India Art Fair 2012: Speakers’ Forum Thursday, 26th January 2012

India Art Fair 2012:
Speakers’ Forum
Thursday, 26th January 2012
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Moderator : Deeksha Nath, Curator, Delhi
Moving beyond the conventional biennale framework, how can we cultivate spaces for meaningful engagement across the Asia Pacific region? What kind of regional models are genuinely inclusive and collaborative? Drawing on a series of case studies and provocations, panelists will discuss various platforms from 2012 Gwangju Biennale’s curatorium, Tokyo Wonder Site’s integrated exhibition and residency program, Singapore Biennale’s regional position and the new, peripatetic initiative Utopia in order to speculate on cross-cultural collaborations. The talks will be provocative, generating audience discussion and debate including India’s new Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 and the role of public institutions in facilitating connectivity.
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Session 3
Topic : Corporate Involvement in Art and Culture
Welcome
Note : Rakhi Sarkar, Director, CIMA Art Gallery Pvt Ltd, Chairperson, FICCI Committee
on Art and Business of Art and Managing Trustee, KMOMA
Speakers : Shivinder M Singh, Managing Director, Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited
Priti Paul, Director, Apeejay Surrendra Group & Art Collector
Stephan Frucht, CEO, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI
T.C.A. Ranganathan, CMD, Export-Import Bank of India
Anthony Korner, Publisher, Artforum International Magazine
Alka Pande, Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator of the Visual Arts
Gallery, India Habitat Centre
Moderator : Gayatri Sinha, Independent Critic & Curator
In recent years trade in creative economy products has increased greatly because of rising world demand for goods and services that link cultural heritage, arts, creative services and design to modern business and technology.
But the challenges are to leverage these creative capacities and attract private investment. While social sector activities of the Indian corporate sector are widely recognized, private support extended to arts is yet to receive acknowledgement in India. The session will provide a forum for discussion on role, implications and prerequisites of private support to arts in all its facets including art education, infrastructure, promotion and marketing initiatives. The session would also bring to the fore the economic impact and growth potential of the Art and Culture sector and how the sector can contribute in creating jobs and economic growth.

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