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We are excited to share some glimpses from Soumya Sankar Bose’s @soumyasankarbose residency at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Nantes @iea.nantes, France, where he has been invited as the artistic chair of The Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, le lieu unique, and the city of Nantes.    Besides continuing his research on thanatology, Bose is also working on his new project, ‘We Need to Talk in Whispers,’ which began in early 2023 in India and traces the intersections between tangible events and subjective emotions to delve into the multifaceted nature of memory and grief. The work also draws from sources like newspaper archives, court verdicts, suicide notes, death announcements, social media posts, and the recollections of those grappling with loss, alongside insights from scholars such as Émile Durkheim and Edwin S. Shneidman, Peter Mayer, Katrina Jaworski, and Kees Van Heeringen.   ‘We Need to Talk in Whispers’ attempts to integrate the lived realities of its subjects, personal stories, and fictionalised narratives with social science theory. It continues Bose’s exploration of themes central to his practice: memory, loss, archives, and the fragility of human existence. Through a delicate interplay between the individual and the collective, the real and the imagined, the seen and the felt, the work offers an evocative lens into the psychological, emotional, and social dimensions of life and death.    Videos and images courtesy of the artist    #SoumyaSankarBose

Frieze @friezeofficial | “Sohrab Hura’s @uglydogbooks Photographs Rest Between Testimony and Confession: The New Dehli-based artist’s survey at MoMA PS1, New York, interweaves the autobiographical and the sociopolitical to consider the state of his motherland”, writes critic and curator Murtaza Vali @murtazavali “Over the past few years, Hura has experimented with translating his particular way of seeing into slower mediums such as pastel drawing and painting in gouache and acrylic, a shift that softens abjection with humour and an almost-palpable tenderness. A salon-style hang of vividly coloured drawings includes portraits of family and friends and scenes of everyday life: small intimacies, secret joys, inevitable deaths. While some show a fidelity to a photographic source, retaining a selfie’s perspective and crop or a snapshot’s intimacy and immediacy, others feel wholly imagined, cumulatively blurring distinct modes of making and consuming pictures…Sitting somewhere between testimony and confession, his perspective scrambles the autobiographical and the sociopolitical in unexpected and often revealing ways.” Read more, link in bio. Sohrab Hura’s ‘Mother’, on view at MoMA PS1 until February 17, 2025, spans photography, film, sound, drawing, painting, and text—tracing Hura’s shifting existential concerns around the ethics of image-making as a documentary act while opening up new dimensions for storytelling across the Indian subcontinent. Don’t miss this exciting exhibition if you are in New York or planning a visit soon! Organised by Ruba Katrib @rubakatrib, Chief Curator, MoMA PS1, with Sheldon Gooch @sacredboi, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1. #SohrabHura #Mother #MoMA #MoMAPS1 #QueensNY #NewYork #ExhibitionReview #Frieze #MurtazaVali

We are looking forward to the exciting Open Studio at @house_no.999 this evening where works by Julien Segard @julionsegard, Tenzing Dakpa @dakpa.dakpa and Tanmay Kulkarni @nervendings will be on view from 5 pm at 999, Casa Trinidad, Sonar Bhatt, Saligao. Don’t miss the special live music by sound artists Ears to the Ground @groundtotheears from 8:30 pm and a stunning projection by Dennis Fabian Peter @non.linear_ Please RSVP on (Whatsapp) at + 91 73848 81611, if you are in Goa today and for more details, follow @house_no.999! See you there! #OpenStudio #Houseno999 #Livemusic #Goa #JulienSegard #TenzingDakpa #TanmayKulkarni #EarstotheGround #DennisFabianPeter

Last week to catch Bhasha Chakrabarti’s @bhashaalways solo کروٹ | करवट | Karvat, closing this Friday, December 20, 2024 at Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai. We are deeply grateful for the incredible response to the exhibition from visitors in the city, our friends, collaborators, and artists. Friends in Mumbai, if you haven’t yet seen this stunning show, or if you’d like to experience it one more time, now’s your chance. We look forward to welcoming you! #BhashaChakrabarti #Karvat #Experimenter #Colaba #Exhibition

Team Experimenter wishes Alexandra Bachzetsis @alexandra.bachzetsis, a very happy birthday! Images: 1)Alexandra Bachzetsis, Notes on Becoming, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, 2024. Installation view. 2) Alexandra Bachzetsis, Perfect. Performance still at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, 2024. #AlexandraBachzetsis

Samuho @samuho000 performed ‘Bhasaili Re’ last night to a full house at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, as part of the public programmes of our ongoing exhibition ‘Like Air, I’ll Rise’. The performance offered a nuanced retelling of Behula’s story from the mediaeval Bengali saga ‘Manasa Mangal Kabya,’ depicting her as an irreverent, hilarious, belligerent woman with agency as opposed to the much-celebrated image of the ideal wife. Behula’s story, as depicted by @samuho000, challenges a patriarchal narrative and addresses historical exclusion and marginalisation by also incorporating popular Bengali and Hindi songs, performed by live musicians. ‘Bhasaili Re’ foregrounds a woman whose voice and sense of self hardly ever found any articulation in the stories passed down through generations. @samuho000’s practice focused on creating an archive of performing arts by women and queer individuals resonates with the premise of ‘Like Air, I’ll Rise,’ which traces the significance of building ecosystems of care and collective knowledge in enduring resistance movements by bringing together works by twelve women practitioners. ‘Like Air, I’ll Rise’ is on view at Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, Kolkata until 4 Jan, 2025. Do drop by, if you haven’t yet! #SamuhoCollective #Samuho #BhashailiRe #LikeAirIllRise #Performance #Experimenter #BallygungePlace #Kolkata

A TASTE OF HOME CELEBRATING ASIA SOCIETY CARAVAN Prateek & Priyanka Raja hosted a beautiful meal with us with a sensorial exploration of flavours celebrating our incredible city, Kolkata. The meal found roots in the layered history of East and West Bengal, yet located itself in the contemporary moment. Chef Shaun Kenworthy of The Glenburn Penthouse and artist Rathin Barman collaborated to create this multi-course journey.

We are looking forward to Samson Young’s first West Coast solo exhibition ‘New Work: Samson Young’, opening on 21 December, 2024 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art @sfmoma (SFMOMA), USA. Widely recognized for his singular approach towards sound and new technologies, Young utilizes performance, video, and installation to rigorously examine the cultural, political, and historical contexts of sound. ‘New Work: Samson Young’ debuts ‘Intentness and songs,’ a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, and experiences of time. In this interconnected audiovisual landscape, Young draws on the duration and rhythm of human and generative AI memory recall processes as the basis for polychromatic sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape. Visitors are invited to wander through pathways of wooden boards with markings created through a mix of techniques and 3D-printed boards etched and embedded with objects and memories excerpted from the lives of the artist and his husband. Image: Samson Young, Altar music (liturgy for an indecisive believer), 2022 (installation view, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne); courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain; photo: Simon Vogel. #SamsonYoung #SFMOMA

We are pleased to share that ‘Rust is our redemption’ opens today at Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata as part of the second edition of Kolkata Queer Arts Month / Ko:QAM 2.0 @ko.qam: ‘Ghosts and Ghettos.’ Curated by Anindya Hajra @anindyahajra and Navonil Das @navo_nil, the exhibition presents works by A Revathi, Avijit Mukul Kishore @78_rpm, Sheba Chhachhi, Shripad Sinnakaar @shripadsinnakaar, Sriparna Dutta @duttasriparna, and Sumantra Mukherjee @sunnydewall. Friends in Kolkata, we look forward to seeing you at the opening preview tonight from 6 to 8 pm. @kolkata.pride #Koqam #KolkataQueerArtsMonth #GhostsAndGhettos #RustIsOurRedemption #Experimenter #Exhibition #Pride #Queer

Team Experimenter wishes Sanchayan Ghosh, a very happy birthday! Images: 1) Sanchayan Ghosh, A Site for the Pedagogy of Resistance, Site-specific installation, Mixed media, Dimensions variable, 2022. Installation view from Drawn from Practice II at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, 2022. #SanchayanGhosh

Just 2 days to go! We are excited for Samuho Collective’s @samuho000 ‘Bhasaili Re’ this Friday, December 13, 6pm as part of the public programmes of our ongoing exhibition ‘Like Air, I’ll Rise’ at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata. A solo performance accompanied by live musicians, ‘Bhasaili Re’ reimagines the legend of Behula from Manasa Mangal Kabya through a feminist lens. Only a few spots remaining, so register now if you haven’t already! Link in bio. Image courtesy: Samuho Collective #SamuhoCollective #Samuho #BhashailiRe #LikeAirIllRise #Performance #Experimenter #BallygungePlace #Kolkata

The Bengal Biennale is delighted to announce “be-khaufi, a symposium on fearlessness” and “Like Air, I’ll Rise”, 2 concurrents with Bengal Biennale (2024-2025) with the Experimenter. Stay tuned for more Concurrent shout-outs! . . . . #bengalbiennale #biennale #kolkata #venues #heritage #culture #art #music #creativevision #concurrent