Dear all,
I am reaching out to you as friends, and future supporters, partners and collaborators of Science Gallery Bengaluru. We are delighted to share with you the Open Call for submissions to our first season SUBMERGE that has gone live towards a season on ‘water,’ including an exhibition, later this year. Some of you attended the brainstorming session we held earlier this year to discuss, among other things: - What is the exhibition on water that should be seen and, more so, experienced in Bengaluru? - How do we frame a conversation on water that goes beyond it’s being seen as a resource? Our conversation has shaped the Open Call and we are taking the liberty to (again) share a few things that we are reading merely by way of suggestion and not meant to be prescriptive in any way. - Please find attached a catalogue from an earlier exhibition on water (Surface Tension) organised by Science Gallery Dublin, our sibling in the global network of Science Galleries. It will tell you something about the kind of things we like to do. - Alok Jha’s The Water Book (he sums up some of his findings here) and Phillip Ball’s H2O: A Biography of Water are books that many of you might have already seen and enjoyed. What would it be like for our audiences to experience and critique some of their findings and claims? - We want to link with existing long-term projects in the city and elsewhere that engage citizens, artists, scholars from the humanities, and scientists in an ongoing process of documentation, creative engagement, and dialogue. We much look forward to proposals and submissions from your colleagues, collaborators and from you! In the meanwhile, it would be great if you are able to share further this link to the Open Call, and tweet/ share over your chosen social media outlets, as you may see fit. https://opencall.sciencegallery.com/submerge Warmly, Jahnavi -- Jahnavi Phalkey, PhDDirector Science Gallery Bengaluru
