With its literal invitation to ‘see,
hear and evolve’, Sensorium in its inaugural edition is looking at photography
at its intersection with literature, cinema and music. The genesis of the
festival, explains Creative Director, Prashant Panjiar, lies in the integration
of arts, literature and ideas. “The idea is to look at the arts, be it cinema
music, photography, theatre, literature and integrate them with an idea,” he
avers. The thought also stems from the fact that with photography being so
rampantly practised these days, the value of the physical image has diminished.
“For art to flourish these days people must experience it and that cannot
happen in a single dimension of space. Through the integration of ideas, the
photograph transcends being a mere image. It excites and evokes a new feeling
from within,” emphasises Panjiar, co-founder of the Delhi Photo Festival and
Nazar Foundation, who has served as photojournalist and editor in some of
India’s most reputed newspapers. Now as he continues as a consulting picture
editor and mentors younger photographers, he directs them to think ‘out-of-the-
box’.
Now in a first-of-its-kind festival,
‘Sensorium’, co-directed with Siddharth Shanghvi, writer and novelist, Panjiar, has brought
together an interesting mix of seasoned and young artistes to display their
understanding and work based on this integration of ideas. Some ideas have
evolved from their personal experiences like Sorabh Hura whose journal of
photographs and letters documents his coming to terms with his mother’s
prolonged illness; or more generic like filmmaker Sooni
Taraporevala’s journey from the idea to the visual in ‘Salaam Bombay’. The
festival has also invited author and poet Jeet Tahyil, writer William Dalrymple,
Director Ritesh Batra and Artist Jitish Kallat among others to share their
ideas and experiences.
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The seed of
the idea has only just commenced with Sensorium; one which Panjiar promises
will evolve with time.
(Sensorium
at Sunaparanta, Panjim opens on
December 6, 2014 and runs till February 6, 2015)
Macondo the world of Gabriel García
Márquez
Fausto Giaccone
A
photographer sets out to discover a mythical place immortalised in one of the
greatest novels of the 20th century
Jazz
Farrokh Chothia
A
‘rasik’ pays tribute to his favourite jazz musicians
From Screenplay to Screen Salaam Bombay!
Sooni Taraporevala
A
filmmaker-writer-photographer unveils the journey of idea to word to visual
Photo-poetry: Octavio Paz in India
Jesús Clavero-Rodríguez (curator) |
photographs by Subrata Biswas, Adil Hasan and Sudeep Sen | poems by Octavio Paz,
written when he was ambassador of México in india (1962-68).
Three
photographers attempt a free translation of a great poet’s works
Handmade Preferred
Regina Maria Anzenberger (curator)
A
gallerist discovers the joy of personalising visual narratives with handmade
books
Flesh
Gopika Chowfla
An
artist reconstructs the body through a multimedia installation
Anusha Yadav / The Indian Memory Project
A People’s History
A
curator makes the connection between oral and visual histories
Sohrab Hura
Life is elsewhere
A
journal of photos, letters and notes by the artist as he comes to terms with his
mother’s prolonged illness
Dayanita Singh
This
artist has imagined some pictures with titles of seminal literature. She has
played around with photographs so that each resembles a poster
