year 2015
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year 2016
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Matheran Green Festival 2015
Urban Anxiety (Kolkatta) - at MGF2015 “urban anxiety : region inside green & grey” A performance series based on a subject as urban anxiety with strong desire or concern to do something or for something to happen, where five performers try to develop and intervene in the space and time with a fundamental element from nature . collaboration with Sukant Panigrahy | conceptual designer- environmentalist - production conceptualiser | sukantpanigrahy.com Event Supported By : Green TV India |
How to View Death Delta | in collaboration with Photopeer
Project curated by: Sumana Aktar & Chimuk
Exhibition curate by: Imaran Ahmed, Sumana Aktar & Chimuk This curation was conceived after a very intimate dialogue between Chimuk and Sumana where they tried to understand three parallel critical situations they feel inside their practice. It was nota exhibition projected to later help them to open up more interesting spaces. In the beginning, it was just a parallel exchange: in one hand, Sumana tries to make a dialogue with the existing crisis at Sundarban. She tries to involve herself from her practice in order to understand how she can articulate the movement inside her journey. On the other hand, Chimuk, who is fundamentally interested in art performance curation. He, rather than considering this crisis as a the crisis of one particular delta, tries to connect all the dots in a way where the crisis is a prolonged ecological emergency in human civilization, especially after the Industrial Revolution and the development of neo-urban life. There are three main triggers for this project. First, understanding the relation between land and water, as we try to trace the harmony of the human–river relationship, at the same time locating the imbalance and destabilization of both. Second, we have been thinking for a long time within the collective how art can be influenced by the current crisis, and simultaneously, how the same art can be practised as an activism different from the conventional one. |
year 2016
Kolkata International Performance Art Festival
The members of Performers Independent and larger friend circle extend their invitation to artists and performers from all corners of the world to participate in the Kolkata International Performance Art Festival to be held every year in January 23rd to 26th. Those who have visited Kolkata will know that it is the best time of the year here—there is a nip in the air, and the tropical sun takes the backseat. Artists collective from Kolkata have been hosting these performances in this city for several years in order to explore new avenues of expression. This year we thought, why not spread the word around, and get creative minds to gather in Kolkata and share as well as enrich these experiences. It is an open invitation to artists and performers and generally enthusiasts within and across borders to allow us to befriend them, and explore, along with them, the limits of statehood, as well as search for avenues of sociality through movements across the city-scape of Kolkata.
year 2017
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year 2017
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Meteor International initiative - curatorial exchange project for Srinagar Biennale
Rather than a public art project, this exchange is about making a visual narrative between two different omnipotent spaces. Both the space in one hand carrying a potential living historical memory, on the other hand also has the hidden possibilities of the incompatible contradiction. In this project, we invited artists from India and Sweden and the artist will develop their individual or collaborative work through the process of collaboration. In here we are not just interested in the production or execution, we prefer the engagement should start with an intention of collaboration through dialogue between curatoratorial idea and artist’s point of view. This entire project is more about the idea of space, intimacy, bonding, struggle, body, labor and contradiction of nature. Curators are deeply involved in the respective area and environment of the exhibition sites to understand more the dynamics and politics of the site. During this project, we are trying to concentrate two completely different cities practice of seen-unseen labor and the process of its viewing. Howrah and Malmo are each a city which has its own visual parlance but there is a strong understanding of human labor, city’s new lifestyle, developing society and its hidden crisis. Here one city had a long history of labor industry, people’s movement, Naxalite history and of course current political scenario where the city is more free with the open economy, migrated labor, new political friction and the new understanding of neo-social spaces. Howrah is based on a side of a river bank opposite Kolkata formal British capital. History of this city is also reflected from its architecture and living history which is also a crucial element. Malmö, on the other hand, is a relatively small city with labor-industrial history. It had the large shipyard industry Kockums until it moved the production from Malmö in 1998, and a number of textile factories that closed down in the 1950s and 60s. Some other large industries in Malmö were ADDO that produced office equipment, Ljungmans that produced petrol pumps and Cementa that are still producing cement. Malmö has recently turned into a knowledge city since the University was based in the city. Malmö has the largest population in Sweden of Middle East origin, who mainly establish themselves in small companies like food stores, tailoring,barbers but also as dentists, doctors, lawyers etc.
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In collaboration with Calco Calco Funhi | Centro Cultural de Cali
In this exhibition, we tried to map and understand the historical dilemma inside the visual of un-recognize labor. It is like living inside a paradox, where there labor is visible and invisible at same time, it is like a pattern which was already there but never been within the open dialogue. I's curious what does labor really mean in non-linear practice? was it only that which was visible enough to see in the capitalist understanding or it could be very subtle expression almost invisible in the time of "transit". In this project, my curatorial interest was to make a relationships between, "alternate understanding of labor" and "hyper-reality within the map of executional methods".
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year 2018
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year 2018
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How to Drink Conflicting Water | in collaboration with Istanbul Performance Art platform
This curatorial exploration is an extension of my previous collaborative project, which I did a few years back along with my two contemporary artists/curator. My previous co-curatorial project named “How To View Death Delta” in collaboration with Sumana A. and Imran A. In this extended curatorial chapter, I took rather longer period(compare with the last edition) to investigate and figure out the possible art and actionism which has multiple links with my interest.In the beginning, It was not easy and I was really curious about the development of the project and practical obstacle in terms of research and articulation. Though during the entire journey, I always consider the practice of performance medium is a kind of fluid expression where the politics of space and the language of ‘civilized resistance‘ is a critical area to understand the continued changes in this new society. In this journey, I actually got the chance to understand and learn the analytical expression by new artist community and how they are used to with the condition of a vast ecological critical state.
(Like my previous exploration, this will follow the same method and virtual platform. This exhibition has few areas like the memory of neo-political condition inside artist everyday life and at the same time, it is also about the debate where the crisis not restricted to a local political condition.) Though I strongly believe the process of curation can’t just end with one attempt but I tried my best to connect a few existing artist’s initiatives within the short time frame. There are two main areas of this project. First, understanding the relationship between human rights and the basic right to access ‘water’ for urban-civilization. Secondly, we have been thinking for a long time within the larger collective practice that how art can be influenced and seen from an alternative way of activism, something different from the conventional one. Consider this online exhibition also as an effort towards a new way of viewing art and society. More than another exhibition, it is a method of searching for collective awareness with Istanbul Performance Art. |
in collaboration with Meteor International, Tracing a city (TAC), appreciation of art performance (AAP) and DYC. And associate venues Bindu Space for Artists and Gallery Mcube. DYC in collaborative team.
Expression-Expedition | An international cross-disciplinary artist meet with the ideaof emerging collective space inside everyday encircle sphere.
key areas: Public Space | Collective Participation | Local Practice From the curatorial side, we are trying to focus on two specific areas. In one hand we are proposing a platform where fluid art and mixed media practice can exchange the view of the neo-understanding of art practice, especially in the context of the idea of 'public-participation-practice'. Other-hand, this project will be an inclusive meet for practitioner where potential interactivity and performativity can make a collective bridge. From curatorial space, we are ready to hear all sort of cross-discipline ideas for EE, please follow the information below as a curatorial proposition. |
year 2019
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year 2019
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Why Binary Should Have All The Pune | in collaboration with Danish Cultural Institute at TIFA Working Studio, Pune
Why binary should have all the pun is a cross-disciplinary curation of mapping artistic perspectives and methodologies into socio-political contexts of urban community spaces and critical engagement in-between binary notions. The exhibition is a re-engagement with the various notions of ‘new’ media practice and map methodologies through creative development and experimental collective processes, opening both potentials and resistance within the binary. The exhibition is a research in how the methodology and process of arts is in it self a socio-political language which holds the capacity to confuse the production of habits and methods, as well as a re-engagement with sensitive and immediate. The program will be presented from by artist from all disciplines working both individually and in collaboration representing Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Denmark, Iran, India, Nepal, Sweden, Philipines, UK and the United States. |
Mnemonic Territory - Edition 3 | in collaboration KYTA2019
Can we live together inside 10X10 with open harmony?
Mnemonic Territory is a new curatorial expansion by Tracing A City (hastac.weebly.com). TAC is an inclusive collective curatorial where we are interested to explore the various cities' marginal critical interests by using plural performative instincts. Mnemonic Territory is not a project for making new cultural production, rather we consider it as an open initiative for practicing the essential elements in terms of subversive curatorial language. {It is also a continuous progression from our last collaborative project that we did together a couple of times in between Kolkata-Delhi. In our previous edition, we collaborated with Taxi (Artist Collective), Subhrojyoti M. (Writer-Editor-Visual Content Maker), Partha D. (Experimental Video Art-production Designer), Tomo S (Performance Artist). Curatorial Proposition - For #kyta2019, Tracing A City would like to share the new curatorial derivates in collaboration with Hidden Area (Namgial A,Dawa L, Jigmat C, Edzes D, Tsewang L, Jigmat L, Stanzin R, Stanzin N, Nawang T, Tsering T, Thewlay N, Tsewang N, Tsewang N, Stanzin J), Kyta19 (in associated with Tsering Motup, Shazeb S., Hashim Q., Ratan N., Sachin S.P). The majority of the conceptual expression has been contextualized during the last one-month curatorial research period especially in the process taking wonder workshop (Hidden Area| hastaghiddenarea.weebly.com) in association with Siddhartha High School, Stok. |
year 2021
womyn at work
“womyn at work” is a collaborative non-binary art intervention from South Asia started in the year 2020. We introduce a unique participatory process of observing artistic expressions by formulating four interactive segments that stimulates the essence of the work by womyn artists from around the globe specially in the context of the fourth wave-feminism/non binary cross cultural interest.
year 2021
Cyber Park
Cyber Park Virtual Summit is an international research and exchange platform for the cybernetic organism around the glocal post-conceptual practice in a virtual format. In this curatorial experiment, we will exhibit and promotes works created at the intersections of contemporary digital aesthetics and new technologies, including various new normal art expression especially considering the currents global transition. Cyber Park is dynamic and also fluid by the principal nature that allows plural perspective, conceptual temporality, post-continuity, the culture of pixelations, the notion of cyber interruptions, and also questioning the forms and traditional relationship with fore and background.This edition of cyber park is initiated by kaur chimuk in collaboration with in house curatorial team.