The
Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) is pleased to announce Samudra
Kajal Saikia as the recipient of the Ila Dalmia FICA Research Grant 2013 for
his research project titled The Delhi Chapter, Understanding Performance as Art
and Beyond: Multiplied Gaze.
The
members of the jury were Yashodhara Dalmia, Shukla Sawant, Roobina Korade and
Vidya Shivadas.
Saikia's
proposal is for a research and documentation project that engages in
historicizing new trends in Performance Art in India. Tracing history and
evidences in the last three decades this project addresses some of the most
important research queries pertaining to performance art in India, and its new
roles in the recent past. The Ila Dalmia FICA Research Grant 2013 will
specifically support the first step in his larger research journey, titled The
Delhi Chapter. The research will be undertaken in three stages - The first will
focus on key concepts such as body, space and spectatorship. The second
developmental stage concerns with the artists' selection, selection of groups
or agencies and spatial experiences. The third critical stage will be based on
captured audio visual documentation and collected archival material.
The
jury appreciated Saikia's well rounded approach to his subject, focusing both
on documenting contemporary art practices and simultaneously studying these
trends in ahistorical context through
the prisms of methods, concepts and writings. The jury found the research
questions that the proposal brought up extremely relevant to today's context
where boundaries between various creative practices are being slowly blurred.
They also felt that Saikia's own work in the field of performance art gave him
an added advantage to engage with his subject more thoroughly and develop
methods which draws from outside mainstream art history and documentation.
Samudra
Kajal Saikia is a practitioner of interdisciplinary art including performance,
public and video art. He is also a poet, researcher and writer. He has a
Masters in Visual Art (specialization in Art History) from Faculty of Fine
Arts, MS University of Baroda. He is the creative director of Kathputlee Arts
and Films, New Delhi. Saikia is also engaged with a self-driven theatrical
practice called 'Disposable Theatre'. He is the recipient of the FICA Public
Art Grant 2010.
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