public talk/performance by Anshuman Dasgupta and Sanchayan Ghosh for ‘fragmenting Tagore’, 12 April, NGBK Berlin.
Anshuman Dasgupta and Sanchayan Ghosh
Anshuman Dasgupta and Sanchayan Ghosh – talk/performance
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Photos from workshop moments in Berlin by Carla Cruz
This is the collection of photos of the various events held for the fourth workshop in Berlin. Friday at NGBK; Saturday at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmannan’s Studio and again in the NGBK in the evening
Anna Boghiguian’s drawing, NGBK Berlin
Otolith Group mural detail, NGBK Berlin
Otolith Group mural, NGBK Berlin
Elzbieta Walter: Public Talk
Elzbieta Walter
Audience, NGBK
Elzbieta Walter
A German translation of Tagore from 1918, brought by a member of the audience
workshop at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann’s studio
workshop at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann’s studio
FRAGMENTING TAGORE: Saturday 12 April
NGBK, Andrea Phillips, Grant Watson and Elke Falat
Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore with took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930.
Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas
NGBK audience
Anshuman Dasgupta: Translating Tagore: the problems and possibilities of attending Tagore from another language and culture
Anshuman Dasgupta and Sanchayan Ghosh
Adrian Rifkin: Tagore seen seated: some others standing, a short speculation in composing the past-imperfect of the ‘post-colonial’
Adrian Rifkin
Sanchayan Ghosh
1970, Kolkata, India. Lives and works in Santiniketan, India.
Sanchayan Ghosh secured Masters in Fine Art-1997, Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kala Bhavan,Visva Bharati University- 1995; currently works as an Associate Professor, Department of Painting, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University,Santiniketan.
Over the years, Sanchayan has been interested in site-specific art and has done extensive work in space designing for experimental and contemporary theatre. With his early inspirations from community ritual events in Santniketan and his workshop experience with Third theatre exponent Badal Sarkar he involves community based art activity where he tries to engage in specific community situations through workshops, which then gets transformed into an interactive/participatory activity. It is a necessity therefore to usually share his workshop oriented practice in public spaces. These lead to site-specific interdisciplinary activities and multi layered installations and performances. Through his continuous exploration in site-specific interactive art practice, Ghosh has over the years been exploring spaces between institution and pedagogy and succeeded in extending art and performance from institutional spaces to public situations.
Sanchayan’s Community Based Engagements and Site specific Projects include: Incomplete Circles: Invisible Voices: A workshop based engagement with different communities of Fort Kochi on relationship of Language that evolved into a site specific Sound Installation in Kochi Biennale 2012-13. Merge Emerge: An ongoing Shadow Casting Interactive project with Final year students of Kala Bhavana Visva Bharati, Santniketan, 2004 to 2014.
http://aakilaarsimirrorofmind-sanchayan.blogspot.in/
http://bodolandproject.blogspot.in/
http://sitespecificartactivity.blogspot.in/
http://monogobbetsociety.blogspot.in/
http://www.experimenter.in/web/
Workshop 4: Berlin, April 2014
The fourth workshop takes place in Berlin at NGBK as part of the exhibition Tagore’s Post Office, curated by Grant Watson.
Installation view, NGBK, Berlin, photo by Carla Cruz
(See the booklet Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition, published as part of Landings’ contribution to the exhibition)
Landings ‘Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition’ , NGBK Berlin, photo by Winfried Mateyka
As well as a final workshop with members of the network there will be two public events at NGBK (download invite):
Friday 11 April 7pm:
Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl)
Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.
Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.
Elzbieta Walter, photo by Carla Cruz
Saturday 12 April 7pm
Fragmenting Tagore
Public event with Anshuman Dasgupta, Ansuman Biswas and guest (Magda Mayas) and Adrian Rifkin.
Introduced by Andrea Phillips and Grant Watson.
Ansuman Biswas and Magda Mayas, NGBK, Berlin, photo by Carla Cruz
Anshuman Dasgupta: Translating Tagore: the problems and possibilities of attending to Tagore from another language and culture
Adrian Rifkin: Tagore seen seated: some others standing, a short speculation in composing the past-imperfect of the ‘post-colonial’, see video-documentation here.
Ansuman Biswas and guest: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore which took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930
Anshuman Dasgupta is part of the teaching faculty in the Art History department in Kalabhavan, Santiniketan (Visva Bharati University)
Adrian Rifkin is Professor Emeritus of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, London
Ansuman Biswas is an artist, musician and Director of the Tagore Centre UK
[PDF] Notes from workshop 4 Berlin April 2014.
Otolith Group,’s ‘A Century Before Us’ NGBK, Berlin, photo by Winfried Mateyka