KAF 2021-22 Final Showcase
KCC Arts Fellowship is a scholarship program that annually supports 4 fellows from the disciplines of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. KAF supports specific research projects proposed by selected young practitioners for a year, helping them to explore, develop, and contribute to the discourses of their choice. Capacity-building is integral to KAF. The fellows receive mentorship via thoughtfully selected senior artists, scholars, and teachers who aid in honing their skill-set and expanding their knowledge base. KCC Arts Fellows not only represent a commitment to culture but also serve as worthy mentors to their successors and the next generation of artists. Kolkata Centre for Creativity, in the three years of its existence, has made immense progress as a unique initiative to uplift and develop the discourses of arts across various disciplines. Encouraging and supporting young artists and practitioners as well as our commitment to research-based practice in the cultural sector are two very important pillars of our work. Following the success of the first batch of KCC Arts Fellowship, we offered the fellowship again this year to support specific research projects proposed by young practitioners for the years 2021-2022, enabling them to explore, develop, and present an artistic discourse of their choice.
Date: 26th and 27th March, 2022
Time: 15.00 – 18.00 hrs IST
To know more, call: +919674140905 (between 10 am – 7 pm) or email: kcc@akst.org.in
SUMAN CHANDRA (Visual Art)
Suman Chandra is a freelance visual artist based at Santiniketan who graduated from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati in 2017. Since the past few years, Suman has been dedicated to soul exploring and revolving his practice around the landscape, and land politics of coal mine areas. Through his practice and search over the years, his works have matured to reflect his processed understanding of these complex landscapes through his artistic creations. Suman has received KCC Arts Fellowship 2021-2022 for his research project Coal-Mine Areas’ Landscape and Behaviour of Material and People that looks deep into how the transformation of a natural landscape into an artificial landscape affects the lives of the local residents physically, psychologically, culturally, environmentally and last but not least economically.
ANERI SHETH (Dance)
Aneri Sheth is a fine artist by education and has been training in the classical dance style, Mohiniyattam, under Guru Mandakini Trivedi for the past several years at Nateshvari Dance Gurukul. She states that training in Indian Classical dance has opened her awareness and sensitivity to her own cultural roots, its allied arts and understanding dance not only as a movement aesthetic but an amalgamation of various arts in one. Aneri has received KCC Arts Fellowship 2021-2022 for her project Journey of the Goddess in the Kerala Performing Arts which aims to witness the journey and the influence of the ‘Goddess’ archetype through the various regional forms like Mudiyettu, Theyyam, Padayani, Koodiyattam, Kathakali and Mohiniyattam.
KANCHAN AVCHARE (Theatre)
Kanchan Avchare is a theatre practitioner from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, currently practising her craft-based at Kannur, Kerala. She explains theatre as rather an unlearning process after which new expressions emerge through improvisation. She believes to express ideas and thoughts by using the process of exploring the impulses and the reactions of the body rather than arriving at those cerebrally. She was an INLAKS theatre grant awardee in 2019 for her project Theatre Exercises from Traditional Performing Arts of Kerala. Kanchan has received KCC Arts Fellowship 2021-2022 in Theatre for The Migration Project that investigates how to reach a site-specific performance using different theatre methods and training that one acquires.
