its aspects to younger people. A sustained programme that reaches out to over 1500 children from all backgrounds every month, AHA! believes in giving children the theatre that they want, with their concerns, their hopes and ambitions. From the time of its inception in 2006, AHA! has resulted in 6 International Theatre for Children Festivals, 7 seasons of summer workshops and 7 children's productions. Over 2,50,000 children, of which 40% are from underprivileged circumstances, have explored the magical world of theatre through the AHA! project.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
“We are looking for a theatre practitioner who will engage with our local community of practitioners, artists and directors by sharing her/his/their process, and performance-making techniques of contemporary German theatre. This can be in the form of a mutually-designed workshop by the practitioner and Ranga Shankara. The resident should be able to communicate in English. The residency will culminate in a sharing/presentation with our audience in the form of a short performance and conversations.”
Recent bangaloREsident@Ranga Shankara:
♦ Urs Dietrich
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Ranga Shankara, a world-class theatre facility, is located in the South of Bangalore. It is the most affordable theatre space in India today. Born from a dream envisioned by actor-director Shankar Nag, the theatre is a celebration of artistic excellence. Theatre actor Arundhati Nag worked tirelessly for 10 years with the support of selfless contributions made by hundreds of donors to make his dream a reality.
Ranga Shankara is dedicated to showcasing theatrical performances from India and abroad, to producing and commissioning new and innovative theatre forms and productions, and facilitating outreach programmes to build audiences for theatre and to impart theatre skills. Although there is no repertory, relentless theatre happens every day at Ranga Shankara; which has become a space for the community to come together through participation, dialogue and celebration of the spirit of the arts, thereby making the space their own. With a thrust stage that has a floor area of 1750 sq ft., four green rooms and the very best of sound, lighting, and technical facilities and capacity of 320, Ranga Shankara has hosted varied forms of theatre right from classical theatre to musicals and experimental theatre, in English and all South Indian and several other regional languages.
Workshops at Ranga Shankara are driven by the idea of enhancing the skills of the theatre community and ensuring that we engender trained and skilled theatre practitioners of all aspects of theatre. Ranga Shankara actively seeks out participants, contacting local theatre troupes and often subsidising registration costs for their members. We look for partners when we conduct our skills workshops so that we can make the best Indian and international faculty available to our participants. In the past, we have partnered with National School of Drama, Schnawwl Theatre, Mannheim, Grips Theatre, and the Goethe-Institut to conduct workshops on lighting and stage design, acting, and scripting.
AHA! is an expression of wonder, excitement and fulfillment that has no language barriers. That’s what we call our children’s theatre programme because those are all the emotions that theatre brings to us, whether as an audience or as performers.
AHA! is Ranga Shankara’s most ambitious programme to date and brings theatre in all its aspects to younger people. A sustained programme that reaches out to over 1500 children from all backgrounds every month, AHA! believes in giving children the theatre that they want, with their concerns, their hopes and ambitions. From the time of its inception in 2006, AHA! has resulted in 6 International Theatre for Children Festivals, 7 seasons of summer workshops and 7 children's productions. Over 2,50,000 children, of which 40% are from underprivileged circumstances, have explored the magical world of theatre through the AHA! project.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
“We are looking for a theatre practitioner who will engage with our local community of practitioners, artists and directors by sharing her/his/their process, and performance-making techniques of contemporary German theatre. This can be in the form of a mutually-designed workshop by the practitioner and Ranga Shankara. The resident should be able to communicate in English. The residency will culminate in a sharing/presentation with our audience in the form of a short performance and conversations.”
Recent bangaloREsident@Ranga Shankara:
♦ Urs Dietrich
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Sandbox Collective.
Sandbox Collective was founded, and is led by Nimi Ravindran and Shiva Pathak, who have worked extensively in theatre, in various capacities as both artists, curators and administrators for over 20 years. In the eight years of its existence Sandbox Collective has completed over 750 performances across the country and internationally.
An organisation led by artists, Sandbox was born of a collective dream of creating a more culturally vibrant landscape for our cities. We have created and produced shows as well as worked with artists and cultural institutions globally to present theatre, music, dance and visual arts both in traditional as well as alternative spaces. Sandbox Collective has also curated numerous arts exchanges and arts and performance festivals across India.
We have collaborated and partnered with internationally acclaimed companies like Rimini Protokoll, Compagnie Nicole Seiler, Trickster-p and Cie Gilles Jobin among others. We have also produced and presented works from India globally.
As an organisation led by feminists our area of special focus is gender and gender equality, and the right to freedom of speech and expression.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"Our ideal resident is an artist whose core values align with our own. They could be performers, visual artists, writers or interdisciplinary artists working in any medium."
- Nimi Ravindran & Shiva Pathak
Most recent bangaloREsident@Sandbox Collective:
♦ Leo Ahlers
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Sandbox Collective was founded, and is led by Nimi Ravindran and Shiva Pathak, who have worked extensively in theatre, in various capacities as both artists, curators and administrators for over 20 years. In the eight years of its existence Sandbox Collective has completed over 750 performances across the country and internationally.
An organisation led by artists, Sandbox was born of a collective dream of creating a more culturally vibrant landscape for our cities. We have created and produced shows as well as worked with artists and cultural institutions globally to present theatre, music, dance and visual arts both in traditional as well as alternative spaces. Sandbox Collective has also curated numerous arts exchanges and arts and performance festivals across India.
We have collaborated and partnered with internationally acclaimed companies like Rimini Protokoll, Compagnie Nicole Seiler, Trickster-p and Cie Gilles Jobin among others. We have also produced and presented works from India globally.
As an organisation led by feminists our area of special focus is gender and gender equality, and the right to freedom of speech and expression.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"Our ideal resident is an artist whose core values align with our own. They could be performers, visual artists, writers or interdisciplinary artists working in any medium."
- Nimi Ravindran & Shiva Pathak
Most recent bangaloREsident@Sandbox Collective:
♦ Leo Ahlers
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with
Sangam House. Sangam House hosts writers from across the world and India for three months each winter. The Sangam House residency program is designed to give writers the time and space that they need to work, as well as ensure a safe and supportive environment for them. We host up to five writers each month.
Typically, half our writers are Indian, working in English and other Indian languages and the other half come to us from other countries – Korea, Australia, the US, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Zimbabwe are some of the nationalities that have been represented at Sangam House.
While much of our day is dedicated to solitary work, we tend to eat dinner together each night. Sangam House believes in the fostering of a peer community amongst its residents through free-wheeling conversations and informal readings. We also create opportunities for our writers to meet local writers and interact with literary groups and communities in the city.
We are currently located in a large, airy house in a quiet, leafy suburb of Bangalore, at the Jamun.
Profile for our first bangaloREsident:
Poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists, non-fiction writers, screen writers, you are all welcome.
For more information or queries, write to arshia.sangam@gmail.com
Sangam House. Sangam House hosts writers from across the world and India for three months each winter. The Sangam House residency program is designed to give writers the time and space that they need to work, as well as ensure a safe and supportive environment for them. We host up to five writers each month.
Typically, half our writers are Indian, working in English and other Indian languages and the other half come to us from other countries – Korea, Australia, the US, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Zimbabwe are some of the nationalities that have been represented at Sangam House.
While much of our day is dedicated to solitary work, we tend to eat dinner together each night. Sangam House believes in the fostering of a peer community amongst its residents through free-wheeling conversations and informal readings. We also create opportunities for our writers to meet local writers and interact with literary groups and communities in the city.
We are currently located in a large, airy house in a quiet, leafy suburb of Bangalore, at the Jamun.
Profile for our first bangaloREsident:
Poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists, non-fiction writers, screen writers, you are all welcome.
For more information or queries, write to arshia.sangam@gmail.com
The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB), a not-for-profit public institution for research-based engagement targeted at young adults.
Science Gallery's motto ‘Science Culture Experiment’ redefines public engagement in science to move beyond participation towards active experimentation. Our mission is to ‘bring science back into culture’ through:
- Empowering Young Adults with our Mentorship Initiative that encourages non-evaluative, self-motivated, hands-on learning. We provide exposure to research practices and nurture future research pioneers and active citizens.
- Open Research at our Public Lab Complex that encourages open-ended experiments through collaborations for young adults and experts. We provide access to research tools and outcomes outside institutional walls to catalyse antidisciplinary thinking and intergenerational co-inquiry.
- Shaping Culture with our Public Engagement and Community Initiatives that contribute to building a society with critical appreciation for the rigour of science, an ability to ask good questions, and participate in better-informed public debates.
SGB works at the interface between the human, natural and social sciences, engineering and the arts through a pioneering Public Lab Complex, ever-changing exhibition-seasons, and mentorship programmes.
SGB is established with the founding support of the Government of Karnataka and three academic partners - Indian Institute of Science, National Centre for Biological Sciences, and Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. It is a member of the Global Science Gallery Network with sister galleries in Atlanta, Berlin, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Monterrey, and Rotterdam.
SGB looks forward to welcoming our very first bangaloREsident to our new building in 2023. The resident will have the opportunity to be a part of our exhibition-season CARBON.
The bangaloREsident will have access to various experts — artists and scholars — working on and with carbon, who are a part of the exhibition and related programming at the Gallery. They will also have access to a deep list of research and resources around the theme of the exhibition. We imagine that outcomes of the residency could potentially feed into the exhibition, its programmes and publications.
Profile of the first-ever bangaloREsident@SGB:
We welcome artists working in any medium which includes but is not limited to visual arts, mixed media, sound, video, performance, craft, AR/VR, generative art, game design and socially-engaged art. We are especially interested in artists who are interested in connecting, through the theme of the exhibition-season, with any one or more of our six upcoming experimental spaces — Natural Sciences Lab, Materials Lab, Food Lab, New Media Lab, Black Box Theatre and Humanities Lab.
We would like the artists to engage with the exhibition-season CARBON. We expect the bangaloREsident to create a public engagement programme for the city in a format of their choice including but not limited to workshops, masterclasses or public talks.
We encourage the artists to document their time in residence in the form of reflective lab notes or journal notes that can be archived as knowledge commons and made available through our commitment to Open Access.
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Science Gallery's motto ‘Science Culture Experiment’ redefines public engagement in science to move beyond participation towards active experimentation. Our mission is to ‘bring science back into culture’ through:
- Empowering Young Adults with our Mentorship Initiative that encourages non-evaluative, self-motivated, hands-on learning. We provide exposure to research practices and nurture future research pioneers and active citizens.
- Open Research at our Public Lab Complex that encourages open-ended experiments through collaborations for young adults and experts. We provide access to research tools and outcomes outside institutional walls to catalyse antidisciplinary thinking and intergenerational co-inquiry.
- Shaping Culture with our Public Engagement and Community Initiatives that contribute to building a society with critical appreciation for the rigour of science, an ability to ask good questions, and participate in better-informed public debates.
SGB works at the interface between the human, natural and social sciences, engineering and the arts through a pioneering Public Lab Complex, ever-changing exhibition-seasons, and mentorship programmes.
SGB is established with the founding support of the Government of Karnataka and three academic partners - Indian Institute of Science, National Centre for Biological Sciences, and Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. It is a member of the Global Science Gallery Network with sister galleries in Atlanta, Berlin, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Monterrey, and Rotterdam.
SGB looks forward to welcoming our very first bangaloREsident to our new building in 2023. The resident will have the opportunity to be a part of our exhibition-season CARBON.
The bangaloREsident will have access to various experts — artists and scholars — working on and with carbon, who are a part of the exhibition and related programming at the Gallery. They will also have access to a deep list of research and resources around the theme of the exhibition. We imagine that outcomes of the residency could potentially feed into the exhibition, its programmes and publications.
Profile of the first-ever bangaloREsident@SGB:
We welcome artists working in any medium which includes but is not limited to visual arts, mixed media, sound, video, performance, craft, AR/VR, generative art, game design and socially-engaged art. We are especially interested in artists who are interested in connecting, through the theme of the exhibition-season, with any one or more of our six upcoming experimental spaces — Natural Sciences Lab, Materials Lab, Food Lab, New Media Lab, Black Box Theatre and Humanities Lab.
We would like the artists to engage with the exhibition-season CARBON. We expect the bangaloREsident to create a public engagement programme for the city in a format of their choice including but not limited to workshops, masterclasses or public talks.
We encourage the artists to document their time in residence in the form of reflective lab notes or journal notes that can be archived as knowledge commons and made available through our commitment to Open Access.
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan runs a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Shoonya - Centre for Art and Somatic Practices.
Shoonya is a multi-arts centre that was set up in 2014 with the aim of facilitating a deeper engagement with oneself and the world around us through the mediums of art and somatic practices. We offer artists, practitioners and the community a range of opportunities - individual sessions, classes, workshops, rehearsal space, performances, discussions - across the genres of somatic art, dance, theatre, film, music and literature. We seek to further the growth of the arts and somatic practices, increase community participation and ownership in these areas and enable interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations.
Shoonya is home to Citizens of Stage Co Lab, a collective of independent dancers who strive to share movement and dance with working professionals, students, artists, sportspeople, homemakers, and the community at large. Based out of the state-of-the-art studios at Shoonya, it offers classes, workshops, and performances that combine technical skill, somatic awareness, and creativity. Ranging from mid-career artists to more recent entrants to the field, it is bound by the belief that "minds evolve when bodies dance."
The collective has been working with artists from different spaces to create work which is culturally significant and interventionist but which is also viable and accessible to the community (with the aim of getting more people interested in contemporary dance).
bangaloREsidency@Shoonya
At Shoonya, we place equal importance on the artistic process, the journey, as we do on the final product, the destination. The former can take the shape of work-in-progress showings, research projects and exploration, teaching, discussions and open studios while the latter is usually a performance/exhibition. Both are openly shared with other artists and practitioners, as well as the larger community.
Profile of our bangaloREsident:
We are looking to host a performance artist or choreographer from the field of movement, dance or theatre - or practice that uses a mix of any or all of these.
You're a part of the Shoonya family, already. We look forward to meeting you soon and can hardly wait for this association to start.
Recent bangaloREsident@ Shoonya:
♦ Annelie Andre
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Shoonya is a multi-arts centre that was set up in 2014 with the aim of facilitating a deeper engagement with oneself and the world around us through the mediums of art and somatic practices. We offer artists, practitioners and the community a range of opportunities - individual sessions, classes, workshops, rehearsal space, performances, discussions - across the genres of somatic art, dance, theatre, film, music and literature. We seek to further the growth of the arts and somatic practices, increase community participation and ownership in these areas and enable interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations.
Shoonya is home to Citizens of Stage Co Lab, a collective of independent dancers who strive to share movement and dance with working professionals, students, artists, sportspeople, homemakers, and the community at large. Based out of the state-of-the-art studios at Shoonya, it offers classes, workshops, and performances that combine technical skill, somatic awareness, and creativity. Ranging from mid-career artists to more recent entrants to the field, it is bound by the belief that "minds evolve when bodies dance."
The collective has been working with artists from different spaces to create work which is culturally significant and interventionist but which is also viable and accessible to the community (with the aim of getting more people interested in contemporary dance).
bangaloREsidency@Shoonya
At Shoonya, we place equal importance on the artistic process, the journey, as we do on the final product, the destination. The former can take the shape of work-in-progress showings, research projects and exploration, teaching, discussions and open studios while the latter is usually a performance/exhibition. Both are openly shared with other artists and practitioners, as well as the larger community.
Profile of our bangaloREsident:
We are looking to host a performance artist or choreographer from the field of movement, dance or theatre - or practice that uses a mix of any or all of these.
- You will have the chance to engage with the movement artists and choreographers of our collective and draw on them for your research work or develop a piece on them. The collective consists of independent choreographers who have worked extensively, in international collaborations, under large companies and made their own individual work (through the collective, you will also get access to a whole community of movement and performance artists in the city).
- We will provide you with studio space and performance/exhibition space to realise your project.
- You will also get to attend their classes (in movement) at a subsidised fee.
- You will also get access to our programmes across genres, interaction with other artists, patrons and members of the larger community who visit the space.
- You will have access to all our programmes (which range from dance classes, somatic or healing-based workshops and performances over weekends), the space of course, the collective, visiting artists and the team.
- And through the former, the larger surrounding environment and community.
- You could follow the day-to-day activities that take place here, document/feature a specific project/practice in isolation or find your own narrative of the space.
- You could also document the activities of the collective specifically (a group of entrepreneurial dancers creating contemporary work and systems for sustainable arts practice in the Indian context).
You're a part of the Shoonya family, already. We look forward to meeting you soon and can hardly wait for this association to start.
Recent bangaloREsident@ Shoonya:
♦ Annelie Andre
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology. The project calls for artists and artist-researchers who are working with emerging art practices which includes experimental, hybrid, tangible media, computational arts, digital, socially engaged practices, performance as well as expanded & experimental cinema.
The Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology is an innovative, explorative and curatorial institute of media, arts and applied sciences. Srishti offers art and design education at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Its objective is to gather the latest art, craft, design ideas and practices from around the world to contextualise them within the emerging Indian environment. It aims to understand, communicate and address issues and concerns facing society and culture from a sustainable perspective. Srishti nurtures enquiry and creative action to capture the complex, dynamic richness of everyday reality.
Srishti’s Artist-in-Residence and Research Associate Programmes have attracted both local and global artists, teachers, practitioners, scholars and researchers to interact and share knowledge in all emerging cross-disciplinary areas such as art-science, business-design and technology-research. Over the years through its Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA), Srishti has been supporting and collaborating with artists and artist researchers who aim to explore new artistic practices through engagement in Srishti and Bangalore City.
The center aims to be a platform for experimentation encouraging trans and inter-disciplinary work that integrates diverse media, modalities and technologies. It provides a platform to critically examine the relationship between art, technology and society.
CEMA has worked on collaborative artistic projects in the areas of pure science, technology, tactical media, gender issues, tissue culture, synthetic biology, light, sound arts and sonification, cosmology etc. The Center aims to bring together practitioners from a wide variety of fields to create work, share ideas, and converse across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Srishti was set up in 1996 by Ujwal Trust (a not-for-profit educational trust). Education remains its core activity, even as its organic growth has led it into diverse areas of research, curation and practice. Over the years, Srishti has forged collaborations with a wide range of local and international institutions through faculty and student exchange, artist residencies, interventions, studio/lab, joint research and courses, symposia and workshops. These ensure a constant stream of creative practitioners working in new and emerging artistic practices, new medium, research areas and products. This is being done with the intention to constantly keep innovating and changing while responding to the current needs and opportunities as they emerge around us.
Current programmes include Independent Media, Contemporary Art Practice, Curatorial Practice, Public Art and Pedagogy, Experimental Media Arts, Design in Education, 3-D Design, Visual Communication, Textiles and Surfaces Design, Animation and Visual Effects, Toy Design and Interactivity - all built on a critical Liberal Arts and Humanities base. The interest in new media, experimental and hybrid media led to the setting up of the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) in 2007. Other centres set up around specific research interests are - Center for Education, Research, Training and Development (CERTAD), Center for Public History (CPH) and Srishti Innovation Labs (SLabs). More information on Srishti at www.srishti.ac.in.
Recent bangaloREsidents@Srishti:
♦ Lauryn Mannigel
♦ Freya Hattenberger & Peter Simon
♦ Lukas Matthaei & Nika Pfeifer
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The Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology is an innovative, explorative and curatorial institute of media, arts and applied sciences. Srishti offers art and design education at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Its objective is to gather the latest art, craft, design ideas and practices from around the world to contextualise them within the emerging Indian environment. It aims to understand, communicate and address issues and concerns facing society and culture from a sustainable perspective. Srishti nurtures enquiry and creative action to capture the complex, dynamic richness of everyday reality.
Srishti’s Artist-in-Residence and Research Associate Programmes have attracted both local and global artists, teachers, practitioners, scholars and researchers to interact and share knowledge in all emerging cross-disciplinary areas such as art-science, business-design and technology-research. Over the years through its Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA), Srishti has been supporting and collaborating with artists and artist researchers who aim to explore new artistic practices through engagement in Srishti and Bangalore City.
The center aims to be a platform for experimentation encouraging trans and inter-disciplinary work that integrates diverse media, modalities and technologies. It provides a platform to critically examine the relationship between art, technology and society.
CEMA has worked on collaborative artistic projects in the areas of pure science, technology, tactical media, gender issues, tissue culture, synthetic biology, light, sound arts and sonification, cosmology etc. The Center aims to bring together practitioners from a wide variety of fields to create work, share ideas, and converse across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Srishti was set up in 1996 by Ujwal Trust (a not-for-profit educational trust). Education remains its core activity, even as its organic growth has led it into diverse areas of research, curation and practice. Over the years, Srishti has forged collaborations with a wide range of local and international institutions through faculty and student exchange, artist residencies, interventions, studio/lab, joint research and courses, symposia and workshops. These ensure a constant stream of creative practitioners working in new and emerging artistic practices, new medium, research areas and products. This is being done with the intention to constantly keep innovating and changing while responding to the current needs and opportunities as they emerge around us.
Current programmes include Independent Media, Contemporary Art Practice, Curatorial Practice, Public Art and Pedagogy, Experimental Media Arts, Design in Education, 3-D Design, Visual Communication, Textiles and Surfaces Design, Animation and Visual Effects, Toy Design and Interactivity - all built on a critical Liberal Arts and Humanities base. The interest in new media, experimental and hybrid media led to the setting up of the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) in 2007. Other centres set up around specific research interests are - Center for Education, Research, Training and Development (CERTAD), Center for Public History (CPH) and Srishti Innovation Labs (SLabs). More information on Srishti at www.srishti.ac.in.
Recent bangaloREsidents@Srishti:
♦ Lauryn Mannigel
♦ Freya Hattenberger & Peter Simon
♦ Lukas Matthaei & Nika Pfeifer
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Suchitra - Purvankara Cinema and Cultural Foundation.
In August 1971, a group of young engineers interested in cinema came together to launch the Suchitra Film Society in Bangalore. The 1970s in Karnataka saw a surge in activities relating all aspects of art, culture and language. This period is seen as the new wave in literature, journalism, theatre and cinema.
Suchitra’s interest in cinema and its connection with the culture of Bangalore led it to expand its engagement with the arts, theatre, music, literature and languages. Having completed 50 successful years, Suchitra Film Society has built a reputation for being an important centre for film appreciation, performing arts and literature.
Inaugurating the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy at the site on January 8, 1980, Bharat Ratna, Special Oscar Award winner and India's greatest auteur of cinema, Satyajit Ray, said: "We need art theatres to find an outlet for good films. This is happening here, in Bangalore, for the first time (in India)." Moving forward, Suchitra continues to keep in mind the founding vision: to not only expose the audience to fine cinema and engage them in appreciation of it, but also to enable the makers of cinema and other moving-image media to improve their craft and expression.
Over the years, Suchitra Film Society campus has become a hub for the structural and critical discourse on different aspects of Filmmaking and Film Appreciation, by regularly organizing Indian & International film festivals, Seminars, Workshops, Master classes & interactions with the filmmakers, for the benefit of the budding filmmaking practitioners, discerning audiences and students. Through these film culture events, Suchitra Film Society aims at nurturing as well as enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the film art forms aesthetic, thematic & cinematic values, along with exploring the historical milestones, features and trends in contemporary filmmaking amongst the new generation screenwriters, filmmakers, artists and film buffs. Bangalore has also been recognised as an important centre for International film culture in keeping with Karnataka’s glorious heritage and the State’s achievements in the fields of literature, fine arts, and cinema. For this, film art and cultural organisation Suchitra Film Society's contribution is highly noteworthy.
The Suchitra Culture
• open for all
• global, but local
• academic and artistic, but accessible to the community
• professional, but not commercial
• public interest vision
• independent, but responsible
• liberal, but curated
Programmed activities at Suchitra Film Society relating to
• Cinema
• Theatre
• Literature
• Music & Performing Arts
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
• Focus on Filmmaking practice, film appreciation & film academics
• Exploring per year 300+ film producing Kannada Film Industry by visiting shoot locations and interacting with the filmmakers, film artists, Cinematographers and technicians
• Visiting and interacting with the reputed Kannada film industry's studios including Hombale films, KRG Studios, Paramvah Studios, Pushkar Films, Rishab Shetty Films, Media House Films, Balaji Digi Studio, UNIFI media, Anand Audio, Aakash Audio & Lahari Audio - film pre & postproduction studios, as well as Multiplex and single screen Cinema’s film projection technology spaces
• Train selected 15-20, young filmmakers & filmmaking students on screenwriting, new aspects of contemporary filmmaking, Cinematography, Sound design & postproduction technology through a rigorous workshop
• Designing & supervising the collaborative short term filmmaking activities for the Graduation students for Suchitra Film Society`s outreach activities partners - Centre for Visual and Performing Arts, RV University, St. Joseph's Institute of Communication & Media Studies (SJICMS), Filmmaking Students of Jnanabharathi Bangalore University Campus & for the Mass communication PG students of NMKRV College for women, Bangalore
• Visiting and interacting with the content creators and crew of the TV Channels (both infotainment & live news channels) studios / stations, as well as visiting Bangalore based Government and private Radio Broadcasting centers
• Be a part of a Kannada feature film project
• Be part of theatre & performing art project happening in the city
• Be part of the programming team for the Suchitra Film Society’s film screenings & cultural events planning
• Research the historical milestones of film art in Karnataka/India
• Film art images installation in the city
• Participate in the important film, theatre, literature, folklore, performing arts and cultural activities happening across Bangalore.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Suchitra - Purvankara Cinema and cultural Academy:
♦ Emil Kalus
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In August 1971, a group of young engineers interested in cinema came together to launch the Suchitra Film Society in Bangalore. The 1970s in Karnataka saw a surge in activities relating all aspects of art, culture and language. This period is seen as the new wave in literature, journalism, theatre and cinema.
Suchitra’s interest in cinema and its connection with the culture of Bangalore led it to expand its engagement with the arts, theatre, music, literature and languages. Having completed 50 successful years, Suchitra Film Society has built a reputation for being an important centre for film appreciation, performing arts and literature.
Inaugurating the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy at the site on January 8, 1980, Bharat Ratna, Special Oscar Award winner and India's greatest auteur of cinema, Satyajit Ray, said: "We need art theatres to find an outlet for good films. This is happening here, in Bangalore, for the first time (in India)." Moving forward, Suchitra continues to keep in mind the founding vision: to not only expose the audience to fine cinema and engage them in appreciation of it, but also to enable the makers of cinema and other moving-image media to improve their craft and expression.
Over the years, Suchitra Film Society campus has become a hub for the structural and critical discourse on different aspects of Filmmaking and Film Appreciation, by regularly organizing Indian & International film festivals, Seminars, Workshops, Master classes & interactions with the filmmakers, for the benefit of the budding filmmaking practitioners, discerning audiences and students. Through these film culture events, Suchitra Film Society aims at nurturing as well as enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the film art forms aesthetic, thematic & cinematic values, along with exploring the historical milestones, features and trends in contemporary filmmaking amongst the new generation screenwriters, filmmakers, artists and film buffs. Bangalore has also been recognised as an important centre for International film culture in keeping with Karnataka’s glorious heritage and the State’s achievements in the fields of literature, fine arts, and cinema. For this, film art and cultural organisation Suchitra Film Society's contribution is highly noteworthy.
The Suchitra Culture
• open for all
• global, but local
• academic and artistic, but accessible to the community
• professional, but not commercial
• public interest vision
• independent, but responsible
• liberal, but curated
Programmed activities at Suchitra Film Society relating to
• Cinema
• Theatre
• Literature
• Music & Performing Arts
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
• Focus on Filmmaking practice, film appreciation & film academics
• Exploring per year 300+ film producing Kannada Film Industry by visiting shoot locations and interacting with the filmmakers, film artists, Cinematographers and technicians
• Visiting and interacting with the reputed Kannada film industry's studios including Hombale films, KRG Studios, Paramvah Studios, Pushkar Films, Rishab Shetty Films, Media House Films, Balaji Digi Studio, UNIFI media, Anand Audio, Aakash Audio & Lahari Audio - film pre & postproduction studios, as well as Multiplex and single screen Cinema’s film projection technology spaces
• Train selected 15-20, young filmmakers & filmmaking students on screenwriting, new aspects of contemporary filmmaking, Cinematography, Sound design & postproduction technology through a rigorous workshop
• Designing & supervising the collaborative short term filmmaking activities for the Graduation students for Suchitra Film Society`s outreach activities partners - Centre for Visual and Performing Arts, RV University, St. Joseph's Institute of Communication & Media Studies (SJICMS), Filmmaking Students of Jnanabharathi Bangalore University Campus & for the Mass communication PG students of NMKRV College for women, Bangalore
• Visiting and interacting with the content creators and crew of the TV Channels (both infotainment & live news channels) studios / stations, as well as visiting Bangalore based Government and private Radio Broadcasting centers
• Be a part of a Kannada feature film project
• Be part of theatre & performing art project happening in the city
• Be part of the programming team for the Suchitra Film Society’s film screenings & cultural events planning
• Research the historical milestones of film art in Karnataka/India
• Film art images installation in the city
• Participate in the important film, theatre, literature, folklore, performing arts and cultural activities happening across Bangalore.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Suchitra - Purvankara Cinema and cultural Academy:
♦ Emil Kalus
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Theatre Roots & Wings.
Led by the artistic vision of Sankar Venkateswaran, Theatre Roots & Wings, since its inception in 2007, creates works in collaboration with a wide range of artists from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and is committed to the spirit of experimentation in theatre and dance.
Its intention is to create new contexts that allow the re-imagining of theatre, its relation to community, nature, culture, humanity, identity, and the individual’s relationships with the wider society.
The company is based in Kerala and has its own studio space.
Status: Not open to applications this season.
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Led by the artistic vision of Sankar Venkateswaran, Theatre Roots & Wings, since its inception in 2007, creates works in collaboration with a wide range of artists from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and is committed to the spirit of experimentation in theatre and dance.
Its intention is to create new contexts that allow the re-imagining of theatre, its relation to community, nature, culture, humanity, identity, and the individual’s relationships with the wider society.
The company is based in Kerala and has its own studio space.
Status: Not open to applications this season.
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Walkin Studios, an innovative project space.
Walkin Studios is a non-profit artist studios and residency space in Bangalore, India, that supports the development of multidisciplinary artistic practices, cultural exchanges and practical thinking. Moved by an interest in exploring the complexities of the present and the relationship between people and their environment, Walkin Studios promotes co-creation, collaboration and experimentation.
Through the years, artists and creative practitioners from different disciplines and research interests have been involved in organising workshops, live events, public programmes and open studios. This has helped to shape Walkin Studios’ aims in response to local and global contemporary art discourses and cultural production.
In recent years, the focus of Walkin Studios’ programme has been on new media production, interdisciplinary practices, and public engagement inside and outside our premises. One of our recent projects, publicdomain.garden, presented artists’ interventions in public spaces, online and offline, to explore new definitions of public domain, its uses and possibilities.
For the bangaloREsidency 2023 Walkin Studios wants to continue the exploration started with publicdomain.garden. We are inviting proposals for artistic and curatorial projects that create hybrid (online and offline) works instigated by the following questions:
What are the borders and intersections of ‘privately owned public space’, ‘online public space’ and ‘state-run public space’? How are different forms of knowledge created and shared in public spaces?
As a result of the pandemic, the way we live in public spaces has changed. The comfort with regulations of public spaces has made it normal to be more surveilled, tracked and scrutinised through data collection. We feel it is imperative to create new discourses and methods of re-establishing our relationship with the idea of public domain.
What happens in public space is unpredictable, be it a public park, or a privately owned mall, or online such as Instagram or Tik-Tok. These spaces, where there are diverse people with multiple possible situations, are where new knowledge and experience is formed. We wish to see these grey areas re-establish what public domain and public space mean.
Most recent bangaloREsidents@Walkin Studios:
♦ Lena Heubusch
♦ Lucie Freynhagen
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Walkin Studios is a non-profit artist studios and residency space in Bangalore, India, that supports the development of multidisciplinary artistic practices, cultural exchanges and practical thinking. Moved by an interest in exploring the complexities of the present and the relationship between people and their environment, Walkin Studios promotes co-creation, collaboration and experimentation.
Through the years, artists and creative practitioners from different disciplines and research interests have been involved in organising workshops, live events, public programmes and open studios. This has helped to shape Walkin Studios’ aims in response to local and global contemporary art discourses and cultural production.
In recent years, the focus of Walkin Studios’ programme has been on new media production, interdisciplinary practices, and public engagement inside and outside our premises. One of our recent projects, publicdomain.garden, presented artists’ interventions in public spaces, online and offline, to explore new definitions of public domain, its uses and possibilities.
For the bangaloREsidency 2023 Walkin Studios wants to continue the exploration started with publicdomain.garden. We are inviting proposals for artistic and curatorial projects that create hybrid (online and offline) works instigated by the following questions:
What are the borders and intersections of ‘privately owned public space’, ‘online public space’ and ‘state-run public space’? How are different forms of knowledge created and shared in public spaces?
As a result of the pandemic, the way we live in public spaces has changed. The comfort with regulations of public spaces has made it normal to be more surveilled, tracked and scrutinised through data collection. We feel it is imperative to create new discourses and methods of re-establishing our relationship with the idea of public domain.
What happens in public space is unpredictable, be it a public park, or a privately owned mall, or online such as Instagram or Tik-Tok. These spaces, where there are diverse people with multiple possible situations, are where new knowledge and experience is formed. We wish to see these grey areas re-establish what public domain and public space mean.
Most recent bangaloREsidents@Walkin Studios:
♦ Lena Heubusch
♦ Lucie Freynhagen
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency for artists, educationists, pedagogues, researchers and socio-cultural theoreticians/practitioners, in collaboration with the Yuva Chintana Foundation (YCF).
The organisation is looking for residents who will be sensitive to the work environment and contribute to a social dialogue for change. The resident will be housed in the heart of Bangalore as a guest of the Managing Trustee, who has, for the past five years, also directed the highly-acclaimed Goethe-sponsored Culture & Development project Kali-Kalisu, conceived and executed by India Foundation for the Arts.
YCF is a group of committed individuals who believe in finding ways and creating the right interplay of events to make things happen. YCF values social relations and emphasises the role of cooperation to bring about transformative changes in Education, Empowerment & Employment, and Arts & Culture. Thus seeking to create a more cohesive society with trust, openness, honesty, cooperativeness, tolerance, and respect – and also celebrating the spirit of youth.
Bangalore Metro (Namma Metro or Our Metro in Kannada) resonated with a very few in its initial years. Right from inception there were protests, ranging from the lack of public consultation, the decision to run up a huge debt rather than focus on efficient planning and management of the already existing public transport in the city to the deliberate, drastic and threatening change to the landscape of the Garden City. Notwithstanding, Namma Metro rolled on.
Today, as the metro lines continue to be drawn in different parts of the city, it has not just changed the landscape of the city but also added layers to the history of the city. One being the prominent line from M.G. Road to Baiyyappanahalli. Many artistic interventions have been promoted at the M.G. Road end with Rangoli Metro Art Centre. The other end of the same line is Baiyyappanahalli, which is today a new and important entry point into Bangalore for both Southern and Eastern lines.
YCF has been invited by BMRCL to choose a site underneath this line, have an artist respond to a space and create a meaningful public installation that would magnify civic dialogue in its locale.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"YCF invites residents for specifically for this project with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) under its 'Arts & Culture' initiative. YCF aims at a tangible visually strong and enduring outcome in a public space, between the Metro pillars, over a stretch of approximately one km. The artist should aim at an engaging civic dialogue with a certain aesthetic, involving the local community. Keeping in mind that the project shuld address not just commuters, but also pedestrians, who will have the space and time to indulge in art watching. Please send in a statement of interest and an artist portfolio of executed public installations."
- Anupama Prakash
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The organisation is looking for residents who will be sensitive to the work environment and contribute to a social dialogue for change. The resident will be housed in the heart of Bangalore as a guest of the Managing Trustee, who has, for the past five years, also directed the highly-acclaimed Goethe-sponsored Culture & Development project Kali-Kalisu, conceived and executed by India Foundation for the Arts.
YCF is a group of committed individuals who believe in finding ways and creating the right interplay of events to make things happen. YCF values social relations and emphasises the role of cooperation to bring about transformative changes in Education, Empowerment & Employment, and Arts & Culture. Thus seeking to create a more cohesive society with trust, openness, honesty, cooperativeness, tolerance, and respect – and also celebrating the spirit of youth.
Bangalore Metro (Namma Metro or Our Metro in Kannada) resonated with a very few in its initial years. Right from inception there were protests, ranging from the lack of public consultation, the decision to run up a huge debt rather than focus on efficient planning and management of the already existing public transport in the city to the deliberate, drastic and threatening change to the landscape of the Garden City. Notwithstanding, Namma Metro rolled on.
Today, as the metro lines continue to be drawn in different parts of the city, it has not just changed the landscape of the city but also added layers to the history of the city. One being the prominent line from M.G. Road to Baiyyappanahalli. Many artistic interventions have been promoted at the M.G. Road end with Rangoli Metro Art Centre. The other end of the same line is Baiyyappanahalli, which is today a new and important entry point into Bangalore for both Southern and Eastern lines.
YCF has been invited by BMRCL to choose a site underneath this line, have an artist respond to a space and create a meaningful public installation that would magnify civic dialogue in its locale.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
"YCF invites residents for specifically for this project with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) under its 'Arts & Culture' initiative. YCF aims at a tangible visually strong and enduring outcome in a public space, between the Metro pillars, over a stretch of approximately one km. The artist should aim at an engaging civic dialogue with a certain aesthetic, involving the local community. Keeping in mind that the project shuld address not just commuters, but also pedestrians, who will have the space and time to indulge in art watching. Please send in a statement of interest and an artist portfolio of executed public installations."
- Anupama Prakash
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Visthar, a secular Civil Society Institution committed to social justice and peace.
Founded in 1989, Visthar is located in a serene six-acre campus away from the hustle and bustle of Bangalore city. Visthar has a rich history of involvement in transformative education and in community-based advocacy. The Eco Sanctuary on the campus serves as a site for biodiversity conservation and environmental education.
Spanning three decades, Visthar has branched into three bodies: an international learning institution (VIDS), a community engagement institution (Bandhavi), and a Conference and Retreat Centre (VCRC). VIDS and VCRC are located in the Eco Sanctuary at Bangalore, and Bandhavi in Koppal (North Karnataka). All three institutions are autonomous with independent governance structures.
Visthar Institute of Development Studies (VIDS)
VIDS (erstwhile Visthar Academy of Justice and Peace), is an international learning institution committed to equity, diversity and sustainability. The Institute subscribes to an ecocentric paradigm of development rooted in values and practice of social justice. Our approach to learning and research is collaborative and transdisciplinary.
The Institute operates through three centres: Centre for Counter Culture and Communication, Centre for Gender and Diversity and Centre for Environment Sustainability.
Affiliations, Accreditations and Partnerships:
VIDS is affiliated to the Kannada University (Hampi) and the Bangalore (North) University (State University). Our courses are accredited by the Xavier Institute of Social Service in Ranchi. We have also sustained partnerships with three Liberal Arts Colleges in the US: Gustavus Adolphus College and Concordia College in Minnesota and Davidson College in North Carolina.
Srujana - Recycled Paper Unit
As a mark of our commitment to sustainable measures, the campus houses a paper recycling unit that recycles tonnes of paper annually and fashions it into handmade paper products.
The campus lends itself to artists and writers as a residency and a range of learners on sustainable ways of living. We welcome artists to reside at the Visthar Conference and Retreat Centre situated in the Eco Sanctuary, Bangalore. During their time here, residents are welcome to get involved in the creative processes at Srujana, the Organic Farms and Manoranjitham Nursery. A visit and interaction with the children at Bandhavi, Koppal would be as beneficial for the artist as it would be for the students in widening their world-view.
While at Visthar, the artist would have opportunities to conduct arts (visual/performance) workshops for children/youth from marginalised communities in Bangalore and/or Koppal (North Karnataka). The Eco Sanctuary would be ideal for visual artists who can contribute towards eco-arts. This would involve design and creation with recycled paper and papier mache as well as recycling/upcycling of different kinds of materials - plastic bottles, pens, wires, wood, metal, cloth etc.
We also invite landscape artists who can design natural spaces based on an idea/theme that promotes environmental sustainability, and photographers who could capture the beauty of nature and human-nature connections.
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Founded in 1989, Visthar is located in a serene six-acre campus away from the hustle and bustle of Bangalore city. Visthar has a rich history of involvement in transformative education and in community-based advocacy. The Eco Sanctuary on the campus serves as a site for biodiversity conservation and environmental education.
Spanning three decades, Visthar has branched into three bodies: an international learning institution (VIDS), a community engagement institution (Bandhavi), and a Conference and Retreat Centre (VCRC). VIDS and VCRC are located in the Eco Sanctuary at Bangalore, and Bandhavi in Koppal (North Karnataka). All three institutions are autonomous with independent governance structures.
Visthar Institute of Development Studies (VIDS)
VIDS (erstwhile Visthar Academy of Justice and Peace), is an international learning institution committed to equity, diversity and sustainability. The Institute subscribes to an ecocentric paradigm of development rooted in values and practice of social justice. Our approach to learning and research is collaborative and transdisciplinary.
The Institute operates through three centres: Centre for Counter Culture and Communication, Centre for Gender and Diversity and Centre for Environment Sustainability.
Affiliations, Accreditations and Partnerships:
VIDS is affiliated to the Kannada University (Hampi) and the Bangalore (North) University (State University). Our courses are accredited by the Xavier Institute of Social Service in Ranchi. We have also sustained partnerships with three Liberal Arts Colleges in the US: Gustavus Adolphus College and Concordia College in Minnesota and Davidson College in North Carolina.
Srujana - Recycled Paper Unit
As a mark of our commitment to sustainable measures, the campus houses a paper recycling unit that recycles tonnes of paper annually and fashions it into handmade paper products.
The campus lends itself to artists and writers as a residency and a range of learners on sustainable ways of living. We welcome artists to reside at the Visthar Conference and Retreat Centre situated in the Eco Sanctuary, Bangalore. During their time here, residents are welcome to get involved in the creative processes at Srujana, the Organic Farms and Manoranjitham Nursery. A visit and interaction with the children at Bandhavi, Koppal would be as beneficial for the artist as it would be for the students in widening their world-view.
While at Visthar, the artist would have opportunities to conduct arts (visual/performance) workshops for children/youth from marginalised communities in Bangalore and/or Koppal (North Karnataka). The Eco Sanctuary would be ideal for visual artists who can contribute towards eco-arts. This would involve design and creation with recycled paper and papier mache as well as recycling/upcycling of different kinds of materials - plastic bottles, pens, wires, wood, metal, cloth etc.
We also invite landscape artists who can design natural spaces based on an idea/theme that promotes environmental sustainability, and photographers who could capture the beauty of nature and human-nature connections.
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Previous Hosts
The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan runs a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with BORDA, a German NGO working with CDD Society their local partner in Bangalore.
Since its establishment in 1977, Bremer Overseas and Development Association (BORDA e.V.), has strengthened and supported people in need and their social structures in urban poor areas overseas (Asia, Africa and Latin America), in close cooperation with the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Department for Development Cooperation of Bremen.
In India, the focus is on sustainable development of basic needs services. BORDA therefore consults from a local perspective and executes, in collaboration with its partner network CDD Society, projects aimed at poverty alleviation with a demand-oriented and civil society inclusive approach. Stakeholders of economy, governance and civil society from micro to macro level are empowered to plan, execute and operate environment friendly and small decentralised technical solutions as services in urban and peri-urban poor areas. The outcome of this approach is effective project implementation.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
BORDA is looking for a photographer who is sincerely interested in creating awareness through artistic photos by exploring the topic of sanitation, and in particular wastewater in the Bangalore based projects.
The resident should engage with civil society and understand the widespread financial, cultural and health problems of poor wastewater management, since open defecation, inefficient canals and leaks, as well pollution of water bodies affect the lives of Bangaloreans. The resident will be required to understand the need for an appropriate sanitation infrastructure alongside social and capacity development components. The solutions and the impact associated with these interventions should be transposed in a creative manner, without stereotyping the poverty aspect, but rather presenting it as a phenomenon prevalent in major Indian cities.
Status: akzeptiert derzeit keine Bewerbungen.
Recent bangaloREsident@BORDA:
♦ Julia Knop
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Since its establishment in 1977, Bremer Overseas and Development Association (BORDA e.V.), has strengthened and supported people in need and their social structures in urban poor areas overseas (Asia, Africa and Latin America), in close cooperation with the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Department for Development Cooperation of Bremen.
In India, the focus is on sustainable development of basic needs services. BORDA therefore consults from a local perspective and executes, in collaboration with its partner network CDD Society, projects aimed at poverty alleviation with a demand-oriented and civil society inclusive approach. Stakeholders of economy, governance and civil society from micro to macro level are empowered to plan, execute and operate environment friendly and small decentralised technical solutions as services in urban and peri-urban poor areas. The outcome of this approach is effective project implementation.
Profile of our next bangaloREsident:
BORDA is looking for a photographer who is sincerely interested in creating awareness through artistic photos by exploring the topic of sanitation, and in particular wastewater in the Bangalore based projects.
The resident should engage with civil society and understand the widespread financial, cultural and health problems of poor wastewater management, since open defecation, inefficient canals and leaks, as well pollution of water bodies affect the lives of Bangaloreans. The resident will be required to understand the need for an appropriate sanitation infrastructure alongside social and capacity development components. The solutions and the impact associated with these interventions should be transposed in a creative manner, without stereotyping the poverty aspect, but rather presenting it as a phenomenon prevalent in major Indian cities.
- Powerful visualisation of the lives of people across the sanitation value chain
- Portrayal of the face of Bangalore from the sanitation perspective
- Fulfilment of the need to document the “hidden” aspects of sanitation in an eye opener for urban Bangalore
- Creation of awareness of the impact of sanitation projects - currently a largely under-publicised topic.
Status: akzeptiert derzeit keine Bewerbungen.
Recent bangaloREsident@BORDA:
♦ Julia Knop
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with the Forager Collective.
Forager Collective is a group of writers and artists interested in investigating into issues and ideas that are changing and shaping the politics, culture, physical geographies and socio-economic structures in the contemporary world.
The Collective also participates in experimental, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations with artists, writers, curators and other creative practitioners in both the digital and physical spaces.
An ongoing project of the Collective is The Forager magazine, a quarterly online journal of food as a cultural practice and political issue.
The Forager magazine is a platform for multi-disciplinary food related inquiry. Food’s production, circulation and consumption vividly reflect who we are and how we live; for us, food – cooked and uncooked – is a medium for thinking about culture and identity, gender and politics, art, science and technology, among other facets of human experience and endeavour.
A journal of food as a cultural practice and political issue, The Forager invites readers to see the world through the prism of food.
We publish quarterly. Our content targets an international readership and encourages contributors to employ the tradition of narrative journalism to explore the role of food in history and contemporary life. The Forager carries a wide range of writing formats/thematic perspectives and artworks that explore food’s many meanings and contexts.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Forager Collective:
♦ Kerstin Godschalk
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Forager Collective is a group of writers and artists interested in investigating into issues and ideas that are changing and shaping the politics, culture, physical geographies and socio-economic structures in the contemporary world.
The Collective also participates in experimental, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations with artists, writers, curators and other creative practitioners in both the digital and physical spaces.
An ongoing project of the Collective is The Forager magazine, a quarterly online journal of food as a cultural practice and political issue.
The Forager magazine is a platform for multi-disciplinary food related inquiry. Food’s production, circulation and consumption vividly reflect who we are and how we live; for us, food – cooked and uncooked – is a medium for thinking about culture and identity, gender and politics, art, science and technology, among other facets of human experience and endeavour.
A journal of food as a cultural practice and political issue, The Forager invites readers to see the world through the prism of food.
We publish quarterly. Our content targets an international readership and encourages contributors to employ the tradition of narrative journalism to explore the role of food in history and contemporary life. The Forager carries a wide range of writing formats/thematic perspectives and artworks that explore food’s many meanings and contexts.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Forager Collective:
♦ Kerstin Godschalk
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Namma Metro (Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited).
The objective is to make creative use of the available space in the Namma Metro stations, enhancing the travelling experience and bringing art closer to the commuter.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Namma Metro:
♦ Kathrin Delhougne
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The objective is to make creative use of the available space in the Namma Metro stations, enhancing the travelling experience and bringing art closer to the commuter.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
Most recent bangaloREsident@Namma Metro:
♦ Kathrin Delhougne
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan offers a bangaloREsidency in collaboration with Tasveer.
Tasveer is committed to the art of photography and photography as art. Dedicated to promoting and showcasing contemporary photography, Tasveer has created a network of galleries between Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Since Tasveer’s inaugural show in October 2006, over 100 exhibitions have been held throughout India, and the gallery has also participated in a variety of exhibitions abroad. Tasveer now represents over 25 photographers, as well as maintains an evolving digital archive of photographic images through the website and at its head office in Bangalore.
Alongside the gallery’s own publication programme, which produces detailed catalogues and texts on all exhibitions, Tasveer also works in association with Seagull Books, India’s leading arts publisher.
Tasveer’s exhibition programme includes work by up-and-coming, established and international photographers but the gallery also showcases vintage and modern prints by some of the past masters of the medium. Creative excellence and originality are the only criteria determining the selection of exhibits.
Tasveer is owned by Abhishek Poddar, one of India's most important art collectors and curated by Nathaniel Gaskell.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
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Tasveer is committed to the art of photography and photography as art. Dedicated to promoting and showcasing contemporary photography, Tasveer has created a network of galleries between Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Since Tasveer’s inaugural show in October 2006, over 100 exhibitions have been held throughout India, and the gallery has also participated in a variety of exhibitions abroad. Tasveer now represents over 25 photographers, as well as maintains an evolving digital archive of photographic images through the website and at its head office in Bangalore.
Alongside the gallery’s own publication programme, which produces detailed catalogues and texts on all exhibitions, Tasveer also works in association with Seagull Books, India’s leading arts publisher.
Tasveer’s exhibition programme includes work by up-and-coming, established and international photographers but the gallery also showcases vintage and modern prints by some of the past masters of the medium. Creative excellence and originality are the only criteria determining the selection of exhibits.
Tasveer is owned by Abhishek Poddar, one of India's most important art collectors and curated by Nathaniel Gaskell.
Status: Currently not accepting applications.
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