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Max Mueller Bhavan | India

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2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Archive as a tool of Public Engagement in the Era of Post Truth Pedagogy in Transit

Workshop|Ein Workshop von Sanchayan Ghosh und Sujay Mukherjee

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata

Kunst Kiosk pedagogy square © Goethe-Institut Kolkata

Kunst kiosk pedagogy © Goethe-Institut Kolkata

Since Walter Benjamin wrote the essay Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, the tools of reproduction and process of circulation has taken a hyper leap and we have not only experienced the impact of social media as the new site of generating public opinion, but we have also entered into the age of flux of information that has almost entrapped our notion of time and space as a mediated encounter of image and data. Materiality in the age of data and metadata has transformed reality into yet another challenge of deep fake and transformed our state of existence in the network of the present, where critical reality is a nomadic encounter in the present. The idea of the public has also evolved into this momentary being in the immateriality of the present. So, how does one navigate in this era of Post-Truth to rematerialize historicity as a moment of being and engage with the present as this encounter of the specific and the multiple worlds of coexisting and cohabiting?

Kunst Kiosk: Grounded Grid: Encounter of Circles is created as a pedagogical transit point of meeting and learning together to explore reality through a collective encounter of thoughts, ideas and practices in the mediatic time.

This workshop will become a neo-site of pedagogical intervention as a tool for reciprocal learning and engagement in public space in the age of mediatic reality and control. It will explore the archive as a glitch in the process of reconstituting public culture through a wider engagement of personal and the public memory.

This workshop is presented within the framework of the project Kunst Kisok initiated by Goethe-Institut Kolkata and designed by Sanchayan Ghosh and is presented in collaboration with the Dept. of Graphics-Printmaking, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

The workshop is for registered students only.
 

Sanchayan Ghosh

Sanchayan Ghosh lives and works in Santiniketan and Kolkata, West Bengal India. He is currently an Associate Professor, Department of Painting, Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He completed his Master of Fine Arts from the Department of Painting, Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan in 1997. Sanchayan Ghosh has been practicing site-specific art as a workshop based collective community dialogue, leading to numerous forms of public engagements over the last twenty years. His interest in process-based collaborative making and sharing of art lead him to interact also with different performance forms from all over India.

Sujay Mukherjee

Sujay Mukherjee is an artist and a pedagogue based out of Kolkata. He is associated with Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphics-Printmaking. He believes in learning & sharing different forms of printmaking methods and practices coupled with an interest in trying to expand the ontological boundaries of the discipline beyond the confines of the artists’ studio and its limited exploration as a group of techniques. His engagements also include exploring the notion of body as a print, print as performance and its engagement within the public domain.

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