SEA CITY is the School of Environment and Architecture’s outreach programme. SEA City organizes events, lectures, symposia and exhibitions in order to engage with the larger artistic and cultural discursive sphere within and outside the city. SEA City events are completely open to all public, and are attended by a diverse group of people including students, architects, professionals, academics and locals.
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The Bookmakers
Winter 2024-25At SEA, the uncertain and unclear relationship between texts and space has been one of the core focuses of discussion and exploration. We have experimented with drawings and performances as bridges to create new possibilities for these connections. In this series, we invite people who work with texts - writers, translators, biographers, and even book collectors - to help us delve deeper into this relationship. In many ways, they capture the energies of their subjects, offering new meanings through their texts. The series will include book launches, readings by authors and translators, and an exhibition of a book collection.
speakers
Nov 15, 2024.
Sonal Mithal (co-authored with Arul Paul)
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive: Lucknow Queerscapes (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024.
Nihal Perera
People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarising, Creating (Routledge, 2016)
Dec 20, 2024.
Prasad Khanolkar
Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects and Spaces in Mumbai’s Slum Localities, (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 17, 2025.
Mustansir Dalvi
Charles Correa: Citizen Charles (Niyogi Books, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025.
V Ramaswami
Translator of four volumes of short fiction of the anti-establishment and experimental Bangla writer, Subimal Misra: The Golden Gandhi Statue from America (2010), Wild Animals Prohibited (2015), Two Anti-Novels (2019), and The Earth Quakes (2024), all published by Harper Perennial.
Feb 28, 2025.
Rishi Aggarwal
Saving Aarey - Conservation Challenges
Mar 07, 2025.
Shveta Sarda*
Trickster City (Viking 2010) and translation of the book Mayyadas ki Mari/Mansion by Bhisham Sahani (Penguin, 2016)
Mar 21, 2025.
Priyesh Gothwal
BOOKSHOW on artists’ book (19-21 March)
March 28
Martina Maria Spies & Pritika Akhil Kumar
Cult Of Play: The Culture and Development of Children’s Play in Mumbai & Beyond
*Online
This lecture series is supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is open to everyone across the world.
A SEA City initiative
session 8
Folding Spaces: Book Show-I
by Priyesh Gothwal
Folding Spaces: Book Show-I
by Priyesh Gothwalon Friday, March 07, 2025, at 6:00 PM IST
venue:School of Environment & Architecture
CKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091
Book Show-I is a traveling exhibition with artist books, sketchbooks, comics, zines, and other publications within a mobile, itinerant reading space. Each encounter invites new interactions and evokes a keen interest in exploring the book as a form. The talk ‘Folding Spaces: Book Show-I’ will cover the journey of the show and touch upon some of its major elements.
about
Priyesh Gothwal is a visual artist based in Delhi, who works with drawing, text, still and moving images. His work centers on exploring the role of language in its various narrative configurations. He is interested in the process of translation, transliteration, and transfiguration of one form to another. Priyesh is one of the founding members of first draft and has initiated a series of book shows. He currently manages and teaches in the BFA program at JSLH, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.
This lecture series is supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is open to everyone across the world.
