Event series
11:00 am to 6:30 pm daily excluding Sundays and Public Holidays
Symbiotic Cohabitation
A co-created exhibition with East Kolkata Wetlands community
The exhibition will be opened on Saturday, 27 January 2024 at 6:30 pm and will be on view till 15 March 2024 from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm daily (excluding Sundays and Public Holidays)
The exhibition unveils a poignant narrative on the vulnerable state of East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) and the urgent need for societal awareness. It is an outcome of the long-term engagement and co-creation of the collective with the EKW community.
The "House of Cohabitation" and "Wetland Herbarium,” are two key components of the exhibition. The House of Cohabitation serves as an immersive sensory experience, inviting visitors to rediscover the forgotten symbiosis between humans and nature. Through touch, smell, and observation, it aims to reconnect minds and souls with disappearing knowledge sources, sustainable practices, and traditional beliefs.
The Wetland Herbarium emphasises the critical role of plants in ecosystem stability, promoting plant sensitivity to counteract "plant blindness." This intimate album showcases ethno-botany, aquatic/remedial plants, edible plants, nectar plants, weeds emphasising the importance of conserving biological resources for a sustainable future. The exhibition passionately advocates for the preservation of EKW's rich ecology and the acknowledgment of the manifold species in our ecosystem through integration of wetlands’ traditional wisdom into the city's narrative.
The exhibition is open to all.
CONCEPTUALISERS
Nobina Gupta
Founder-Director, Disappearing Dialogues Collective. A social arts practitioner, researcher, and educator. In the past she has created a niche for herself through significant representations at national and international forums in India, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, the US, Dubai, UK, Sweden and Indonesia. In public realms she collaboratively curates with the community unconventional engagements and exhibitions.
Collective Team: Aahiree Banerjee, Anushka Chakraborty, Nayna Naskar
ABOUT DISAPPEARING DIALOGUES:
The Disappearing Dialogues collective (dD) is a dynamic platform engaging different communities, institutions, social groups and generations through interactive trans-disciplinary practices, research, documentation, and collective activities. The collective is a collaboration of minds, passions, artistic spaces whose purpose is to add value and assist the preservation of existing heritage, culture and environment of regions which are slowly, but surely, disintegrating. The collective works at the intersection of art, ecology, education, conservation and at present extensively at the East Kolkata Wetlands.
RELATED PROGRAMMES
A series of multi-dimensional engagement bridging gaps between urban life and the socio-ecological landscape are planned during the exhibition. These engagements will offer immersive, hands-on encounters that echo the exhibition's core themes of cohabitation, sustainability, and the intrinsic connection between humans and nature.
The exhibition unveils a poignant narrative on the vulnerable state of East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) and the urgent need for societal awareness. It is an outcome of the long-term engagement and co-creation of the collective with the EKW community.
The "House of Cohabitation" and "Wetland Herbarium,” are two key components of the exhibition. The House of Cohabitation serves as an immersive sensory experience, inviting visitors to rediscover the forgotten symbiosis between humans and nature. Through touch, smell, and observation, it aims to reconnect minds and souls with disappearing knowledge sources, sustainable practices, and traditional beliefs.
The Wetland Herbarium emphasises the critical role of plants in ecosystem stability, promoting plant sensitivity to counteract "plant blindness." This intimate album showcases ethno-botany, aquatic/remedial plants, edible plants, nectar plants, weeds emphasising the importance of conserving biological resources for a sustainable future. The exhibition passionately advocates for the preservation of EKW's rich ecology and the acknowledgment of the manifold species in our ecosystem through integration of wetlands’ traditional wisdom into the city's narrative.
The exhibition is open to all.
CONCEPTUALISERS
Nobina Gupta
Founder-Director, Disappearing Dialogues Collective. A social arts practitioner, researcher, and educator. In the past she has created a niche for herself through significant representations at national and international forums in India, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, the US, Dubai, UK, Sweden and Indonesia. In public realms she collaboratively curates with the community unconventional engagements and exhibitions.
Collective Team: Aahiree Banerjee, Anushka Chakraborty, Nayna Naskar
ABOUT DISAPPEARING DIALOGUES:
The Disappearing Dialogues collective (dD) is a dynamic platform engaging different communities, institutions, social groups and generations through interactive trans-disciplinary practices, research, documentation, and collective activities. The collective is a collaboration of minds, passions, artistic spaces whose purpose is to add value and assist the preservation of existing heritage, culture and environment of regions which are slowly, but surely, disintegrating. The collective works at the intersection of art, ecology, education, conservation and at present extensively at the East Kolkata Wetlands.
RELATED PROGRAMMES
A series of multi-dimensional engagement bridging gaps between urban life and the socio-ecological landscape are planned during the exhibition. These engagements will offer immersive, hands-on encounters that echo the exhibition's core themes of cohabitation, sustainability, and the intrinsic connection between humans and nature.