india | kerala | kochi biennale foundation | kochi muziris biennale 2014 | opening today | 12/12/2014 > 29/3/2015 Citing two historic currents from the 14th to 17th century—the maritime explorations of the Age of Discovery and the astronomical propositions made by the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics—the exhibition draws upon a wide glossary of signs from this legendary maritime gateway. The project metaphorically exaggerates the gestures we make when we try to see or understand something: We either go close or move away from it in space; we also reflect back or forth in time to understand the present. Whorled Explorations draws upon these gestures of deliberation across the axes of space and time to present artworks that interlace the bygone with the imminent and the terrestrial with the celestial. The exhibition will be accompanied by “History Now,” a series of dialogues which will begin on 14 and 15 December with “Terra Trema,” a seminar conceptualised by Geeta Kapur. Spanning the history of Kochi and the ancient port city, Muziris (which “disappeared” in the 14th century), the seminar pairs archaeological excavation with research on the “anthropocene.” Sessions will address cosmopolitanism of peninsular India and the hierarchies of caste and class; the region of West Asia, connected to the Malabar Coast since millennia; the issues of globalisation, war; and dispossessed Palestine. The seminar contextualises curatorial expositions of art in troubled terrain. Speakers include historians, political and cultural theorists, writers: Rajan Gurukkal, Prabhat Patnaik, Susie Tharu, N S Madhavan and curators David Elliott, Anselm Franke and Reem Fadda. Kochi Biennale Foundation 1/1903, Kunnumpuram Fort Kochi PO Kerala 682001 India web biennialfoundation.org/biennials/kochi-muziris-biennale-india/ kochimuzirisbiennale.org/ map https://google.ch/maps/place/Kochi+Biennale+Foundation/@9.963528,76.245677,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x3b086d37b10c724b:0xe676a0bcb2dfc471
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:04:13 +0000
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