S c h o o l o f H u m a n i t i e s a n d S o c i a l S c i e n c e s
Department of ART, MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE
Dr. Aadya Kaktikar
Grants
Fullbright Specialist Grant 2025
Project Title: (Re)searching Danced Narratives
The Fulbright Specialist, Dr. Jeff Friedman from Rutgers University, worked with oral history to develop movement vocabulary and choreographic analysis from existing archival videos and interviews.
Publications
Kaktikar, A., & Henley, M. 2024. “Dance Teacher Education at Shiv Nadar Schools: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities.” Journal of Dance Education, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2024.2362294
Kaktikar, Aadya. 2024. “The Hierarchy of Parampara: Rethinking Relationship to Legacy.” In South Asian Danced Intersections. Vol.3(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.55370/sadi.v3i1.1984
Professor Atul Bhalla
Residency
Awarded The Rockefeller Bellagio Residency February 2025
Projects
False Clouds and Real Deluges
World Weather Network + Khoj International Artist Association. 28N Parallel.
Curated Shows
Politically Charged November 7- December 14 2024. Aicon Gallery NYC. USA
· Moments of Collapse. Curation Gigi Sacria. SAHMAT
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation , Delhi.
· 28° North and Parallel Weathers. KHOJ. New Delhi
Anupam Roy
Hemant Sreekumar
Grants
Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis (CAREC), awarded the Prince Claus Mentorship Award by the Prince Claus Fund, 2025.
Shows
Participated in “Nocturne”, curated by Uma Ray, part of the 58th Annual Exhibition at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, 2025.
Presented a solo show, “All trees and flowering plants stand on their own”, curated by Anushka Rajendran at Asia Now, Booth No. G03, Monnaie de Paris, 17–20 October 2024.
Consultancy
Interglobe Aviation, Gurgaon
Sound Design @ Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Shows
Performance Art and Lecture @ Bunch of Noise Festival, Shanghai, China
Performance at Mool Art Space, New Delhi
Performance and Installation at the Dystopia Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Presentation at the Petersburg Art Space, Berlin, Germany
Performance of Plangent Gerunds @ Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru
Consultancy for Interactive art sculpture @ NMACC
Mumbai
Dr. Iram Ghufran
Research Publication
Immanent Futures, Quotidian Spaces: A View from Yiwu IAFOR Journal of Cultural, IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies (SCOPUS), Jun/2024
Screening
There Is Something In The Air Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore Date: 12 April 2024 Bulbule
Consultancy
Collaborated with KNMA to present Embodying Histories: Choreographies, Narratives and Institutions
Fulbright Specialist Dr. Friedman was in conversation with Aditi Mangaldas and discuss the ways in which narratives, memory and histories locate themselves in choreography. Dr. Amritha Shruthi Radhakrishnan
Ashwin Ramanathan
Film
Technical guidance for Feature Film
Prelims
& Final Synopsis
After a horrific accident, Adhi wakes up one day with no memory beyond 12th grade, only to find himself actually in the final year of engineering. With a blank slate which keeps presenting vestiges of a troubled past that indicates a ruinous reputation. He must now navigate friendships, known and otherwise, lessons he must relearn from forgotten failures and a certain trauma, just out of his mental grasp, flashes of memory, knowledge and realisation, to forge an identity and plot a future.
MFA Student Achievement
Aditi Suneja, Sai Gitanjali Polluru, Gurdev Singh, and Nasir Sheikh (MFA Students 2023–25)
This collaborative work by has been selected for the conference "Reimagining Climate (Im)mobilities in the Panicocene", taking place on 8–9 May 2025 at Durham University.
Their live, multi-sensory presentation explores the Anthropocene, racialised bodies, and global (im)mobilities, offering a rethinking of borderless collaboration.