This 4-day masterclass is an opportunity for anyone interested in art and history – including students of museology, curators and academics – to attend interactive multimedia sessions on what goes into curating major exhibitions of South Asian civilisational history.
Museums in South Asia urgently need to catch up with the advances being made in the social sciences, particularly in the areas of history, politics, as well as culture and gender studies. The masterclass will examine the complexities of dealing with diverse audiences, multiple religions, as well as how theoretical concerns can be implemented via scenography and exhibition design.
Using his groundbreaking 2013-14 exhibition Rupa-Pratirupa: The Body in Indian Art, staged at both the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the National Museum in Delhi, as a case study, Prof. Naman Ahuja will discuss the considerations and paradigm shifts that curators should be aware of today.
Attendees will come away with a sense of how museums and exhibitions represent a significant platform to reform not just the canon of art, but also reshape the way in which historians, politicians and communities think about themselves and their place in the world.