Written by Dipti Nagpaul |Updated: October 28, 2019 8:08:27 am
Video festival featuring works by veteran and young names to be held in Mumbai
Called ‘Video Art’ by Indian Contemporary Artists (VAICA), the festival will feature works by a range of artists, including established names such as Navjot Altaf, Mithu Sen and Tushar Joag as well as young practitioners like Bengaluru-based Surekha and Mumbai-based Shakuntala Kulkarni.
A multi-pronged art practitioner, Bharati Kapadia had been pondering over certain aspects of video art for a long time. She wondered what made an artist use long shots panning a certain scene, or even, say, use several frames of the same action. In an attempt to seek answers to such questions, Kapadia started to look for video art on the internet but realised that there is very little Indian work available online for those who wish to understand the medium. Realising that there must be many like her out there, the artist considered organising a video art show. “Of the 39 artists I reached out to, I received a positive response from 34, something I had not expected,” she says, laughing. “That’s when I cannot limit its scope to a mere show; this will have to be a festival.”
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