Performers independent: August 2015

Forwarded conversation
Subject: KIPAF2016 first draft proposal
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From: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM
To: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Pi presents
KIPAF2016

associates: ART ROOM ( fund,office space and other logistical support)

CHNADER HAAT (residency and indoor venue)

STUDIO 21 (indoor venue for presentations)

ABRACADABRA (voluntary support)

curatorial note team: sreemoy,rahul,tapati,santosh,amitava,martin

assistant in charge: aopala

blog maintain & online communication with artists: taufik,rahul,manas

assistant in charge: aopala,mozo

camera: still photos: taxi,manas,rahul,rohon,mozo,augustine

assistant in charge: susmita,rituparna,anirban(sarkar)

video: anirban(tubai),ankur,troyo,samudra,taufik

assistant in charge: uma

publicity design: sumantra(sunny),taufik,manas

assistant in charge: chimuk,anirban(sarkar),sreya

technical team(sorry for this rather vague term,i hope u get what i mean): manas,sukanta,taxi,ankur

assistant in charge: su-man,prakriti,chimuk

narrators: rollie mukherjee,suresh samuha,vijay sekhon,akhilesh arya,sreemoy,madhuja,santosh,rahul

assistant in charge: ayanava,aopala

out of the town team: sajan,monika,bhaskar,bhisaji,arne,wiebki,shaon,palash,kedar,beatrice,pavitra,rhine,martin,manmeet,rupan,dorothea,irene,sukanto(naru)

team on ground: teamA: uma,aopala,rituparna,amitava,tapati,taufik

teamB: mozo,rupan,chimuk,su-man,troyo,sunny

proximity/involvement design: taufik

assistant in charge:uma

money matters: tapati,taufik

assistant in charge:uma

observers: amitava,goutam,sanchayan,mousumi

deadlines: Open call online introducing curatorial note 15 August 2015.

call Closes 30 September 2015.

the following artists and groups have already expressed their desire to come to KIPAF 2016:

Lolo y Lauti, live art duo(argentina)

József Bíró(hungary)

Meherun Sumi(amago bangladaysh)

Daniela Beltrani(singapur)

Chelsea Coon(usa)

Isabel León(spain)

SU-EN(sweden)

FAKI team(zagreb,croatia)

Michaela Nocker(berlin/austria)

Cengiz Özek Shadow Theatre(istanbul,turkey)

there are a few more who didn't mail but expressed interest verbally.

rough schedule: 23 January 2016 MORNING MEET @Chnader Haat

AFTERNOON MEET @Victoria-Akademy of Fine Arts

24 January 2916 PRESENTATIONS @Studio 21

25 January 2916 OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES @Victoria-Akademy of Fine Arts

26 January 2916 INDOOR PERFORMANCES @Chnader Haat

NARRATORS' DINNER.

so the above is just a proposal.i had certain points in my mind while imagining this.like:

there should be more clarity in communicating with guests.
artists and also Pi blog should get stills and video footages as early as possible.
more texts are needed.
to concentrate on the qualitative aspect the schedule needs to be less hectic.
Pi artists should concentrate on their own individual performances.
Pi should design in details all the parts of the festival and do it creatively,there should be that zeal mates.
out of town members should plan and buy travel tickets in advance.inland sleeper class up-down train fares,i think,can be provided from the buget for Pi members,but please don't anybody promise any artist or guest any travel fund.KIPAF holds the same position regarding provisions,logistics and related matters.
the rough budget.

FOOD 30,000

IN CITY CONVEYANCE 20,000

VOLUNTEERS 30,000

PERFORMANCE MATERIAL 20,000

PRINT ETC. 10,000

DOCUMENTATION 20,000

MISCELLANEOUS 20,000

TOTAL 1,50,000 INR.

please give all your feedbacks.and please come up to take responsibilities.you all know how KIPAF is done.

this coming edition will be on the same lines of the Kolkata streets,of loitering,of sitting tired on the pavements,of smoking the traffic-light joint,of art,of revolution,of nonsense,of all the ghosts of life,of the city,the river,the sundarbans,the cyclones,the killings,the suicides,the rapes.

of body.

"shorir shorir tomar mon nai kusum?"[almost untranslatable gem from Manik Banerjee's bangla novel Putul-nacher Itikawtha,loosely:"this body!you don't have a soul,dear?"]

this much for now.

keeping in touch.waiting for your initiative...

love and solidarity

taufik

p.s.always forgetting something :)...no

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From: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:49 PM
To: ki paf <kipaf2013@gmail.com>

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From: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:59 PM
To: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

before we start working on this proposal and suggesting modifications, want to know how was this thought of- never before we have assigned roles so unilaterally and after the last KIPAF we took a decision that no roles will be assigned- we will volunteer for our roles.

also right now as an organisation i dont think we have had a go ahead for the bangla natak association.

please clarify.

best

rahul

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rahul bhattacharya

Independent Art Historian

Curator- Art Historian - Educator

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a change is just around the corner
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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 17:59:32 +0530
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Subject: Re: KIPAF2016 first draft proposal
To: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>,
AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>,
chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>,
Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>,
Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>,
Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>,
martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com,
Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>,
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sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>,
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before we start working on this proposal and suggesting modifications,
want to know how was this thought of- never before we have assigned roles
so unilaterally and after the last KIPAF we took a decision that no roles
will be assigned- we will volunteer for our roles.
also right now as an organisation i dont think we have had a go ahead for
the bangla natak association.
please clarify.

best
rahul

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rahul bhattacharya
Independent Art Historian
Curator- Art Historian - Educator
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Pi *presents
>
> *KIPAF2016 *
> *associates: *ART ROOM ( fund,office space and other logistical support)
> CHNADER HAAT (residency and indoor venue)
> STUDIO 21 (indoor venue for presentations)
> ABRACADABRA (voluntary support)> *curatorial note team:* sreemoy,rahul,tapati,santosh,amitava,martin
> *assistant in charge*: aopala
> *blog maintain & online communication with artists: *taufik,rahul,manas
> *assistant in charge*: aopala,mozo
> *camera:* still photos: taxi,manas,rahul,rohon,mozo,augustine
> *assistant in charge*
> : susmita,rituparna,anirban(sarkar)
> video: anirban(tubai),ankur,troyo,samudra,taufik
> *assistant in charge*: uma
> *publicity design:* sumantra(sunny),taufik,manas
> *assistant in charge*
> : chimuk,anirban(sarkar),sreya
> *technical team(sorry for this rather vague term,i hope u get what i
> mean):* manas,sukanta,taxi,ankur
> *assistant in charge*
> : su-man,prakriti,chimuk
> *narrators:* rollie mukherjee,suresh samuha,vijay sekhon,akhilesh

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From: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:23 PM
To: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

dear rahul,

i think my letter proposed the roles and suggested a plan.feedback is awaited and we,in Kolkata Performers independent have started working on those that already came.

:)roles are voluntary as usual.for example rohon wants to work with video and not still photography,so he will be doing that.tapati said that she is fine in the curatorial note team but don't want to take responsibility of money.she also don't want to face taufik riaz during KIPAF.so Pi will be happy with that.
Kolkata Performers independent has decided on the associations and collaborations and we have no problem with Banglanatok.com via ART ROOM taking care of fund and logistics.KIPAF copyright and all belong to Pi.Banglanatok will be there like the way Studio21 or Tent had been and will be.

dear,nobody is forcing anything.we here on ground where KIPAF and Pi activities are happening in Kolkata are improvising and adapting to situations.KIPAF is one of our initiatives that we want to be independent so that we can concentrate more on the qualitative aspect of it and the rest 361days of an year.

the city of kolkata and friends from outside have made KIPAF grow.this association that we are offered by Banglanatok is part of that kolkata support.

rahul.it seems rather strange to me that you write this mail that i am answering now,that you have these doubts.i don't have recordings(as is the habit of a performance artist:),but as far as i remember you and me had lots of discussions about this issue,like we have always among ourselves whenever we get chance.and you know i had similar discussions with others also.

even in the last meeting in beckbagan where you were present we decided to go for Banglanatok association.like we decided to go for funds for the post-production of 2015 videos.

i felt we had a go-ahead and worked on it.i had the need to discuss with you matters regularly but well ,as is your habit :),you didn't take up calls or answer sms.even yesterday i tried to talk to you.
now it is too late that you react on the negative.

i wish you will go through my initial proposal and my mail regarding ART ROOM once more and will consider the situation anew keeping in mind the hard labour and love of the kolkata streets from where we and KIPAF come.

your mail is depressing man,really depressing.i know you are misunderstanding me.it is as if my fate that encourages me to take responsibilities and face this.maybe it is not just you.

i wish you understand me.

anyway i hope you will someday.

love

and

solidarity

as ever

yours

taufik riaz

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From: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:09 AM
To: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

To-

Whom It may Concern,

All PI friends,

personally, I do not think that the collaboration with the Banglanatak.com will bring very different characteristics then before. I am not very clear about problems which may or may not appear as the outcome of this collaboration. But collaboration with an institution/office/company is inevitable (this way or that way) in a city space where a regularly expanding 'festival' like KIPAF is 'organized' by negotiating with many institutions. If KIPAF can negotiate with local institutions then why not the Banglanatak. Negotiations with institutions is part of our art practice. Besides, since the beginning KIPAF is trying to integrate local performance art practices with the national and international practices. It is not to isolate our practices but to connect to International practices. And with that kind of orientation of the Festival, the sponsorship will come naturally. Eventhough I am not clear, in what terms and how the Banglanatak is going to collaborate with Kipaf, but if it is funding sponsorship then, there is no problem for getting money but the real problem is to spend it.. (pardon for this prophetic speech

). So, I do not think the Banglanatak will violet the virginity

of KIPAF. Virginity is not our concern at all. As far as independence remains in our mind till then we can welcome the Banglanatak.com (.... i think, it is not that East India company...

The volunteer services always perform not very differently than an assigned role as soon as the event proceeds in a rhythm. So it does not really matter, the role is assigned or volunteer one. One has to do things. I could see my name in the Out of the Town team which is good for a lazy boy like me.. please describe my role, so that I can serve it.

Thanks for the mail.

Solidarity and love to all

Bhaskar

Bhaskar Hazarika, Research fellow, Dept. of Painting, Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, WB-731235

Mobile: 09800849639

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From: Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM
To: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, "taxiduomail@gmail.com" <taxiduomail@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>
Improvise the reality.

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From: Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM
To: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Bhaskar, I like your address... "To whom ever it may concern" . I'm going to copy this. :)

So...

To whom ever it may concern

It is not a major problem that Bangla Natok is going to fund us. But it was a sudden email declaration. As I understand Pi is a group and there should be a consensus for any major decision. The primary strength of KIPAF was ' we don't take any corporate fund' and from there Bangla natok is funding.

2> venue... I thought road was the venue for KIPAF and this year the declaration says venues are Studio 21, Chander hat etc.

It would be exciting for me if KIPAF would become strictly a road and public space event.... if we strictly did not take any corporate fund.

my pain is that KIPAF has fallen into the trope of fame. All of us are individually running behind establishment and money any way. For me it could be a space to derive strength if together we could run KIPAF on the road and without corporate fund.

Oh you were saying Bangla natok is just giving a fund..... well.... it has assigned Taufik Riaz as curator of the event and an amount of money been assigned in his name. Would like to know what would be every volunteer's share in this bowl of money and how the whole amount would be spent. None of the Pi members never ask about accounts. I think any registered group should have a lager book to maintain.

I never asked for the money back from KPI that I gave during Shiter Graffiti by borrowing it from my father. I was always hesitant to ask the money back because I knew the poor fund condition of KPI. Hope Pi is in a position to refund this money now.

I'm pissed off with Pi not because of money but because for a prolong time we never talk about what works we are doing.... we never declare the up coming workshops and events that Pi is organizing but initiate elaborate group chats on who is sleeping with whom and confession on who slapped whom and when.... All the previous initiatives of reading sessions, presentation and workshops are gone it seems.

Please lets clarify on this platform the stand points and activities of KPI. Once we had a manifesto right? Can we revisit that?

Love and solidarity.

Tapati

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From: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:19 PM
To: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

Pi to Pi
Dear friends,
I find it a healthy discussion before we move to the new phase assigned by the present situations. I think that is what desired by the initiative write up and proposal by Taufik. Yes I can understand about the doubt and blocks in the on going communication. But again I also doubt that how much of this is ideological? During the journey of pi, we pi friends are already ideologically aligned or tied with each other. Taufik and Bhaskar clarify the situation in their mails with their independent position. Dear Rahul, I know you have much more experience than us about working with or collaborating with various organizations and you have produced some of the most cutting edged works of our time successfully. So why fear, share your courage and experience so that pi can build upon the present situations a new phase, with more emphasis on qualitative development of the works and persons involved....
Lots of hope I am hoping...
Love and solidarity...
Amitava

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From: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:07 AM
To: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

Dear friends,

I want to add few more personal opinion to this discussion. Yes, some obligations will be there when collaboration is made with a corporate body. And so, some of our friends are saying that there should not be such obligations. I can understand their position and I respect that. But few things has to be brought in to this debate so that the issue can analysed in objective terms. Firstly, the principle "we do not take any corporate fund" needs to be placed in a context. What is the reason behind it? It is a urban modern FESTIVAL first, not an assembly of performers to see each other's faces. And to "ORGANISE" it, (I can imagine that, as I did not served any duty to organise it) I think, Pi negotiated with lot of local public authorities, such as Police or Municipal corporation or other authorities who own the public spaces. Right? If it is so, then there were always obligations which has to be maintained. For example, as performer if I want to climb the Akademy of Fine Arts building without taking any permission, it is not possible for a Festival (personally if I do so that will be a personal act, cannot be a part of Festival) to include it, because there are already some criteria framed through negotiations with public authorities. It is not really so much independence that we enjoy in streets. Streets are different than gallery but streets have their own laws. If it is so, then what is the problem in the attempt to negotiate and collaborate with some more institutions? There are lot of time in future to decide ..exactly which way KIPAF will choose to move ahead. Choices will be also waiting there.

Are we trying to act a radical or revolutionist role,- against money, against laws, against corporate body? Ok, but why? I believe, that is not possible now. One may try to take counter-institution position but the same guy cannot take the anti-institution position. When KIPAF is Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, when there is the ART attached with performance, when there are justifications for performance art, when there is manifesto, when these performances are not protest, then there may be a counter institutional idea of art here but not the "anti" position. So, if we have been the taking the counter position rather than the anti- position, if one accepts that there is art somewhere in body, besides the paints and stones, then it is not very new thing that it will look for recognition. Art of any kind is depended on value supported by name and fame, (i.e. if art is depended on viewership). More, we are quite familiar with the principle "we donot take corporate fund", it is not very new principle which appeared repeatedly in front of us. In politics, ok, there are reasons behind the position but in case of performance ARTISTS what are the reasons which will give the position a value? Apart from these, the remaining matters are basically likes, dislikes and choices. There is no point to argue on likes and dislikes in a collective space of performers.

Lastly, independence comes through negotiations with institutions. If there is no boundary, no power then the independence and freedom are meaningless words.

Wish you all very best,

love and solidarity,

Bhaskar

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From: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:51 AM
To: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

I think summoning of this Paikhana provides a very important occasion for rethinking the organization of Pi as such, something that is always already in crisis for having been named as such--because the two words Performers and independent do not inhabit a comfortably coexisting space. The fact that the word independent remains a significant non capitalist in relation to the capital P should make my point clear about the tensions in the field of living that relationship. I thank my friends for providing me this slit to intervene, which i hope, bears a promise of momentary excitement.

What if I were to call BanglaNatok "Chyangranatok"? How would I rethink my performance then? Why do I have to live with the name "Banglanatok"? What can I do to fuck with the naming? These are questions which drew me, in a spectral manner towards the possibility of external (politically compromising) funding. I could see myself playing derisively with the word banglanatok, as if participating in a noutanki (not the folk version, as I am sure Bhaskar will agree) in which we could all do our thing.

This staging demands some planning, and here I disagree with Taufik. He is, reasonably enough, too tied up with the idea of living Pi (I know he will threaten to "pnutiki marafy" me after a few drinks, and Pabitra will jump into the act:))))) However might the sincerity of his efforts be, process mein kuch garbar to hyay. This need not be taken in a very morally loaded manner. Hence this is my suggestion: Taufik does not decide the method of dispensation of duties and funding. That would mean making a monument of a very dear friend. I do not want him to be the sole subject of gali because i think what he is trying to undertake is suicidal in the sense that it bears lot of "jham". What are friends for!

Moreover, we should not, under any circumstances, seek in Pi a material meaning in itself. Rather we should see how it shapes up through differences. Therefore this is my suggestion-divide the fund into the collectives that constitute Pi, rather than Pi (someone or other) deciding how the dispensation should be made. Each collective should give a proposal and claim the funds. We will read each others' proposals over a day long workshop on the 20th of August. That would help the documentation process. Instead of deciding beforehand what is documentation and what is performance, let the collectives decide. Pi will advocate independence by sharing its resources and the documentation with the rest of the participants.

I will write no more.

Please feel provoked.

To difference.

Moy

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From: Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:33 PM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

sakolk pronam.inregi likhte na para ebong banan bhul marjoniyo.dekhte dekhte KIPAF 2016 ese gelo.Tabe akhono porjonto KIPAF 2015 er video documentation process complete kora jaini.ami jatodur jani ta complete kora jaini fund na thakai.karon 4-5 ti Camerai tola HD footage edit kora kono home set-up a sambhom noi. na amar set-up a sambhab na Anirbanda mac'er laptop a sambhab.amra kichu studio er sathe kotha bole r amader edit er parisromik dhore akta budget toiri korechilam.jeta nia Anirban da akhono douradouri korche ami jatadur jani, IFA, Embassy ebong aro anek individual er kache.kolkata teo aki chesta kora hoache.kintu gorib bangalir deshe se orthe keu egia aseni.kom kore holeo akta khorch kortei hobe,free te hobe na eta bojha geche. R anirban da samparke jani na kintu parisromik chara amar pokkhe kaaj(edit) kora j khub asubidha seta ami jania chilam.takhon bolao hoachilo j akjon performer'k kichu provide kora hoaccche na toa video er khetre ki kore seta provide kora jabe.kintu durbhagyo bosoto editing jodi kono art hoi tahole seti amar pesaa. toa sei nia akchot jhamela hoachilo.jhamela jhagra ei sab er modhye sudhu KIPAF 2015 er aktao video akhono toiri holo na, karon se video toirir jonyo j fund dorkar seta PI er kache nei. ei sab khetre IFA ebong aro anek organisation jara fund dei tader naam eseche bar bar. tachara PI jodi IFA ba onyo kono organisation er kache taka chaite pare ja 2015 teo chaoa hoachilo ekti seminar organize korar jonyo, tahole Banglanatok ba chyangranatok ba hanglanatok ba natokionatok ba onyonatok noi keno?jekhane ami jatodur jani kono sarto charai sei taka deoar prostab eseche. er ageo eder sathe akta meeting hoachilo.kara gechilo seta mone nei. Banglanatok nia eto natoker ki kono dorkar ache? k jane? protibar taka poisar hebby tanatani jai, seta nia bhabte bhbate onek kichui kora hoi na mon dia.sekhane takar jaigata motamuti secure kora gele khoti ki? ontoto sakoler thakar akta byabosta kora jabe jekhan raata maal kheye chellale porer din sokale ber kore debe na.tabe ei fund ta pele etuku assure kora jai je next year KIPAF 2016'er video gulo hobe.je bhabe saraprithibir onyo festival'a performer akta tader kaaj er documentation deoa jai setao deoa jabe.

amar kache akhono Banglanatok.com not a bad option.tabe aro kaek mash baki ache, dekha jak na ki hoi?PI er ak senior er sathei kaekdin aggey kotha hoacchilo "Chere debo" r ei personal kochkochani bhalo lagche na.tabo majhe modhei eta akhono mathai ase.tabe regular activity'r sathe achi. Shiter graffiti fail hoai akta production house bhenge gache etuku information ami dete pari.KIPAF successfully korte parar jonyoi mone hoi PI collective akhono ache.Seta'k Khata PIkhana na banaleo cholbe...PIkhana naam ta sarthok korar prochesta na korle noi ki?

ITI korlam

ULLAS

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From: manas acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:23 AM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>
Dear friends,
I am writing this mail in response to the emails I received from of you guys, as an extended individual in the circle of PI(Performers Indipendent) I really feel proud to see myself as a part of PI though my association with the venture PI initiated last three years is so small that I am quite hesitant to respond in context of the strategic position of PI.
As a small contributor in the movement of Contemporary Art in Kolkata, I really appreciate the project
PI has been initiated through its annual event named as KIPAF(Kolkata International Performance Art Festival) from the year 2013.
I don't know how much you know about the history of performance art practices in kolkata not as an
alternative form of Art but a continuation of a history of art practices.Though the national journal mis-interpreted this practices through the lens of the incapable columnists, still individual artists continued their art practice because they know that performance artists cannot satisfy the art media.
As an practicing interdisciplinary artist and a (LOCAL)curator, I always keep myself as free as possible to accept any kind of creative entrepreneurship which enhanced the contemporary practices of the city.
In context of that we some of the young pass out and practicing artists initiated Shunyosthan Artists Collective, in the year of 2009 to overcome the depressing art situation in kolkata and found the platform STUDIO 21 as our (Young Artists) space.I think It was the seed of some of the most influential art practices in kolkata last few years in terms of what we called new media or other art practices than mainstream.I think major numbers of PI members were part of that project.
Since September 2008 , I have been engaged in shaping STUDIO21 as a multi-disciplinary art space, an initiative of CIMA Gallery, Kolkata . STUDIO21 is one of India’s galleries, focused on presenting critically engaged visual and media art, which is locally significant and internationally relevant. Studio 21 continues to support other communities and act as an inspiration to younger artists around the city through its multidisciplinary activities.
So as a curator/coordinator of a corporate run multi-disciplinary art space and in other hand an initiator of an artists collective, I always tried to focus on the issue which is related to new art practices and tried to overcome the complexity of Institution.As a person I am so much institutional and always kept in mind that I cannot be an anti-institutional/ anti-establishment.The term historically carried by intellectuals but to ignore it and continue the activism as an artist using possible institution!From that point of view I keep my position open and make the space for any kind of new approaches within my limitations.From that point of view I associated STUDIO 21 with the initiative PI has been taken.
Here I think PI had a tricky position to accept or use the institution like this, coz it is still a corporate platform, where as far as I know that the PI manifesto is more towards anti corporate or anti capital.
Some of the mail response provoke me to write and talk a little bit more about the movement of PI initiated. Its sounds like politburos member of the communist party talking about the ground reality from their happy air-conditioning room.As all of our kolkata based artists/non artits friends know how non PI members also took part to raise funds, arranged logistics, and run the Festival.Some time it seems to me that its becoming the festival of art community of the city, and I feel proud to see that a movement getting ownership instead of a group of sheer individual to a larger community.Here is the power of a proper movement.
I think historically this is first time a larger artists/non artist community is united to hold a major international art festival in the city.As who know my activities, know that I am also related with a major folk music festival in the city called Baul-Fakir Festival which take place every year in the 1st week of January also feel proud to see that how a festival become a community festival after 10 years without taking any corporate fund with its different conditioning and its still surviving without any particular body of members!Its becoming more the artists own interests to come in the festival and make it success every year. I think KIPAF also growing in its own way where artists community in the field of performance art fulfilling the festival by taking interest to come and join and explore the possibility of solidarity. So KIPAF becoming a major art event in the city which now need to continue this spirit without any personal/ institutional
ownership but to acknowledges the power of partnership with other institution and make it a pride of the city.
Here I am coming to the point of taking fund from the organization called banglanatak dot com.I think most of us didn't follow the website what they do.So most of the cases it pronounced “Bangla Natok”..Banglanatok..etc.As a consultant of this organisation in last ten years I know banglanatak which called themselves as a social enterprise is taking up a new venture from this year in the field of contemporary art practice to provide platform for young entrepreneurs and art collectives. In its first meeting they invited lots of young artists and art collectives from the city including PI and promised to initiate their venture (not only PI) by providing infrastructural, logistical, economical support through their venture “ Creating opportunities for the youth”. Funding KIPAF is more strenthening PI initiative rather than to hijack the movement as it also funding some other proposition as well. So funding KIPAF is a very small part of its broder
vision. Here my part is coming to connect all the possible initiatives of the city in the field of contemporary art as I am trying last ten years.
ARTROOM is the name of the project which actually giving the shape of this initiative.If you want to know more about the project I will share it with you but I don’t think its important to you instead of its funding structure.
ARTROOM is more for the young contemporary practices of the city to reaching out to global position rather a funding agency only, first time in kolkata as you know its difficult to find such a platform other than galleries so its got good response already from other art communities as everybody feels that this is the time of inter-dependency.
Thats all for now! Dont think that I am participating in the debate which is continuing in this email thread rather I want to clear up some confusion and make me clear to all of you.
JOY GURU
Manas Acharya

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On Tue, 4/8/15, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: KIPAF2016 first draft proposal To: "Shrimoy roy chaudhury" <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bhaskar Hazarika" <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, "Amitava Adhikari" <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, "Kedar Vishwanathan" <kedarvish@gmail.com>, "Moushumi Bhowmik" <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "rituparna banerjee" <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, "sukanto debnath" <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, "Manas Acharya" <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, "Tapati Chowdhury" <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, "Ayanava Sanyal" <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, "Trayajit Dutta" <trayajit@gmail.com>, "madhuja_m" <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, "Goutam Ghosh" <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, "Sukanta Majumdar" <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, "Syed Riaz" <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, "Prakriti dutta mukherjee" <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, "Sajan Mani" <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, "sambaran das" <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, "martijn de rooij" <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, "AOPALA AOPALA" <aopala94@gmail.com>, "Susmita Das" <susmita1002@gmail.com>, "ROHAN DEWANJEA" <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>,
"Santhosh Sakhinala" <santusakhi@gmail.com>, "sumantro mukherjee" <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, "Rahul Bhattacharya" <evilareve@gmail.com>, "samudra kajal saikia" <kankhowa@gmail.com>, "Suman Mondal" <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, "Arne Gollasch" <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, "Anirban Datta" <amnesian@gmail.com>, "Sanchayan Ghosh" <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, "Sajad H Hamdani" <artistscommune@gmail.com>, "chirantan mukhopadhya" <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, "Monica Nanjunda" <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, "Suman Majumder" <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, "Uma Banerjee" <khukiratri12@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 4 August, 2015, 11:33 PM

Dear friends,I want to add few more personal

best,love and solidarity, Bhaskar

----------------a change is
just around the corner
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015
at 4:40 PM, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
wrote:
Pi
presents
KIPAF2016
associates: ART ROOM ( fund,office
space and other logistical support)
                  CHNADER HAAT
(residency and indoor venue)
                  STUDIO 21 (indoor
venue for presentations)
                  ABRACADABRA
(voluntary support)
curatorial note
team: sreemoy,rahul,tapati,santosh,amitava,martin
   assistant in charge: aopalablog maintain &
online communication with artists:
taufik,rahul,manas
     assistant in charge:
aopala,mozo
camera: still photos:
taxi,manas,rahul,rohon,mozo,augustine
     assistant in
charge: susmita,rituparna,anirban(sarkar) video:
anirban(tubai),ankur,troyo,samudra,taufik
      assistant in
charge:  uma
publicity
design: sumantra(sunny),taufik,manas
   assistant in charge: chimuk,anirban(sarkar),sreyatechnical team(sorry for this
rather vague term,i hope u get what i
mean): manas,sukanta,taxi,ankur
      assistant in charge: su-man,prakriti,chimuknarrators: rollie
mukherjee,suresh samuha,vijay sekhon,akhilesh
arya,sreemoy,madhuja,santosh,rahul
     assistant in
charge: ayanava,aopalaout of the town team: sajan,monika,bhaskar,bhisaji,arne,wiebki,shaon,palash,kedar,beatrice,pavitra,rhine,martin,manmeet,rupan,dorothea,irene,sukanto(naru)team on
ground: teamA:
uma,aopala,rituparna,amitava,tapati,taufik
  teamB:
mozo,rupan,chimuk,su-man,troyo,sunnyproximity/involvement
design: taufik
      assistant in
charge:umamoney
matters: tapati,taufik
   assistant in charge:umaobservers: amitava,goutam,sanchayan,mousumideadlines: Open call
online introducing curatorial note 15 August
2015. call Closes 30 September 2015.the following artists
and groups have already expressed their desire to come to
KIPAF 2016:
Lolo y Lauti, live art
duo(argentina)József Bíró(hungary)Meherun Sumi(amago bangladaysh)Daniela
Beltrani(singapur)Chelsea Coon(usa)Isabel León(spain)SU-EN(sweden)FAKI team(zagreb,croatia)Michaela Nocker(berlin/austria)Cengiz Özek Shadow

mates.out of town members
should plan and buy travel tickets in advance.inland sleeper class
up-down train fares,i think,can be
provided from the buget for Pi members,but please don't
anybody promise any artist or guest any travel
fund.KIPAF holds the same position
regarding provisions,logistics and related
matters.the
rough budget. FOOD

  30,000 IN CITY
CONVEYANCE 20,000
VOLUNTEERS
  30,000
PERFORMANCE MATERIAL 20,000 PRINT
ETC.
  10,000
DOCUMENTATION 20,000
MISCELLANEOUS 20,000 TOTAL
   1,50,000
INR.
please give all your feedbacks.and
please come up to take responsibilities.you all know how KIPAF is done.this coming edition will be
on the same lines of the Kolkata
streets,of loitering,of sitting tired on the pavements,of
smoking the traffic-light joint,of art,of revolution,of
nonsense,of all the ghosts of life,of the city,the river,the
sundarbans,the cyclones,the killings,the suicides,the rapes.of body."shorir shorir tomar mon nai
kusum?"[almost untranslatable gem from Manik
Banerjee's bangla novel Putul-nacher
Itikawtha,loosely:"this body!you don't have a
soul,dear?"]this much for
now.keeping in touch.waiting for your
initiative...love and solidaritytaufikp.s.always forgetting

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From: Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:43 AM
To: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Just few observations....

Good to know that I have been placed as an observer.So few viewpoints as an outsider.

It is also good to read that there is a growing concern about the historicity of performance art, the notion of alternative and the articulation of the seriousness of the practice within Pi. It is great that KIPAF is drawing interest from Funders and I agree with santhosh regarding the challenge in maintaining the space initiated by KIPAF.

Now regarding the notion of a festival I have always felt that to generate a discourse one need to have a more concrete programme than just hosting performances.Festivals are good for generating public visibility. But If performance art has to emerge as an alternative, there has to be a process that would differentiate between entertainment and engagement. Lets not develop a generative form in the process of trying to make some thing popular .KIPAF do not need to become every bodies festival like the other festivals that has been referred. Let people decide what they want to see and experience, for that it should retain its identity and difference. KIPAF needs to underline that it is not a music festival nor a theater festival(I was surprised to hear how some of the friends of KIPAF looks at the practice of Taufik and PI as theater performance)
I have no problem with funding as long as it helps one to retain its entity and difference( but I have not yet encountered any such agency who has no expectation).

A proper orientation process also needs to be initiated about the city and the locations.The city also needs to be initiated. May be a journey of posturing on the site prior to the festival weeks before can play a role( using the ploy of the advertising methodology but transgressing it).

Lets not try to make or follow history but be in the present. Just an outside thought. may be its sometimes critical to think how to generate fund than just to receive it. But I am totally an outsider may be also seating in an AC.

Best wishes to you all.

SANCHAYAN GHOSH

Associate Professor

Department of Painting

Kala Bhavana(Institute of Fine Arts)

Visva Bharati University

Santniketan 731235

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com> wrote:

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From: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:06 AM
To: Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>
Cc: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Thanks Sanchayan da for your insights.

Manas, you are very much part of the debate, and that very timely metaphor of Alimuddin provokes me to think through the differences. But you know what the problem is: When you say that a particular organization is more in the league of socially motivated ones, you are not saying anything new about it--because corporate social responsibility is about circulating the surplus with an aim to create a model society. You treat the social as outside the political, whereas, the way I understand it, the social is where the political is being fought out, negotiated, and conjured. Hence, what is good art and what is bad art cannot be outside the purview of this socially motivated capital. I am ready to go for any kind of funding as long as I am not blind to its implications, and am in a position to place my pawns accordingly. The question for us is: what is at stake? What do we have to pawn in order to do that?

One way of getting around the problem is to explore the field of practice-the processes through which envision the project to take off. I have been insisting on relinquishing a top down order and more in the order of a "Claiming the stake" or "staking the claim" to funding because, echoing Sanchayan da, I want to retain the possibility of generating funding that Pi, supported by Sunny's initiative, has got going street graffiti. This is a very exciting moment which we should not let go of. I think one of way of doing this is if each of us decided how we wanted to participate as collectives, and claimed our stake in the funding as well as staked our claim in the funding. Pi is an abstraction as far as I am concerned. It is for us to represent that collectivity as embodied collectives through our respective associations with art work. For instance, if I were to do something on writing, I would like to partner with Santhosh. This is not to say that based on work I would not like to be part of some other collective. But each collective has to give a budget and a brief summary of what they plan to do with their part of the claim. This process will make the retrospective act of editing easier.It will also ensure that Pi's contribution to the KIPAF is not just as an organizer but as an enabler of the possibilities that are spread out in the form of networks.

I hope, wherever we are, in an AC room in a high rise, or an AC equipped ATM, we shall get working. One way of flagging it off could be by asking in what positions we would like to contribute, and what would be the profile of the collective with which we would like to work. Once that is done each of us can work on the proposals. A broad theme can be generated from those proposals itself. It would be best if each of the collectives could generate some funding to support the accommodation and other expenses. That way whatever has been offered by Bangla Natok can be retained for the art.

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From: Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:52 PM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Happy to see shooting ideas!!

I agree with what Sanchayan da suggests, and the Shrimoy da's idea of generating funds for Pi and KIPAF.

Lets us say we do not have funds for KIPAF-16 and like every year we start collecting and generating funds with the processes and activities that we do. And lets see banglanatok is interested to contribute (and not fund the festival) some amount of money to that fund raising that we do, like 10 rupees someone contributes when we do street painting or like our friends sends a 500 or a 1000 or more. banglanatak is contributing an amount which is bigger but a gesture, we can choose to see, not different from a stranger's 10 rs or a friends 100rs. And we can go on with our fund raising activities that configured the energies and imaginations leading to the festival. We cannot, I think, abandon those activities if a 'generous' cultural institution (for whatever reasons) is willing to contribute a major amount of fund.

Now the question is how to frame/perceive it as "contribution" and not "funding". Because is proposed/appointed as the curator of the Artroom of which KIPAF-16 is going to assume a part. We need to think about how we can carve out its space, and what are the terms that banglanatak is basing itself in relation to KIPAF-16.

Warmth

Santhosh

santhosh sakhinala

9959561430

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From: Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:56 PM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Because Taufik is proposed/appointed as the curator of the Artroom of which KIPAF-16 is going to assume a part.

(Taufik was missing in the last response ;)

santhosh sakhinala

9959561430

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From: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:10 PM
To: santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>
Cc: Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

Pi to Pi,
Thanks to Sanchayanda for your valuable insights....
And Shrimoy for the ideological clarity....
And Santhosh for the broader perspective....
And Manas for your details about the banglanatak's position and clarification about your dual or multiple positions..
Now the discussion seems quite healthy ....
I feel something great is going to come out all the upcoming cooperation s....
But I feel an absence of the younger minds in the ongoing discussions...
Please young minds feel free to put your valuable opinions...
And that is very much necessary...
Love and solidarity..
Amitava

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From: Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:58 AM
To: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>
Cc: santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

Dear all of you,

sorry i'm not able to follow all discussions and be part of it.

To be honest actually i have to manage al

ready so many things about organizating, collaborating, curating, finding finances for all of that that i have no energy for something more.

Also it's difficult for me from so far to follow properly and i don't want to interfer also in some country where i like to come, to be, to do encounterings etc... but where i don't stay enough time to be part of all of these discussions. I need to be physically in a space to be able to react properly.

Also at moment i have to take care more about my body. So all of that means that i can't be part of all discussions.

I hope you'll understand.

I really wish all of you will go together to continue research, exchanges, collaborations, encounterings,...

It's really nice to see that Performance Art can bring some artists together in India. I'm so happy to see that even if i'm not there with you.

With warm thoughts, love and best wishes

bea

Béatrice Didier

beavanakkam@gmail.com
http://beadidier.blogspot.com/
skype: bea.didier

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From: chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 3:40 PM
To: Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>

tuPi

9285 CHARACTER FROM 2013 TO 2015

It would be better to start on a different note. This writing is more about what we got in previous years – the way we came together and started building a space which later came to be known and noted as Pi (not PI). This is where we started believing that it might be a space where we can encourage the performance / new activity, sharing notes – group study and as well as complete freedom of working and dialoging at an individual level independently. Having been an active member for the last 3 years I am surely a living evidence of so many days and nights with my team with this core trust. Moreover, initiating and maintaining the blog itself makes me eligible to know how consciously we were making our impression on the practice and ground so different way….

What is KIPAF ?? It is not just a annual program. For me it is rather the belief that it is an extension of our other regular group activity. May be it has few more memories with broader friend circles & glimpses of all those memory are actually very close to me. Frankly all these past memories push me to come and revisit the practice time and again.’ Some January never came back, some moments built by their own spirit of life ....’

Some questions arise and it’s good actually but I don’t think it is either hard to reply or to sort. Think all we need to do is just go back and look through our own manifesto for festival or group idea; otherwise one more option still open is we can declare that past is past, now new way new style new rules ….

Answering is not a big deal; rather more crucial for me is the question because as individual and as a part of collective family I always felt KIPAF is not an event where we just produce work or to attempt to create some product; rather we were so happy with our stand that KIPAF tries to provoke everybody towards the nano moment and the endless journey where there was no hurry whatever signal is in front of us.....we are happy with our Rhythm—so called slow and mundane ....a rhythm which creates a mood by its own way – and this is the way we are supposed to see our festival. Yes it is our festival....it’s like sharing , sharing the life - without making any difference without hampering anything ....food space love and solidarity . Past was exciting and active with variety ... but now i don't know!

.... if you ask me if I have any problem with the space or so called venue for KIPAF16, I will say no and yes at the same time. No , because as a collective we know we have strong possibilities where we can join and contribute our ideas and our labor in some way or other with all that spaces apart from KIPAF ; & yes I’ve issue because being one of the hosts and active ‘insiders’, it’s my and our basic rights to question where we can meet, which place we would like to share with long and close friends…. & It may sound funny but for me these four days is like celebrating daughter’s birth anniversary—celebrating life itself…so

I expect more active space in these festival’s days. Since last KIPAF trend has been to avoid the white cube space which allows us to explore new space, I am in fever of that.

I think we should stick to this mode as it is more in harmony with KIPAF’s core belief and our stand!!! So basically I am not feeling ok with the declared KIPAF16 venue.

It’s seems like we are concentrating only on those 4 days as event and don’t want any hurdle or problem in between that whereas earlier we loved to face these hurdles, with the expectation of a big bumper that we would share with smile in our practice. We never claim - we never expect neither from our side nor from inviting artist that they have to do something. Now the agenda seems to be to establish that it is an official event in larger festival community map.

Now, I can see that it is turning out to be just an another public art project.

Now I am coming to another point about supporting KIPAF. Look this is not actually at all problematic. From the very first year we are very open to accept all kind of donation from all units. We try to spread the idea that KIPAF doesn’t depend on one solid source of patronage whereby now we can feel little relaxed in term of funding and resources…I also believe that supporting KIPAF is not supporting jhalak dikh laja or some daily entertainment tv shows or some paid concert or some closed door monopoly event. So if anyone want support us, we also can ask and aware the source of their interest. So I expect that basic support comes as participation with philosophy of KIPAF and not in the form of funding.

I’m also trying to make a relation, from where the fund comes and what condition. Sharing a festival and sharing previous memory with whom? In what proportion?? Example like this year we are inviting a socially motivated NGO (by the way are we inviting them or they inviting us, pardon this information I don’t have - some ‘local’ missing link, pardon), if I consider we invite them then I think we can wait for at least one or two years more like this kind of sharing. May be after two years KIPAF reach in some other level where itself so many more option will open without pushing anything. But still if Any NGO are interested to join with us, we should respect their interest & we can suggest that they can help us to do prepare a library of our past work, some editing support , some book and catalogue publishing to make a more systematic archive - so one hand they will know how we worked in past and we also know how they work in present , then I think the question of future comes. Whoever it is one thing they have to understand that more a festival KIPAF is an idea where we learn and share how to balance & arranging elements of daily life and its crisis.

Now I come to my involvement, it was 2013 when some of us initiated this festival from a common idea that we want interaction and meeting at least once in a year. As long as I remember physically I am here with my team from 2011 end & in almost every group meet and joint activity I am there with my friend – so normally it is a number of year . But all of a sudden realized how I am so wrong especially the way I think what KIPAF is, I am so upset from inside and already start believing everything like a lesson that may be this is the way how all close bonding supposed to be expand. Yup, It is a lesson actually - one day suddenly somewhere from the air a decision was taken and that’s seems like the final. I am feeling like a losing that last 3years I was so proud to state that whatever is my practice, whatever my position for negotiating with other institution - KIPAF is always different from that, it is so separate from our individual choices & also I never associate myself any kind of financial benefit term with KIPAF , so my position is till now the same.

Yes I am also aware about few more other initiatives was taken like art room & some other co initiative and I have no problem with all that actually. I am happy and gladly welcoming. It is also may be helpful for us to generating some new work further. But when KIPAF is now in its 4^th year and it has its own body of work so why don’t we wait at least some time and then all that organization can come and associate with us with their own possibilities. It doesn’t mean I am saying shut the possible dialog, all I am trying to say that ‘they’ (all other than pi) can continue their own involvement and we will also in touch with them so the connection and association will come up organically, I think that will be nice option.

In other side I also saw some appointed role for coming year festival, as per as my position i am not comfortable with these thing because as I know this festival is so open for all. Any one come and participates by their own choice so we never tried at least earlier before to put any strict job like that. Off course we from inside decide our own role as per our like and practice like I as a practitioner like to contribute work in graphic design and performance so my involvement comes from that space, so next year as well I will do design and work like my own way keep the curatorial note in mind. I just want clarify that I will do because I love to do that neither cause anyone assigned for me nor I am waiting / wanting any such fund for my voluntary time and presence (though its looks very absurd this is first time I’m using this word voluntary with our festival KIPAF , friends this is our ,, we feel-we love ….. ).

Like to share, personally I am planning to apply for some sort of support and grant so if I get I will make a photo-book along with short description of works. It will be an individual contribution to collective material sharing.

my love and my recent past memory.

chimuk

*p.s - I am also like to say so sorry very personal level to few of my team mates especially to very close friend of mine uma, what she did last year it was just outstanding, all that day and night she repetitively sharing the idea what KIPAF is and collecting donation from hand to hand but now it is just meaningless, again I am so sorry & uma I am so proud to be your friend. Anyway, so now we are a part of big unit where festival is funded from one single source majorly rather inviting multiple share holders. cheers!

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From: Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:49 PM
To: chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>
Cc: Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

amar sokol pi bandhura,2015 er kipaf er funding korte giye amar oviggotar kotha bolte chai. jekhane,keu keu emon bolechilo j se somay street art mood e patta dite parini..akjon bollo ami j taka dite chai ta akhan nei,ki vabe jogajog kora jaye?r akjon,please amra apnake taka debo tobe ai vabe rastay kaj dekhe na ashun office e ashun.. r akjoner dabi,apnara toh kipaf er jonno taka tulte chaichen ta kipaf er somay debo taka... se muhurto gulote ami uthsaho niye beshi kotha egote parini karon amar lokkho chilo kipaf ashche ta janano,kipaf ki ta bola,taka tola..sottie ami eder gurotto dite parini.

akhan mone hoye tader kach thekeo hoyeto taka payoa jeto ba akhano payoa jabe.. tara kara???

Ami jani na, tobe proshno hoche protek bochor je budget banano hoyeche funding er jnno sei sob funder r art room er modher farak ta ki?Jodio fund konodin o amra paini r ebochor art room nije fund niye eseche.

From the first year for funding we prepared various events like coupon making, children's art exhibition,street painting so for this year what is our plan?? please think fast.I can do street painting from now but in kolkata no Pi members present who are "free"

Kintu arekta dike lokho rakha uchit amar mne hoy, ekhon o porjonto sesher 3 yrs KIPAF e ektao Pi performance nei..seta amar mne hoi lack of workshop and apran chesta kre jaowa for funding..Ami performance korte chai

Sobai eksathe bosa dorkar....

Sokol er apekhai achi..

Regards,

Uma

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From: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:51 PM
To: Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>
Cc: chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

i hope every old frustrated souls gets their money and respect through their practice, failure and age makes human mad and desperate in anything , we know it..money and its distribution comes with a power trip among the"group"...

so all the best to all, i am nobody to comment on what PI should do, as i am not a "registered member" of Pi. i was not informed about the meeting among Pi members and Bangla Natok on last thursday. as i know there were Taufik, uma, apola and Bukan... because they are really important members of PI..

but i must say i am getting entertained by this debate related to money... yes "money" it is..

it showed me how a senior jobless film maker tries to bargain for the footage of PI documentation for money,

it showed me how people gets insecure when Taufik and manas finds the source of funding from some agencies in kolkata...

it shows a complete mistrust inside a group for "money"

all the best to my fellow and "senior" artists.. fight on..fight for money...

and on loast note: yes businessmen also says it for better deal "aajao yaar baithke baatei karen" but the fight before negotiation is more interesting

LOL!!!!! thanks it was really colorful experience to be with you all for last two years.. :)

mojo

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From: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:01 PM
To: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>
Cc: Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

Thank you Uma for the email--it shows the sensitiveness that you are known for.

Notwithstanding Mozo's poor sense of sarcasm and his vitriolic outburst against a fellow film maker (this has become a regular feature-it does not depend on the occasion. I think he should try writing a serious script out of his angst instead of making every public platform an occasion for being vocal), it does betray some of our members' inability to see the issue beyond the question of money. The issue of funding has triggered off a debate on the procedural functioning of Pi in relation to KIPAF. After all this issue is but a procedural one. I have been insisting on coming up with a functional format for members of Pi to participate--every one cannot work with the other; we need to create, for functional reasons, imagined working communities by leaving each of us to create one. For those who are getting restless, let me tell you that it is better to be self questioning than accept the status and life of an organization as given.

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From: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:18 AM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

dear friends,

what was the topic of argument initially? please, be there... otherwise the debate remains no more a debate... and I am (among the 'we') participating in this debate just for the sake of the particular situational condition of Pi and Kipaf at this moment,.. sorry to say, can we expect little more particular things to discuss?... otherwise, please...

regards,

Bhaskar

Bhaskar Hazarika, Research fellow, Dept. of Painting, Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, WB-731235

Mobile: 09800849639

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From: Aopala <aopala94@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:20 AM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, "taxiduomail@gmail.com" <taxiduomail@gmail.com>
Hello everyone.

Last Thursday few of us on behalf of Performers Independent had been present at the meeting where the initiative taken by Art Room was put forward.Apart from us,there were many other art collectives mostly from kolkata,who were also present.The initiative taken by art room primarily looks forward for a regular space and generous atmosphere for Alternative Art Practices,where Artists find a way to know and work with each other.

It is here to be said that the Art Room looks forward to support individual artists as well as art collectives,through the fund that they receive from Bangla Natok .Com. and for sure looking forward to other mutual spaces where artists can work.So my dear Pi mates,as it has been before said that Art Room will help contribute to Kipaf,and to all other creepy creatures who are somewhere peeping out with shining eyes only to know each other and hence make a bigger...bigger space to work.And never to forget

"Ring- a ring -a roses,

A pocket full of posies

Ashes! ashes!

We all fall down"

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From: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM
To: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, santhosh sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

Thanks Bhaskar.

My query:

Given the fact that Kipaf organized by Pi is contemplating on entering a new sphere of sociality supported by ArtRoom/Banglanatok funding, how do we see the respective roles of those who constitute Pi (registered or otherwise)? Will there be an option to create working collectives from amongst ourselves, or should we be depending on a "top down" order to organize ourselves both in relation to the work, the materials, the funding, and the final cuts?

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From: Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM
To: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>
Cc: Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

Well,

As there is the first 'public meeting' scheduled centering KIPAF-16 as the focus of discussion, I would like to reiterate few points that we have been engaged in.

None of the members associated with pi disagrees (at least that is what reflects in these conversations) about collaborating with banglanatok.com. But there are questions raised, positively, about the nature of that collaboration considering the way in which KIPAF has come to configure. The way funds had been put together through the gestures of collective participation which, reflected and simultaneously composed our ideological framework(s) of work, alternative-ness and also relations (new and old) that we have nurtured and spoiled. We claimed, with a sense of pride and romanticism, that our collective ways of doing "alternative" art practice is based on certain everydayness of experiencing living and further opening/intervening into spaces that would question the institutionalization of culture, art, and politics. This claim occupied an important space in the curatorial notes that we have formulated for past KIPAFs. This also provided the strength to our voice to say that we cannot provide travel and other expenses and also gave meaning to the 'discomfort' that all the participant collectives went through during KIPAFs.

So, now, in this new situation of banglanatok.com extending its fund, how is it going to effect, alter and reconfigure our position? We need to discuss this.

Like any funding organisation, banglanatok.com is equally patronizing with its expectations. A patron not only gives money but would want us to work in a way that suits their purpose. The expectations in this case may be different and not evident. I don't know. Banglanatok.com might be generous enough to not expect anything from this collaboration. But I have a fundamental problem with the term "alternative". banglanatok.com in a way is creating a space that would informally institutionalise the "alternative art practices" that are disparately spread out in the city Kolkata. As I see at least in india now, there are different kinds of work/art that people do as Alternative Art Practice. It is good actually. There is not one way of doing alternative art but it also creates a paradoxical situation where anything that is not conventional an expression (like painting, sculpture, print, now installation) automatically becomes alternative. Performance Art suffers from this misunderstanding. So, what is this space (Art Room) where all the artists and collectives that do alternative practices? What does this effort to institutionalise alternative mean? And "alternative" has already been under institutionalisation efforts from quite sometime for various reasons. In this situation how do we understand our practice and relate to the larger institutional processes? To come to the basic question that how do we understand "alternative" in relation to our practice before collaborating with any space/institution that helps alternative art practices. What is our discourse of practice that we can see and articulate to ourselves in the work that we have done till now.

Again, I am not saying that we should not collaborate with banglanatok.com. In fact we should collaborate and take the challenges it would pose.

Another thing is curatorial note. What are points and positions that would base our curatorial note this time? How are we going to articulate our collaboration with banglanatok.com in it?

santhosh sakhinala

9959561430

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From: Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:46 PM
To: Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>
Cc: Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmuk.postbox90@gmail.com>, Beatrice Didier <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com

i am truly apologetic for my previous mail..i shouldn't have comment like that.

pardon

mojo

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From: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:32 PM
To: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

we are ready to give the open call.check out the attached letter drafted by santosh,amitava and taufik.

Pi working on renewal and new committee.also discussing on KIPAF2016 and other issues.

22nd,23rd,24th we are working with FTII students in kolkata.

one important point to remind:please take care to discuss beforehand with people from the place before calling a meeting somewhere,(especially when the caller is not staying in that place).

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com> wrote:

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From: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:44 PM
To: Syed Riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Dear Taufik,

To begin with i will like to say that there is no problem with bangle natak coming on board on kipaf and being one of our supporting agencies.

However for even the best plans to work 3 things are important

1.       Trust
2.       Proper communication
3.       Timing

You have come to a position where you have lost trust in the eyes of many people, speaking for myself few things come to mind.

·         I had very clearly communicated to you (chi was witness) that there was a commitment made to zoonie about paying her travel tickets. Pi not having anymoney is not the point, ultimately i paid her , but you writing in a public forum that you were not informed is a backstabbing and a lie.
·         You told me that Anrban was causing a lot of problems being involved with one of our women members who is also in a relationship with another member. Later what came to light was that you too are in a emotional relationship relationship with her and you were manipulating circumstances from that point too.
·         For some reason you have not sent the money raised for the Nepal earh quake – without communicating with anyone what we are waiting for.
·         Also in the structure you propose there is a sever conflict of interest. If you are entering kipaf as curator of art room then you have to forsake you Pi reperesentation. That is clear and the legal way to do.

When the last kipaf meeting had decided that the next kipaf will follow a workshop based mode, explore possibility of moving away from Kolkata and that no reponsibity will be assigened instead there will be an open call for organisational responsibility. How was it suddenly bypassed, there was no communication from you regarding the same and the very top down model we had decided gainst following was put up by you, a closed structure with preassigened roles. As someone taking a leadership position you should be a better communicator.

Also before last kipaf i had said manas is one person who is not a member of Pi but is close to our practice, we should get him as a part of the kipaf team, that time you had objected, also cited mana’s misbehaviour with some of our female friends and argued that he cannot be a part. Now apart of benifiting you by helping you to get a job, what has changed tafik in terms of manas. I am the first person who wants manas in the kipaf team, but after apola’s performance (which i later herad you tried to censor), we need to have a undersnading na?

About staying at chander haat too, lat year i was pushing for it, but you objected and cited many philosophical and logistic reasons...again i think we desrve to know what has changed.

In the matters of timing you seem to be in a hurry, what is the hurry please explain. When you know that we are going to meet (you always knew that kipaf meeting wikl happen in july-august you still rushed to finalise without consultaion.

The concept note just sent by mail is not acceptable, because that is not how we work. We first have to approve of your very bad scheduling of kipaf, or porpose sites of the festival and only then a concept note can be writte.

Dear all-

I just cannot undersand how 1.5 lac rupees is being treated a sfull and final and not as a point of initiation .this year (for kipaf 16) ifa will possibly give pro Helvetica and someothers will give us support which is much more than what banga natak can offer. - why will bangle natak occypy a zone of central importance i don’t know.

Moreover kipaf is a successful event and art room has just stared, is art room capable of guiding kipaf? What is the working difference between kiapf and art room/

Also in the proper way, bangle natak should write us a proposal a formal letter. Till now there is nothing from there side.

Dear amitabho,

Yes i promise you that i will use all my experience to work towards kipaf not loosing track track and Pi does not loosing focus.

Dear santosh , baba,

Concept note ta bhaloi, ektu nijeder modeyer concept clear kori, 19^th meeting er pore feedback pathachi.

Best

Rahul

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rahul bhattacharya

Curator-

Writer

- Educator

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a change is just around the corner
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Cc: Amitava Adhikari <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>,
AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>,
Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>,
Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>,
sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>,
Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>,
Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>,
Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>,
rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>,
sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>,
Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>,
Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>,
Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>,
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From: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:28 PM
To: syed riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: aliamitabha <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>, AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>, Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>, Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>, Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>, Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>, martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com, Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>, Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>, rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>, sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>, Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>, Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>, Prakriti dutta mukherjee <prakriti.dm@gmail.com>, ROHAN DEWANJEA <rohandewanjea@gmail.com>

Some contonuations-
I do not think studio 21 is the best venue option, do we have other options?

What is the Utopian budget for KIPAF. There is some possibility of KIPAF 16 being able to raise 12 lacs rupees . if we can , I propose we appoint Taufik the directors post and give him annual salary. Let him orgasise seminars workshops, invite local and global curators, artists. We can even get 15 lacs. Right now the situation is not about bangla natok bringing in 1.5 lacs, but about many agencies wanting to give us funding.
Just khola none kotha bolle anek kichu shombhob

-----------------------------
rahul bhattacharya

Curator-
Writer
- Educator
----------------
a change is just around the corner
-----------------

Pi presents
KIPAF2016

ABRACADABRA (voluntary support)

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Subject: Re: KIPAF2016 first draft proposalFrom: Rahul Bhattacharya <evilareve@gmail.com>
To: syed riaz <syedtaufikriaz@gmail.com>
Cc: aliamitabha <aliamitabha@gmail.com>, Ankur Das <ankurdas.1985@gmail.com>,
AOPALA AOPALA <aopala94@gmail.com>, Anirban Datta <amnesian@gmail.com>,
Tapati Chowdhury <dolajhamela@gmail.com>, Suman Majumder <hergecalling@gmail.com>, chirantan mukhopadhya <cmukpostbox90@gmail.com>, Uma Banerjee <khukiratri12@gmail.com>,
Shrimoy roy chaudhury <sroychau@gmail.com>, sumantro mukherjee <sun_m25@rediffmail.com>,
Suman Mondal <sumanchobi@gmail.com>, Trayajit Dutta <trayajit@gmail.com>,
Ayanava Sanyal <nvsanyal@gmail.com>, Arne Gollasch <arnegollasch@gmx.net>,
martijn de rooij <derooij.martijn@gmail.com>, taxiduomail@gmail.com,
Santhosh Sakhinala <santusakhi@gmail.com>, madhuja_m <madhuja_m@yahoo.co.in>,
Goutam Ghosh <mrgoutamghosh@gmail.com>, Bhaskar Hazarika <hazarika.bhaskar@gmail.com>,
rituparna banerjee <banerjee.rituparna06@gmail.com>, samudra kajal saikia <kankhowa@gmail.com>,
sambaran das <sambaran.das@gmail.com>, Susmita Das <susmita1002@gmail.com>,
Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar77@gmail.com>, Sanchayan Ghosh <sanchayang2@gmail.com>,
Monica Nanjunda <monica.nanjunda@gmail.com>, Manas Acharya <sahajmanush@yahoo.com>,
Sajad H Hamdani <artistscommune@gmail.com>, Sajan Mani <sajan@kochimuzirisbiennale.org>, Moushumi Bhowmik <moushumibhowmik@gmail.com>, "Bea D." <beavanakkam@gmail.com>, sukanto debnath <sukantodebnath@yahoo.com>, Kedar Vishwanathan <kedarvish@gmail.com>,
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Some contonuations-
I do not think studio 21 is the best venue option, do we have other options?

What is the Utopian budget for KIPAF. There is some possibility of KIPAF 16
being able to raise 12 lacs rupees . if we can , I propose we appoint
Taufik the directors post and give him annual salary. Let him orgasise
seminars workshops, invite local and global curators, artists. We can even
get 15 lacs. Right now the situation is not about bangla natok bringing in
1.5 lacs, but about many agencies wanting to give us funding.
Just khola none kotha bolle anek kichu shombhob

-----------------------------
rahul bhattacharya

Curator-
Writer
- Educator
----------------
a change is just around the corner<http://theblackyellowarrow.blogspot.in/>
-----------------
*Pi *presents

*KIPAF2016 *
*associates: *ART ROOM ( fund,office space and other logistical support)
CHNADER HAAT (residency and indoor venue)
STUDIO 21 (indoor venue for presentations)
ABRACADABRA (voluntary support)*curatorial note team:* sreemoy,rahul,tapati,santosh,amitava,martin
*assistant in charge*: aopala
*blog maintain & online communication with artists: *taufik,rahul,manas
*assistant in charge*: aopala,mozo
*camera:* still photos: taxi,manas,rahul,rohon,mozo,augustine
*assistant in charge*
: susmita,rituparna,anirban(sarkar)
video: anirban(tubai),ankur,troyo,samudra,taufik
*assistant in charge*: uma
*publicity design:* sumantra(sunny),taufik,manas
*assistant in charge*
: chimuk,anirban(sarkar),sreya*technical team(sorry for this rather vague term,i hope u get what i mean):*

Performers independent

Sunday 23 August 2015

Monday 17 August 2015

Agenda for 19th general bodymeeting. on KIPAF

Contributors