Introducing KIPAF

PERFORMERS iNDEPENDENT (Pi) was an independent artists' collective, experimenting and exploring the traditional, modernist and contemporary spaces in the cultural paradigm. The Kolkata International Performance Art Festival was initiated by Pi in 2012 to annually open up the city of Kolkata to diverse traditions of performance, performitivty and interventions. Since then Pi has got fragmented but KIPAF has taken deeper roots.

The festival aims to be a platform for dialogue between site, art, politics and culture. KIPAF acknowledges the nascent nature of Performance Art in India, and will always play a role in the pedagogy of performance art.
The festival is be held between 23rd-26th January every year.

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

KIPAF 2016 Artists List (1st Draft )


THIS IS THE TENTATIVELY FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS FOR KIPAF 2016 *


Ali Asgar (Bangladesh)
Ashim Haldar (Bangladesh)
Jewel A Rob (Bangladesh)
James Needham-Walker (Australia)
Janet anne Meane (Australia)
Shumit Chakraborty (Bangladesh)
Polash Chowdhary (Bangladesh)
Vaida Tamoševičiūtė (Lithuania)
Haryo Hutomo and Sakina (Indonesia)
A k u z u r u (Trinidad & Tobago)
Ferial Afiff (Indonesia)
Madhavi Gore (India)
Romain Loustau (Framce)
Sharker Nasrin Toontoon(Bangladesh)
Atish Saha (Bangladesh)
Shubho saha (Bangladesh)
Ritesh Maharajan (Nepal)
Laisvie Andrea (Colombia)
Eva Bjorkman (Sweden)
Sridhar Gangolli (India)
Varsha A Bhide (India)
Dimple B Shah (India)
Ranjana Nagaraja (India)
Shivaprasad Kayarmar (India)
Raghu Wodeyar (India)
Smitha Cariappa  (India)
Monica Nanjunda (India)
Srinia Chowdharay (India)
Pramod Sahu (India)
Rohen S Dumbre (India)
Inder Salim (India)
Amruta Mapuskar (India)
Priyanka Govil (India)
Samudra Kajal Saikia (India)
Khursheed Mushtaq Ali (India)
Sarojini Lewis (Netherlands)
Vidisha Saini (India)
Alex Yudzon (USA)
Sumana Akter (Bangladesh)



curatorial board

SAJAN MANI
SURESH KUMAR G 
TAPATI CHOUDHURY
AFSANA SHARMIN ZHUMA
CHIRANTAN MUKHOPADHAYA 
MANMEET DEVGUN

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*This list has been compiled by our curatorial team with inputs from the Pi team. A final list that includes participating artists from Kolkata  and West Bengal will be published in January. 

#The core team for KIPAF2016 is:
Tapati Choudhury
Ankur Das
Suman Majumder 
Anirban Datta
Srimoy Roy Chaudhury
Santhosh Kumar Sakhinala
Chirantan Mukhupadhaya
Rahul Bhattacharya


Thursday, 3 December 2015

Tentative Schedule For Kipaf16

Tentatively Final Schedule for KIPAF 2016 









24th Jan and 25th Jan 11 am- 2 pm : Open call session in an specious indoor space. venue will be same for 
                                                        2 days.
  

  Day 1, 23/01/16: 

  Meeting at an indoor space at 11 am (same space for 24th/25th open call session) 
  brief introduction - spot lunch   - walk - Ferry( we will work on the rout-will update soon) - dinner.

  Day 2, 24/01/16: 
  Curatorial theme: Semi public space
                       11 am - 2 pm: Open session
                        2 pm - 3 pm: Working lunch
                       3 pm - 7/8 pm: Curated artist's performance. 
                                             Venue: Company Bagan and Hedua Park

Day 3, 25/01/16: 
Curatorial theme: Transit
                     11 am - 2 pm: Open session
                       2 pm - 3 pm: Working lunch
                      3 pm - 7/8 pm: Curated artist's performance
                      Venue: Circular Train and station in between.

Day 4, 26/01:
Curatorial theme: fleeting crowd
                     11 am - 2 pm: 10 minutes presentation by each curated artist
                       2 pm - 3 pm: Spot lunch
                      3 pm - 7/8 pm: Curated artist's performance
                      Venue: Market olace near ghat and surrounding and Ghat place
                       After 8 : Farewell dinner



Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Extended Deadline - Kipaf16









The application deadline has been extended to 10.12.2015.
send us your proposal at kipaf.curator@gmail.com