The colloquium “Amidst Owls, Torpedoes and Serpents”, was held on 27th October 2024, at India International Center, New Delhi. With 12 panelists, and moderators who were also contributors in Call #1, the colloquium was the second plane of activation for Call #1. 

 

 

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colloquium “Amidst Owls, Torpedoes and Serpents”, was held on 27th October 2024, at India International Center, New Delhi. With 12 panelists, and moderators who were also contributors in Call #1, the colloquium was the second plane of activation for Call #1. 

The panelists included SEA (Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty), Sonam Chaturvedi, Paribartana Mohanty, Vijai Maia Patchineelam, Mohit Shelare, Shveta Sarda, Priyank Gothwal, Praveen Ashokan, Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin, Shramona Maiti and Lantian Xie, with Priyesh Gothwal, Soumya Yadav, Anurag Singraur and Ritika Verma as the moderators. 

The colloquium gave way to extremely urgent questions: An urge to form an institutional space that constantly keeps churning. A figure of the artist-mentor-educator mobile within institutions of different densities. A backyard of materials that turns into a graveyard of agency. Bringing the institution to the table, at their own time, and their own expense. Pluggings, morphings and phantoms, that continue to haunt. The urge to find a new; the urge to revel in the old and transform it into the new. Between transpiration, transformation and trans-inspiraiton. To meander through resonating, associative scores. Thinking with donkeys beyond labour,  the horse and the mule flipped. Thinking of history of space making within India; of social ferments, with relationships, building communities, and the urge to be anti-gravity; to be unanchored, unburdened of the weight of time, perceived legacies and historical spearheadings.

About the Colloquium: https://hekh.in/categories/4/content/19