womyn at work is a collaborative curatorial expansion by Tracing A City(India), AIB/ Art Initiative Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh), LIVE HIVE (Goa, India), and Photopeer - Arts & Media Resource Foundation ( Kolkata, India).
From the beginning of this enforced new timeline(specifically during the new global C-19 lockdown situation), we have noticed that slowly, we’re moving towards a new social atmosphere where the understanding of collective fearless acceptance is comparatively different than the old usuals. Life will intensively be structured, manipulated by larger consumeristic needs. In a way, soon It will be an interesting junction like a collective hardship for all culture clusters in the mode of accepting the practicality of ‘self-distancing’ effects. From that curious void, our curatorial interest emerges primarily within the in-house level especially to explore open-source communication without even pushing/violating the sensitivity of the current post-truth situation. This entire exchange is planned in a participatory web series format where we want to incorporate the art of struggle and culture of resistance together to the larger commune by sharing a combination of audio-visual experiential dialogue, monologue, and crosswords. We have started this observational research from March '20 onwards regarding the nature of undefined personal spaces in time of C-19 and also tried to map a fluid connection between different interpersonal events in the context of socio-cultural expectations and utopian gender binaries. Following that interest, we are currently in this open state where we would like to explore the invisible possibility of mutual collaboration with diverse practitioners - regarding their performative struggle and the future social boundaries between the old and new normality. As a curatorial body, we are only going to stretch our intellectual barriers so that we are able to prepare a new bridge with plural cross-cultural expressions. Following a trans-disciplinary curatorial model- we would like to introduce a fearless common space for multi-discipline as long as that is participatory and reachable.
Thought: ‘womyn at work’ is going to be on-air in a durational action research model conceptualised as a trans-disciplinary interactive format - where we principally wish to explore the non-narrative visual agents with a subversive curatorial interest. It is a 3-month long episodic exchange within the neo-web-series model. It will start from August’20 onwards till October’20. Every episode will be composed of 3 different practitioners in collaboration with our in house curatorial moderators. There will be a mundane non-linear connection between the coming 3 episodes if there is any direct resemblance that will be absolutely coincidental and reflection of new normal hyper-connection.
Key Areas:Social Binaries, Cultural Appropriation, Gender Hegemony, Performative Dialogue, Personal Politics.