Common Ground II: Parallel Migrations by Serendipity Arts Festival 2019

As a part of the Curtain-Raiser, The Serendipity Arts Festival will be holding a day-long seminar examining contemporary visual arts and trans-media practices, titled Common Ground II: Parallel Migrations on 13 September at the British Council in association with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.

The panel is organized by Rahaab Allana and Ravi Agarwal, Curators of Photography discipline at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2019.

Open to the public, Common Ground II: Parallel Migrations is planned as a key milestone event leading up to the Festival. The curtain-raiser will also formally launch this year’s festival, which will be held in Panaji, Goa from 15 - 22 December.

Common Ground II: Parallel Migrations presents reputed speakers from across South Asia, who engage with art production, activism, curation and independent publishing, seeking convergence across disciplines today. The seminar seeks to understand and discuss the emerging image culture and its interpretations, as images traverse across various media and contexts. It aims to excavate streams of the interdisciplinary in our practices within and outside the academy, which may enable plurality, absorption, as well as provoke us to reflect on our embedded locational affinities.

The three sessions that are taking place this year are:
●  Interrogating ‘Place’ in Practice
●  Political Value(s) and Art
●  Configurations of the Self

Notable speakers and panelists include: Ashmina Ranjit, Ayisha Abraham, Dechen Roder, Gayatri Sinha, Jyoti Dhar, Kanak Mani Dixit, Nancy Adajania, Priya Sen, Shahidul Alam, Sharareh Bajracharya, Shohini Ghosh, Sudhanva Deshpande, Tanzim Wahab and Venuri Perera.

The Curtain-Raiser and Launch of the Serendipity Arts Festival 2019 will also formally announce the curatorial line up for the fourth edition:
Craft: Pramod KG and Kristine Michael |Music: Aneesh Pradhan and Sneha Khanwalkar |Theatre: Atul Kumar and Arundhati Nag |Dance: Leela Samson and Mayuri Upadhya |Culinary Arts: Rahul Akerkar and Prahlad Sukhtankar | Visual Arts: Dr Jyotindra Jain and Sudarshan Shetty | Photography: Rahaab Allana and Ravi Agarwal. 

The event is open to the public. Registration to attend the event can be done at the entry gate of the venue.

Entry is absolutely FREE