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Posted on 13 August 2024

R Umamaheshwari speaks to the feminist academic and theatre practitioner Mangai about the inaugural Writer-in-Residence programme of the SSAF Kasauli Art Project. Click below to read the full article.

Posted on 20 June 2024

With ‘The Fifth Wall’, Mareike Bernien and Merle Kröger present an examination of a unique TV archive and a curated look at German media and migration history. The exhibition brings together films, reports, moderations, texts, letters and photos by filmmaker and editor Navina Sundaram from 40 years of television work. The focus is on Sundaram (1945-2022) as an author who takes a journalistic stand: on internationalism and decolonisation, class issues, racism, immigration, Indian and German politics. The exhibition will be open from 4 – 14 July 2024 at silent green, Betonhalle, Berlin.

Posted on 12 April 2024

USG 2020 grantee Komal Mistri will be exhibiting her work made with the support of the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography at Latitude 28, F – 208, First Floor, Lado Sarai, New Delhi from 12 April – 15 June 2024.

Posted on 23 February 2024

David Teh, curator and theorist, who delivered the third Tushar Joag Memorial Lecture speaks to Sukanya Deb of STIR about “the role of a curator, cultural exchange, the perception of institutional narratives, and national identity and aesthetics.”

Posted on 3 January 2024

Ankan Kazi writes about the Second Tushar Joag Memorial Lecture held in March 2022, delivered by the Vietnam-based curator and writer Zoe Butt. Click below to read the full article on the ASAP Connect website.

Posted on 14 December 2023

A review of Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers (published by SSAF–Tulika Books)  by M. Madhava Prasad in The Wire.

Posted on 8 December 2023

An article on the closing event of the exhibition Kasauli Art Centre 1976–1991: an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, prints, archival documents, A talk with Nilima Sheikh at the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi auditorium, published in The Tribune.

Posted on 13 November 2023

A review of the exhibition Kasauli Art Centre 1976–1991: an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, prints, archival documents by Dr BN Goswamy for The Tribune

Posted on 13 November 2023

A review of the SSAF–Tulika Books publication, Kasauli Art Centre 1976–1991 by Paramita Ghosh for The New Indian Express

Posted on 25 October 2023

A review of the SSAF–Tulika Books publication, Kasauli Art Centre 1976–1991 by Zeenat Nagree for India Today

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Posted on 6 September 2023

John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Taking it to the Streets, an online talk by Ashish Rajadhyaksha on ASAP | art

Date: Saturday, 16 September, 2023
Time: 5 PM IST

Posted on 22 August 2023

An interview with film historian and SSAF trustee Ashish Rajadhyaksha about his book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers published by SSAF–Tulika Books, for Frontline, July 14, 2023

Posted on 1 August 2023

A homage to Vivan Sundaram at the 15th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) on 8 August 2023, 3 pm at Nila (Kairali Sree Nila Theatre), Thiruvananthapuram.

Posted on 26 July 2023

In this episode of Speaking Otherwise, an academic podcast on the Contemporary hosted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, Ravi Sundaram (a member of the SSAF advisory group) and Ashish Rajadhyaksha speak to the art critic, curator and SSAF trustee Geeta Kapur about the Afterlives of Modernism.

Posted on 23 April 2023

Ujjwala Barwe writes in Loksatta about The Fifth Wall: An Outsider’s Inside View or An Insider’s Outside View, a digital archive on television journalist and documentary filmmaker, Navina Sundaram.

Posted on 20 April 2023

Sonja Hegasy writes in Qantara.de about German-Indian journalist Navina Sundaram (1945-2022) who has been rediscovered as a key documentary filmmaker and journalist. Hegasy attended the premiere of the English edition of Sundaram’s archive The Fifth Wall documenting her work on 1 April 2023 at the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi.

Posted on 14 April 2023

Stuti Bhavsar writes in ASAP Connect about the launch of the The Fifth Wall: An Outsider’s Inside View or An Insider’s Outside View, a digital archive on television journalist and documentary filmmaker, Navina Sundaram at the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore on 5 April 2023. The event focused on the archive through the axis of media ethics and political potentials by presenting excerpts of films, letters, texts and commentaries from The Fifth Wall.

Posted on 12 April 2023

Madhubanti De writes in ASAP Connect about the launch of The Fifth Wall, a digital archive on Navina Sundaram on 3 April 2023 at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. The programme titled Gender Performances and Archiving included an introduction to the archive by Merle Kröger and Rubaica Jaliwala followed by a screening of Behind Every Curtain, documentary by Navina Sundaram and a discussion with Anuradha Kapur, Madhusree Dutta, Dr. A Mangai moderated by Bishnupriya Dutta.

Posted on 10 April 2023

Shivani Kasumra reports in ASAP Connect about the launch of The Fifth Wall, a digital archive on television journalist and documentary filmmaker, Navina Sundaram on 1 April 2023 at the Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan Delhi. The launch event in Delhi titled Decolonizing Practices: Framing News, Circulating Archives was the first in a series of events across Indian the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.

Posted on 2 March 2023

SSAF’s co-founder and managing trustee Vivan Sundaram is one of 30 artists commissioned to develop new work for ‘Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present’, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi.

Posted on 14 December 2022

Ankan Kazi writes about the SSAF Lab panel discussion on co-founder Navina Sundaram’s legacy as a journalist and filmmaker working for German public television. Click below to read the full article on the ASAP Connect website.

Posted on 27 November 2022

Anita Khemka and Imran Kokiloo, grantees of the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography (The Constructed Image) 2022, are featured in ‘The Tribune’.

Posted on 14 November 2022

SSAF–Tulika Books, a joint imprint under a co-publishing initiative of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation and Tulika Books, will be featured at the fifth edition of the Focal Point Art Book Fair, taking place in Sharjah from 25 to 27 November 2022.

Posted on 7 July 2022

SSAF’s co-founder and managing trustee, Vivan Sundaram, is the guest for the 258th Meet the Artist (MTA) programme organised by JD Centre of Art (JDCA), and will speak on: ‘Diverge’. Catch the event live on Zoom and Youtube on Saturday, July 9, at 5 pm IST.