Art Heritage presents Zuleikha Chaudhari's 'the transparent performer/surface tension' an exhibition of selected images from the Alkazi Collection of Photography at Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg > 11am to 7pm on 24th January to 2nd February 2014

Time : 
24th January : 5:30 pm noon - Opening followd by the performance at 6;30pm
24th January to 2nd February : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : 
For Exhibition : Free
For Performance : limited seating. RSVP Pallavi (818696193 from 11am to 6pm)

Place : Art Heritage Gallery (Basement), Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi - 110001

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Area : Mandi House Area 

Event Description : Art Heritage presents Zuleikha Chaudhari's 'the transparent performer/surface tension' selected images from the Alkazi Collection of Photography and a performance installation of Seen at Secundranagh (Zuleikha Chaudhari in collaboration with raqs media collective) based on felice beato's photograph of disinterred bones at sikandar bagh palace 1858

Schedule Of Performances
Seen At Secundrabagh
duration 50 min
24th jan  6:30pm performance
27th jan  5:30pm talk by paolo favero
               6:30pm performance
30th jan  6:30pm performance
31st jan  6pm    performance
1st feb    6:30pm performance
2nd feb   6:30pm performance
jan 24-feb 2 2014 daily 11am to 7pm except sundays

The transparent performer/ surface tension is a proposition regarding the role of the performer in the performative experience
Seen At Secundrabagh (2011) is a fifty minute work for the stage featuring two performers which unfolds against the mobile projection of a photograph taken by felice beato in lucknow, India in 1858. Fixing A moment in india's turbulent colonial history, the image appears to be a faithful representation of the facts seen at secundrabagh slices into the stability of this impression with a series of poetic and analytical gestures that displace the power of the recorded image as it moves an event to the archive to the theatre

This is the indian premire of sen at secundrabagh and the performance installation is placed with in a suite of photographs drawn from the alkazi collection of photography. THe Photographs selected from the alkazi collection suggest a heightened moment - an instance poised between what is real and what is not

Seen At secundrabagh has been co-produced by weiner festwochen, Vienna 2012, KunstenFestivaldesArts, Brussels 2011, Festival D'Automne, Paris 2011 and Zuleikha Chaudhari Productions. It has performed at the Festivals Above and in Shanghai part of raqs Media Collective's Show, Extra time.

Zuleikha Chaudhari trained as a theatre director, has over the years shifted her theatre practice into a transitory medium that cannot be neatly catagorized, as it vacillates on the borders of installation art, sculpture and performance.

27th January, 2014, 5:30 pm : Talk Of Paolo Favero
Topic: “Look Away from Me!”: reflections on what images mean and want in the age of digital media practices by Paolo Favero.
Paolo Favero is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp. He has devoted the core of his career to the study of visual culture in India and Italy and presently conducts research on image-making practices in contemporary India.


Paolo Favero is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp. With a PhD in Social Anthropology awarded by Stockholm University Paolo has devoted the core of his career to the study of visual culture in India and Italy. Presently conducts research on image-making practices in contemporary India. He has published, among other, for Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, the Journal of Material Culture, Anthropological Quarterly and he is the author of India Dreams: Cultural Identity among Young Middle Class Men in New Delhi. An active filmmaker Paolo has directed Flyoverdelhi (a documentary on middle clas youth in Delhi screened by Swedish and Italian national broadcasters).

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