Sampad ExchangeLab: British-Indian artists invade Madrid

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What is Sampad ExchangeLab

The Sampad ExchangeLab is a research project exploring how the South Asian arts sector can better engage with digital technology.

This experiment involves cultural projects of the city of Madrid such as Medialab-Prado or Matadero, as well as non institutional organizations like  Plataforma de creación escénica HelloWorld!, Off Limits, CNC/Sala Mirador, SISMO Festival de creación in situ, and collectives of immigrantes, dance companies and programmers, linked by the goal of creating projects based in the participation and produccion of new future projects.

The ExchangeLab is part of an ongoing programme of placements organised by Sampad, a cultural organisation based in Birmingham, UK. Throughout 2011, 15 members of Sampad staff and external artists working in the field of South Asian arts are carrying out two-week placements in Madrid, in order to broaden how Sampad works digitally across its artistic programme, and also in relation to education and outreach, audience engagement and development, and how it works operationally.
 
 

Invited artists:

- Piali Ray, director of Sampad, a leading development agency for South Asian arts and a trained classical Indian dancer and choreographer
- Anusha Subramanyam is artistic director of dance theatre company Beeja, and a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, teacher and dance movement therapist.
- Divya Kasturi, a Bharatanatyam and Khatak dancer, carnatic vocalist, former presenter and director for Indian Television and qualified electronics engineer.
- Saranjit Birdi, a contemporary multimedia artist, working with drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and film, and a street-jazz dancer and qualified architect.

Program

Double Bill: The Language of Indian Dance

11.10.2011 / 20:30h. Dance performance by Anusha Subramanyam and Divya Kasturi at CNC/Sala Mirador. Free admission. [+info]
 

British South Asian arts: Past, Present, and Future

13.10.2011 / 19:00h. Lecture by Piali Ray, director of Sampad, at Medialab-Prado. Free admission. [+info]
 

An Inner City Life. Presentation of works by Saranjit Birdi

19.10.2011 / 20:00h. Lecture at Off Limits. Free admission. [+info]

Performance by Anusha Subramanyam and Indian dinner-tasting

19.10.2011 / 21:30h Performance y and Indian dinner-tasting at Restaurante India "Momtaz Mohol". Price: 10€ [+info]

Project funded by Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Programme of the European Comission.
Coordinated by Plataforma HelloWorld!