Drifting with Summer tides

Drifting with the Summer Tides

23 July 2021 - 6 August 2021 — Online @ cfmdc.tv

“Let’s swim to the moon
Let’s climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.”
― Jim Morrison

“A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

We’re thrilled to announce the final program of films for the 14th edition of Monitor: Drifting with the Summer Tides.
To kick things off we would like to share a note from our guest curator Rasha Salti:

Sometimes curating is like building a puzzle where you have individual pieces, but the complete picture is for you to guess or make up.
The generous invitation from SAVAC to curate this forthcoming fourteenth edition of Monitor has felt close to that. The work conditions that the pandemic has imposed have perhaps amplified the loneliness of the overall process but watching the impressive number of submissions has also been salutary; each film was an occasion for reverie, drift, to another world, to the artist or filmmaker’s subjective, personal, and finely crafted world.
From drift to drift, the puzzle took the form of a musical composition, with the resonances of each film amplifying, bouncing, or harmonizing as they were strung together.
The proposed program could be described in movements, instead borrowing allegories from tides and waves seemed more apt, in reference to how they imagine, narrate, represent and re-articulate our being in the world within a living environment with relationships to land, water (rivers and oceans), fauna and flora; our being as carriers of memory and of a counter-memory of resistance; our being as carriers of ideology and of struggle.

The proposed program articulates along four tides: billowing tide, wave crest, breaker tide and ebbing wave.

Billowing Tide
Water Has Memory, Meera Devidayal
Jordão, Gian Spina
Dialogue with the Unseen, Valerio Rocco Orlando

Wave Crest
Untitled Part 9: this time, Jayce Salloum
Nothing Ever Happens Here, Sponge Gourd Collective
A Line Was Drawn, Mairead McClean
Stealing Earth, Karan Shrestha

Breaker Tide
The Hole’s Journey, Ghita Skali Syrialism, Dalia Al-Kury

Ebbing Wave
Part II: Fatimah and Kulit, Pathompon Mont Tesprateep

We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction, Inas Halabi
Shadow & Act, Taiki Sakpisit

MONITOR is dedicated to the presentation of experimental short films and videos that initiate dialogue around the shifting nature of politics, economies and landscapes across the Global South and its diasporas

MAP in partnership with 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

OPEN CALL: India Artist Relief Fund

This relief fund seeks to support artists and their work during this difficult time and is open to all practicing artists, irrespective of the medium of practice. Including but not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, performance, and digital media.

Artists are invited to send us a brief CV along with a note on your art practice (500+ words) in English, Hindi or Kannada.

Please apply with five images of your recent works.
You may also send links to your works.

Please also send us a note telling us how this grant will be used and what the intended outcome is expected to be.

Preference will be given to independent practicing artists who are struggling financially and have not received grants/support earlier in the past year.

Artists will be required to share images of the work produced for documentation purposes but are free to use this grant to develop their practice and sell the artworks post documentation.

Send your application and all the information requested in one email to iarf@map-india.org

The application should reach us by 30th June.
An independent jury will select 20 artists who will receive 50,000/- each.

Gauri Lankesh's Urgent saaru with Pushpamala N

 

 Kameshwaran is keenly invested in his immediate surroundings, thereby allowing the environments he inhabits to inform his work. He is especially drawn to the idea of home, his own family and uses materials that he salvages from urban debris that is somewhat connected to his own life. His skillful hands have the ability to bring meaning to the materials he works with whilst crafting ideas onto objects, with a subtle interplay between light and shadow. He navigates from the home/self, agrarian landscape, and the urban garden.

Stranded at home during the long and anxious lockdown period of the Covid pandemic, Kamesh found ways to sustain himself while stranded at home. Taking inspiration from the mundane, Kamesh observed lizards on the ceiling, chased fluttering moths, listened to bird songs, traced gnarled branches that blossom from the long winter and incorporated the aforementioned observations and activities into his work to sow seeds of hope.

The artist looks at himself in his self-portraits and holds a mirror to us, asking fundamental questions that are existential. He creates sculptural installations to investigate the hierarchy and patriarchy of labour. And from the arid landscape of his village, he chases rain clouds, yearning to harvest his thoughts as an artist on the edge of desire. This short interlude as an artist-in-residence at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery has given him the time to pause, think and look forward to the future. 

Bangalore, Inside/Out

A Photography Exhibition

Curated by Ashok Vish & Sandeep TK

Opens Friday, March 19, 2021 @ 7PM

On display till Sunday, March 21

7PM - 10PM. Evenings ONLY!

Part of Bangalore CONNECT, a series of projects supported under Project 560 by India Foundation for the Arts

About the Exhibition

‘Bangalore, Inside/Out’ will look at the role of photography as a means of access to people and places that we otherwise might not have access to, signifying that photographing intimate subjects is a life instinct. The exhibition will look at the city of Bangalore but by shifting the gaze inwards. By combining ideas of fiction and fantasy, we hope that the show will take us through the photographers’ journeys in looking at the intimate, while highlighting those personal stories, relationships, familial histories, interior spaces and other subject matters that are unquestionably personal in nature in relation to the city of Bangalore. Through such personal narratives, and looking inwards, we hope to make further enquiries around the numerous changes and conflicts of the city of Bangalore.