Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund Grantees | Round 4 | November 2021

Namoos Bukhari (b.1992) was born and partly brought up in Srinagar, Kashmir. He has recently produced a film about the altering realities of the survivors of pellet shotgun injuries in Kashmir through the support of Five Million Incidents 2019-2020 by Goethe-Institut in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective.

Namoos will use this fund to produce an artist’s book about the altering realities of the people injured by the use of pellet shotguns by security forces in Kashmir.

Abhijit Deb (b.1990) born and raised in Agartala, Abhijit's practice is primarily based on addressing a broader idea through an individual or a selected group of individuals. He prefers taking a multimedia approach wherever it is possible and justifiable. He currently works with analogue and digital stills, scans, experimental video and field recordings.

Abhijit will use the fund for his photography project, ‘An odyssey’ which is an exploration of the vast and vivid folklore of the North-eastern region of India.

Sukanya Ghosh (b.1973) works across painting, photography, animation and the moving image. She studied Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, and Animation at the NID, Ahmedabad. She has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Award as well as various artist commissions and has been Artist-in-Residence at Khoj, New Delhi; Spike Island, Bristol and AIR Vallauris, France. She lives and works between Delhi and Calcutta.

Sukanya will use this grant to fund the production of a short experimental film-based piece involving analogue photography and animation. Titled ‘Konkal’ (Bengali for skeleton), the film is going to be built around the cityscape of Calcutta.

Arshad Hakim (b. 1992) is an artist and a filmmaker. They are interested in conditions of impasse, interludes, parentheses and interruptions, and work with the essay form; forms of narrative that are first-person based, fragmentary and non-linear. They make video/film essays and drawings derived from philosophy, film, theology, music and poetry.

Arshad will use this fund to produce a video-essay project speculating on what occurs when there is a change in light, both as material and embodiment. With the help of soundscapes, they will weave a narrative that focuses on the sonic components of light and an eclipse, on the registers of the ethereal, the astronomical, and the cosmic.

Akshay Ingle (b.1994) is an independent filmmaker and cinematographer from India. He is a Cinematography student of Film and television institute of India Pune (FTII), 2017 batch. His short documentary, “Mahalle’s School – Family Going Live” is going to premiere at IDFA 2021. He has secured a grant from PSBT for his next documentary project.

 Akshay will utilise this fund for the post-production of his documentary titled ‘Mahalle’s School – Family Going Live’, which features a small family with limited resources who prepare their children for the daily struggles of online education in Covid-19 ridden Akola, Maharashtra.

Sister Library (e. 2019) is a community-owned, community-run feminist library. It is an evolving and generative artwork that engages in in-depth reflection on the visual and reading culture of our times. The project emphasizes the importance of the works of women in the creative world. The permanent library in Bombay displays publications and printed materials powered by female excellence that explores historical and contemporary creative works. The traveling Sister Library is a collection of printed materials that responds to its locality, this display takes the form of an experimental reading and reflecting room. Brought together by artist Aqui Thami, this collaborative practice stems from her desire to heal in community.

Sister Library will use this grant to fund a travelling edition of their library across North-East India with a collection of literature that is specific to the region, and create a zine based on the works produced by collaborators from the local communities over the course of the travelling edition.

Imaad Majeed (b.1991) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. They are curator of KACHA KACHA, and one part of The Packet. Their work has explored identity, language, nationalism, sacred space, ethnoreligious conflict, and healing. They have participated at NeMLA, Tamil Studies Symposium, Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Theertha Performance Platform, Colomboscope, Chobi Mela and Art Dubai.

Imaad will use this fund to produce ‘Kannooru Maqaamat’, a concept album that aims to reflect the state of Sufi sonics in Sri Lanka, while addressing its continuous erasure; the project attempts to rekindle an interest in Sufi sonics.

Renuka Rajiv (b.1985) graduated from Victorian College of Art, Melbourne. Most themes and content in their work is personal, which includes the compulsion towards the hand-made. Since 2012 they have been exhibiting regularly in group and solo shows. Prizes include FICA Emerging Artist Award, Substation exhibition prize and City of Stonington Print Prize. They have been on residencies at CONA (Bombay), T.A.J. (Bangalore) and Pro Helvetia + FICA (Lucerne).

Renuka will use this fund to produce two issues of ‘RESTRICTED FIXATIONS’, a subscription-based zine initiative. The project comprises of eight issues in total, each having a different theme with inputs from contributors belonging to various disciplines.

Taniya Sarkar (b.1992) is an independent photographer based in Kolkata, India. Her view on her existence and surrounding is very political from where she started to understand that nothing is sudden. Incidents are unique and give rise to a new incident which motivated her visual process. Her work mostly concerns subjective engagement with contemporary social issues. As an Indian- Bengali woman, she tends to situate the socio-political reality of today’s time from a women’s perspective, through the stories of women who are also suppressed for a long time.

Taniya will use this fund to continue her photography project ‘Nothing Left to Call Home’, which investigates how communal violence in the artist's home state of West Bengal, India, is also patriarchal violence that targets women. The project seeks to memorialise under-reported traumas while honouring women’s resilience before a generation of memories is lost.