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Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and

At Lalit Kala Akademi

Galleries January 2011

dds: A Contemporary Response to Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and

Museums in India

Curated by ARSHIYA LOKHAN

ARSHIYA LOKHANDWALA

Amar Kanwar Atul Dodiya Archana Hande Bose Krishnamachari CAMP Dayanita Singh L.N.Tallur Mithu Sen Nikhil Chpora N.S. Harsha Pushpamala. N Raqas Media Collective Sharmila Samant Sheba Chhachi Sudarshan Shetty Subodh Gupta Surekha Tushar Joag Vivan Sundaram Vivek Vilasini

Participating Artist

Against All Odds is a survey exhibition of Indian contemporary art that examines the process of archiving, collecting and museums within an Indian context. The relationship between the artist and the museum has always been a special one. Artists have been invited to critique, imagine, construct their own museums, articulate the history of collecting, or draw on their own collections, to reflect on issues of identity, history, memory from both a personal and social standpoint. The exhibition also investigates the archive as structure of Information /knowledge within both, a historical and non- chronological framework that opposes the hierarchical and linearity of history, facilitating the production of new knowledge. Against All Odds could be viewed as a repository of critical responses, questions and dialogues that highlight the dynamic between the artist and his/her relationship with the museums and the production and collection of knowledge. Curated by:Arshiya Lokhandwala January 2011

Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and Museums in India

Untitled,

Wooden Cabinet , files,

chairs, fan, chains and

monitor

Subodh Gupta

Museum of Innocence (the Madras chapter) 19 silver gelatin prints, 2010

Dayanita Singh

Dead Letter Office, 2010/2011

Sheba Chhachhi

If One Were To Fall, Approx 16' x 8' x 6.5', 2010 14 metal racks, 2 computer systems with digital database of artist's personal archive, original documents from artist's personal archive dating back to 1956: books, slide-trays with over 3000 35mm slides, 103 File-boxes of catalogues, brochures, invitation cards, photographs, letters, scrap-books.

Vivan Sundaram

Between one Shore and Several Others: Housing Dreams Photographs on Hahnemuhle paper,30 Photographs 2011

Vivek Vilasini

Motherland: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Mixed media installatio, 2011

Pushpamala N

LaVA @Laboratory of Visual Arts@

Books, DVDs and Cds, 2007

Krishnamachari Bose

No Title 2011 (from "this too shall pass") Carved wood ,electro magnetic mechanism, steel sword, mild stee

Sudharshan shetty

The Annotated "Gujarat and the Sea" Exibition

CAMP

0 + 0 = 0 - 0 Wood , electric grinder, saw dust and wall text.

L. N Tallur

Choudhari Bari Archanadevi’s Chamber Mixed Media Installation 2007/2011

Archana Hande

Home and the Tomb

Videos and Photographs

Surekha

MOU (Museum of Unbelonings 2011

Mithu Sen

Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing X Part 2 Photographs and Video 2011

Nikhil Chopra

Shifts 2011 Traditional Shoes from India,Pakistan,Afganistan, Russia, Poland,yugoslavia,bosnia,Croatia,Slovenia, Italy,Switzerland, France, Belgium, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania,Hungary., Austria, Germany, Netherlands

Sharmila Samant

The Ulterior intimacy of Digits Video Loop, 2010

Raqas Media Collective

Krishna Swallowing Forest Fire 2009-2010 ,Oil and Enamel paint with Museum Magnets on oxidized mild steel with two mild steel stands.

Atul Dodiya

2005-2008 The Torn First Pages Ma Win Ma OO 4min 35 Sec , Video , Colour ,Silent THE FACE 4mIN 35 Sec, Video , Colour , Sound THET WIN AUNG 4min 35 sec , Video, Colour , Silent THE BOOK OF THE TORN PAGES 260 Pages , Text , Photographs

AMAR KANWAR

Tinder Box Suit LKA Collection and MatchBoxes

Tushar Joag

Let’s Watch Laughter 2011

N .S Harsha