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Experimenter Learning Program Module XXII
Bending The Grid | Jeebesh Bagchi & Sneha Khanwalkar
Date: April 29 | 5 - 7 pm
Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai
This module is hosted as a pre-registered session for participants on a first-come first-served basis 

Nestled in the context of Kanishka Raja’s exhibition Ground Control, this module brings together music director Sneha Khanwalkar and artist Jeebesh Bagchi to question the rules that govern an artist’s work and ways to push the envelope of the ‘possible’ through their creative pursuit. The artists will discuss and demonstrate how stereotypes can be surpassed and introduce a new vocabulary for their practice, in a participatory session.

Jeebesh Bagchi with Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta formed Raqs Media Collective in 1992 in Delhi, India. The word “raqs” in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by whirling, turning, being in a state of revolution. Raqs Media Collective take this sense to mean ‘kinetic contemplation’ and a restless entanglement with the world, and with time. Raqs enlists objects such as an early-modern tiger-automata from Southern India, or a biscuit from the Paris Commune, or a cup salvaged from an ancient Mediterranean shipwreck, to turn them into devices to sniff and taste time. Devices are deployed thus in order to undertake historical subterfuge and philosophical queries. Raqs practices across several media; making installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica and curation. The members of Raqs Media Collective live and work in Delhi, India. In 2001, they co-founded the Sarai program at CSDS New Delhi and ran it for a decade, where they also edited the Sarai Reader series. They were the Artistic Directors for the recently concluded Yokohama Triennale 2020, “Afterglow”, where they developed sources around toxicity, care, and the luminosity of friendship. 

Sneha Khanwalkar is a composer of film scores and music director from India. After making her debut with the war drama The Hope in 2004, she worked on several films before her breakthrough on Go (2007) and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), which won three of India’s annual Filmfare Awards. Khanwalkar later made history as just the second woman ever nominated for Best Music Director at the Filmfare Awards for her work on the two-part epic Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). Hers was the first nomination for a female composer in nearly three decades following Usha Khanna in 1983. Gangs of Wasseypur won the 2012 APSA Jury Grand Prize for director Anurag Kashyap.

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