Session 08: Reconstituting Traces, Pathways and Imaginings 

The Fabulation Project

Date: 1 Feb 25

Time: 6.30pm onwards

Location: KNMA Saket

Join us for yet another engaging session from our artist talk series: THE FABULATION PROJECT. It is a series of conversations and encounters exploring contemporaneity in the arts practices, that are also a work of story making for a 'people to come', stories which they shall inherit. In an attempt to contextualise contemporary art practice this series of talks engages with the storyteller and story making as central and crucial to the discourses. So, we try to unravel layers of an artist’s body of work and look for what they narrate (or choose not to) about the times we live in.

The program will be followed by light refreshments.

Join as artist Ruchika Wason Singh shares her practice in conversation with educationist and writer Prof. Krishnan Unni P

Dr. KRISHNAN UNNI. P is Professor of English at Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. He is a creative writer in Malayalam and in English and has published five books. He has edited Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of A Death Foretold (World View Publications) and his debut novel in Malayalam, Keralam: Oru Documenta won the Karoor Neelakanta Pillai award in 2016 and Abu Dhabi Shakti Award and Yes Press Novel Award in 2018. His latest book is on the Italian philosopher and theorist Giorgio Agamben published as part of the Theory series by S.P.C.S. Kottayam, Kerala in 2016. His recent project is on Contemporary Art Practices in India: Resistance and Subversion. His articles on Art have appeared in magazines such as Maarg, Lalit Kala Akademy Journal , Chitravaartha ( published by Lalit Kala Akademy, Keralam) and in Art and Deal. He has also written several articles on Art practices in newspapers such as Pioneer, The Times of India and in The Millennium Times. He has also taught in Tribhuvan University, Nepal for two years and offered courses at Manchester University, UK and at Nottingham University UK. He is a member of the Cultural Studies group in Cairo University, Egypt and a representative of the Memory- Studies Network at university of Lund, Sweden. He has presented papers in the University of Nottingham, U.K, Cairo University (Egypt), University of Lund, Sweden and in the national University of Brussels and at several other universities and academies in India. He had been a board of studies member in the Kashmir University and Nainital University, Kumaon. At present, he is a Board of Studies member at Amity University, Delhi and at Kothamangalam, Mar Athanasius college. He is a member of Kendra Sahitya Akademy of writers and recently is elected as the representative to writers forum of Commonwealth writers. His areas of interests include the Third World literatures and films, memory studies, gender formations, changing patterns of sexual dissidence and the politics of the dispossessed –concerned with music, football, popular culture and Astronomy.

Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi, India. She holds degrees in B.F.A.(1997) and M.F.A. (1999) in painting from College of Art, New Delhi.She received Ph.D (2008) in art history from University of Delhi with U.G.C.- J.R.Fellowship (2001-2006). In 2016 she founded A.M.M.A.A.-The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia.

Ruchika’s ongoing artistic practice focuses on the environment through the prism of human habitation. She is interested in the intersection of materiality with expressions of lived experiences, incorporating mark-making as an important approach to visual expression. Over the years her travels have deeply informed her choices of art-making through participation in international art exhibitions, workshops and residencies in Germany, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Japan, China and Thailand. 

Selected recent participations include Project M(other)hood conceptualised by Scarlet Yu & Tung I-Fen, Serendipity Arts Festival,Goa,2024; visual and textual contribution to Studies in the Maternal Special Issue ‘Visceral Bodies’ and video presentation at in-conjunction -event at Birkbeck University, London (2024); Intimate Distance curated by Alnoor Mitha, Bikaner House & Art Centrix Space, New Delhi (2024); Artist-in-Residence,FRISE Künstlerhaus Hamburg e. V., India Week Hamburg (2023); 'World Art Osaka', Art Stage Osaka curated by Mizuki Endo (2023); Diffuso curated by Vincenzo Sanfo,MIDA Museum,Italy (2023) and India Art Fair , Booth Art Centrix Space, New Delhi (2023).

Ruchika is a visiting professor at Ashoka University,Sonipat.