:TheKochi-Muziris Biennale starting on December 12 will feature a dynamic range of artwork,along with curated programming in cinema and performance, as well as seminars and workshops, the organisers said here Sunday.
Curated by eminent artist Anita Dube around the theme of 'Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life', the 108-day Biennale held across nine venues will feature 95 artist projects, a release issued by Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) said here.
Slated to conclude on March 29 2019, the Biennale will be held across heritage venues in Fort Kochi and Mattancherry, as well as the Durbar Hall in downtown Ernakulam.
The major art event comes just four months after Kerala was ravaged by its worst natural calamity in a century, affirming the states resilience following the tragic floods and landslides.
"While preparation has been key my vision for the Biennale can only be actualised with the active participation of the public," Dube said.
Dube, who mastered in fine arts from the famed Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, said: "We are working at full capacity to create the structures that I hope everyone can claim, by listening, sharing, and speaking."
KBF co-founder Bose Krishnamachari, president of the Biennale Foundation,describes Dube as a thinking artist with a profound sensitivity towards materials, incorporating everyday objects derived from informal, craft and, industrial sources and spaces.
"Her oeuvre features both knowledgeable consideration and skillful melding of the sensibilities and styles of abstractions with real,contemporary concerns.This will without a doubt be reflected in her curation," said Krishnamachari, who was a co-curator of the first Biennale in 2012.
Dube, as the Biennales first woman curator, notes that 'Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life' hopes to be a space of openness and celebration.
"It will be so not only through the fantastic range of artworks on display, but through the varied programmes as well as the Biennale Pavilion as a knowledge laboratory," she says.
A particularly exciting aspect of the Biennale is the team of 20 dedicated Art Mediators that will be resident in Kochi through the span of the event.
Especially trained by the Foundation, they will give guided tours of the exhibition at set times every day free of charge, in both English and Malayalam.
Visitors can also purchase personal guided tours with a dedicated Mediator, should they choose.
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