Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Outlines In Ink Workshop

About Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Outlines In Ink Workshop

FICA is pleased to announce a workshop exploring visual narratives identified within and across phases in the archive of cartoons by Inder Bhan Madan, currently housed at the FICA Reading Room. Inviting applications from practitioners interested and/or engaging in some form with the medium of cartoons and graphic narratives, the session led by Shambhavi Gairola will invite participants to explore ways in which these cartoons can be read, interpreted and intervened with, creating different approaches to entering and engaging with such an archive.

The workshop is structured as an interactive session with the cartoons, and participants will be invited to engage with the different narrative forms that can be traced across time periods in the archive. This would include thinking about how visual narratives take shape through the composition of a cartoon, and how certain choices and thought processes initiated by the artist find translation within the frame. This will also provide participants with an opportunity to use the archival material as a launchpad for experimenting with other forms of narratives.

Please note the workshop will be limited to 10 participants only.

Date: Thursday, 16 June 2022

Timing: 2 – 6 PM

Venue: FICA Reading Room, F 213/E 2, Second Floor, Old Mehrauli Badarpur Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi 110030

Last date for applications: 12 June 2022

Eligibility:

All are welcome to apply. There are no prerequisites for applying to participate in the workshop.

Application requirements:

* Send us a glimpse of your practice – samples of your writing, your art and/or any other related pursuits – that might demonstrate your specific interest in this workshop and its theme.

* Please write to us at info@ficart.org with a very short introduction of yourself, along with samples of your work as mentioned above by 12 June 2022.

The workshop is organised in conjunction with The Wry Eye, a display showcasing an archive of cartoons by Inder Bhan Madan, which is currently open at Project_Space at the FICA Reading Room.

For more details on the workshop and how to apply, click here.

The workshop will be led by Shambhavi Gairola, curator and designer of The Wry Eye exhibition currently on display at the FICA Reading Room. She has spent the past year working with the Inder Bhan Madan archive at FICA. Shambhavi has over six years of experience in the field of visual arts, arts administration and exhibition-making. Her art-making practice spans a variety of media and genres, incorporating graphic design, immediate encounters with her surroundings as well as more nuanced studies of perception and the gaze. She hopes to be able to expand her practice to accommodate experiments with documentary filmmaking, archival research, curating and anthropology. She is currently based in New Delhi.