2010 dialogues

March 18–21, India International Centre, New Delhi

With Tomasz Salamun, Vahni Capildeo, Eliot Weinberger, Joy Goswami, Xu Xi, Anita Agnihotri, Charu Nivedita, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

evening readings

6:30–9:00 pm, IIC Annexe Court

Thursday, Mar. 18

Vivek Narayanan/Eliot Weinberger

Friday, Mar. 19

Vahni Capildeo/Joy Goswami

Saturday, Mar. 20

Anita Agnihotri/Xu Xi/Charu Nivedita

Sunday, Mar. 21

Sharmistha Mohanty/Tomaz Salamun

discussion

A dialogue around innovation, the making of the new, the originary. A very necessary enquiry in some geographies, because it is precisely the originary that has become the most recessive.

One of the ways to discover what is originary is to go back, not so much chronologically, but more in the manner of an excavation, till the source of something is found. Another approach perhaps, is to look at the force and velocity of the encounter between the old and the new, especially the ambivalent, fractured and charged spaces between them.

What is the idea of innovation in the different cultures from which we will be coming together? The stress that falls on the idea of innovation differs greatly from place to place. Can it be spoken of outside a sense of place, of context, even now, when we can read and see things that do not happen where we live? Can the new ever be something outside our experience?

These questions are meant only, as in our past dialogues, to conjure up a space, open, through which each writer may pass as they wish.

Each writer will have about 10-15 minutes, for a laying out of thoughts, a provocation for further discussion, open ended.

Friday, Mar. 19, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Sharmistha Mohanty, Tomaz Salamun, Vahni Capildeo

Saturday, Mar. 20, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Vivek Narayanan, Eliot Weinberger, Charu Nivedita

Sunday, Mar. 21, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Xu Xi, Anita Agnihotri, Joy Goswami

There will also be a discussion with the invited audience on Friday, March 19, 2:30 – 4:00 pm

editions

2019 | Dec. 6-8 | BIC, Bangalore

with Zoë Wicomb, Togara Muzanenhamo, I. Allan Sealy, Michael Kelleher, Jayant Kaikini, Joy Goswami, Vivek Shanbhag, Sharmistha Mohanty

2018 | Dec. 22-23 | IIC, Delhi

With Ari Sitas, Mani Rao, Subhro Bandhopadhyay, Rahul Soni, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2017 | Dec. 16-17 | IIC, Delhi

with Bei Dao, Mohammed Bennis, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Manglesh Dabral, Sergio Chejfec, I. Allan Sealy, Joy Goswami, Emily Sun, Jared Stark, Magaret Carson, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2015 | Feb. 13-15 | IIC, Delhi

with Raul Zurita, Joy Goswami, Kutti Revathy, K. Satchidanandan, Anna Deeny Morales, Bahauddin Dagar, Parvathy Baul, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2013 | Dec. 19-22 | IIC, Delhi

with​ Xi Chuan, Bahauddin Dagar, Renee Gladman, László Krasznahorkai, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ashis Nandy,​ Sharmistha Mohanty, Rahul Soni

2011 India-China | Dec. 19-21 | Jnanapravaha, Mumbai

with Bei Dao, Adil Jussawalla, Irwin Allan Sealy, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Han Shaogong, K. Satchidanandan, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ge Fei, Ashis Nandy, Li Tuo, Lydia Liu, Yourou Zhong, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2011 | Mar. 11-13 | IIC, Delhi

with Forrest Gander, Vahni Capildeo, George Szirtes, Irwin Allan Sealy, Rahul Soni, Giriraj Kiradoo, the Cybermohalla Collective, Charu Nivedita, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2010 | Mar. 18-21 | IIC, Delhi

with Tomasz Salamun, Vahni Capildeo, Eliot Weinberger, Joy Goswami, Xu Xi, Anita Agnihotri, Charu Nivedita, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2009 | Feb. 12-15 | IIC, Delhi

with Ashis Nandy, Kunwar Narain, Bei Dao, Joy Goswami, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Ge Fei, Zhai Yongming, K. Satchidanandan, Li Tuo, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Irwin Allan Sealy, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2008 | Mar. 6-9 | IIC, Delhi

with Claudio Magris, Bei Dao, George Szirtes, Udayan Vajpeyi, Irwin Allan Sealy, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Mani Kaul, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty

2006 | Dec. 15-17 | IIC, Delhi

with Irwin Allan Sealy, George Szirtes, Mani Kaul, Mariko Nagai, K. Satchidanandan, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Arvind Mehrotra, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty