Gender Bender has become a ground-breaking cultural event in the City, attracting attention from across the country and abroad. This year, the 5th edition of Gender Bender opens with a discussion featuring
Aqui Thami,
Mandeep Raikhy and
Rohini Mohan, moderated by
Shruti Sharada.
Gender Bender is the first festival of its kind in India that showcases new works of art around gender, as concept, discourse, construct, and as art itself, creating a space for gender with artists and audiences alike.The festival aims to contribute to the ever-evolving understanding of gender and its implications, to help produce works that re-examine and re-imagine the concept.
Gender Bender is a joint project of the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and
Sandbox Collective. Gender Bender is conceived, conceptualised, and curated by Sandbox Collective.
About the Speakers
©Aqui Thami
Aqui Thami, artist, activist, and academic, is a member of the Himalayan Janajati Thangmi community. A PhD candidate of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Aqui now lives and works in Mumbai. She is a founding member of Dharavi Art Room and is also one half of the collective, Bombay Underground, that celebrates the power of the community with various public art practices, Her recent project is The Sister Library, the very first feminist library in South Asia.
©Mandeep Raikhy
Mandeep Raikhy is a dance practitioner based in New Delhi. He trained at Trinity Laban and worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London, for several years. Mandeep has created and toured extensively for many of his dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013) and Queen Size (2016). He is currently assistant professor in the MA Performance Practice (Dance) Department at Ambedkar University, Delhi.
©Rohini Mohan
Rohini Mohan is a Bangalore-based journalist writing on politics and human rights in South Asia. She has won prestigious recognition for her work, including the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2013 and the South Asian Journalists Association award 2011, New York. She has written for Tehelka, The Caravan, Outlook,Tthe Hindu and The New York Times. Her award-winning book, The Seasons of Trouble (2014) is a nonfiction account of three people living in postwar Sri Lanka.
About the Moderator
©Shruti Sharada
Shruti Sharada is an independent consultant and communications strategist. She is Communications Manager at Radio Active CR 90.4 MHz and also hosts the award-winning podcast titled, 'Gender Jalebi', a collaboration with Sandbox Collective. Her writing touches on feminism, gender equality, women's health, and women in politics.
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