Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund Grantees | Round 5 | June 2022

Ashok Vish’s (b. 1987) practice draws from his training in filmmaking and photography. He is interested in examining and disputing western bias and models in queer paradigms. 

Sandeep TK (b. 1990) works with the idea of relationships, desire, oral histories, and fictional narratives in the context of spaces that he inhabited or experienced by exploring the role of his queer, caste, colour identity, and its experience in everyday life. His practice involves photographs, moving images, and text.

Ashok and Sandeep will utilise the grant for the project A Very Queer Friendship, an autobiographical docu-fiction film which documents their developing friendship.

Ashok Vish & Sandeep TK are based in Bengaluru.

Dipanwita Saha (b. 1990) is a photographer based in Kolkata, India. Her work focuses on the socio-political context of contemporary India and relates it to its past. 

Dipanwita will use the grant to continue her work Trail of Blood, which addresses the ruptured, untold history and identity of the Indian subcontinent through photographic archives, map-making, and the use of metaphors and allusions demonstrating testimonial archives with the collaboration of researchers to create an oral archive. The work seeks to put into context the long-term effects of post-partition violence against the contemporary backdrop.

Dipanwita Saha is based in Kolkata.

Manjot Kaur’s (b. 1989) drawings, paintings & time-based media attempt to decolonize both women's bodies & the sovereignty of ecology. 

Manjot will utilise the grant for her project The Parliament of Forests, Fertility Gods and Goddesses, which strives to bridge the past and the future by using archaic symbols and iconography to reflect on the fertility rights of more than the human species and indirectly generate the freedom of choice for women to reproduce.

Pagal Canvas (estd. 2017), founded by Mohit Mahato and Anand Shenoy, is an independent, non-profit self-publication collective, focused on art books, comics, graphic novels, and zines.  

Pagal Canvas will use the grant for the production of Jai Kali Android Wali by Pritam Das, the latest comic publication by Pagal Canvas, that brings together the real and mythical which is set in an urban Indian context.

Pagal Canvas is based in Bengaluru.

Saibal Das (b.1960) has spent around 25 years as a photojournalist, having worked for magazines like India Today, Outlook and The Telegraph newspaper. 

Saibal will utilise the grant for his project that explores the slow destruction of his ancestral house in his hometown of Chandannagar, a former French colony. His project will portray the living spaces of the last generation of the family who are residents of the house. 

Saibal Das is based in Chandannagar.

Sudha Padmaja Francis (b.1990) is a filmmaker from Kerala, India. She graduated with a Masters in Creative Enterprise (Film) from the University of Reading, UK in 2017.

Sudha will use the grant for making a documentary/non-fiction film that explores the culture of baking that has curiously thrived in small towns and villages of North Kerala, and has subsequently expanded to other parts of India. From stories to anecdotes, the film will attempt to historicize a taste or a culture of making a taste, in continuities and discontinuities from its colonial past.

Sudha Padmaja Francis is based in Kochi.

Vasudha Kapadia (b.1995) has a Bachelors and Masters in Visual Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University (2019). Her work employs slow processes of drawing to work through personal experiences and societal conditions; and the anxieties, observations and desires that emerge therefrom. 

Vasudha will use the grant for the production of her work How to make time tangible. She intends to research into process-based exercises, extending into walking, composting, cultivating, collecting; learning from intimate modes and sustained actions. These are observational, circumstantial and learnt from nature.