The first edition of Future Collaborations, a curatorial platform conceptualised and initiated by Premjish, adopts inquiries as a methodology.
It draws inspiration from Karl Marx’s seminal text ‘A Worker’s Inquiry’ written in 1880 to facilitate militant research into the seemingly transient and unstable modes of organisation of labour in India. Though Marx’s methodology has been revised and adapted to specific contexts, this text continues to shape our understanding of the nature of labour and the condition of the working class.
Seven practitioners from diverse fields are brought together to expand the scope of this text through their inquiries into issues related to caste, sexuality, displacement and disability. This exhibition will feature installations, live-performances, artworks, etc. jointly created by the participants over the past few months. Through this project Future Collaborations endeavours to shape a practice of knowledge production that seeks to examine and bridge the lacuna between practice and theory in order to transform the white cube space into a location for debate, inquiry, and reflection. This approach also draws its inspiration from recent feminist curatorial interventions that seek to transform a static exhibition into an emotional and discursive space, which serves as a laboratory for emerging knowledge. This will encourage us to explore the possibilities of socially engaged curatorial practices through recasting exhibitions and charting out ways to create theoretically and politically informed curations through an approach which exposes the material interactions and its intrinsic political and economic struggles.
Collaborators:
Aditi Angiras
Anupam Saikia
B. Ajay Sharma
Balagopalan Bethur
Murari Jha
M. R. Vishnu Prasad
Nikita Maheshwary
Preview: Saturday 19th November 6 pm-9 pm
The exhibition will remain open till 31st December 2016
Exhibition timings: Monday-Friday 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Free entry upon presentation of a valid photo ID card