Reza Negarestani presenting his keynote address at Draft, opening conference, June 4-6, 2015, Bombay, photo courtesy of Rajeev Thakker/Studio X Mumbai.
Gitanjali Dang is a Bombay-based curator, writer and researcher. She is interested in creating intimacy between all manners of context—including ideas, histories, philosophies, geographies and disciplines. Gitanjali hopes to make visible underlying hybridity and question notions of identity construction. She is curator of Khanabadosh, an itinerant arts lab she founded in Bombay in 2012.
Past exhibitions and projects include the India chapter of the online intervention beam-me.net(2010) and Shikaar: The Hunt (2011) Select City Walk Mall, New Delhi. Her recent projects with Khanabadosh include Kairos (2013) Shedhalle, Zürich, and Love in the Time of Choleric Capitalism(2014), What About Art?, Bombay, which in 2016 will travel to The School of Arts and Aesthetics Gallery, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Amongst recent projects is Draft, a year-long undertaking conceived in collaboration with Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) – engaging critical discourse and practice related to the public sphere, the project is anchored in nine metropolises and opened with a conference in Bombay in June 2015.
With support from
Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and Charles Wallace India Trust
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