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India Art Fair
   25-29 January, 2012 New Delhi
   
 
 
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India Art Fair
25-29 January, 2012 New Delhi
 
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AVID is delighted to co-present the Speakers’ Forum for India Art Fair, 2012.

The India Art Fair is committed to building on its scale and quality of art on display in order to deliver a truly enriching art experience to all its visitors from within India and around the globe.

Launched in 2008, the 3rd Edition of India Art Fair (formerly India Art Summit) recorded over a hundred thousand visitors in a span of 4 days from 17 cities in India and 67 cities around the world, becoming one of the most attended art fairs globally. Out of the 84 galleries participating, 34 were international galleries – double the number that participated in the previous year bringing an international and domestic focus to the buoyant Indian art market.
 
The 4th Edition of India Art Fair will be held on 25-29 January, 2012 at NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi.
 
Speakers’ Forum
The Speakers' Forum at India Art Fair 2012 will include a series of highly engaging topical seminars and conversations that brings together an illustrious panel of experts from the art world to discuss key issues pertaining to art in the region and at a global level. Renowned artists, curators, collectors, academics, and critics from India and around the world, will discuss issues that are relevant in the global art scene today.
 
Speakers Forum Schedule
 
 
Event Details
 
26th January 2012
Session 1

Time : 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Topic : The Postcolonial and the Curatorial

Speakers :
Chaitanya Sambrani, Senior Lecturer, Art Theory, ANU School of Art, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, The Australian National University, Canberra
Gayatri Sinha, Independent Critic & Curator
Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Associate, Institute of International Visual Arts, London

Moderator : Parul Dave Mukherji, Professor & Dean, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU, Delhi
 
Session 2

Time:  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Topic : Platforms for Regional Engagement: creativity, politics and emergent
curatorial frameworks

Speakers :
Yusaku Imamura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site & Counselor on Special Issue to the Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Natalie King, Director, Utopia @Asialink, Australia
Khairuddin Hori, Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum
Tasneem Mehta, Director, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

Moderator : Deeksha Nath, Curator, Delhi

 
Session 3

Time : 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Topic : Corporate Involvement in Art and Culture

Welcome Note : Rakhi Sarkar, Director, CIMA Art Gallery Pvt Ltd, Chairperson, FICCI Committee on Art and Business of Art and Managing Trustee, KMOMA

Speakers :
Shivinder M Singh, Managing Director, Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited
Priti Paul, Director, Apeejay Surrendra Group & Art Collector
Stephan Frucht, CEO, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI
T.C.A. Ranganathan, CMD, Export-Import Bank of India
Anthony Korner, Publisher, Artforum International Magazine
Alka Pande, Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator of the Visual Arts
Gallery, India Habitat Centre

Moderator : Gayatri Sinha, Independent Critic & Curator
 
 
27th January 2012
Session 4

Time : 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Topic : European Reception of Contemporary Indian Art

Speakers :
Ranjit Hoskote, Cultural theorist, poet, and independent curator
Sophie Duplaix, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou
Holly Brackenbury, Director, Indian Art, Sotheby’s, London
Peter Nagy, Director, Nature Morte

Moderator : Deepak Ananth, Art Historian & Faculty Ecole des Beaux Arts, Caen, Normandy
 
Session 5

Time:  2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
AsiaArt Archive : Backroom Conversations

Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
In Retrospect: lecture panel

Speakers :
Annapurna Garimella, Art Historian and Designer, Managing Trustee, A.R.T., Bangalore
Kuiyi Shen, Professor, Art History and Director, Chinese Studies Program,University of California, San Diego

Moderator : Johnson Chang Tsongzung, Curator, Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, and Asia Art Archive Board member

 
Session 6

Time:  4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Asia Art Archive : Backroom Conversations

Topic : Support Systems: Art Patronage in India and China
Contemporary Currents: two conversations

Speakers :
Budi Tek, Indonesian Entrepreneur, Art Philanthropist, and Collector in
conversation with
Claire Hsu, Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Anmol Vellani, Director, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore in conversation with Savita Apte, Art Historian and Co-Director, Art Dubai

 
 
28th January 2012
Session 7

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Topic : The Arab Spring and the Broadening Gulf

Speakers :
Jack Persekian, Director of Anadiel gallery, the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for
Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Moderator : Kavita Singh, Associate Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU
 
Session 8

Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Topic : De-coding the Indian Art Market: A look at the driving factors behind
collecting art

Speakers :
Amrita Jhaveri,
Art Consultant Mumbai, London
Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions, White Cube
Kiran Nadar, Art Collector and Chairperson, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Prateek Raja, Director, Experimenter
Jan Dalley, Financial Times Arts Editor, UK

Moderator : Priyanka Mathew, Head of Sale for Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, Sotheby’s, New York

 
Session 9

Time : 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Topic : You don’t have to be a Millionaire to Collect Art

Speakers :
Parmesh Shahani, Art Collector, Mumbai
Sonal Sood, Art Collector, Delhi

Moderator : Maithili Parekh, Director, Sotheby’s
 
Session 10

Time : 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Artists’ Conversations

Speakers :
Mark Quinn, Artist
Bharti Kher, Artist
A Balasubramaniam, Artist

Moderator : Sara Raza, Independent curator, critic and editor
Art Asia Pacific magazine (West and Central Asia)

 
 
29th January 2012
Session 11

Time : 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Topic : New Models for International Cultural Collaboration: Insights, Best Practices, and Future Recommendations

Speakers :
Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT)
Kimberly Masteller, Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian
Art. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Moderator : Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society Museum, New York and Vice President of the Society’s Global Arts Programming

 
Session 12

Time :2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Khoj International Artists’ Association & Outset India

Topic : Performance Art: The medium of the 21st Century

Speaker : RoseLee Goldberg, Art Historian, Critic and Curator

Moderator : Geeta Kapur, Critic & Curator
 
Session 13

Time : 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Topic : Has the Moment of the Contemporary Come and Gone?

Speakers :
Anton Vidokle, Artist, Curator and Founder of E-Flux
Daniela Zyman, Chief Curator of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Ravi Sundaram, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Moderator : Raqs Media Collective
 

Followed by a film “Through the Eyes of a Painter”, introduced by
Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi

A film written, directed and filmed by M. F. Husain, the famous Indian painter. This critically acclaimed film was produced by The Films Division of Government of India in 1967

(Runtime: 18 mins)
 
Registration : . No prior registration is required
 
Fees : The seminars will be free of cost, and seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis only
 
 
Speakers :
  • Chaitanya Sambrani, Senior Lecturer, Art Theory, ANU School of Art, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, The Australian National University, Canberra
  • Gayatri Sinha, Independent Critic & Curator
  • Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Associate, Institute of International Visual Arts, London
  • Yusaku Imamura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site & Counselor on Special Issue to the Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
  • Natalie King, Director, Utopia @Asialink, Australia
  • Khairuddin Hori, Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum
  • Tasneem Mehta, Director, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
  • Shivinder M Singh, Managing Director, Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited
  • Priti Paul, Director, Apeejay Surrendra Group & Art Collector
  • Stephan Frucht, CEO, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI
  • T.C.A. Ranganathan, CMD, Export-Import Bank of India
  • Anthony Korner, Publisher, Artforum International Magazine
  • Alka Pande, Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator of the Visual ArtsGallery, India Habitat Centre
  • Ranjit Hoskote, Cultural theorist, poet, and independent curato
  • Sophie Duplaix, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou
  • Holly Brackenbury, Director, Indian Art, Sotheby’s, London
  • Peter Nagy, Director, Nature Morte
  • Annapurna Garimella, Art Historian and Designer, Managing Trustee, A.R.T., Bangalore
  • Kuiyi Shen, Professor, Art History and Director, Chinese Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
  • Budi Tek, Indonesian Entrepreneur, Art Philanthropist, and Collector
  • Claire Hsu, Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
  • Anmol Vellani, Director, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore
  • Jack Persekian, Director of Anadiel gallery, the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
  • Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
  • Amrita Jhaveri, Art Consultant Mumbai, London
  • Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions, White Cube
  • Kiran Nadar, Art Collector and Chairperson, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
  • Prateek Raja, Director, Experimenter
  • Jan Dalley, Financial Times Arts Editor, UK
  • Parmesh Shahani, Art Collector, Mumbai
  • Sonal Sood, Art Collector, Delhi
  •  Mark Quinn, Artist
  • Bharti Kher, Artist
  • A Balasubramaniam, Artist
  • Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
  • Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT)
  • Kimberly Masteller, Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
  • RoseLee Goldberg, Art Historian, Critic and Curator
  • Anton Vidokle, Artist, Curator and Founder of E-Flux
  • Daniela Zyman, Chief Curator of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
  • Ravi Sundaram, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
  • Sara Raza, Independent curator, critic and editor
  • Parul Dave Mukherji, Professor & Dean, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU, Delhi
  • Deeksha Nath, Curator, Delhi
  • Gayatri Sinha, Independent Critic & Curator
  • Deepak Ananth, Art Historian & Faculty Ecole des Beaux Arts, Caen, Normandy
  • Johnson Chang Tsongzung, Curator, Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, and Asia Art Archive Board member
  • Kavita Singh, Associate Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU
  • Priyanka Mathew, Head of Sale for Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, Sotheby’s, New York
  • Maithili Parekh, Director, Sotheby’s
  •  Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society Museum, New York and Vice President of the Society’s Global Arts Programming
  • Geeta Kapur, Critic & CuratorRaqs Media Collective
 
 
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