Concept

Spilling embodies excess, overflow, and defiance against containment. Like a river creating new tributaries, spillages disrupt boundaries, exposing structural weaknesses and fostering transformation. This fluid movement is a resistance against rigid categorizations, challenging fixed identities and predetermined paths.

At the heart of spilling lies morom—a philosophy of care and interconnectedness. Professor Dolly Kikon describes morom as love beyond romance, a relational force shaping survival and identity. Morom becomes an apparatus for artistic intervention in the workshop that will bind communities through sharing and mutual responsibility.

The paradox of “Northeast” swings between significance and insignificance, necessitating its context while demanding a fracture in the subtle hegemonic presence. Through one and half months of online and onsite intensive lectures, practices, and dialogues, the program will embrace spillages—small leaks; will reimagine beyond rigid definitions. Each week the participants will be engaged with different scholars and practitioners leading to the development of various practices. By embodying affection and empirical outcomes, the program is envisioned to bring works that challenge politics of aesthetics and image making, fostering dialogue and new possibilities of belonging. The ideas, projects, interventions etc.— spillages evolved through this intensive program will be displayed in the form of a pop-up exhibition.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Young emerging creative practitioners from all disciplines from the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim.
• Final-year bachelor's students and individuals with up to five years of experience after completing a postgraduate degree are welcome to apply.
• We encourage different kinds of practitioners for the interdisciplinary interactions among participants not limited to visual arts.

We offer

• Continuous Mentorship by two Artist Educators for the entire duration of the Education Program.
• Online/Onsite Guest Lectures by artists and scholars.
• Travel expenses maximum up to Rs. 10,000/- per person for the round trip.
• Production Budget up to Rs. 25,000/- per participant.
• Accommodation for the entire duration of onsite workshop program.
• Support for the Pop-up exhibition after the workshop.

Requirements for the Application:

• Letter of Intent referring to the following questions. (max. 500 words, to be uploaded in the google form)
  
  Q1- What are the areas of interest that you address in your practice?
  
  Q2- How do you want to contribute to the larger conceptual framework of the program through your practice, participation and areas of interest?
  
  
• Portfolio/ Past Works with images, video links (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), not more than 10 pages max. 10 MB size. All combined into a single pdf.