Wound as testimony and as locus for resistance

Anuradha Kapur

Anuradha Kapur is a theatre maker and teacher. Her theatre work has travelled nationally and internationally, and she has taught in Universities in India and abroad. She is the founder member of Vivadi a cross-disciplinary group of theatre-makers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and writers who attempt to connect practice with research in their works. Anuradha Kapur completed her term as Director National School of Drama, New Delhi in 2013 where she was also Professor of Acting and Direction. She has held Visiting Professorships at Ambedkar University, Delhi, the University of Warwick and the University of Cape Town. For her work in the theatre, Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for Direction in 2004.

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore. He is the editor (with Paul WIllemen) of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (1994) and the author of Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic (1982).

Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is a Delhi-based art critic and curator. Her essays on alternative modernisms, contemporary art practice and curatorial interventions in India and the global south are widely anthologized. Her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978); When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000); Ends and Means: critical inscriptions in contemporary art (forthcoming).
Her curatorial projects include survey exhibitions at the Lalit Kala Akademi and the National Gallery of Modern Art (Delhi and Mumbai.). She co-curated the Festival of India exhibition, Contemporary Indian Art, the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1982); curated Dispossession, Indian artists at the First Johannesburg Biennale (1995); Bombay/ Mumbai (co-curation) for the multi-part exhibition, Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London (2001); subTerrain, for the Body.City project, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003). She curated Aesthetic Bind , five exhibitions for Chemould50, Mumbai ( 2013-2014).
Geeta Kapur was member, International Jury for the Biennales at Venice (2005), Dakar (2006), and Sharjah (2007); member of the Asian Art Council, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007-2009). She is member, Advisory Board, Asian Art Archive, Hong Kong (since 2009); member Advisory Committee Kochi-Muziris Biannale (since 2013).
A founder-editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas, she was on the advisory council of Third Text, and is an editorial advisor and Trustee of Marg. She has lectured in universities and museums worldwide and held Visiting Fellowships at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi; University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
She was awarded the Padmashri in 2009.

Nikhil Chopra

Nikhil Chopra is a contemporary artist based in Goa, India. His work is a complex amalgamation of durational performance, painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography that critically explores themes of identity, politics, history, and the body. Chopra has performed at prestigious international venues, including the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), Performa in New York (2008), and the Yokohama Triennale (2008). His exhibitions include prominent shows such as documenta14 (2017) and Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015). In 2019, he held a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and completed a residency at the Cite des Arts in Paris, gaining critical acclaim. Currently, he is the curator of the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale and co-founder of HH Art Spaces, an artist movement in Goa, established in 2014; who is partnering with him to co-curate the Biennale.

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. He curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) and was co-curator, with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, of the 7 th Gwangju Biennale (2008). He has curated or co-curated more than 50 exhibitions of Indian and global art since 1994. These include mid-career or lifetime retrospectives and deep-focus introspectives of major artists including Atul Dodiya (Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo 2001, and NGMA, New Delhi 2013), Jehangir Sabavala (NGMA, Mumbai 2005 and New Delhi 2006), M F
Husain (Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, Doha 2019), Mehlli Gobhai (NGMA, Mumbai 2020), and F N Souza (CSMVS Museum, Mumbai 2022). Hoskote has served on the Jury of the Venice Biennale (2015), is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Bergen Assembly, Norway, and has served on the international advisory board of the HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin.

Sudhir Patwardhan

Sudhir Patwardhan is a painter whose work has been exhibited widely in India and abroad in the past forty years. He is an occasional writer and lecturer on art, and also a curator who has focused on introducing new audiences to contemporary art. Two books on his work by Ranjit Hoskote have been published - 'The Complicit Observer' (2004) and 'The Crafting of Reality' (2007). A monograph in Marathi by Padmakar Kulkarni 'Chitrakar Sudhir Patwardhan' was published in 2005. Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA and other public collections. He lives and works in Thane, near Mumbai.