KHOJ LIVE 08: The KHOJ Performance Art Festival

Programmes at a Glance

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Programme Schedule

Mornings
An intensive outreach programme in collaboration with Live Arts Development Agency, UK has been developed and will include lectures, workshops , conversations and interactions with artists and the public every day on all 5 days at the various venues. With the aid of a specialized performance pack (details attached), the concepts around live arts will be presented to a wider audience comprising of students, artists and practitioners. Detailed Information >>>>

Afternoons @ the HUB
The Alliance française, Delhi will serve as the hub of the festival with a lunch each afternoon and an open forum or OPEN SPACE where artists/musicians/actors/poets are invited to come up on the stage and perform/interact/act/.
<Details of the participants to be Posted Soon>

Evenings
Performances by the artists hosted in a prominent art gallery across the city. Detailed Information >>>>

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Background Note of the Festival
March 25th -30th 2008, the KHOJLIVE 08 will be a dynamic 6 day programme of events which will bring together exciting, diverse Indian and International performance artists in an attempt to showcase the different currents, positions and possibilities of contemporary performance artists. Artists from Germany, France, South Africa, Thailand, The Netherhalnds, Pakistan, Nepal , Indonesia amongst others have confirmed participation. Beginning with the first International Workshop in 1997 to more recent International Residencies devoted solely to the genre, KHOJ has always encouraged performance art practice.

Objectives of the Festival
• To support the concept and practice of performance art in India.
• To create a discursive space for the “live arts”.
• To build new audiences and encourage a critical engagement with performance art.
• To celebrate KHOJ’s decade long involvement with the genre.
• To expose younger artists, students to the newer ideas of Performance and Live Arts prevalent across the world.

A first for Indian audiences, each performance will be hosted in a prominent art gallery across the city over the course of one week. By placing live arts in the Max Mueller Bhavan, Alliance Francais, Palette Art Gallery, Anant Art Gallery and Gallery Espace we hope to reach a wider and a newer kind of audiences.

# ALL PROGRAMMES AND SCHEDULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Do call up the venue and confirm.