For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages students from fifth and sixth grade of the Government Higher Primary School in Avverahalli, Ramanagara district to explore the flora and fauna of the seven hills around Ramanagara. They will do this through a series of hiking expeditions and engagements with visual arts, theatre and storytelling, which connect to their geography, science and language curricula. Curriculum-based outdoor learning pedagogy will provide firsthand experiences in a natural learning environment. The outcomes of this project will be a performance and an exhibition for school staff and community members, and a publication containing the children’s writings. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include the publication, photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, travel, exhibition and performance, professional fees, workshop and printing.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will study the non-dominant Tamil narrative traditions that are replete with instances of disfigurements, associated with two deities, Sudalai Madan and Madurai Veeran. It will examine aesthetic features of embodiment and shape contained in these narratives, while documenting the visual, oral, ritual and performative accounts in accessible formats. A core objective of this project is to study disability access cultures in relation to the performance and reception of these narrative traditions. The outcomes of this project will be manuscript for a book, pedagogical videos, and a haptic exhibition. The Principal Investigator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the manuscript for the book, pedagogical videos, and audiovisual documentation from the exhibition. Project funds will pay for professional fee, honorarium, travel and living, and printing and stationery.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will investigate the existing practices, patterns and problems in the performing arts in the context of safety and through the lens of individual practitioners working with formal or quasi-formal theatre groups, collectives and institutions in India. It will focus on the aspects of physical, mental and legal safety and well being of actors, directors, facilitators and designers and their audiences. The outcomes of this project will be a publicly accessible resource library containing safety kits, checklists, video tutorials, sample contracts and a digitally accessible forum for anonymous grievance redressal. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be links to the publicly accessible library and digitally accessible forum, checklists, video tutorials and sample contracts. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, internet and library subscriptions and equipment rental.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will trace the interplay between imagination and realities surrounding the river Teesta and the Teesta highway, as expressed through music. The songs and stories of the river represent the alternative histories of the people who work along this highway, and capture a landscape battered by development. This project will explore how people cope with their transformed lives and how musical and storytelling practices have evolved to reflect these shifts. The outcomes of this project will be songs produced in collaboration with local musicians, performances in community spaces and video diaries capturing the rhythm of life along the highway. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be music recordings, stories from walks, visual diaries and audiovisual documentation of the process. Project funds will pay for contract fees, production cost, and travel.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will explore various methods of worship across different Sufi traditions in West Bengal. It will inquire into the religious and political conditions in which Sufi Dargahs and Majars in the region have flourished over time. The outcome of this project will be a manuscript for a book. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the manuscript for the book and audiovisual documentation from the field. Project funds will pay for travel and living, contract fees and stationery.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will explore the political and cultural history of the Shina and Dard communities in Gurez, situating them within the larger sociopolitical history of Jammu and Kashmir via collective memories and identities. The outcomes of this project will be a photo book and an exhibition. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the photo book and audiovisual documentation from the field. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, photo book and exhibition, printing, books and library subscription and equipment purchase.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA, which will examine the complex and elusive quality of women-specific pain and subjective patient experience vis-à-vis standardised diagnostic testing and normative clinical procedures. It will inquire how the female body is studied, written, mapped and visualised in allopathy, ayurveda and homoeopathy. The outcomes of this project will be an artist book, a series of mixed media and multi-sensorial artworks and a virtual journal documenting the project journey. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a copy of the artist book, visual documentation of the artworks and a link to the virtual journal. Project funds will pay for production, contract fees, travel and living, and art materials.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages sixth and seventh grade students of the Government Model High Primary School in Maalavi village in Vijayanagara district, in Nammade Bank Nammade Duddu (Our Bank Our Money)— a study of the banking system in India. Children will learn about the history, structures, systems and malpractices of banks by running their own bank and linking their learning to their mathematics curriculum. The outcomes of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and villagers and a publication. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include the publication, along with photographs and video documentation of the performance and the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, workshop, travel, professional fees, publication, documentation and performance.
This Project was amicably cancelled based on reasons mutually agreed upon by the Project Coordinator and IFA due to unavoidable circumstances.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages twenty-eight students from the Government Lower Primary School in Lakshmi Camp Kuntoji, Koppala district with the Helava community which archives family genealogies across north Karnataka in order to understand their traditional knowledge. Through this project students will record their own family histories and enrich their study of the social science, mathematics and language curricula. The outcomes of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and a publication containing the children’s writings. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be photographs, the publication and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, stationery and materials, printing, workshop, professional fees, and travel.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Arts Projects (Research/Practice) that will explore and engage with Bangalore as a centre for mental health and well-being. By documenting conversations, stories and personal histories of caregivers, mental health experts and users of the city’s mental health system, the project attempts to investigate a little-known aspect of the city’s history and offer a new methodology for engaging with a subject as complex as mental health. The outcomes of this project will comprise two sets of audio series, a group discussion, a public panel discussion and site-specific dispersion of artistically curated audio series via QR codes. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be audio recordings of all the interviews, still and video recordings of the panel discussion and still documentation of the site-specific QR codes. Project funds will pay for professional fees, honorarium, resource persons’ fees, travel, equipment hire, venue hire, food and printing and materials.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Arts Projects (Research/Practice), that explores and engages with Dakhni expressions in Bangalore’s popular culture through rap and hiphop music. Titled Apnich Bol, Dakhnich Bol, the project seeks to celebrate and foreground Bangalore’s deep-rooted Dakhni culture which has been overshadowed by the city’s mainstream discourse. The outcomes of the project will include a nine-track music album, three music videos, six to ten curated performances and a bonus track, with the possibility of a behind-the-scenes film. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be the complete album along with the bonus track, the music videos and photographs from the local performances. Project funds will pay for professional fees, equipment hire, honorarium, travel and food, studio hire, performances and material costs.
This Project was Terminated by IFA and the Project Coordinator is ineligible to apply to IFA in the future.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages sixth grade students of the Morarji Desai Residential School in Devarabelakere village in Davanagere district, in the study of the production of cotton and history of cotton mills in Davanagere through local stories and folk songs. Students will attempt to develop a theatre script with all their findings to bolster their learning of their Kannada language lessons. The outcome of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and villagers. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the performance and the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, performance, professional fees, travel, workshop, material, and documentation.
This Project was Terminated by IFA and the Project Coordinator is ineligible to apply to IFA in the future.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages sixth grade students of the Morarji Desai Residential School in Nuggehalli village in Hassan district with a project titled karakushala kale enda patya dhedege (from handicrafts to school curriculum) to learn about bamboo. Students will explore the history, stories and many uses of bamboo and connect it to the texts in their environmental science curriculum. The outcomes of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and villagers and a publication. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include the publication, along with photographs and video documentation of the performance and the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, material, travel, performance, publication, workshop and documentation.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages sixth grade students of the Karnataka Public School in Hangala village, Chamarajanagara district with Mudalapaya Yakshagana, a local art form that is rapidly disappearing. The students will learn about the history and practice of the form through a series of workshops by community artists and apply it to their mathematics and science texts. The outcome of the project will be a performance in the presence of school staff and community members. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, workshop, material, travel, documentation, and performance.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that engages eighth grade students of the high school section of the Government Pre-University College, in Krishna Raja Sagara, Mandya district to explore the impact of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam on the lives and livelihoods of local communities. Students will research, create and integrate these stories into their history, social science and language curricula. The outcome of this project will be street performances at two villages where the children and members of the communities will participate. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include photographs and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, performance, travel, stationary and materials, workshop and documentation.
