Public Lectures


SEA Conversations is a fortnightly lecture series set up to establish a dialogue on contemporary issues and practices around the built and cultural environment. SEA invites imminent practitioners from various disciplines to engage with the students and the community at large. A single 4-month semester session is planned for 8 lectures, thus, an annual cycle may have 16 SEA City Conversations. These sessions may be curated around focused thematics in order to explore a subject through the lecture series. Alternatively, the conversations may be strung along the research verticals of the school. Typically, conversations are structured as hour-long presentations by invited speakers followed by moderated discussions and audience questions and answers. However, SEA Conversations are open to explore formats such as performance-discussions, panel discussions, book openings, debates, and so on.


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2024
Winter

Technological Practice as Riyaz
2023
Winter

States of Matter



2019
Winter

2019
Monsoon

2018
Winter

2018
Monsoon


2017
Winter

2017
Monsoon

2016
Winter

2016
Monsoon


2015
Winter

2015
Monsoon

2014
Winter

2014
Monsoon


 
 
 

session 4

Multifaceted Narratives

by Shrimanti Saha

on Friday, 16th August 2024
at 6:00 pm IST
Zoom Link

In this talk, Shrimanti shall discuss how in her art practice, drawing becomes a tool to unravel images and develop layered story structures with references from a range of sources like history, literature, mythology, science fiction, comic books, art history, miniature paintings, news reports, as well as memory, conversation and personal experiences. As an artist working majorly in the medium of drawing and painting; she shall share images of large scale drawing based works on paper and elaborate on the references in them, the process of making and the thematic implications that they may have as contemporaneous, layered narratives.

 

ABOUT

Shrimanti Saha is an artist working in the medium of drawing, painting and animation. Saha completed her BVA and MVA in Painting from M.S. University, Vadodara, following which she worked as a freelance illustrator for a few years. She has had a solo exhibition in New Delhi last year and she has also been part of numerous group exhibitions in India and abroad. Saha received the Inlaks Fine Arts award and an art grant from the Foundation for Indian Contemporary art. She has also been part of international artist residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary arts; Vermont Studio Center; and OMI International Art Center in upstate New York.


This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.