Jitish Kallat | Circa

In this video Asialink talk with Jitish Kallat and take a look at his exhibition Circa at The Ian Potter Museum of Art.

"Jitish Kallat: Circa" is Kallat's first solo exhibition in an Australian museum. Following the reflective nature of his recent projects, this exhibition is conceived as an evolving narrative; an experiment of multiple interventions across several spaces within the Ian Potter Museum of Art. During the course of six months from October 2012 to April 2013, some works will appear for a few days, while others will remain on display until the end of the exhibition. Still others await conception when the departure of interventions makes space for them as part of an evolving entry and exit of ideas.

Presented in partnership with Utopia@Asialink. Supported by Australia India Institute, the Keir Foundation and Melbourne Festival.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 13 Oct 2012 to Sunday 7 Apr 2013.

IOU Project | Kavita Parmar

Kavita Parmar is a fashion designer, serial entrepreneur, founder and creative director of the IOU Project. In her talk she stresses the importance of Loving one's Work as a crucial ingredient for an healthy and creative life.

Tentative Collective | Karachi

The 'Tentative Collective' is a nomadic collective of people who share resources to create critical works of art in public places. These works of art aim to excite the public imagination and create new spaces for social engagement. Our projects strive to be collaborative, site sensitive, and inclusive to different strata of society. We value free public space, engage in the reclaiming of what should be collective property, and strive to make something special out of makeshift, tentative and mundane opportunities in everyday life.

Based in Karachi, Pakistan and Albany, New York, the 'Tentative Collective' wants to create conceptually rich experiences to engage with and explore the cities we inhabit.

New leaders can propose and coordinate projects, using the collective as a support network that can be mobilized to get projects executed quickly. All works made as part of the collective will be co-owned by the project leader and the collective. In this way the group will be flexible and open to new ideas and new members to promote an infectious creativity that can cross boundaries.

More Info on: http://tentativecollective.com/

Documenta 13 | Amar Kanwar

Nh7 Weekender, Pune | Exclusive Pictures

Bacardi NH7 Weekender kicked off in Pune last night, at a brand new venue. Walking in, you were greeted by the epic Rockness Monster installation, lots of green grass to picnic on, colourful flags and you knew this was going to be a memorable weekend. The first day saw 5000 festival go-ers party hard between The Dewarists Stage, Jack & Jones Other Stage, Eristoff Wolves Den and Pepsi Dub Station. 

NH7 :: The Future featuring Rohan Rajadhyaksha and Ankit Dayal of Spud In The Box Rachel Varghese, Krishna Jhaveri of Goddess Gagged, Aditya Ashok (Ox7gen), Neil Gomes (Tough on Tobacco) on the saxophone and Bradley Tellis of (The Color Compound) on guitars proved why these young ones are definitely going to be musicians to look out for in the future, and included covers by Dave Matthews Band and Jack White.

Day Two of Bacardi NH7 Weekender saw 8500 people, with all 6 stages on, as festival go-ers danced at the Eristoff Wolves Den, moshed at the Bacardi Black Rock Arena, chilled on the grass at The Dewarists Stage and Jack & Jones The Other Stage, jumped around at the Pepsi Dub Station and caught some super music at the Bindass Fully Fantastic Stage. 

Day Three of Bacardi Nh7 Weekender had Jinja Safari and Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 on The Dewarists Stage, Indus Creed and Karnivoolat the Bacardi Black Rock Arena, Michal Menert and Arjun Vagale at Eristoff Wolves Den, Vir Das' Alien Chutney and Bombay Bicycle Club at Jack & Jones The Other Stage, Delhi Sultanate and Million Stylez at Pepsi Dub Station, and Peter Cat Recording Company, Gandu Circus and Heems (Das Racist) at the Bindass Fully Fantastic Stage. 

Red Earth Comes to Bombay | Design Mela

Timbaktu | Indie film

Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
30 minutes | 2012

A land where the soil has started to breathe againA village that does not exist on the mapA people who celebrate lifeA no-where, no-where land...

When a small farming community in South India decided to switch from their decades-old practice of chemical agriculture to organic farming, little did they know that they were planting the seeds of a silent revolution. By showcasing the exemplary efforts of farmers of a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, Timbaktu explores critical issues of food security and sovereignty. At its heart, Timbaktu looks at the relationship that a farmer shares with her land, her seeds and raises vital questions about food, the very essence of human life.

InfluencerCon | Bombay Chapter

Influencer Conference London 2011 from We Are Co on Vimeo.

Mumbai, India September 7, 2012 – The 2012 Influencer Conference (‘InfluencerCon’) will be held between 3–5 October simultaneously in New York City, London, Berlin, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and here in Mumbai at Studio X Mumbai 

InfluencerCon is the first of its kind global content platform that seeks to identify, understand and support influencer culture globally.

By bringing tastemakers and game-changers across industries and territories together, InfluencerCon establishes itself as the standard bearer for those who are pushing boundaries and innovating.

In Mumbai, The Influencer Conference will be held at Studio X Mumbai and features some exciting influential individuals such as Design Thinker, Sonia Manchanda; Head of Godrej India Culture Lab, Parmesh Shahani; Entreprenuer and Managing Director of DisneyUTV Digital, Vishal Gondal; Co-Founder of Greenlight Planet, Mayank Sekshsaria; Artist/Producer, Ma Faiza; and Author/Journalist Deepanjana Pal. Through the diversity of their backgrounds, speakers will showcase ways of breaking down traditional thinking, and ways of pushing boundaries to inspire innovation and meaningful change in line with the theme of this year’s conference. 

Organised around the sub-themes ‘Inspire’, ‘Disrupt’ and ‘Engage’, this year’s conference will be accompanied by various interactive activities throughout the duration catering to diverse tastes and interests, including a live art battle (Secret Wars, by Monorex), showcase of new local musicians and DJs (Check at the Door, by C@TD) as well as an Innovation Lab, and Idea Funhouse. 

InfluencerCon seeks to break down traditional “silo-ed” thinking and encourage cross functionality. Creativity, open and fair exchange, passion, collaboration and a commitment to rich and authentic experiences are critical elements of influencer culture.

More information on: www.influencercon.com

CAMP | talk on artist collective

Art historian Murtaza Vali discusses the Wharfage Project, an audio-visual-installation piece carried out by the Indian art collective CAMP at the 2009 Sharjah Biennieal. Recorded at the Cabinet art space in Brooklyn as part of ArteEast's Across Histories lecture series.

THE BRIGHT DAY | Indie Cinema

BREATHER | short film

Breather, developed by Andrea Polli illustrates the problem of air pollution in Delhi India, where one person dies every hour from breathing complications. In this work, a common Indian car is encased in a plastic bubble that inflates and deflates at a rate similar to human breathing. Commissioned by Khoj International, New Delhi. Khoj Studios based in New Delhi sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialog in the visual arts. Through their programming they aim to assist and develop, forms of art such as media art, performance, video, environmental, public and community based art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.

Contemporary Artist in Bombay

The 4th edition of India Art Fair 2012 might have got mixed reviews in terms of sales, visitors, galleries, etc and more so with the fact that a lot of Indian galleries were trying to clear their dead stock from last year and that it was rather less exciting. However, MASI found an exciting piece of work that might have been missed by many.


The work was a photograph -- a self-portrait of the artist that was stamped with a date and city name in hindi font and then stacked at benches inside the exhibition. We decided to track down the artist.

Presenting Armando Miguelez Giambruno -- a world traveler/artist who now lives and works in Bombay.

Artist statement --

Aquí Ahora is a time stamp proof of participation, where I disseminate hand outs with the image of my face stating the time and place where the hand out is distributed. The piece is a succession of my own aging process, and a travelogue of my itinerant existence. This is a piece in progress, like much of my work regarding photography, the final piece will be the sum of all the small parts over the years.

Cobra In India

New works by Chittrovanu Mazumdar | Indian Contemporary Artists

Palolem, Goa

MASI travels to Palolem end of this month for a photo project and look what we found -- A beautiful video on Palolem, Goa.

Palolem from Phoric on Vimeo.

Kannagi Khanna | Emerging Contemporary Photographer

Artist Statement

In these days of discord, disharmony, conflict and competition, finding affinity between two entities which are geographically far apart and no match to each other in respect of socio-economic or cultural semblance, is impossibility. But that is what this photo series did and went on to find the impossible - A small slum area in the heart of the posh new city of Ahmedabad called HOLLYWOOD. The actual name of the area is Gulbhaitekra but it has been popularly known as HOLLYWOOD for the last 4 decades for the reason that the women living here have a rustic beauty and glamour which is found to resemble that of Hollywood stars.