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Max Mueller Bhavan | India

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11:00 AM-5:00 PM, IST

Making and Breaking: Art as a Feminist Practice

Workshop|A Workshop By The Third Eye

The Third Eye Workshop © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

The Third Eye Workshop © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

Saturday, 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00
Registrations open!

Our presence in the digital space has meant being caught up in a surfeit of sensorial information and stimulation. It has changed how we see, engage with, and consume art. This workshop is an invitation to think about art as a feminist enterprise, as knowledge that is generative and embedded in the everyday.

What is the relationship between art and our everyday acts of living? What is the role of affect in feminist processes? How can our practices help us expand and build on our ideas of the ‘field’ and the communities in it? How do we look at questions of representation, authorship, and power in long, process-based work with people or publics outside our zones of immediate experience?

The Third Eye’s Learning Lab — a programme that engages in arts-based pedagogies informed by feminist frameworks — invites some critical questions regarding creation and collaboration: How does one engage in the making of feminist knowledge, and what kind of decisions shape that creation?

We’d like to explore what emerges at the intersections of various disciplines: the arts, education,and the social sector, to broaden the lens of our own enquiry. Rather than ‘doing research’ as prescribed by any of these disciplines, the workshop will explore how mediums like image, text and sound tap into the affective, and push for a language that makes the embodied experience an intrinsic part of the digital, and the knowledge generated at the margins essential to make sense of the world.

Age Group: 18-30
Who Can Attend: Students and young artists from art, design, film, social work, and social science schools

The Third Eye
The Third Eye
is a feminist think tank working on the intersections of gender, sexuality, violence, technology and education. It produces material which is bilingual, open source and under creative commons. Drawing on Nirantar’s history of pioneering feminist education methodologies with rural girls and women, it builds feminist processes, pedagogies, and knowledge products to critically interrogate the structures we live in.