Seminar Schedule:


Day 1: 15/12/ 2014; 9 am-6 pm


9-9.30 am | Inaugural Ceremony and Welcome Speech

Dr. M.C. Dileep Kumar (Vice-Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit)


9.30-10. 15 am | Session-1: Creating New Dialogues

Speakers:

Anna Tryc-Bromley (Director of Polish Cultural Institute, New Delhi)

Re-imagining Cultural Dialogues in a Globalized World: Examples from Polish –Indian Relations.


Magda Fabianczyk (Artist & Curator)

Critical Juncture: Against the Current



10.15- 10.30 am Tea Break



10.30-12.30 pm | Session-2: Repositioning Forms of Narration

Chair: Sharmila Samant (Artist & Associate Professor, Department of Arts Design and Performing Arts, Shiv Nadar University)


Speakers:

Joanna Rajkowska  (Artist & PhD Candidate, Goldsmiths, University of London)

The Shame of Articulating Disease in Contemporary British Public Space


Julita Wójcik (Artist)  

Everyday I save the World for a Different Reason - The Rainbow


Łukasz Surowiec (Artist) 

Prototypes of Social Relations


12.30-1.15 pm Lunch


1.15 -3.15 pm | Session-2: Connecting Radical Thinking

Chair: Dr. Neelima Jeychandran (Visual Anthropologist & Curator)


Speakers:

Dr. Ameet Parameswaran (Assistant Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University)


Collaboration' and Spatial Imagination: Thoughts on the 'Region' with Special Attention to the Encounter(s) of Kerala with Polish Performance Practices


Bipin  Balachandran (Faculty, History of Arts and Aesthetics, Sree Sankara University)

J. Swaminathan: Formative Years of an Indian Modernist

Dr. Rahul Dev (Independent Scholar)

Rethinking Socialism: Transgressions in Indian and Polish Art (Early 1970s to 1980s)



3.15-3.30 pm Tea Break


3.30-5.30 pm | Session-4: Working Across Spaces

Chair: Magda Fabianczyk (Curator & Art)


Speakers:  

Zasha Colah (Curator)

Notes on Filidor


Cressida Kocienski (Artist, School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield)

Speaking Across Spaces


Alicja Rogalska (Artist & Curator)

Reality Works: Context, Collaboration, Emergence


5.30-5.45 pm | Vote of Thanks


6.00 pm | Cultural Program Organised by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit


Day 2: 16/ 12/ 2014; 10 am-1 pm

Venue: Department of Painting

Artists and students led workshop followed by a discussion. The program is coordinated by T.G. Jyothilal (Assistant Professor Sculpture & Head of the Department Painting, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit)


Oxygenator (pol. translation: Dotleniacz), installation view, Joanna Rajkowska, 2007

Critical Juncture:

Looking at Indian and Polish Cultural Collaborations

International Seminar and Workshop

at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady

15/12/2014-16/12/2014

The seminar “Critical Juncture: Looking at Indian and Polish Cultural Collaborations” aimed to critically reflect upon the ethical issues surrounding cross-cultural collaborations and creative exchanges in a globalised market. Focusing on the relationship between the individual/group and society, and problems of representation, artists, academics, and cultural theorists from India, Poland, and the United Kingdom were invited to talk about new methodologies of collaboration. They presented their views on important contemporary discourses around questions of agency, voice, and narration. By addressing the nature and influence of such exchanges, the public forum hoped to stimulate an open discussion on the significant artistic engagements between those nations, both historically and in the present-day.