For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will engage seventh grade students of the Government Higher Primary School in Papinayakanahalli, Sandur Taluk, Ballari district, through a project titled Tiliyona Banni Nammura (Come, let us find our city). The project aims to enable students to explore the history, art, culture, and living legacy of Toranagallu village through theatre and literature, while creating meaningful connections with the texts and themes in their social science and language curriculum. The outcome of the project will be a publication and a theatrical performance. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, exposure visits, materials, printing, documentation, travel and living, and hire of equipment.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will engage fourth and fifth grade students of the Government Lower Primary School in Paparajanahalli village, Kolar taluk, Kolar district, with the project titled Nela Gurutu, Nudi Gurutu (Markers of Land and Voice). This project connects to the curriculum in Environmental Studies (EVS), Kannada language and Social Science through an exploration of the cultural geography of their village through theatre, songs and storytelling. The outcome of the project will be a publication, an exhibition, and a series of performances in the presence of school staff and community members. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include a copy of the publication and photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, workshop, materials, Travel and living, performance, printing, Stationery, and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will investigate the relatively underexplored trans-urbanic sonic highway connecting Calcutta and Mumbai during the early twentieth century. The project basing its research on select printed materials and audio recordings of Dr Ashok Da Ranade Archive will explore how the cross-pollination of European classical and operatic music, travelling opera troupes, Parsi-Iranian theatrical motifs, and Jazz syncopation forged a trans-urban “colonial cosmo-modernism” that fundamentally reorganised the listening cultures of Maharashtra and Bengal. The outcomes of this project will be a website of Trans-Urban Sound Map of Calcutta-Mumbai and an academic essay. In addition, public programming like sonic salons and performers’ parlours with scholars and performers will be organised. The Project Coordinator’s final deliverables to IFA will be the manuscript of the academic essay, an open-access website, and audio-visual documentation of the public programming. This is a collaboration with Dr Ashok Da Ranade Archives in Pune, Maharashtra. The Project funds will pay for contract fees, public programming, travel and living and website hosting.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will engage sixth and seventh grade students of the PM Shri KPS Government Higher Primary School in Hiregadde village in Thirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district. The project titled Bannada Hejje (Colourful Steps) is a confluence of colours and movements to create an engaging and memorable learning experience for students. Visual arts will be combined with dance-based storytelling connecting to curriculum in languages, Mathematics, Science, and Social Science. The outcome of the project will be a performance and an exhibition. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, exposure visits, performance, stationery, workshop, printing, and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will engage seventh grade students of the Government Moulana Azad Model School and College (English Medium) in Lashkar Mohalla, Mysore district, through a project exploring the learning possibilities with string puppets – Marionettes. By engaging with the methods, techniques, and puppet-making processes, the project connects to their curriculum in Mathematics, Science, and Social Science. The outcome of the project will be puppetry performances and an exhibition. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, workshop, documentation, exposure visits, printing, hire of equipment, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the impact of human-made bodily norms to generate perspectives on the breast, as a form designed by society and culture along with biology. The outcomes of the project will be an artistic research paper, a process matrix, three ReBoob prototypes, and an installation. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the artistic research paper, and the visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for materials, contract fees, installation, consumables, hire of equipment, printing, archive and library fee, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the neurological concept of the “phantom limb” and Feldenkrais method for movement and stillness, through storywriting and devised theatre, to meditate on the neurological condition of pain, explore the interactions between science and the body, myth and memory, touch and untouch, history and fiction. The outcome of the project will be a series of collective devised theatre experiments, integrating Feldenkrais methods. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be audio-visual and photographic documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for production, contract fees, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will explore the photo-chemical and photo-mechanical dimensions of the organic materials sourced from East Kolkata Wetlands, in order to recontextualise the current conditions of the water-based infrastructures surrounding an Indian metropolis in light of the climate crisis. The outcome of the project will include print-based works, site-specific interventions with found materials, documentation of eco-somatic and alternate process, along with a short essay on ecological photochemistry. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photographic and visual documentation of the artistic process, and the short essay. Project funds will pay for the materials, archive and library fees, contract fees, travel and living, and hire of venue.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will explore how personal archives and stories of mothers and daughters can be translated through feminist storytelling, in the form of a graphic narrative that can be transposed onto a spatial installation, as a “living zine”. The outcome of the project will be a “living zine”, including a graphic narrative, through objects and space, as a spatial installation of feminist storytelling, and an open studio event. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will an artistic archive scrapbook, a zine/ mini comic, and visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for contract fees, production, printing, materials, travel and living, and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will engage with Rafooghar (a community-based textile-led practice in New Delhi, where women gather) through sessions of stitching, drawing, assembling materials, visual notes, sound fragments, or a collection of prompts, to capture the subtle shifts in their shared space. The outcome of the project will be community-based art practice, as a series of women’s gatherings of collective noticing of what resists documentation, through embodied, material and relational forms of making. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the photographic and visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, materials and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will develop a comparative history of listening cultures in Maharashtra and Bengal, demonstrating how music circulated through performers, audiences, institutions, print, recording and broadcasting. Titled Listening Across Space: Sound and Memory in Maharashtra and Bengal, the project will foreground listening as a social, cultural, and historical practice. The outcomes of this project will be a research article on listening cultures in Maharashtra and Bengal; an annotated digital bibliography and research guide on archival sources relating to Indian listening cultures; a digital exhibition; public lectures and an educational toolkit introducing broader audiences to India's archival histories of listening. The Project Coordinator’s final deliverables to IFA will include the research article, annotated digital bibliography and research guide, a curated digital exhibition, and an educational toolkit and documentation from the public programming. This is a collaboration with Dr Ashok Da Ranade Archives in Pune, Maharashtra. The Project funds will pay for travel and living, contract fees, workshop, archive and museum fee, publicity and marketing, subscription to software, and website hosting.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will examine the intersections of the mudras (hand gestures) in Odissi dance, and the Indian Sign Language (ISL) for the deaf, as a way of developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between classical dance, gesture, rhythm and embodied communication. The outcome of the project will be artistic collaboration between an Odissi dancer, deaf children, and an ISL interpreter, leading to a set of choreographic scores. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be audio-visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for the contract fees, documentation, travel and living, consumables, materials and stationery, purchase of books, and printing.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will make a history card game that will explore the political, cultural, and social evolution of Tamil history from the Sangam Era to the Dravidian Movement, with illustrated cards created by contemporary Tamil artists and designers. The outcome of the project will be a card game that encourages the players to engage deeper with Tamil history. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be 100 card illustrations of historical events, and the game rule book and box art. Project funds will pay for contract fees, printing, and travel and living.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will involve the making of a site-responsive artistic exploration with the fading design archives of the artist’s father, in their ancestral house in Big Bazar, North Kolkata. Through drawing, textile, moving image, projection, voice, found objects, it explores how a private family archive can become a public enquiry into memory, inheritance, and Kolkata’s fading visual culture of the 1960s. The outcome of the project will be a site-specific installation, including a series of graphic drawings, a series of moving images, a digital archive, and a public gathering. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be the visual documentation of the artistic process. Project funds will pay for materials, documentation, printing, oroduction, travel and living, contract fees, and consumables.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will include the making of anthotype prints (using light-sensitive plant pigments) from medicinal plants gathered from Thurga River, Ajodhya Hills, Purulia, towards the making of a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of anthotype prints. The outcome of the project will be a series of anthotype prints made from medicinal plants gathered along the Thurga River, as a fading archive and a bilingual zine. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of the anthotype prints. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, publication, printing, workshop and materials.
