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Between the Stage and the Streets : A Reflection on Women’s Dance and Identity
In August 2024 I had the opportunity to watch a Lavani performance at Divar, Goa. Titled ‘Lavani Ke Rang’, it offered a glimpse into the world of traditional Lavani artists through a story of an enigmatic and quirky theatre ‘Malkin’ from the Sangeet Bari tradition. She takes the audience on a journey of their theatre rules, traditions, private performances, and a practical outlook towards their art. The production attempted to throw light on the various unknown facts about the traditional performative art and give the Lavani artists the respect and space they deserve. Historically, the genre of the Marathi love lyric, […]
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Gatekeeping
Though I am embedded within the systems of the art world, I often question these inbuilt hierarchies, about who can enter and who is kept out.
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Creating An Identity
At first, I baulked at the idea – my name as a brand! But then it slowly began to make sense. After all it’s only a beginning, things can change, grow, die, be reborn. It was the right time for Lina Vincent Arts Consultant.
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The Mentorship Story
38 lovely people, three years, and many hours of conversations on art, creativity, collaboration, direction and progress, success and failure. I now have that many friends aged between 22 and 64. What does it mean to be a mentor? A whole lot of things.
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Heritage Matters
When I am invited to teach modules about art history and cultural heritage, I always remember the words of the late artist, professor and cultural advocate K G Subramanyan “…As we all know, India in a vast continent with a long history. It’s cultural heritage or what little remains of it, is still quite immense. So, the preservation and nurture needs to be a nationwide effort involving all the existing agencies, official and non-official, as well as the general mass of people. For they are the final custodians of culture; without them it will be one step forward and two steps […]
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Why Objectspeak?
I began my very first Instagram page in 2019, as an extension of a fellowship that involved developing outreach programs and public educational modules for a museum. I was always interested in old and beautiful things, whether buildings, books, or objects of any sort. Studying art history after training in printmaking opened up a world of interests, and most of them tied down to material culture of some sort. Over these five years, my page has filled with numerous depictions and descriptions of objects and artefacts – in museums, in homes, in temples and churches, in forests and heritage sites. If […]