KHOJ Curatorship Program
A presentation by the resident curators at KHOJ, Oindrilla Maity and Gitanjali Dang, about particular curatorial histories, strategies, key exhibitions/curators which have influenced them in their practice.  

This is the first in a series of projects that KHOJ will undertake as the nodal centre facilitating curatorial practice in the visual arts. The residency aims to develop a training ground for emerging curators who will engage with various modes of artistic practice as well as be actively involved in critical writing.

The Negotiating Routes – Ecologies of the Byways projects, across the country, are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary approach that combines research and art creation by artists and local communities,  addressing the visible and invisible transformations currently taking place in their immediate environments. The project encourages archiving of local knowledge and mythologies about various ecologies like the flora, fauna, home remedies, stories and folklores as also mark the making of an artist by a specific action or project.

NR 1- Varsha Nair- Wadhwana Lake, near Bharuch, Vadodara
http://varshashavar.wordpress.com/

NR 2-  Aastha Chauhan-New Tehri, Garhwal
http://radiokhirkee.wordpress.com/

NR 3- -Frame Works Research and Media Collective- North Sikkim
http://frameworkscollective.wordpress.com/

NR 4- Visual Arts Collective & Maara-Bangalore
katte-beingathome.blogspot.com

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Congratulations! Gitanjali Dang and Oindrilla Maity
the first curators in residence, from July- September 2010

Watch this space for exciting talks and programmes planned around the residency

OPEN STUDIO DAY of PEERS '2010

on Friday 11th June

6:30 pm onwards @ Khoj Stuio

The Peers 2010 exhibition is on till 14|06|10 11am-6pm, Sundays open
at the KHOJ studio

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May 21st, Friday 2010, 5 pm onwards @ the FICA Reading Room (D 42,Defence Colony)

PEERS is a 4-week art laboratory for young artists shortlisted from around India.Every summer, five artists along with a critic work at the KHOJ Studios. For four weeks, these young artists shed the expectations and rigidity of a structured curriculum, working together in a discursive space that stresses the role of free experimentation and risk-taking in art practice.

PEERS is supported by the India Foundation for the Arts, Bengaluru.