The Museum of Art & Photography invites you to the second iteration of our annual conference Beyond Theory: Imagining Infrastructure, hosted in conjunction with the exhibition VISIBLE/INVISIBLE: Representation of Women in Art through the MAP Collection. This year, the conference attempts to locate the experiences of women and gender minorities in shaping arts infrastructure – how have these built networks specifically influenced, discouraged, questioned, and promoted new ideas around feminist solidarities and action in our communities.
The conference will be a gathering of artists, art workers, collectives, art institutions and representatives from grant-making bodies who will be in conversation with each other, sharing learnings and doubts on how they work with and reimagine infrastructure in the region. These conversations will hopefully reveal moments of success, but also of breakdown, of calls for systems to be relooked at and fixed. The panels will touch upon various concerns including but not limited to, the inception of arts infrastructure in the region, material and immaterial shifts that are discernible in artistic practice, instances that have led to innovation and more enduring models, changing curatorial and discursive frameworks and more. Above all, we hope that in coming together and sharing knowledge, access and time, this platform serves as its own infrastructure for the community.
The format will include panel discussions, artists’ in conversations, film screenings, concluding with a performance. The full programme will be announced on our website and social media shortly. Please RSVP using this form.
The conference will take place on April 12th and 13th, 2024.
A small travel bursary is available to subsidise travel for students and early career art workers residing outside of Bengaluru, to attend the conference. To know more about the bursary and to be considered, please write to mehreen.yousaf@map-india.org outlining how the conference would benefit you in your practice or studies. The last date to apply for the bursary is 3rd April, 2024.
