The archive as a site, is brimming with possibilities—images, smells, sound, scientific documents, legal papers, data, evidence, imprints, absences, all colliding together, enabling interventions, readings, manipulations. This panel brings together three diverse practitioners—a research engineer-archivist, a visual artist-researcher and a performer-director who works at creating experiences as “radical form of proximity”. It will examine what happens when these three, encounter the archive and whether guarding the disciplinary boundaries of the archive is critical or is that collapse imminent.

PANELS

Archives and Anti-disciplinarity

20th December 2019  •  Panelists: Amitesh Grover, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, and Venkat Srinivasan. Moderator: Anuja Ghosalkar

The archive as a site, is brimming with possibilities—images, smells, sound, scientific documents, legal papers, data, evidence, imprints, absences, all colliding together, enabling interventions, readings, manipulations. This panel brings together three diverse practitioners—a research engineer-archivist, a visual artist-researcher and a performer-director who works at creating experiences as “radical form of proximity”. It will examine what happens when these three, encounter the archive and whether guarding the disciplinary boundaries of the archive is critical or is that collapse imminent.