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Lines as Notes
A Screening of Collages & The Line by SG Vasudev
Speakers
47 minutes
Two short films, Collages and The Line, made by artist SG Vasudev, will be screened at the event. This will be followed by a panel discussion involving artist-journalist Anupama Bijur and art & music historian Pramila Lochan, moderated by Indira Chandrasekhar, writer and publisher of the online literary magazine, Out of Print.
Collages has music by well-known veena musician Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh. It also demonstrates the artist’s unique technique of assembling collages along with drawings using roll pens and acrylic paint. Vasudev discovered this new medium of art as a means of artistic expression during the Covid lockdown period in 2020.
The Line showcases Vasudev’s line drawings from 1962 onwards, including his drawings in response to A.K. Ramanujan’s poetry. The music in this video is by acclaimed Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan.
Presented by:
Speakers
Anupama Bijur
Anupama Bijur has been a lifestyle and digital magazine editor and journalist with some of India’s biggest publishing houses. She now heads marketing and communications for a wealth management firm. She is also an illustrator capturing life’s funny moments.
Pramila Lochan
Dr. Pramila Lochan is an art historian, researcher, and writer with a deep engagement in Hindustani classical music for over four decades. Since 1992, she has worked extensively on ragamala painting, mural art, ganjifa, folk and contemporary art, and musicology. Her projects include the documentation of South Indian mural paintings (since 2002), digitisation of Kishor Gordhandas’ ganjifa collection for IGNCA, and co-curation of a ganjifa gallery at Heritage Village, Manipal.
Her publications include Mural Paintings of Kancipuram (IGNCA, 2019), Sarojini Devi – The Nightingale of India (2003), and contributions to Splendours of Ganjifa Art (2019). She has authored over 100 feature articles for leading publications and has presented talks, curated exhibitions, and conducted workshops.
Dr. Lochan holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Art History (Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath), and has taught at various institutions in Bengaluru. She is a former Principal of Roerich Institute of Fine Arts, was senior researcher at IGNCA SRC, and is currently a General Council Member of Lalit Kala Akademi.
Indira Chandrasekhar
Indira Chandrasekhar is a writer. She founded the literary short fiction journal Out of Print and is its main editor. An anthology marking ten years of the magazine was co-published with Context Books in 2020 and reissued in 2023.
