For a series of arts-based exploratory learning modules at the Government High School, S M Krishna Nagara, Gadag. The project will involve eighth-grade students in visual-arts-integrated activities involving subjects such as math and science. The activities will be centred on the ecology of a tree, exploring its nature and structure, the animals and insects that inhabit it, as well as its importance in the environment. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition and a publication titled Maravembudu Ondu Jaivika Vyavasthe (‘Tree is an Organic Ecosystem’)The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a copy of the publication, photographs and video documentation of the project. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, workshop and material, documentation and printing, exhibition, professional fees, travel, and an accountant’s fee.
This Grant was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Grantee and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.
For the creation and dissemination of a theatrical production titled Olangana, a Kannada adaptation of the play Interior written by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Involving a guest director and 15 alumni of Ninasam, the play aims to dislodge the centrality of text and bring in a new performance vocabulary into contemporary Kannada theatre. The performance is scheduled to open at Ninasam in February 2020 and will subsequently be performed in 15 to 20 cities and small towns across Karnataka. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be still and video documentation of the rehearsal process and the performance. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, dissemination, sets and costumes, rehearsal and living space, documentation and travel.
For research into the narratives of Indian seafarers who left home as labour aboard British ships in the early part of the 20th century. Engaging with these stories of sailors and with a focus on the underrepresented maritime history of South India, the research will investigate into notions of home, belonging and identity for the seafarers. The outcome of the project will be a script towards a performance. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be an essay on the methodological approach and process, and a copy of the script. Grant funds will pay for travel and living, purchase of books, materials, stationery, research assistant’s fee, honorarium, library and archive fees and an accountant’s fee.
For the creation of a performance exploring the history of the ‘Egyptian’ neighbourhood in Jayanagar Third Block. Through in-depth personal interviews of the residents, this project attempts to elicit their memories and current relationship with the locality. The outcome of this project will be an event that will include a theatre and music performance, and storytelling. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photo documentation of the performance and audio recordings of the interviews. Grant funds will pay for research and recording, conveyance, refreshments, performance fees and performance costs.
For the creation of an interactive technology with projection and lighting, towards formulating a new language of scenography for dance and theatre performances in India. The technology being responsive to the performer’s movements on stage will bring elements of unpredictability and spontaneity into performances, making lights a ‘co-performer’. The outcomes of this project will be the interactive technology apparatus and a dance performance that employs this mechanism. Grant funds will pay for equipment hire, professional fees, venue hire and an accountant’s fee.
For a creative workshop over two days that seeks to build a collective identity for the neighbourhood of Malleswaram through the memory mapping technique. Using visual story-telling, drawing, writing, and recording oral histories, participants will examine ideas of ownership, identity and belonging as well as their relationship with change. The outcome of the project will be a set of memory maps on Malleswaram. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photo-documentation of the workshop and a digital copy of the book. Grant funds will pay for materials, workshop, honorarium, facilitators’ fees and book design.
For a residential workshop over six days that will enable an exchange of knowledge and experiences between shadow puppeteers representing six traditional puppetry forms and contemporary projective shadow theatre practitioners. The artists will collaboratively explore contemporary approaches to conceptualising, devising and performing shadow puppetry through an in-depth inquiry into the narratives, aesthetics, techniques, and social contexts of puppetry. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be still and video documentation from the workshop and notes from the session on reflection and evaluation. Grant funds will pay for professional fees, venue hire, travel and living costs, honorarium, local conveyance, material costs, equipment hire, stationery and an accountant’s fee.
For the dissemination of a musical performance where the songs explore notions of Manipuri identity embedded in the lives, literature and folklore of the Meitei diaspora. This performance is an outcome of an earlier project supported by IFA and seeks to take the music to six locations across Assam and Bangladesh in an attempt to reconnect with the places and the people whose stories the songs embody. The project also attempts to enliven traditional performance spaces, generate further conversations around Manipuri identity and thereby become a bridge between Manipur and its diaspora. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA along with the final report will be photos and videos of the performances and discussions. Grant funds will pay for travel and living costs, professional fees, equipment hire, honorarium and accountant’s fee.
