LILA PRISM lecture "Sadanand Menon - State of Arts Institutions in India" at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 23rd November 2013

Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (Tea at 6:30 pm)

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Place : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description :  LILA PRISM lecture 'Sadanand Menon - State of Arts Institutions in India'.
The Lecture: “A Ministry of Culture? God forbid!” Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya had exclaimed in mock horror at The Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, in 1956. Five decades later, one might be permitted genuine horror over mock horror at the goings on in the hundreds of ‘arts’ institutions under the Ministry of Culture. There is a pervasive sense of break down and dysfunctionality afflicting these bodies on the one hand and the real crisis of finding the right people to run these institutions on the other. At the same time there has been a fecund sprouting of privately owned and run ‘arts’ institutions across the country, which, while adding to the cacophony, might not still be the panacea that the situation requires. However, now there is a lurking suspicion that the State seems to be in a hurry to push the arts into the private domain and wash its own hands off any commitment and responsibility in that domain. The talk will explore the implications of these developments.

Sadanand Menon has been exploring the charged space linking politics and culture for several decades through his work in media, pedagogy and activism. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, and at the Humanities Department of IIT, Madras. He is member of Apex Advisory Panel, National Museum, Delhi, of Apex Advisory Committee, National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru, of Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi, of the General Council, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and Managing Trustee of SPACES, Chennai. Among the several exhibitions he has curated is a major counter-historical fifty-year retrospective of the late Dashrath Patel for the National Gallery of Modern Art, in Delhi and Mumbai. A long-time collaborator with radical thinker/choreographer Chandralekha, he is deeply involved with issues connected with critical practices in contemporary Indian dance.

Moderator : Anita Cherian, teacher of English at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, will introduce the speaker and moderate the discussion. She has a PhD in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. In the past, she has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and a teacher of Media Studies at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Her research interests are in the areas of cultural policy and cultural studies, theatre history, performance studies, and cultural labour under the regimes of neoliberalism. At present, she is finishing up a manuscript on the institutional production of a ‘national’ theatre in the years following independence. She has also begun work on a new project that examines cultural policy making in the time of globalization.

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