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Introducing a New Website on World Photography Day!
Six months since our launch in February, on World Photography Day 2021, we are excited to introduce our website in an attempt to reach out to and engage with a wider readership. As smartphones dramatically alter the ways in which people access and acquire information, our application hopes to provide a platform for much overlooked pedagogical conversations around lens-based practices. In an increasingly virtual world of cognitive overload and constant distraction, our app will remain an experiment to build community through the mobile-reading experience in the everyday. Meanwhile, the website will become an exciting archive of the existing essays, interviews and albums. Encouraging an improved browsing experience of older materials, it will enable interesting connections across the categories of the platform. Through the Editor’s Pick of three essays every week, the website will highlight important themes, arguments and draw new parallels across the diverse conversations. Now existing across multiple platforms, ASAP | art will continue to serve as a knowledge resource that moves across disciplinary boundaries and probes the complex networks and experiences that make up the study of lens-based objects and practices. Check out our website at asapart.in for more!
Go Live with Soumya Shankar Bose
Join us on Monday 2 August at 4 pm for an interaction with Soumya Sankar Bose about his second solo show, Where the Birds Never Sing (2017–20), at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata. The show brings together Bose’s long-term project on the Marichjhapi massacre. The work traces the forcible eviction in 1979, of Bengali lower caste refugees from Marichjhapi Island, Sundarbans in West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation and disease.
Coming Soon: Live with Varun Gupta
Join us for the fourth episode of In Person on Friday, 2 April 2021 at 4 pm. We shall be speaking to Varun Gupta, the director of the Chennai Photo Biennale about his conceptualisation of institutional mandates. Gupta will elaborate on how the festival has traced genealogies of image practice in South Asia and how it plans to address awareness-building around media education in the coming years. The in-app live streaming session is easy to access—just click on Live Streaming via the drop down menu and wait a few minutes at the designated time.
Upgrade Available Now!
ASAP has upgraded! We have introduced new features to make our platform more accessible. You will be now able to share posts directly from the app and receive widget notifications instantly on your phone for any new posts, among other things. The app should automatically update, but in case your settings do not allow, you may have to update from the Play Store/App Store. Update now to view the In Person Live session with Susanta Mandal tomorrow at 4 pm!
Coming Soon: Live with Susanta Mandal
In our second live session of In Person, ASAP Connect is delighted to host artist and curator Susanta Mandal, in conversation with Ketaki Varma. Mandal will talk about his latest group exhibition Erasure, on view at Vadehra Art Gallery till 2 April 2021. The exhibition examines different forms of absence: a historical void which may restructure and rewrite the past/present, the personal pathology of dementia, the entanglements of memory and modes of forgetting. Join us LIVE on the app on Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 4 pm for a short conversation around the curatorial framework.
Categories in the App
The app has four categories: Stories will mainly consist of short reflective articles about publications, archives, histories as well as contemporary cultures of lens-based art and media. Events will comprise of reviews and reconsiderations of current and past exhibitions, seminars and festivals. Grants will relate to those bodies of work that are supported or commissioned by institutions and individuals. And Albums will provide a visual experience of specific oeuvres as well as a series of curated, authorial assemblage of images.
Welcome to the ASAP Connect App
Please keep an eye on our notice board for technical and content related notifications or corrections. From time to time, we may also mention browsing optimisation details here. Stay tuned!
