Lecture by Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote has been acclaimed as a seminal contributor to Indian art criticism, and is also a leading Anglophone Indian poet. He is the author of 30 books, including Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin / Viking, 2014), and Jonahwhale (Penguin / Hamish Hamilton, 2018), and the monographs Zinny & Maidagan: Compartment / Das Abteil (Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Walther König, 2010) and Atul Dodiya (Prestel, 2014). He has translated the poetry of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011).
Hoskote was curator of India's first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). He co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale with Okwu i Enweyor and Hzunjin Kim (2008). Most recently, he curated Anti-Memoirs: Locus,Language, Landscape (Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2017) and convened The Itinerant Institute, the academic outreach programme of India and the World, an exhibition co-produced by the CSMVS, Bombay, the British Museum, London, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (CSMVS, 2017-2018). Hoskote is co-curator, with Rahul Mehrotra and Kaiwan Mehta, of State of Housing.
Back
