Collective Method of Making and Learning: Towards Pedagogy as Art Practice

9 & 10 November 2024
11 am – 7 pm

The workshop will explore the role of individuals and collectives in art-making in our lived environment. It will explore interdisciplinarity as the critical encounter of tools of multiple disciplines towards a collective social and cultural engagement in art. In this context, it will explore pedagogy as a reciprocal learning process towards direct engagement with the social space and practice. A two-day process will emerge between practitioners from diverse practices to unfold the method of individual social engagement in different disciplines and come together to explore collective doing as an open-ended process of personal expression of a shared experience. This will be an open call for practitioners from different disciplines to enrol their names and share their invaluable experience of practice to unfold a neo-space of resistance and encounter and propose a future space of cohabitants and coexistence. Registration mandatory.

Sanchayan Ghosh is an Associate Professor (Department of Painting) Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. Over the years, Sanchayan has been interested in site-specific art towards a direct engagement with public spaces. With his early inspirations from community ritual events in Santiniketan and his workshop experience with Third Theatre exponent Badal Sarkar, he involves community-based art activity where he engages in specific community situations through workshops, which then gets transformed into an interactive/participatory activity. Ghosh has over the years been exploring spaces between institution and pedagogy and succeeded in extending art and performance from institutional spaces to public situations. He has also intervened in different theatre spaces and worked with different forms of theatre performances in different kinds of public and private spaces. In recent times he has explored different institutional spaces as a site-based engagement and engaged with its archive a site of the past reconciled in the present to generate a site of pedagogical encounter where the viewership is transformed into a multi-sensory interdisciplinary encounter of different forms of practices. Research becomes a multilayered method of engaging with different systems of knowledge production and dissemination. This has led him to explore different ways of collective engagement with labour, landscape transformation and architecture relationships.