Khoj is pleased to announce the selected resident artists for ‘Coriolis Effect: Currents across India and Africa’, which is a new international residency project, to be initiated at Khoj in August 2015. This project seeks to activate the social, economic and cultural relationship and historical exchange which exists between India and the continent of Africa. In part, the rationale behind Coriolis Effect is in response to Khoj’s immediate neighborhood of Khirkee Village Extension; a dense urban –village environment in New Delhi that has been home to a stream of immigrants from within the Indian Subcontinent, as well as migrants from countries such as the global south. Coriolis Effect will not only use the present context of 21st century migrations, but equally refer to various moments of exchange through history; from the recent past of the Non-Aligned movements in the 20th century, to the cultural relationship shared exchanged by Indians and Africans from the 1st century AD onwards.
The selected artists in residence are:
- Amshu Chukki
- Bernard Akoi-Jackson
- Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
- Insurrections Ensemble (Ahsan Ali, Ari Sitas, Malika Ndlovu, Pritam Ghosal, Priya Sen, Sumangala Damodaran & Tina Schouw)
- Juan Orrantia