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To Miss The Woods curated by Abhishek Nilamber at Cinelogue, a space for film curation, global streaming, and critical dialogue around cinema, representation, and politics by presenting cinema by the Global Majority.

Cinema might have originated in the West, but in South Asia it is domesticated and venerated. Bolly, Lolly, Tolly, Kolly, and other woods of the region have thrived, conforming to and even amplifying the social hierarchies and cultural hegemonies of the region, namely caste, class, religion, languages, clan, aesthetics, and geography, among others. Yet the cinematic expressions that did not conform to this hegemony were bereaved of a wider exposure.

To Miss The Woods invites the audience to literally ‘miss the woods for the trees’ and explore the diverse cinematic flora that has emerged beyond the defined woods. We present to you a bouquet of films from South Asia that are a labor of love and are made with care for community rather than the market. We hope that this selection will inspire and challenge the audience to reimagine the South Asian cinemascape.

The films:

■ The Land of My Forefathers by Irfan Noor K, Pakistan, 2021

■ Sindhustan by Sapna Moti Bhavnani, India, 2019

■ Trans Kashmir by S.A. Hanan, Surbhi Dewan, India, 2022

■ Eye Test by Sudha Padmaja, India, 2017

■ Blood Earth by Kush Badhwar, India, 2013

■ A Walnut Tree by Ammar Aziz, Pakistan, 2015

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15th edition of UDRI’s publication Mumbai Reader 22|23 - Civil Society and the City captures 24 original stories of civic action that have shaped your city. This reader is a chronicle of people’s journeys, their learnings and their impact across key urban themes woven together vividly from the threads of activism, history, and artistic expression. With the following contributions:

■ A Timeline of Mumbai’s Development and Civic Action compiled by UDRI ■ Civic Action Groups in Mumbai by V. Ranganathan ■ The Early Years of New Bombay by Shirish B Patel ■ Shyam Chainani: A Journey from Advocacy to Institutional Impact compiled by Anuradha Parmar and Elaine Agith ■ The Urban Transformer – A Brief History of The Urban Design Research Institute based on an interview with Rahul Mehrotra ■ The Story of the Kala Ghoda Arts District, Kala Ghoda Association and Kala Ghoda Arts Festival based on an interview with Rahul Mehrotra and Brinda Miller ■ Timeline of Mumbai Textile Mill Redevelopment and Recycling Urban Land by Charles Correa, Edited by Darryl D’ Monte ■ Bombay Imagined – An Illustrated History of the Unbuilt City by Robert Stephens ■ Nivara Hakk Then and Now: The Struggle for Housing Rights by Gurbir Singh ■ Restoring Mumbai’s Open Spaces based on an interview with P K Das ■ The Creation of SPARC and its Foundational Strategy Formations by Sheela Patel ■ A Glimpse of NPCCA’s Journey in Reclaiming Public Spaces by Atul Kumar and Swarn Kohli ■ Citizens Can Make Transformational Changes in Their Surrounds by Shirin Bharucha and Nayana Kathpalia ■ The Story of NAGAR by Nayana Kathpalia and Meher Rafaat ■ Saving Mumbai’s Sole Heritage Botanical Garden: The Struggle of the Save Rani Bagh Botanical Garden Foundation by Hutokshi Rustomfram and Shubhada Nikharge ■ The Story of AGNI: Cyrus Guzder in conversation with D. M. Sukthankar ■ Towards an Empowered and Accountable Local Governance by Nitai Mehta, Sumangali Gada and Anuj Bhagwati ■ The Story of Civis by Antaraa Vasudev and Divya Pinge Civic Action to Protect Mangroves at the Turn of the Century by Rishi Aggarwal ■ Beyond the Silent Struggles: The Story of Awaaz Foundation by Sumaira Abdulali ■ For the Right to Water by Sitaram Shelar ■ Save Aarey, Save Mumbai by Stalin Dayanand ■ Narratives from the Bandra Collective by Sameep Padora, Samir D‘Monte, Pronit Nath, Robert Verrijt and Zameer Shakir Basrai ■ Space and Hip-hop: The Birth and Evolution of Mumbai’s Underground Music Scene by Arushi Khare based on an interview with Tushar Adhav and Ashwini Hiremath ■ Fisherfolk Resistance to the Coastal Road: The Arenas of Struggle by Shweta Wagh ■ From Up There They Were Just Numbers by Amrita Gupta, Anuradha Pathak, Anant Jain and Kush Badhwar

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Discover Chicago’s layered history The fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial shows what the city could become. by Anjulie Rao

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Chicago Architectural Biennial 5: This is a Rehearsal By Pia Singh

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Ostarituikkiia - Shopping Mall Investigations: Hanna Tyvelä (University of Tampere), Antti Tarvainen (University of Helsinki), Nikki Jääskeläinen, Saara-Maria Kariranta, PWSC (Shubhangi Singh and Kush Badhwar), Miina Pohjolainen and Salla Valle. 

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Falling through a signal | —out-of-line—

—out-of-line— (/–ool–) is a project, (re)assembly and framework that attempts at the close and critical readings of networked and telecom infrastructures, and their affective possibilities. During the month-long period of inhabiting the FICA Reading Room, phrased as an act of ‘falling through a signal’, —ool— attempts to toy with the site of a signal as a porous and modulating situation while pursuing questions of public participation. The processes and observations accumulated over a year are revisited, compiled, annotated and reflected upon to trace their cross connections and overlaps.

The display tries to engage with practices and conversations that question the role of telecommunication networks at various interfaces of cultural, political, social and personal life—from the inability to ‘connect’ over a call to navigating the IVR-paths of a call on foot, from turning the cracks of a phone screen into a canvas to sending out daily messages from a disabled dictionary, from an in-flight playlist broadcasting over radio to tracing out the maps of occupied regions, from annotating sound through a publication to screenshot-zines, spectral readings, notes, conversations and other musings from the depths of the call—all of this absorbed while falling through a signal. 

—out-of-line—, a collaborative practice instituted by Suvani Suri, Sonam Chaturvedi, Kaushal Sapre, Radha Mahendru, Aasma Tulika and Jaidev Deshpande was awarded the Public Art Grant in 2020. 

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Sarai x LA: Capture All Australia

Mon 20–Sat, 25. Feb 2023

(Capture All)

Capture All is an international research and development program that has been developed by LA in partnership with Sarai-CSDS, Delhi since 2021. Comprised of artists, researchers, activists, and educators, the program explores how sound and listening practices may critically analyse, and break, the recursive colonial patterns in data-driven governance that haunt and impact contemporary life in setter- and post-colonial Australia and India.

How might we intervene in and resist perpetual patterns of capture that are increasingly abstracted, automated, and blackboxed beyond reach? Where and how do such practices relate to histories of migration in the Asia Pacific context? How is audibility understood, stretched, and counter-mobilised in relation to settler-colonial extractivism, technological control and capture, and ongoing modes of statist and corporate governance?

These questions will propel a Capture All residency in February, hosted by LA and convened by Laura McLean and Suvani Suri with cohort members Aasma Tulika, Joel Spring, Mehak Sawhney, Shareeka Helaluddin, Thomas Smith, and Uzma Falak.

During the residency, performances, lectures, and workshops by the Capture All cohort will be presented at ACCA as part of the Data Relations Summer School on Monday 20 February. This will include an evening performance open to the public.

Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournements lecture and musical performance Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 5–8pm, 20 February Suvani Suri w/ Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney

A drift that begins with the attempts to tune into the inaudible recordings of the Linguistic Survey of India archives, producing short circuits in the process. The slow rummaging opens up ways of listening to co-relationalities, within the archival crackles, echoic memories, archaeological artefacts, earwitness testimonies, computational instructions, and cultural data sets moored in South Asian contexts.

Capture All: screen and sound 2–5pm, 25 February Composite, Melbourne

Screening works by: Tom Smith, Narrative 001: The Things We Like, 2022 (18 mins 45 secs) Mochu - Cool Memories of Remote Gods, 2017 (14 mins 48 secs) Aasma Tulika, Listening to Success Stories, 2022 (19 mins 23 secs) Kush Badhwar, Blood Earth, 2013 (35 mins) Joel Spring, Diggermode (23 mins) Jazz Money, We have stories for all the dark spaces in between (7 mins 15 secs)

Capture All is supported as an International Strategic Initiative by the Australia Council for the Arts.

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by Sandhya Bordewekar

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Every Inch: the bureaucratic effect in colonisation — 15 October to 12 November 2022

Kush Badhwar, Alana Hunt, Sohrab Hura and Mabel Juli with Mr R Peters Curated by Jasmin Stephens With additional contributions from James Nguyen, Veeranganasolanki Kumari, Ian McLean and Renu Savant

https://www.crossart.com.au/exhibition-archive/118-2022-exhibitions-projects/377-every-inch

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Alana Hunt and Kush Badhwar will discuss the exhibition Every Inch: the bureaucratic effect in colonisation, and it’s coming-together through engagement with different ‘sites’, connected to the artists’ lives in Australia and South Asia, that inform their work. Curated by Jasmin Stephens, the exhibition is currently showing at Cross Art Projects in Sydney, Australia, and the talk will consider the Projects’ gallery itself as a site of ongoing cultural activism within Sydney.

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RUB’s finale begins at sunset with somnambulant sounds from ½ asleep (Paola Jalili & Kush Badhwar), before we ride a genre fluid rollercoaster with DJ folk flore (Aliisa Talja) and dj fim do caminho (Sumugan Sivanesan) shrugs off winter with raw and tasty cuts of funk carioca and brega. As usual clubbers can join RUB on SonoBus, a free and open source multi-user audio platform, or listen to the livestream at fugitive-radio.net

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by Paribartana Mohanty & Kush Badhwar Mentored by Rajula Shah Podampeta and many other Nolia fishing villages in the Ganjam district of Odisha are abandoned due to land erosion resulting from rising sea levels. The Nolia have been rehabilitated elsewhere, through the provision of one room kitchen. The rehabilitation colonies are far from the ocean and, ultimately, these displaced fishermen lose their work, skills and culture. This leads to further migration to cities where they seek work as daily wage labourers. The film is set between both the ghost villages and the abandoned rehabilitation colonies that stand witness to this crisis of livelihood and existence.

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Besides the organisers of Shopping Mall Investigations project, Miina Pohjolainen and Salla Valle, visual artist Nikki Jääskeläinen, visual artist and sculptor Saara-Maria Kariranta and PWSC a collaboration between artists Shubangi Singh and Kush Badhwar will be working site-specifically in the art and research space in Konalanvuori shopping mall during July and August 2022.