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In the Western discourse, the so-called categories of folk and tribal arts and crafts have been considered under several antithetical binaries, such as magical versus aesthetic, collective versus individualistic, craft versus art, and traditional versus contemporary. By any standard, the two components of each of these binaries are not mutually exclusive—an object need not be […]

The mobile spectator will be able to select one from a series of similar kiosks, each of which are mounted with a touchscreen display. The machine will then present its user with a questionnaire, the answers to which will allow it to broadly assimilate the spectator’s sensibilities as a viewer of film and curate, thereby, […]

Before the letter became part of an alphabet, it was an image — a symbol of a story, an idea encapsulated within lines and angles. Strung together, these abstract geometric shapes turned from hieroglyphics to runes to letters of an alphabet. Held together by the magnetic pull of sound, they turned into constellations for the […]

The workshops dealt with the power of movement, touch, colour and shape, and the power of music to prepare the children to experience the relationship between their emotions and the creative outcome. A group of eight to ten children in the age group of 10 and above, including two blind children, selected by the Tara […]

Picture postcards of a place were sent out to greet people in a distant place, at the same time inviting them to visually share an alternative landscape. One of the oldest communication devices, its open-format card relayed from one postal location to another, allowed its carriers to engage freely with its content. Following this line […]

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most vibrant traditions of South Asia and photography is one of the newest additions to a plethora of forms. Here six young photographers join this tradition in their own unique ways, using a variety of photographic practices – ­from straightforward documentary to the staged and constructed, from representational […]

Earlier the Altar and the Devaro in Goan homes was a formal space for worship. With the advent of the printed image we began seeing portraits of gods and departed elders sharing space with the deities in these formal spaces. And as society modernized and living spaces changed, the Altar and the Devaro metamorphosed into […]

Students of AUXILLUM CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL in CARANZALEM, GOA are between 3 & 5 years of age. These children come from low income group families, where most of the parents’ work as construction workers. Serendipity Arts Festival has collaborated with the school to create this empowerment exercise. Express & Aspire For the past 18 years, […]

Can ‘Selfies’ in today’s day and time be considered as a form of self-portraiture? The Serendipity Arts Festival invites all to submit their selfies and be a part of the Festival! Curated by Dinesh Khanna, Selfie: A Self Portrait hopes to encourage people around the world to post new and creative selfies! Wherever you are, […]

This exhibition is based on the private collection of Arminio Rebiero who has been collecting family photographs from the late 19th and through the 20th century as various branches of the family spread out across the world – Goa, Mumbai, Karachi, Africa, Europe, etc. These photos aim to encapsulate the Goan Diaspora experience through photographs […]

Goa was liberated in 1961, after 450 years of Portuguese rule. The ambivalence created by this transition of culture and political loyalty provides the backdrop for the work of Prabuddha Dasgupta in Edge of Faith. This exhibition of black-and-white photographs captures Catholic Goa in a haunting, but beautiful impasse — caught in a time warp […]

What is a portrait? As We See Us, curated by Dinesh Khanna, explores the vibrant multiplicity and infinite configurations of what it means to depict a person, a thing, or oneself in the context of Indian portrait photography. Before the advent of photography, before the possibility of the casual or candid portrait was unlocked by […]

Souza and Paul opened for business as studio photographers in Panjim in late 19th century and were very active as chroniclers of people, places and life in Goa in the period unto the early 20th Century. Souza & Paul exists even today as a studio that carries on in the photographic business but all the […]

The exhibition has been conceptualised as an archive installation. The focus of this project will be the mutual gaze of coloniser and colonised, foreigner and native, ethnographic observer and subject of ethnographic scrutiny, artist and technician, demonstrating the blurring of such conceptual binaries across a period of nearly five centuries. Importantly, the gesture of this […]

For many the “streets”, the public spaces where our shared lives unfold and our personal trajectories converge, provide those first avenues for visual exploration, cultural documentation, or simply the pursuit of beauty. On the street, the photographer must open up to the idea of chance – significance emerges from seemingly insignificant moments as one stumbles […]

Curated by Riyas Komu, the Young Subcontinent project attempts to remediate the scattered political boundaries across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Maldives after the colonial encounter. The tyranny of maps have kept people guarded of each other, every contestation of official history is read as seditious dissent. Yet, the ancestral bonds […]

Conceived by Renu Modi in collaboration with Teertha and programmed by Serendipity Arts Trust, the art project, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ facilitates established artists of two countries, India and Sri Lanka, to engage in an investigative and research based art-making process together relooking at the socio-cultural and historical dynamics of two cities, Varanasi and […]

Somewhere in the Goan psyche we have Archetypal figures of who we were as a race, as a culture. Strictly speaking, figures such as the ‘Bhatkar’ (Landlord), the ‘Sasumai’ (Mother-in-law), the ‘Neustakan’ (Fisherwoman) and many more are not archetypes, but archetypal images which have crystallized out of the archetypes. The images are objective, but universal. […]

Curated by Riyas Komu, this street art project will showcase 4 street artists from across the world who will come together to explore certain streets and spaces of Panaji, Goa. Open Site is a suggestion towards dissolving boundaries – between nations, states, and more importantly, between people and art. By bringing international street artists to […]