Shanay Jhaveri talks about Tagore and Victoria Ocampo’s relationship, his visit to Argentina and the famous chair he took all the way back home. Seated on this chair Tagore read and ‘understood’ Baudelaire’s poetry.
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Shanay Jhaveri talks about Rabindranath Tagore at Boulogne Billancourt
Shanay Jhaveri talks about Rabindranath Tagore at Boulogne Billancourt, Albert Khan’s Garden film: Camille Sauvageot and Roger Dumas, 1921. Iniva November 2013. First workshop.
Third meeting – London
These are the photographs taken during the third workshop at Iniva and the Tagore Centre, London, March 2014. Photos by Ho, Yu, Sheng and Carla Cruz.
Kodwo Eshun, Andrea Phillips and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Carla Cruz
Eona McCallum, Shanay Jhaveri and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Kodwo Eshun, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Adrian Rifkin, Andreas Mueller and Antje Weitzel, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Otolith Group example of a wall paper design, photo by Ho, Yu Sheng
Research Group, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
first meeting in London
This is a collection of photos from Tagore, Pedagogy and Contemporary Visual Cultures Research Group on their first meeting held at Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga’s exhibition Tagore’s Universal Allegories, Iniva, London November 2013. All photos by Ho, Yu-Sheng.
Ansuman Biwas presenting is video-performances
performance by Ansuman Biswas and guests
Workshop 3: London, March 2014
The third workshop takes place at Iniva and the Tagore Centre, London, March 2014.
SATURDAY 15 MARCH 12-6pm:
Institute of International Visual Arts, Rivington Place, Rivington St, London EC2A
photo by Carla Cruz
12:00: Introduction – Andrea Phillips
12:30: Grant Watson and Andrea Phillips in conversation: learning from Santiniketan
13:15: Anjalika Sagar – notes on The Otolith Group Tagore film project
14:00: lunch
15:00: Wendelien van Oldenborgh – ideas of pedagogy and colonialism in Indonesia
watch video
( COLLECTION_TROPENMUSEUM_’De heer Soerjoadipoetro houdt een voordracht over de school van Tagore voor o.a. kwekelingen van het Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut ‘Taman Siswa’ te Bandung Java’ (Mister Soerjoadipoetro is lecturing about the school of Tagore for a group of students who will become teachers in the National Educational Institute ‘Taman Siswa’, in Bandung, Java)
15:45: Anshuman Dasgupta – sound files from Santiniketan
16:30: Adrian Rifkin: Tagore in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy: a reading
17:00: tea and general discussion
18:00: ends
photo by Carla Cruz
SUNDAY 16 MARCH 11-2pm:
Tagore Centre, Alexandra Park Library, Alexandra Park Road, London N22 7UJ
Discussion of NGBK Tagore exhibition and the next workshop:
11:00: Introduction by Grant Watson
11.30: Introduction to NGBK by Antje Weitzel and Elke Falat
12:00: Discussion of exhibition design with Andreas Mueller
13:00: Presentation of research for exhibition by Vivian Ziherl (Landings)
13.30: general discussion
14:00: ends
[PDF] Notes from meeting 3
Tagore at Khan’s garden
Rabindranath Tagore at Boulogne-Billancourt, 1926/7, France, short film presented in March by Shanay Jhaveri. This is the garden were a famous photograph of Tagore among flowers was taken, and later emulated by Satyajit Ray.
Workshop 1: London, November 2013
The first workshop takes place as part of the exhibition Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga: Tagore’s Universal Allegories, curated by Grant Watson.
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
The first session focused on the question: How we might understand Tagore’s legacy as relevant for contemporary art practice and curating? By this, we don’t mean to insist on a relation or any relevancy, but to use Tagore’s ideas (which might be understood to be futurological, as well as ideological and arcane) as a springboard to engage in discussions about contemporary curating and artistic practice.
[PDF] Notes from Workshop 1.
The workshop ended with a performance by Ansuman Biswas and guests
See the whole performance here.
Hear Grant Watson reading Anna Boghiguian’s letters to/from Tagore;
See the collection of pictures from the first meeting at Iniva, London;
Read the Rabindranath Tagore’s play ‘the post office’, presented on this first meeting by Natasha Ginwala;
See the short film ‘Rabindranath Tagore at Boulogne-Billancourt’, by Albert Kahn.
See Christian Nyampeta’s New Habits: prototypes
Shanay Jhaveri
photo by Jessie Chaney
Shanay Jhaveri is the editor of Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design (Thames and Hudson, 2013) and Outsider Films on India: 1950 -1990 (The Shoestring Publisher, 2010). He curated the exhibition Companionable Silences at the Palais De Tokyo, Paris and film programmes at the TATE Modern, INIVA and the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images. He is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine, and is currently a Phd. candidate at the Royal College of Art, London.