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Inhabiting Museum
‘Inhabiting the Museum’ is a series of performance-events inviting artists to play with the idea of Duration and Time in the museum space or to create caesuras in its seemingly free-flowing temporality, to perhaps be the catalyst or the subject of that ‘spent/mapped/fatigued’ duration, straining the relationship between time and location. The program was curated by Akansha Rastogi.
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Vacuum Suction
It is the fifth commissioned project under ‘Inhabiting the Museum’ series curated by Akansha Rastogi. ‘Vacuum Suction’ is virtual project that ran for three months from April to June, on KNMA’s Facebook page. Artist Prayas Abhinav’s... Read More
Blackening 10th May 2013 By Nikhil Chopra
The program included a two-day performance ‘Blackening V’ on May 4th and 5th where Chopra responded to the commercial mall environment in which the museum is located. This was followed... Read More
Walkthrough
This project explored the museum’s relationship with history and the different times that it inhabits. As a result, museum became a moment-based-site, an unstable and amorphous space that is constantly forming and changing as a memorial or... Read More
What Passes Through, Is The Air
In-lining the museum with drinking straws, the performer’s body occupied the space for six hours till the time she was exhausted. The exhausted artist’s body connecting one straw with the other, mapping the museum... Read More
HouseHOLD - Samudra Kajal Saikia
Exploring the thematic of inhabitation and everyday-living literally, HouseHOLD, the first performance of the series juxtaposed the established museum aesthetic with domestic randomness, and the... Read More
