UGC-SAP National Seminar on Visual Culture in India

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S. N School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts & Communication

University of Hyderabad

UGC-SAP NATIONAL SEMINAR

on

Visual Culture in India: Mapping the Terrain

March 27-29, 2008

Date Time Event

9.30 a.m. Registration, Sir CV Raman Auditorium, Science Complex

10-11.15 a.m. Inaugural Session

Welcome & Intro to Seminar: Prof. Vinod Pavarala, Dean, SNS &

SAP Co-ordinator

Inaugural Remarks: Prof. BP Sanjay, Pro Vice-chancellor

Keynote Address: Padmashree Leela Samson, Director Kalakshetra, Chennai

11.15-11.30 a.m. TEA BREAK

11.30-1.00 p.m. Session I: Constituting /Contesting the Domain

Chair: Prof. Parul Dave Mukherji, Dean, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi

Madhava Prasad, EFL University, Hyderabad

“Disciplining the Eye”

Sarada Natarajan, University of Hyderabad

“Looking Back: Visual Culture and Pre-modern Indian Art”

1.00-2.00 p.m. LUNCH, LAKE VIEW GUEST HOUSE

PL. MOVE TO CONFERENCE HALL, FIRST FLOOR, SOCIAL SCIENCES BLDG.

2.00-3.30 p.m. Session II: Re-inventing Traditions in the Global Context

Chair: Prof. J. Anuradha, Department of Dance, University of Hyderabad

Sadanand Menon, Journalist & Independent Scholar, Chennai

“‘Passports, Please!’ Border-Crossings In The Invented Homelands Of Dance”

Kirtana Thangavelu, University of California-Santa Cruz

“A Pre-Modern Tradition in a Post-Modern World: The Patams of Telangana”

Urmimala Sarkar, Visiting Fellow, JNU, New Delhi

“The Visible vs the Invisibe: Looking at de-contextualized dances as representatives of traditional

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3.45-5.15 p.m. Session III: Aesthetics, Politics and Practice

Chair: Dr. Sabeena Gadihoke, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

Paromita Vohra, Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai

“Knowing For Sure Without Knowing For Certain”

Rakhi Peswani, University of Hyderabad

“Hands between eyes and mind: some reflections on the languages of ‘hand-made’”

9.30-11.00 a.m. Session IV: The State, Visuality and Cultural Politics

Chair: Prof. Jyotirmaya Sharma, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad

A.F. Mathew, Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad

“Political Narratives and the Image”

Parul Dave Mukherji, JNU, New Delhi

“Popular Festivals and Populist Visual Culture”

Satish Poduval, EFL University, Hyderabad

“Cut To: Kashmir --On Some Motifs in Documenting Dissent”

11-11.15 a.m. TEA BREAK

11.15-1.00 p.m. Session V: Cinema as Spectacle: the Contemporary Context

Chair: Prof. Madhava Prasad, EFL University, Hyderabad

Ranjani Mazumdar, JNU, New Delhi

“Stardom and the new visual culture of Liveness”

Uma Magal, Independent Filmmaker, Hyderabad

“Indian Cinema Today: An Integrative Aesthetic”

March 28

1.00-2.00 p.m. LUNCH, LAKE VIEW GUEST HOUSE

March 27, 2008, 7.30 pm

A Contemporary Dance Recital

Confluences

by Tripura Kashyap

at

State Art Gallery Auditorium, Jubilee Hills

(Organized jointly by: Department of Culture, Andhra Pradesh, University of Hyderabad, Alliance Française, Kalakriti Art

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2-3.30 p.m. Session VI: Inside/Outside - Fashioning Gender Identities

Chair: Paromita Vohra, Filmmaker, Mumbai

Shilpa Phadke, TISS, Mumbai

“Yeh Andar Ki Baat Hai: The Public Performance of Private Sexuality

Tutun Mukherjee, University of Hyderabad

“The Body, Gesture and Fashioning of the Self: Begum Barve as a Case Study”

Rohini B.S. Iyengar, Telugu University, Hyderabad

“Ornament as Rhetoric of Regional Aesthetics: Andhra Pradesh Art of the 80s and 90s

3.30-3.45 p.m. TEA BREAK

March 28

3.45-5.15 p.m. Session VII: The Persistence Of Vision -- Post-Colonial India

Chair: R. Srivatsan, Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad

Sabeena Gadihoke, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

“The Sensational and Irreverent World of Blitz: Popular Photography in Post-independence India”

Pushpamala N., Artist, Bangalore

“Rashtriy Kheer and Desiy Salad (National Pudding and Indigenous Salad” – an experimental film”

9.30-11.00 a.m. Session VIII: Visuality under Institutional Vision

Chair: Sadanand Menon, columnist and arts scholar, Chennai

Baishali Ghosh, University of Hyderabad

“Art Fair - resistance and accommodation in Institution”

Mamta Sagar, Bangalore University

“The reception/consumption of the visual: ‘Ranga Shankara’, redefining reception and consumption of theatre

activity in Bangalore”

11.00-11.15 a.m. TEA BREAK

11.15-1.00 p.m. Session IX: Visual Saturation, Excess -- Visualizing Performance and Performativity

Chair: Prof. B. Ananthakrishnan, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad

H.S. Shiva Prakash, JNU, New Delhi

“Theatre Behind and Beyond the Visual”

Annapurna Garimella, Art, Resources & Teaching and Jackfruit Research & Design, Bangalore

“Dungarpur’s Juna Mahal, A Compendium of Style and Ideology”

Rajiv Velicheti, University of Hyderabad

“Theatre Art in an Age of Image Overproduction”