11/04/2025
We are delighted to invite you to a panel discussion on Vasudha Thozhur: Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy 1998–2018, published by SSAF-Tulika Books as the first in the Art Documents series, edited by Geeta Kapur. The panelists include Vasudha Thozhur, Deeptha Achar, and Indira Chandrasekhar, and the panel will be moderated by Arshad Hakim.
🗓️ Date : Friday, 18th April 2025
🕰️Time : 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Refreshments will be served at 5:30 pm, the discussion will commence at 6:00 pm.
📍Venue: Ark Foundation for the Arts
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🎟️Entry : Free (Seating on a first-come, first-served basis)
About the Book:
In the artist’s own words:
“This book is a compilation of texts that were written as a response to different compulsions. As the title indicates, it contains diary entries, seminar papers, catalogue essays and excerpts from a series of nine books related to an extended project undertaken between 2002 and 2012. Woven together, as they are, it is hoped that they create a narrative that exceeds the sum of its parts. I write, as I paint, to break the skin of the everyday, to create ruptures that provide access to dimensions of life as lived through the practice of art. Diaries and journals are doorways to a kind of becoming that leaves little scope for obfuscation or concealment: they provide loops that one can enter at any time and still feel a sense of being in the present, and in truth – despite its mutations and uncertainties.”
Art Documents, under the SSAF–Tulika Books imprint, is conceived as a series of montaged text and image documents, at once archival, contemporary and contextual. Creatively introduced and edited, these books seek to present multivalent forms of discourse where there is no single thesis, and no necessary convergence of the vectors released in the process of inquiry. Geeta Kapur is Series Editor of Art Documents. Vasudha Thozhur: Diaries, Projects, Pedagogy 1998–2018 is the first book in the series.
This event is organised in collaboration with the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation.
