[Urbanstudy] Creative Time Summit at Studio X Mumbai on 11th and 12th of August 2015

[Ashali B]

KNOWLEDGE as COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE
An interactive discussion with local practitioners in Mumbai involved in
socially engaged practice:
Studio-X | 11th & 12th August 2015, 2-8pm

ArtOxygen & Studio-X Mumbai are proud to partner with Creative Time on the
occasion of the seventh edition of its Summit that will take place at the
Venice Biennale. Titled The Curriculum, the event will bring together
practitioners from across the world to discuss and explore how systems of
knowledge are formed, controlled, disseminated in our societies.

The Creative Time Summit will be broadcast live from Venice at Studio-X
Mumbai on 11 & 12 August from 2:00 - 6:00 PM. To view the complete schedule:
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0890620ea5bb5f3e50fcbec54/files/
CreativeTimeSummitSchedule.pdf

In Mumbai, we will host an interactive session with local practitioners on
11 & 12 August from 6-8pm to investigate the notion of knowledge as
collective experience, to question the validity and meaning of existing
authoritarian and hierarchical structures, in pedagogy and the arts, and to
put forward methodologies and approaches which are alternative to
traditional academia, and are concerned with notions of equality,
intelligence and emancipation.

Within the framework of The Curriculum, we will present a series of
experiences that invite an opening up of pedagogical, artistic,
communicative processes that illustrate the possibilities for alternative
paradigms that could reconfigure and rethink societal structures.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11: DAY 1
2:00-2:30 PM Introductions: Anne Pasternak, Okwui Enwezor and Nato Thompson
2:30-3:00 PM Keynote: Amy Goodman (US)
3:00 - 3:15 PM Performance: Pedro Lasch (US/Mexico)
3:15 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 4:45 PM
Section 1: A Curriculum’s Contents
“Curriculum’s Content” addresses the fact that a curriculum provides a
space in which some things
are learned and other things are not. Presentations focus on knowledge that
is missing from
contemporary curricula and narratives that are obscured by hegemonic power.
• Moderator: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (US)
• Charles Gaines (US)
• Emily Jacir (Palestine/Italy)
• Naeem Mohaiemen (US/Bangladesh)
• Akram Zaatari (Lebanon)

6:00 - 6.15 PM: Introduction by Leandre D’Souza, ArtOxygen & Rajeev
Thakkar, Studio-X

6:15 - 6.45 PM: Art Room Foundation is run by Himanshu S and Aqui Thami who
have been working with various communities in Dharavi. They will look into
forms of story-telling between grannies, mothers and children. The
participants will be invited to think about something that they have lost.
Through interviews and drawings, the workshops begin to trace narratives of
the participants' own personal environments and histories.

6:45 - 6:55 PM: Letizia De Martino is Executive Director, Reality Gives
(part of the Reality Group) that seeks to challenge perceptions and
prejudice by offering more holistic understandings of the geographical,
economic, social fabric of Dharavi. The group operates a school and
community centres that provide children and young adults with access to
educational opportunities and experiences to build, shape and support the
character and culture of Dharavi.

6:55 - 7:15 PM: Sonali Gupta is a clinical psychologist whose experience
spans working with educational institutes like Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, a private practice at the Sushrut Hospital and various NGO's.
Sonali's expertise lies in child psychology, parenting and
relationship/marital counselling. She writes a bi-monthly advice column on
The Swaddle. www.guptasonali.com
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12: DAY 2
2:00 - 2:10 PM Introductions
2:10 - 2:20 PM Statement: Marco Baravalle of S.a.L.E. Docks (Italy)
2:20 - 2:30 PM
Field Report from Cuba: Paolo Rosso of Microclima, Vuk Ćosić, and
Gediminas Urbonas
2:30 - 2:40 PM:Statement: Sandino Bucio Dovalí (Mexico)
2:45 - 4:15 PM Section 3: The Geography of Learning
“The Geography of Learning” is devoted to the relationship between
knowledge systems and
geopolitics, studied in contexts ranging from indigenous communities living
under foreign
governments, to the migrant conditions that yield creolized forms of
knowledge.
• Moderator: Mina Setra (Indonesia)
• Teju Cole (US)
• Michael Gerace, ReLocate Kivalina (US)
• Athi Mongezeleli Joja, Gugulective (South Africa)
• Jolene Rickard (US/France/Germany)
• Ánde Somby (Norway)
5:30 - 6:00 PM Keynote: Achille Mbembe, Philosopher and Political Scientist

6.00-6.30 PM Krupa Desai is enrolled in a research program at the School of
Arts and Aesthetics at JNU. She facilitated a project called Meter Down (as
part of ArtOxygen’s [en]counters - Spaces in Transition) together with
rickshaw drivers, which was an attempt to transform an otherwise monotonous
journey into something unexpected. Looking into new ways of communication
and perception, Krupa will explore areas for interaction and participation
between the audience and rickshaw drivers.

6.30-6.45 PM Madhu Das, a visual artist, will present research based on a
collaborative work with a local cobbler. He will look at indigenous
knowledge systems, how they function within the market, how it evolves
incorporating new ideas, materials and how this is transferred from one
generation to the next through modelling and practice. Madhu and the
craftsman will create a piece that examines the possibility to open up new
aesthetics and processes looking at authorship, labour and new ways of
sharing / making.

6.45-7.00 PM Raktim Parashar is an artist who will look into the practice
of witch-hunting in rural Assam that has since 2012 claimed over 90 lives.
Most of these victims are women. Birubala Rabha is one crusader who has
been single-handedly trying to eradicate this widely spread tradition since
the ‘80’s. Raktim will present a piece inspired by his time spent in the
Kokrajhar district of Assam, his discussions with Birubala and other
victims of the area. His work takes the form of a poster, known popularly
as both a guerilla form of intervention as well as a political tool used by
local leaders. Here the protagonists and characters are the women -
resisting, confronting and fighting to usurp old traditions.

7.00-7.30 PM Prof. Anjali Monteiro & K.P. Jayasankar, documentary
filmmakers, teachers and researchers of The School of Media and Cultural
Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai will present
their work with students, around documenting and archiving marginalized and
erased histories of the city, focusing on their multimedia web archives
Remembering 1992 and Giran Mumbai, as a part of the ongoing initiative
DiverCity, a visual repository of the 'other' city.
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