Annual report 2003-2004 - India Foundation for the Arts

Anjali Panjabi: Production of a documentary film on the oral legends of Mirabai. This and facing page: Stills from video footage shot by Mrinal Desai.Grant Allocations24Arts Research and DocumentationNISHTHA JAIN, MUMBAIRS 5,00,000 OVER ELEVEN MONTHSProduction of a film on studio portraiture inIndia, which will explore the human and socialdimensions that inform photographs and theexperience of being photographed. The filmwill be concerned with how photographs occupyan intriguing middle ground between truth andfiction, and will seek to deconstruct them interms of cultural influences, social aspirationsand individual fantasies.SHRI SIDDHESHWAR SHIKSHAN MANDAL,SHOLAPUR, MAHARASHTRARS 4,96,700 OVER TWO YEARSDocumentation of heritage buildings inSholapur, a town with a unique thousand yearold architectural heritage, on which the rulersof the Deccan Sultanates, the Mughals, theMarathas and the British have successively lefttheir stamp. Measure drawings and photographsof the buildings will be supplemented with documentationof their architectural history. Thedocumentation will be used to mount an exhibitionand enable the conservation ofSholapur’s architectural heritage.SHARADA SRINIVASAN, BANGALORERS 4,38,380 OVER TWO YEARSStudy of the cultural and artistic significanceof metallurgy in Indian antiquity, integratingtechnical, archaeological and art historicalperspectives. Archival research and fieldworkto study craft traditions that continue to usevarious metals and alloys, and photographicand video documentation, will go into the writingof a book and a script for a documentaryfilm series.SHRIPRAKASH, RANCHI, JHARKHANDRS 5,00,000 OVER ONE YEARProduction of a documentary film titled‘Recording Guiya’, which will explore the conditionsthat contributed to the unprecedentedsuccess of ‘Guiya’, an audio cassette releasedin the mid-1990s in Jharkhand. The film willexamine the current popular music scenarioand the future of oral traditions, focusing especiallyon the challenges and dilemmas of artistswho stand at the intersection of technology,traditional practice, commerce and individualaspiration.JAGAN SHAH, NEW DELHIRS 4,40,290 OVER ONE YEARCreation of a comprehensive collection ofmaterials on the Indian Peoples’ TheatreAssociation (IPTA). Archival research, interviewswith artists and institutional representatives,and the acquisition of reproductions ofbanners, posters, photographs, playscripts,songs, reviews and other critical writings onIPTA productions, will help to generate anaccount of the first collective, pan-Indiancultural movement in independent India.