Golden Jubilee Arts Workshop open new chapter for Old Secretariat.
After more than 500 years, the Old Secretariat building (aka Palacio
Idalcao) has been converted into public art gallery spaces.
Starting on 19th September, a landmark Golden Jubilee Arts Workshop will
be hosted for three days on the premises by the Department of Art &
Culture, Government of Goa, for the benefit of the entire artistic
community of the state. All artists and photographers of Goa, along with
seriously interested citizens are warmly invited to attend.
The workshop will be conducted by the curatorial committee that has been
constituted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of decolonization, the
Liberation of Goa, with a large-scale art exhibition to inaugurate the
Old Secretariat. There will be daily presentations by some of the
foremost authorities in their field.
Sudarshan Shetty is among the leading artists of his generation. His
work hangs in major international museum collections. Though he has
worked extensively in several mediums, he has particularly become known
for large sculptural installations and multi-media works. He will talk
about :
Concepts into Art Works: The Problems of Translation.
Tasneem Zakaria Mehta is one of the most dynamic curators of our time.
She is art historian, designer, cultural activist, and Managing Trustee
of the stunningly renovated Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, winner of
the prestigious UNESCO award of excellence for cultural conservation.
Her talk will be :
Curating for A Museum Space: 21st Century Art in a 19th Century Building
Rupert Arrowsmith is on the faculty of University College, London. His
stunning new book - Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African and Pacific
Art and the London Avant Garde - proves that profound debts are owed to
Indian and other non-Western artists by the first Modernists. His
address is entitled :
The Asian Origins of Modernism: A Global Perspective on Early 20th
Century Art and Literature
Amruta Patil graduated from Goa Art College, and has become one of the
most acclaimed graphic novelists. Her first book, 'Kari' (2008) was
shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award, and translated into
French and Italian. Her upcoming 'Parva' is a version of the Mahabharat.
Her presentation is :
Worth More Than a Thousand Words: A personal journey through the world
of graphic novels, comics, picture books and books with pictures.
Shai Heredia is one of the foremost curators of film art in India. She
founded Experimenta – the international festival for experimental cinema
in India – in 2003, and rapidly developed the event into a significant
international forum. Shai has also curated experimental film programmes
for major film and art venues like the Berlinale Film festival Germany,
Tate Modern UK and Images Festival Toronto. Her talk will be on :
Experiments with Truth: Making Video Art
In addition, David de Souza will talk about Photography: Framing
History, Capturing Cities, Vishvesh Kandolkar about The Phenomenology of
Space, and curatorial team member Abhay Sardesai (Editor of Art India
Magazine) on The Idea of the Avant-Garde: Making it New. Shorter
presentations will also be made on each day, featuring interactions with
senior artists, historians and others, as well as daily interactions
with the curatorial team including Abhay Sardesai, Damodar Mauzo, Viraj
Naik, Apurva Kulkarni and Vivek Menezes (co-ordinator).
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