Material Memories’ looks at reconfigurations and reconstitutions of ecology through memory, in documentations, material assemblages, mythologies and shared stories.
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‘Kandankali Samaram-Jila Satyagraha Samaram’ is an important people’s movement in the recent history of Kerala. It is a struggle that put a halt to a project which threatened the ecosystem of an ecologically-sensitive region.
Immemorial Waters, 2nd BIOM Residency Showcase at Gallery Espace Project Space Read More »
The AgriForum is an ongoing platform hosted by FICA, involving a set of discussants – artists and art collectives – working with the agrarian as a site, seeking to bring together varied critical inquiries, multiple propositions, and diverse practices. FICA organised an artist residency with the Gram Art Project in Paradsinga, Madhya Pradesh. Their proposed programme in Paradsinga aimed at streamlining certain discursive points for the participating artists and their art practices, while also learning from and adding to the work Gram Art Community has been doing for over 9 years.
Agriforum, with FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art) Read More »
‘Kandankali Samaram-Jila Satyagraha Samaram’ is an important people’s movement in the recent history of Kerala. It is a struggle that put a halt to a project which threatened the ecosystem of an ecologically-sensitive region.
Kandankali Samaram: Documentation & Education, by Blaise Joseph Read More »
Sky Islands is an independent digital eco-publication and platform launched by The Kodai Chronicle Trust and based in the Western Ghats: one of the greatest and most threatened biodiversity hotspots on Earth. They seek to produce stories from this beautiful region digitally, in multiple mediums, informed by lived experience; showcase regional initiatives; and provide tools for interaction and navigating life in the hills.
Writer’s Fellowship: Creating Grassroots Narratives, with Sky Islands Read More »
Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Rana Dasgupta Kent, England I grew up in England. I was born in Kent, a place of extreme natural beauty. In our garden we had a Cobnut tree. It’s not a very common tree, and some of my earliest memories are of these Cobnuts lying in our garden. My mother,
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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Remi Gass Alsace, France The first tree I remember as unique in my memory was when I was very small. I must have been three-four years old. My parents would bring us on Sundays to make a little tour in the forest in Alsace. There was a little chapel there
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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Vandana Shiva Dehradun My earliest tree memory is the Harshringar, which used to be my mother’s favourite; she had planted it. The flowers fall at night and in the morning, it is beautifully layered. We were in Lakhimpur Kheri, and that image of the flowers…even today when I see the
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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Amit Dahiyabadshah New Delhi My earliest memory of a tree is when I was a very young child and I was taken to Bombay where a girl from our village had become a movie star. She loved taking people out, showing them how films were made. She paid for many
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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Arjun Dahanu Kerala My early childhood was completely interlinked with the coconut tree. Most of the activities were around the coconut tree. Every forty-five days, or so, there was plucking, sorting, de-husking; every part of the tree was used. I was especially fond of watching the de-husking of the coconut.
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