SAF2020 X YOU: Online Initiatives
How to Series
How to Gear Up
Suit up. Mask on. Sanitiser ready, gloves optional.
We're all used to this drill now. But we remember days when gearing up meant long hours at installation sites in a rush of electric adrenaline. In the last of our How To… series, this week we glimpse into the secret world behind the making of Serendipity Arts Festival through nostalgia-laden pictures, new conversations around production and technology, engaging in a discussion around grant-making practices, and exploring ways of gearing up for a healthier and sustainable living.
“How to Read”
In How to Read, we go beyond the understanding of reading as an engagement with words, to open our eyes to reading as a way of life, a practice in empathy. We explore ways to read movements, to read images—moving and still, to read habitats, and relations, to read power and to read that which it renders invisible, what is unsaid, and what is not heard enough.
“How to Tell”
We thrive by telling stories. Particularly now, the exchange of little incidents in our lives, anecdotes from each day which we have narrated and relived, spoken and shared with one another has kept us connected. Join us this week for alternative forms of storytelling – through interdisciplinary expressions; for those with special needs; through the music of resistance; and the power of the stage. There are so many stories that unite us.
“How to Hang”
In “How to Hang”, we approach the question of how the coming together of a space, a person and a work of art can create new ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling. How does an exhibition display build affinities, relations, and resonances between different histories and peoples? Can showcasing an object in a different way lead us to understand everyday things, such as textiles and saris, in a new light? How is the “scene” of art produced, why do spaces that display and host art, through exhibitions and performances, entice a difference in feeling? As social distancing becomes the norm, where do we go to find these feelings again—how has our relationship to our own objects and spaces changed? How do we hold on to the moments of togetherness, fun, lightheartedness in the face of separation? Join us as we ask these, and many other questions, always together.
“How to Hang”
In “How to Hang”, we approach the question of how the coming together of a space, a person and a work of art can create new ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling. How does an exhibition display build affinities, relations, and resonances between different histories and peoples? Can showcasing an object in a different way lead us to understand everyday things, such as textiles and saris, in a new light? How is the “scene” of art produced, why do spaces that display and host art, through exhibitions and performances, entice a difference in feeling? As social distancing becomes the norm, where do we go to find these feelings again—how has our relationship to our own objects and spaces changed? How do we hold on to the moments of togetherness, fun, lightheartedness in the face of separation? Join us as we ask these, and many other questions, always together.