https://asapconnect.in/post/372/singleevents/precarities-of-the-real
ASAP Art | Precarities of the Real: Abhishek Hazra’s The Aesthetics of Nandan Flat-Formalism
Abhishek Hazra’s The Aesthetics of Nandan Flat-Formalism is a recorded video-lecture-performance that combines elements of fictionality, participatory art...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/332/singlestories/linguistic-knots-and-enduring-images
ASAP Art | Linguistic Knots and Enduring Images: On Spandan Banerjee's English India
Spandan Banerjee’s English India begins with the nuances of the eponymous language as they are passed through generations in the Anglophone academia in...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/621/singlestories/a-camera-enters-the-mind-s-eye
ASAP Art | A Camera Enters the Mind’s Eye: In Conversation with Vijay Sarathy
In this edited conversation, the photographer and visual artist Vijay Sarathy discusses his journey and how the medium allowed him to become a conservator of...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/437/singleevents/blurred-belonging
ASAP Art | Blurred Belonging: In Conversation with Sandra Brewster
In this brief interview, Brewster discusses the ways in which notions of symbolism emanate from a broader consideration of “home” or indeed, resettlement.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/874/singleevents/the-aural-world-of-nasir
ASAP Art | The Aural World of Nasir: Sound, Ritual and Identity
Screened at the PK Rosy Film Festival 2025 as a part of the Vaanam Art Festival, Arun Karthick’s Nasir (2020), an adaptation of Dilip Kumar’s “A...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/400/singlestories/the-artist-as-medium
ASAP Art | The Artist as Medium: On Himmat Shah’s Acts of Creation
Shah’s work explores the possibilities of producing artistic objects by eradicating one’s subjectivity and rendering it open to the implications of a...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/320/singleevents/in-person121121
ASAP Art | In Person: Material Scars with Asim Waqif
For the seventh episode of In Person, we speak with Asim Waqif about his ongoing solo show, Material Scars, at Nature Morte, Delhi.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/474/singlestories/the-algorithmic-image
ASAP Art | The Algorithmic Image: In Conversation with Karthik KG
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https://asapconnect.in/post/676/singleevents/begrudging-solidarities
ASAP Art | Begrudging Solidarities: On Dhorpatan (No Winter Holidays)
In their meditative feature-length documentary Dhorpatan (No Winter Holidays, 2023), Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey follow two women, Ratima and Kalima, as they...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/84/singlestories/on-witness
ASAP Art | On Witness: An Interview with Sanjay Kak
In this interview, Kak speaks to us about being the editor and publisher of the book Witness: Kashmir 1986-2016: Nine Photographers featuring two hundred...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/352/singlepodcasts/against-the-grain
ASAP Art | Against the Grain: In Conversation with Bharati Kapadia, Anuj Daga and Chandita Mukherjee
In this episode of ASAP Cast, we continue our discussion with Bharati Kapadia, Anuj Daga and Chandita Mukherjee―the curators of the second edition of the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/238/singlealbums/explorations-with-the-human-body
ASAP Art | Explorations with the Human Body: Zia Qadri’s Tryst with Surrealism
When the photographer Zia Qadri arrived in Los Angeles to join the Art Center School in 1940, there was another famed artist who arrived there. This was the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/367/singleevents/radio-colomboscope
ASAP Art | Radio Colomboscope: Connecting the Aural Histories of the South
Colomboscope 2022 organised an online radio programme titled A Thousand Channels, for which Syma Tariq curated a selection of audio texts, sound works, music,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/276/singlealbums/sometimes-magic-looks-like-this
ASAP Art | Sometimes Magic Looks Like This: Narrative Threads in Eight Thirty’s Works
On 2 October 2020, nine women photographers gathered over a Zoom call initiated by Riti Sengupta. This included Adira Thekkuveettil, Divya Cowasji, Kirthana...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/904/singlestories/on-image-making-and-zine-making
ASAP Art | On Image-Making and Zine-Making: In Conversation with Ishan Tankha
Launched at the exhibition All Together Now in July 2024 at Delhi’s India International Centre, Ishan Tankha’s still, life is a self-published triadic set...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/556/singleevents/a-living-archive
ASAP Art | A Living Archive: The Fifth Wall and Feminist Archiving Practices
Conceptualised by Merle Kröger and Mareike Bernien, along with Navina Sundaram, within the framework of Archive außer sich (Archives Beside Themselves), The...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/892/singleevents/myanmar
ASAP Art | Myanmar: Art in the Time of Transition
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https://asapconnect.in/post/709/singlestories/women-in-the-emergency
ASAP Art | Women in the Emergency: Socialist India and the Depiction of Women
Gemma Scott explores the role of photographs in the Emergency that sought to mobilise women’s support for Indira Gandhi, her party and the state’s...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/265/singlestories/documenting-folk-performances
ASAP Art | Documenting Folk Performances: Prantik Basu’s Bela
Prantik Basu’s documentary Bela focuses on the performances of a troupe of Chhau dancers, called the Manbhum Sramjibi Chhau Nritya Dal.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/33/singlestories/the-film-poster-as-art-object
ASAP Art | The Film Poster as Art Object: Excerpt from Ranjani Mazumdar’s The Bombay Film Poster
The film poster occupies an important place within the world of cinema, in India and around the world, operating as an object of publicity from the beginning...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/308/singlepodcasts/collective-art-making
ASAP Art | Collective Art-Making: Vivan Sundaram on the Kasauli Art Centre
Set up by artist Vivan Sundaram in a small hill-station called Kasauli in 1976, the Kasauli Art Centre was a cultural and intellectual hub for...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/547/singleevents/short-films-long-tales
ASAP Art | Short Films, Long Tales: Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet at PhotoKTM5
Having produced films for over a decade, Gurung and Basnet have amassed a cult-like following for their short films that deal with sensitive issues with the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/575/singleevents/propositions-for-fleeting-sights
ASAP Art | Propositions for Fleeting Sights: In Conversation with Arko Datto
Datto’s proclivity for the longue durée in photographic projects allows him to develop and communicate the documentary in photography with a sensitivity...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/837/singlestories/noise-performance-and-protest
ASAP Art | Noise, Performance and Protest: On Poulomi Desai's Music Practice
Growing up, Poulomi Desai was surrounded by classical and folk music from India, especially considering the popularity of Ravi Shankar and The Beatles using...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/599/singlestories/postcolonial-histories-of-science
ASAP Art | Postcolonial Histories of Science: On The Gold of a Yellow Plant
The film uses archival photographs, animation and a haunting soundtrack to present the revolutionary careers of three agronomist-activists—Nikolai Vavilov,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/31/singlealbums/experimental-image-making
ASAP Art | Experimental Image-making: Jagadish Upadhya's Collective of Film-based Photography
Founded and run by photographer Jagadish Upadhya, Film Foundry is a collective concerned with alternative forms of photography on film.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/846/singlestories/at-harkat-studios
ASAP Art | At Harkat Studios: A Space for Imperfect Cinema
Harkat Studios was born to create space for founder Karan Talwar and his colleagues’ own analogue film practice and, as an extension of this project, the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/856/singleevents/pink-revolution
ASAP Art | Pink Revolution: Nishtha Jain's Gulabi Gang
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https://asapconnect.in/post/82/singlestories/unsteady-luminosity
ASAP Art | “Unsteady Luminosity”: The Photograph in Modern Malayali Novels
For the Anglo-Indian community, as we saw in our earlier posts, the “lost original” symbolised a mythic search for a culturally homogenous identity that...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/278/singlestories/learning-to-see
ASAP Art | Learning to See: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Afghan Alphabet
Mohsen Makhmalbaf shot Afghan Alphabet late in the year 2001 after Kandahar had been screened at the Cannes Film Festival and then across European and American...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/458/singlestories/virtual-memories
ASAP Art | Virtual Memories: On Suneil Sanzgiri's Letter From Your Far-off Country
Suneil Sanzgiri’s experimental film essay Letter From Your Far-off Country, assumes the shape of an epistolary meditation and dialogue on the growing threats...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/506/singleevents/invisible-corridors
ASAP Art | Invisible Corridors: In Person with Hrishitonoy Dutta and Radhika Rao
In this conversation, Hrishitonoy Dutta and Radhika Rao take us through the first physical display of their ongoing research project Invisible Corridors.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/910/singleevents/in-person-neelika
ASAP Art | In Person: Neelika Jayawardane on Writing Alongside Images
In this episode of In Person, Writer and researcher Neelika Jayawardane speaks to us about her practice and how it has transformed over the years, of writing...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/646/singleevents/a-love-letter-in-camera
ASAP Art | A Love Letter in Camera: And, Towards Happy Alleys by Sreemoyee Singh
There is an atmospheric playfulness, laughter and some happy accidents in the filmmaker’s interactions with her subjects, which are not devoid of a critical...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/737/singleevents/leavening-the-image
ASAP Art | Leavening the Image: Reflections on Weather Report with Tenzing Dakpa
In this edited interview, Tenzing Dakpa unpacks his process of making, his relationship to the medium of photography, and the kinds of mediations it continues...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/464/singlestories/creation-myths
ASAP Art | Creation Myths: On Vipin Vijay’s Anthropocene Relooked
The big questions about civilizational beginnings and their difficult existence in our besieged contemporary moment find a clearer statement of purpose in...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/224/singlealbums/illegible-histories-and-sacral-margins
ASAP Art | Illegible Histories and Sacral Margins: The Djinns of Feroz Shah Kotla
Taha Ahmad captures the daily happenings in the alcoves of Firoz Shah Kotla through the series, A Displaced Hope, built over years with cultivated access to...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/286/singlestories/new-ways-of-moving-forward
ASAP Art | New Ways of Moving Forward: A Conversation with Brendan Fernandes
In this first of a two-part interview with Brendan Fernandes, we discuss his practice as well as the impact of the present conditions of social isolation and...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/787/singleevents/muqaddimah
ASAP Art | Muqaddimah: The War is Not Over Yet
In Muqaddimah (2024), Aziz Hazara underscores repetitively, through a series of contradictions, the absurdities of war—the manner in which war detritus...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/532/singlestories/ghar
ASAP Art | Ghar: Home, Language and Landscape for Sonal Kantaria
In her treatment of the landscape as a site of reflection, “ghar” (home) for Sonal Kantaria becomes a language that allows for comfort, rest and care.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/720/singleevents/of-landless-belonging
ASAP Art | Of Landless Belonging: Amid the Villus by Sumathy Sivamohan
The renowned Sri Lankan artist, poet, performer, filmmaker and academic Sumathy Sivamohan’s latest work, Amid the Villus (2022), is her first documentary...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/344/singleevents/nationhood-interrupted291221
ASAP Art | Nationhood, Interrupted: On Moonis Ahmad Shah’s Material for a Love Letter to Comrades...
Across a diptych-like frame, Moonis Ahmad Shah places disparate elements in dialogue with one another to foreground the absurdity embedded in the arrangement...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/770/singlestories/against-abstraction
ASAP Art | Against Abstraction: In Conversation with Maen Hammad and Dina Salem
In this edited conversation with Kamayani Sharma, Palestinian photographers Maen Hammad and Dina Salem speak about Against Abstraction, an activation they...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/956/singleevents/on-cycle-mahesh
ASAP Art | On Cycle Mahesh: In Conversation with Suhel Banerjee
In this edited conversation, Suhel Banerjee speaks about Cycle Mahesh (2024), which traces Mahesh Jena’s seven-day bicycle journey from Maharashtra to Odisha...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/528/singlestories/to-measure-a-fold
ASAP Art | To Measure a Fold: Installation Instructions in Mrinalini Mukherjee’s Archive
This is the final instalment in a four-part series of conversations around the Mrinalini Mukherjee Archive with archivists Noopur Desai and Pallavi Arora from...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/481/singlefiction/people-of-determination
ASAP Art | people of determination
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https://asapconnect.in/post/614/singleevents/the-cycle-of-motherhood
ASAP Art | The Cycle of Motherhood: On Before You Were My Mother
The film offers a heart-touching tale of mothers and daughters as they struggle against conflicts, social norms and generational gaps to mend their wounds and...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/699/singleevents/ecology-crime-and-the-state
ASAP Art | Ecology, Crime and the State: The Sovereign Forest
Encompassing documentary film and multimedia works, the exhibition chronicles the resistance movements of Odisha’s indigenous and local communities against...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/382/singlestories/the-labour-of-politics
ASAP Art | The Labour of Politics: Filming the Aftermath of a Political Victory in Kush Badhwar’s...
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi was founded by K. Chandrashekar Rao in 2001. He intended for it to be a political platform that could deliver the promise of a...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/165/singlealbums/people-of-sri-lanka
ASAP Art | People of Sri Lanka: Lionel Wendt's Portraits
Lionel Wendt was an important figure in the development of modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka (erstwhile Ceylon) who carved an influential legacy as a...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/68/singleevents/towards-a-fugitive-photography
ASAP Art | Towards a Fugitive Photography: The Archives of Suresh Punjabi
Founded by Suresh Punjabi in the late 1970s, Suhag Studio is located in the main street of Nagda Junction, a small town in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/883/singleevents/asian-voyages
ASAP Art | Asian Voyages: The Films of Deben Bhattacharya
In January 2025 at Sinema Transtopia in Berlin, Arindam Sen curated two film programmes and a listening session of ethnomusicologist, archivist, field...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/398/singlestories/experimenting-with-mediums
ASAP Art | Experimenting with Mediums: On Sunita Maharjan’s Mixed Media Works
In this on-site conversation between Sheelasha Rajbhandari and visual artist and art educator Sunita Maharjan, we look at the installation Above the Earth,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/120/singleevents/perennial-plastic-blooms
ASAP Art | Perennial, Plastic Blooms: Zoya Siddiqui’s A distant Place
Titled A distant Place, the online showcase of Zoya Siddiqui’s work, curated by Arnika Ahldag and Vaishnavi Kambadur at Museum of Art and Photography,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/110/singlestories/the-question-of-form
ASAP Art | The Question of Form: Diwas Raja Kc Discusses Dalit: A Quest for Dignity
In 2016, Nepal Picture Library curated the exhibition Dalit: A Quest for Dignity. Presented at the Patan Museum, it showcased over eighty photographs and...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/486/singleevents/urf-a-k-a
ASAP Art | Urf | A.K.A.: On Economies of Adoration in Bollywood
Geetika Narang Abbasi’s documentary, Urf | A.K.A. (2022), delves into this economy of admiration. She focuses her lens on the purported lookalikes of...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/103/singlestories/conforming-vision
ASAP Art | Conforming Vision: The Stereograph in Colonial India
In colonial South Asia, the stereoscopic photograph (or stereograph) was frequently produced and widely disseminated to encourage cultures of travelling.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/198/singlestories/family-threads
ASAP Art | Family Threads: Yasmin Jahan Nupur’s Relationship with Practice
An interdisciplinary artist based in Dhaka, Yasmin Jahan Nupur’s works traverse performance, video, sound, photography, textile, embroidery and drawing.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/539/singlefiction/cipher
ASAP Art | Cipher
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https://asapconnect.in/post/602/singleevents/subtle-archives-and-subversions
ASAP Art | Subtle Archives and Subversions: Akshay Mahajan on Kaghazi Pairahan
Foregrounding the significance of artistic protest in Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, Kaghazi Pairahan thinks of how making can be...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/408/singlestories/feminist-geographies
ASAP Art | Feminist Geographies: On Indu Antony’s Practice
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https://asapconnect.in/post/436/singlestories/disco-music-and-the-diaspora
ASAP Art | Disco Music and the Diaspora: A New Islamicate in Bombay Cinema
In a pre-music video, pre-MTV age, reports of music release parties play a fascinating role in reconstructing the lost visual object.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/58/singlealbums/box-camera-now
ASAP Art | Box Camera NOW: Lukas Birk’s Afghan Box Camera Project
The Afghan Box Camera or “Kamra-e-Faoree” is a handmade device that acts as both an instant camera and a darkroom within one large contraption.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/306/singleevents/gathering-as-a-metaphor
ASAP Art | Gathering as a Metaphor: Reliable Copy’s at the kitchen table
Over conversations with Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian of Reliable Copy, the author looks at what it means for food to inhabit an interlocutory site...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/786/singlestories/against-erasure
ASAP Art | Against Erasure: To Remember is to Reconstruct
In the English-Arabic bilingual photo book Against Erasure (2024), co-editors Sandra Barrilaro and Teresa Aranguren take Johnny Mansour’s collection as a...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/684/singleevents/ritual-purity-reigning-pollution
ASAP Art | Ritual Purity, Reigning Pollution: On Hari Katragadda’s Lost River
By directly working with water collected from the river and all that comes with it, Hari Katragadda leaves it open to viewers to piece together meanings—to...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/620/singlefiction/sweet-dreams-two-poems
ASAP Art | Sweet Dreams: Two Poems
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https://asapconnect.in/post/357/singleevents/fictive-historiographies
ASAP Art | Fictive Historiographies: In Conversation with Parvathi and Nayantara Nayar
The artist Parvathi Nayar and researcher and performer Nayantara Nayar discusses the work “Chicken Run,” which excavates a history of the Korean War...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/949/singleevents/in-person-ketan
ASAP Art | In Person: Ketan Dua on Rafique Raat Ki Baahon Mein
In this edited conversation, Ketan Dua speaks about his film Rafique Raat Ki Baahon Mein (Rafique in the Embrace of the Night, 2024), which is part of the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/688/singlestories/reading-the-body
ASAP Art | Reading the Body: In Conversation with Sandeep TK
In this edited interview, artist Sandeep TK speaks about how he developed his practice, his approach to photoperformance, engaging with forms of representation...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/817/singleevents/in-person-the-everlasting-river
ASAP Art | In Person: The Everlasting River by Dayananda Nagaraju and Niranjan NB
Dayananda Nagaraju and Niranjan NB’s project The Everlasting River (2024), presented as part of Food Matters at the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/821/singleevents/on-the-aldona-video-club
ASAP Art | On the Aldona Video Club: In Conversation with Kapil Das and Grant Davis
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https://asapconnect.in/post/653/singleevents/in-person-kayo
ASAP Art | In Person: Shahrukhkhan Chavada and Wafa Refai on Kayo Kayo Colour?
In this edited conversation, Chavada and Refai recount their initial research and the process of conceiving the film, the role of a “playful” realist...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/136/singlestories/notions-of-nation
ASAP Art | Notions of Nation: A Review of John W. Hood’s The Bleeding Lotus
John W. Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus on the history of Bangladeshi nationalism on film is one of the few overviews on Bangladeshi cinema available in...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/921/singleevents/the-grief-of-khasi
ASAP Art | The Grief of Khasi: Fileona Dkhar’s Ancestral Echoes
Being screened at the EAEFF 2025, visual artist Fileona Dkhar’s film Ancestral Echoes (2022) explores the spirits that guide the Khasi hills in Meghalaya,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/668/singlestories/subject-form-and-process
ASAP Art | Subject, Form and Process: In Conversation with Prasiit Sthapit
In this conversation, Nepali artist Prasiit Sthapit shares how he developed his documentary photography practice by following his curiosity and the processes...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/275/singlestories/wandering-the-city
ASAP Art | Wandering the City: Farida Batool on History and Practice
For Lahore-based artist, Farida Batool, her city has been an integral part of her research and work.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/496/singleevents/joyland
ASAP Art | Joyland: The Slippery Terrain between Tradition and Aspiration
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https://asapconnect.in/post/911/singleevents/in-person-nimaya
ASAP Art | In Person: Nimaya Harris on the Minnette de Silva Archive
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https://asapconnect.in/post/732/singlestories/a-visual-voyage
ASAP Art | A Visual Voyage: NFDC's History of Indian Cinema
Published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Indian Cinema: A Visual Voyage (1998) aims to provide the Indian state’s version of the historical...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/24/singleevents/the-sahmat-collective
ASAP Art | The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989
A landmark event presenting an exhaustive survey of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat)’s history and practices since its formation in 1989, the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/173/singlestories/building-modern-india
ASAP Art | Building Modern India: Jeet Malhotra’s Photographs
Tasked with documenting the ambitious Chandigarh project, a large number of Jeet Malhotra’s photographs from that period are now archived as a part of the...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/199/singlestories/camera-as-imperial-technology
ASAP Art | Camera as Imperial Technology: Looking at the Waterhouse Albums
The early history of photography in nineteenth-century British India is known for the large-scale mobilisation of the photographic camera as a technology of...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/374/singlestories/sacred-unveilings
ASAP Art | Sacred Unveilings: Sepideh Farsi’s 7 Veils
In 7 Veils, Farsi carries a straightforward agenda, if the film needs to be reduced to one: that of peeling the layers of perceptual violence that afflicts a...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/845/singleevents/representations-of-labour-at-the-chennai-photo-biennale
ASAP Art | Representations of Labour at the Chennai Photo Biennale
What is the capacity of photography to capture labour? What stories can pictures tell us about labouring bodies? Wielding a camera helps understand relations...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/324/singlepodcasts/concerning-photography
ASAP Art | Concerning Photography: In Conversation with Brett Rogers and Sarah Turner
In this episode of ASAP Cast, Arushi Vats speaks to Brett Rogers and Sarah Turner as they discuss how they conceptualised the structure of the conference...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/592/singleevents/this-cup-of-spilt-memory
ASAP Art | This Cup of Spilt Memory: Soumya Sankar Bose’s A Discreet Exit through Darkness
Working with the mediums of moving image and virtual reality, Bose crafts an immersive environment for his viewers, inviting them to “enter” the fugue-like...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/126/singlestories/fabricating-the-documentary-image
ASAP Art | Fabricating the Documentary Image: Shubham Kumar’s Negotiations with Violence and...
Shubham Kumar is an artist from Gaya, Bihar. His practice explores the dialogue between image making and histories of violence through material engagements...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/383/singlestories/floating-imaginations
ASAP Art | Floating Imaginations: Afrah Shafiq’s Sultana’s Reality
Sultana’s Reality (2017) is an interactive multimedia work that draws on artist and illustrator Afrah Shafiq’s time spent in the archives at the Centre for...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/803/singleevents/in-person-gavati
ASAP Art | In Person: O Seeker by Gavati Wad
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https://asapconnect.in/post/87/singlestories/both-poison-and-cure
ASAP Art | Both Poison and Cure: Christopher Pinney’s Seven Theses on Photography
The field of photography remains a fertile ground for building frameworks to understand contemporary image cultures within the histories and socio-political...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/656/singlestories/fading-realities
ASAP Art | Fading Realities: The Films of Rafeeq Ellias
Much like his approach to the questions posed to him during the screening, Ellias’ films are best defined by a not self-serious form of the Indic concept of...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/128/singlestories/where-was-time
ASAP Art | Where Was Time: The Public Clocks of Bombay
Chirodeep Chaudhuri’s two-decade project documenting the public clocks of Bombay traces the residues of an era where the passage of time was marked by...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/483/singlestories/turbine-bagh
ASAP Art | Turbine Bagh: On Samosa Packets as Blueprints of Dissent
The Turbine Bagh project emerged from an urgency to respond to incidents of mass arrests and incarcerations over the last few years in India and Bangladesh,...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/115/singleevents/in-person3
ASAP Art | In Person: Amarnath Praful on the Curricula for Lens-Based Practices
In the third episode of In Person, Amarnath Praful discusses the curricula for lens-based practices at the National Institute of Design.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/768/singlestories/to-film-a-city
ASAP Art | To Film a City: In Conversation with Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran
In this continuing conversation with Shweta Kishore, Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran from the artistic collective CAMP discuss their engagement with...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/434/singlestories/hypnotic-states
ASAP Art | Hypnotic States: On Sibi Sekar’s you are, i am
Sekar’s experimental videos have frequently interrogated the complicity of film’s notoriously patriarchal modes of gazing with constructions of romantic...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/269/singleevents/the-shining-and-other-stories
ASAP Art | The Shining and Other Stories: Images in Fiza Khatri’s Paintings
Fiza Khatri’s paintings—as portraits of the artist’s life—weave in elements of her experiences with queerness in everyday activities and communities.
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https://asapconnect.in/post/424/singlestories/archiving-the-photo-studio
ASAP Art | Archiving the Photo Studio: Recall and Remembrance in Paper Envelopes
Passport-sized photographs have warranted inquiry for their stoic utilitarian malleability. Their travails between honorific and repressive portraiture have...
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https://asapconnect.in/post/351/singlepodcasts/re-mapping-the-familiar
ASAP Art | Re-Mapping the Familiar: In Conversation with Bharati Kapadia, Anuj Daga and Chandita...
A public platform that brings together video practitioners of Indian origin, the Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists (VAICA) Festival’s second cycle ran...
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