Nancy Adajania
BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Bombay/ *1971 Nancy Adajania is an art theorist and film-maker based in Bombay. She has been editor of the art journal ‘Art India’, since March 2000. In this capacity, she has accentuated the importance of public art and new media for contemporary art, emphasising the intimate connections between the aesthetic and the political, the private artist-self and the public sphere. She studied Politics at Elphinstone College, Bombay (1989-1992), and Social Communications/Media at Sophia Polytechnic, Bombay (1993-1994). From 1995-1996 she worked as programme coordinator of the newly constituted crafts research department of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay, organising a number of seminars and workshops, including the national-level symposium, ‘Should the Crafts Survive?’ (April 1995). N. A. then trained in film at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune (1996-1998). She has made a video documentary critique of the failed welfare state which turned into an instrument of oppression, ‘Khichri Ek Khoj’ (‘In Search of Khichri’), 2000, and is currently working on a cycle of video-poems. She has written catalogue essays for selected artists and has regularly contributed essays and articles to journals and newspapers as ‘Art India’, ‘Humanscape’, ‘The Times of India’, ‘The Hindu’, ‘The Indian Express’ and ‘The Asian Age’, writing on the visual arts, development issues, popular culture, and the relationship between art practice, technology and political engagement. Her specific area of interest is the emergence of what she describes as a ‘new folkloric imagination’, a variegated mode of resistance, aligned across an array of cultural practices including installation, cinema, photography and street theatre. |
