Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund Grantees | Round 3 | April 2021

  • Experimenter Labs announced the third round of recipients of the Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund supporting projects by Aditya Puthur,...
    Experimenter Labs announced the third round of recipients of the Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund  supporting projects by Aditya Puthur, Ankur Yadav, CONA Print Studio, Divyesh Undaviya, Khushbu Patel, Madhu Das, Prantik Narayan Basu, Priyank Gothwal, Srinivas Kuruganti, Tanya Maheshwari, Tapan Moharana, and Vamika Jain. The third round of applications was evaluated by artists Jitish Kallat, Monica Narula, Sohrab Hura, and the Experimenter team.
  • Aditya Puthur Aditya Puthur

    Aditya Puthur

    Aditya Puthur (b. 1991), completed his Post Diploma in Painting from M.S.University, Baroda, in 2016 and G.D Art in Drawing and Painting from L.S. Raheja School of Art in 2014. Through his works, he attempts to conjunct art and science to understand what a piece of life called Body is.


    Aditya will utilize the grant to complete an ongoing project consisting of paintings and videos. The project is an attempt to look at a living body as any man-made or natural space and the ways in which living entities respond to it.

  • Ankur Yadav Ankur Yadav

    Ankur Yadav

    Ankur Yadav (b. 1995) is a visual artist based out of Rajasthan. His works span across mediums of video art, photography, painting, installation, and performance, often responding to the surroundings he finds himself in, be it physical, political, or mental.

     

    Ankur will use the grant to establish a community-based art practice, which will involve engaging with the people as well as collecting and archiving varying perspectives and alternate evidences. The findings could open up new grounds for discussions and raise questions, while the dialogue could be carried on within different spheres of life. This could lead to reviewing the conditions which surround us and rethink the future which lay before us.

  • CONA PRINT STUDIO CONA PRINT STUDIO

    CONA PRINT STUDIO

    CONA FOUNDATION’s initiative, CONA Print Studio, was established in 2017 inside a small garage in Borivali (Bombay). Initially supported by the Shroff Foundation and later with small but very generous donations from artist friends, it has been spearheaded single-handedly by our master print maker, Sashi Kumar. The print studio is currently in the process of moving to Goa and is looking forward to many collaborations with artists, students and institutions.

    CONA Print Studio will be relocating to Goa from Bombay in 2021. It will be using the grant to set up the new studio and its infrastructure and thereby operate with new vigour.

  • DIVYESH UNDAVIYA DIVYESH UNDAVIYA

    DIVYESH UNDAVIYA

    Divyesh Undaviya’s (b. 1994) work traverses a broad range of media from installation to drawings to videos and sculptures. His interest lies in fabricating labyrinthine spaces – or experiential walk-in installations – that resemble a film or theatre set in an attempt to scramble notions of linearity and the mundane; subtly de-familiarizing the everyday.


    Divyesh will use the grant to fabricate multiple environments or situations that are constantly being shaped by the circumstances playing with one’s idea of time and space and one’s sense of fact and fiction

  • KHUSHBU PATEL KHUSHBU PATEL

    KHUSHBU PATEL

    Khushbu Patel’s (b. 1992) recent body of works have involved the techniques of ‘medical imaging’, where she develops an archive through collecting the visuals of the interior body. Her interest revolves around the concept and idea of change, which she has tried to show through the process, subjects, concepts, and her choice of medium. She has a keen interest in viewing the micro layers of the body and the gradual process of changes that take place within it.

    Khushbu will use the grant to develop her project ‘The Resistance of Invisible’ to acquaint herself with more complex medical imageries through the technique of ‘Capsule Endoscopy’ and utilising these archive of images in her research to outreach the composites of the Invisible.

  • MADHU DAS MADHU DAS MADHU DAS

    MADHU DAS

    Madhu Das’s (b. 1987) practice incorporates multidisciplinary expressions that uncover stories connected to geography, history, community, or an individual persona focus on investigating the projection of identity onto the social and natural world: in a way that the two are woven together in the space.

     

    He has shown at Delfina Foundation, London; Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan; Harvard South Asia Institute, Cambridge, USA; Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, India; Devi Art Foundation, India; Sarai Reader 09, India.

     

    Madhu’s project ‘Landscape of confronted abstraction’, currently in its production stage, is a sitespecific, performative work and the grant will support the intervention on site and production of the project

  • TAPAN MOHARANA TAPAN MOHARANA TAPAN MOHARANA TAPAN MOHARANA TAPAN MOHARANA TAPAN MOHARANA

    TAPAN MOHARANA

    Tapan Moharana (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He received his MFA (2013) in Sculpture from Rabindra Bharati University.


    His artistic practice engages and questions the notions of land, displacement, and the politics of ecology. Moharana’s current practice is influenced by and develops through amalgamations of various local and indigenous art forms like shadow play and shadow theatre in his neighborhood.


    Tapan will use the grant for travelling to Denkanal and attending workshops on the making of Ravana Chhaya as part of research for his ongoing project. Ravana Chhaya is a form of shadow puppetry of the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

  • TANYA MAHESHWARI TANYA MAHESHWARI

    TANYA MAHESHWARI

    Tanya Maheshwari (b. 1996) is a visual artist based in Delhi. She works with painting, textile, and moving image. The themes foregrounded in her work explore inheritance of gendered identity, belonging and isolation in urban spaces, and self-representation.

     

    Tanya will use the grant to create work for an ongoing multimedia project that explores a disruption in the idea of belonging and home, rendered by the onset of the pandemic, financial precarity, broken notions of autonomy, and her experiences as a woman in urban space.

  • VAMIKA JAIN VAMIKA JAIN

    VAMIKA JAIN

    Vamika Jain (b. 1993) is a visual artist and photographer working primarily with photographs, text, found information, video and installation. Her practice is an inquiry into urban-natural environmental co-existence, politics of city design and the dilemma of real and fake. With her work, Vamika wishes to deconstruct the existing forms of visual representation.

     

    Vamika will be using the grant to create work about women’s affective and sensory experiences of the urban environment, attempting to investigate access and aesthetics in city design and representation in popular culture.