Sanchayan Ghosh, artist pedagogue
Over the years, Sanchayan Ghosh has been working on process based site specific art practise and has done extensive work on post performance collaborative art. With his early inspirations from community ritual events in Santiniketan and his workshop experience with Third theatre exponent Badal Sarkar he got inspired in site specific practices and the complex relationship of making and sharing as an integrated process of making art. He has been engaged with different forms of public space and collaborative participatory dialogues with diverse communities with multiple identities. He tries to engage in specific community situations through workshops, which then gets transformed into an interactive/participatory art activity. It is a necessity therefore to usually share his workshop oriented practice in private and public spaces. These lead to interdisciplinary activities and multi layered installations and performances that are both pedagogic and performative in nature. Through his continuous exploration in site-specific interactive art practice, Ghosh has over the years been exploring spaces between institution and pedagogy and conversing in the interface of institutional and public situations.
Associate Professor, Department of Painting,Kala Bhavana,Visva Bhararti,Santiniketan
Date of birth:11/12/1970
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION :
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M.Fine from Kala Bhavana Visva Bharati, 1997.
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B.Fine from Kala Bhavana Visva Bharati, 1995.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
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Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship 2003-04 in Spike Island, Artspace Bristol, England
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Received Grant from Khoj International artists Association for the Project AAKIL AARSI, as part of Negotiating Routes :Ecologies of the Byways,2011
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Junior fellowship in the field of painting for the period 1998-2000 by Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource, Govt. of India.
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National Scholarship in the field of painting for the period 1995-1997 by Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource, Govt. of India.
COMMUNITY BASED ART ACTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE:
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Reading from the Gendered Land-III, An architectural Installation and Durational Reading Performances in collaboration with students of Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India and Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, as part of Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, December,2016
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Reading from the Gendered Land, A ten Day Durational Reading Performances in collaboration with 9 girl students of Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University in Nandan museum, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,2015-16
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Street Side Reading: Don’t Talk About Poland, a Teashop newspaper reading performance in Jew Town Mattancharry, Kochi, Kerala as part of the exhibition Critical Juncture, an Indo Polish venture and a collateral event of Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2014
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Incomplete Circles: Invisible Voices,A Sitespecific Community based sound project on the relationship of language of different communities of cosmopolitan culture of Kochin as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale,India 12/12/12
EXHIBITIONS:
1. Anatomy of a Land- from soil to soil... brick to brick...dust to dust a site based architectural installation on landscape representation in relation to Birbhum landscape, roof making songs and architectures in Santiniketan as part of the curated exhibition by Vidya Sivadas, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2023
2. Short Waves Transit Tales…A collaborative commissioned sound project with Anshuman Dasgupta for Documenta 14 Radio Project 2017
3. Merg’E’merge :Presented the 10 year long shadow casting project with Final year students of Kala Bhavana initiated in 2004 to2014 in Nandan Mela of 2015
4. Participated in the curated show Land, Natural Genderd by Amit Mukhpadhyay in Nandan Kala Bhavana 2015 and in New Delhi, 2016
5. Immateriality in Residue, an exhibition in Experimenter that explores ideas of form, material and value in its intrinsic form and residual afterlife from November 9, 2015 until December 26, 2015.
6. Critical Juncture, an Indo Polish joint exhibition on projects around socially engaged art activity in Jew Town, Mattancharry Kochi, a collateral event of 2nd Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2014
SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
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Incomplete Circles: Invisible Voices,A Sitespecific architectural Sound Installation based on language relationships as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale,India 12/12/12
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Doosra-The Other Maze,A Site-specific participatory installation in Sculpture Park,Frieze Art Fair,Regents Park, London,2010
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Light of Darkness, A Site specific Light Installation in Durham as part of the Durham Enligtenment Festival organized by ISIS Arts NewCastle and Durham City Council and Art Council of England,Durham, Northern England,2008