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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Drawing Worlds
Monsoon 2024an online lecture series
Architects and their relationship to drawing has been central to pedagogy at SEA. The question is one that we contend with closely, and the unresolved nature, or rather the changing cast of our own understanding is the port of embarkation for the series of conversations in the upcoming semester.
The mainstay for all dialogue in this regard is that since the architect is tasked with imagining new form, their role is essentially about making a meaningful spatial encounter for the inhabitant. This would mean that they must develop a sensitivity, criticality and a humaneness in their approach to built form, and simultaneously think of form phenomenologically, and create an aesthetics of meaning and experience in this encounter. Architects and their positions as spatial practitioners come from a deep and laborious engagement with the drawing - which become a means to not simply describe form, but also inscribe its associated phenomena - sensorial, mental, psychological, environmental or social. Drawing is the language that mobilises form, thought and experience. It is rooted in the practice of image and image-making that stems from intertwined histories of visual cultures.
The Monsoon 2024 SEA Conversations looks at, and looks to various practices of drawing - here an expanded visual practice that gets produced through not only modes of seeing and observing, but also reading, listening, writing, talking - those that aid the process of critical interrogation and interpretation, that engage with the tactile and palpable - bodies and measures and quantifiable entities, as well as intangible aspects like social relationships, sensorial experiences, memories and meaning, temporalities and active imagination. These practices are set up as various horizons on the contemporary drawing landscape and conversation with them is meant to articulate for us new questions and methods regarding seeing and drawing, newer spatial interpretations and from them forms of engagement, and also a fresher politics of participation with our visual worlds.
speakers
all dates for 2024
5 July Rohini Devasher
19 July Afrah Shafiq
2 Aug Nora Wuttke
16 Aug Shrimanti Saha
30 Aug Sayan Skandarajah
27 Sept Parismita Singh
4 Oct Jasmine Nilani Joseph <<
session 7
Drawing: A tool for investigating barriers and shelters
by Jasmine Nilani Joseph
Drawing: A tool for investigating barriers and shelters
by Jasmine Nilani Josephon Friday, 4th October 2024
at 6:00 pm IST
Zoom Link
During
1990, when Jasmine was just 45 days old, she and her family members
along with the people of their village were displaced forcibly from
their land by the government. Since then, they have moved and stayed
in different spaces including rented houses, churches, refugee camps,
welfare centres, and so on, owing to conflicts in the region. In this
talk, Jasmine will demonstrate how she uses drawing as a medium to
narrate and investigate the concepts of barriers, shelters, and home
in a war affected landscape as it becomes an archive of the past
and the present.
ABOUT
Jasmine Nilani Joseph is a visual artist, born in Jaffna in 1990. She completed a bachelor’s degree in art & design at the University of Jaffna in 2015. She has been the winner of the DBF Asia Art Future Award by the Asia Society in 2022. Jasmine has exhibited her work at various venues across the world, including at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (2024-2025) Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2023); University of Exeter, UK (2023); the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2022); the Manifesto for Artists in a Strong State, Germany (2020); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (2019–2020); Colomboscope Arts Festival, Sri Lanka (2019); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); the Human Rights Arts Festival, Colombo (2017); and Young Subcontinent, Serendipity Arts Festival (2017).
This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.
ABOUT
Jasmine Nilani Joseph is a visual artist, born in Jaffna in 1990. She completed a bachelor’s degree in art & design at the University of Jaffna in 2015. She has been the winner of the DBF Asia Art Future Award by the Asia Society in 2022. Jasmine has exhibited her work at various venues across the world, including at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (2024-2025) Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2023); University of Exeter, UK (2023); the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2022); the Manifesto for Artists in a Strong State, Germany (2020); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (2019–2020); Colomboscope Arts Festival, Sri Lanka (2019); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); the Human Rights Arts Festival, Colombo (2017); and Young Subcontinent, Serendipity Arts Festival (2017).
This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.
SEA PAVILION 2024
WINNER ANNOUNCED
We received a wonderful set of responses that ranged from those addressing the magic of the monsoon to working with its quotidian life and materialities to those addressing its human and more than human engagements.
The winning entry:
Three special mentions:
1) Majid Abidi for ‘Is it just about us?’
2) Ankita Dhal & Eshan Pradhan for ‘The Memory Workshop’
3) Rushimuni Prayogshala (Hrushikesh Hirulkar and Manish Shravane) for ‘The Paper Pavilion’
Details here
WINNER ANNOUNCED
We received a wonderful set of responses that ranged from those addressing the magic of the monsoon to working with its quotidian life and materialities to those addressing its human and more than human engagements. The winning entry:
Liminal Pavilion
by Rust Collective - Dhruv Sachala and Neel ShahThree special mentions:
1) Majid Abidi for ‘Is it just about us?’
2) Ankita Dhal & Eshan Pradhan for ‘The Memory Workshop’
3) Rushimuni Prayogshala (Hrushikesh Hirulkar and Manish Shravane) for ‘The Paper Pavilion’
Details here
