Writers / Artists Residency June 16, 2009

Writers / Artists Residency at The Guild. The Residency is another step taken by The Guild Art in nurturing young talent. The Residency aims to have an open structure, where writers and artists working across disciplines will work and interact with each other. Such an assemblage of artists and writers will call for a greater exchange of ideas. During these days, the participating artists would be getting slides for internal presentation, in which they would be speaking about their art and also about various influences that have made a considerable impact on them. The participating writers would be conducting workshops within the residency; further they would be choosing a few artists to speak about in depth, fostering a greater understanding about the works of the chosen artist. Apart from the interaction among the artists and writers within the residency, there will be interactive programmes with visiting artists and experts from other disciplines on formal and informal basis. These talks will focus on various issues pertaining to contemporary art. Few of which are the Relevance of painting in current age of New Media, of how artists have been viewing Urban Spaces, Introduction of Market Studies in Academics. For the same there would be a panel of artists presenting their views on these issues and would be discussing it with the participating artists and the audience. Not restricting to the field of fine arts there shall be a poetry reading session by eminent poets, and screening of films too.

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