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In a quite riveting exhibit of artworks ranging across seven themes, art bazaars, workshops and thought-provoking panel discussions, the ‘India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale’, a first of its kind, indulged its audience with the works of over 90 artists from across the country. The first edition of the biennale opened its doors to the […]
Krispin Joseph PX No one can tell the meaning of the colour black quickly. Black is a colour or the mindset or conditions that some people encounter and face in daily life. Grey or black colour may be the reason for exclusion from the elite space, and that makes sense in some spaces. ‘Who are
Krispin Joseph PX Are you a firm believer in binary? As human nature, we understand many things in binary oppositions. Binary opposition starts from ‘male/female and goes to good/bad, black/white and so on. The structural theory brings the binary opposition into the humanities discussion table. Many forerunners in this theory and Saucer to Levi Strauss
Krispin Joseph Px Kochi Muziris Biennale brings artists and art projects from marginalised communities. That representation is less than they want and the same as what they get in other regions of social visibility. Many underrepresented subjects are exhibited in this Biennale, and doubtful about who represents these subjects. Elite-class people and artists representing the
Krispin Joseph PX What do you think about writing a postcard to someone? When it’s not only a write something, it’s more than a part of an art exhibition. It is just a postcard, and anyone can write to anyone. You only have someone to write to, and you have the address to send it.
Storytelling postcards from Communities of Choice Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Photography is the best tool to capture stillness and ideal to document history as an image. Documentary photography is more into history and documents contemporary life for historical reference. K R Sunil, Kochi-based documentary photographer and visual artist, exhibits his works related to Chavittu Nadakam in Sea, A Boiling Vessel, opened in
Carnivalised life and other stories of a performance Read More »
The opening of this year’s edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale has been postponed. The Kochi Biennale Foundation team announced the news via social media last night, just before the event was due to open its doors – citing a variety of organizational challenges, compounded by external factors, including ongoing structural repair work and bad
Kochi-Muziris Biennale opening postponed at the last hour Read More »
Kochi-Muziris Biennale from the year of its inception in 2012 has been a platform for 400 works by over 350 artists from across the world. It has hosted two million visitors in its four preceding editions so far. This year, in December 2022, the Biennale is gearing up for its fifth edition with a mission
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23: Artists to look out for Read More »
Port Muziris is one of India’s greatest archaeological findings of the 21st century. The port is no myth, we have conclusive evidence for its existence, yet it remains surrounded by grand historical, often hyperbolic, narratives. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has always maintained that it is as much about the art as it is about its host