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INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS ANNUAL REPORT 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 Contents Page No Introduction 1 Organisation 2 Formation of the Trust 3 Summary KALANIDHI Programme A : Printed Materials 7 Digital Archives 8 Cultural Archives 9 Conservation Unit 9 Programme B : Media Centre 10 Cultural Informatics Lab 13 KALAKOSA Programme A : Kalatattvakosa 16 Programme B : Kalamulasastra 16 Programme C : Kalasamalocana 18 Area Studies VISUAL ARTS DIVISION 21 JANAPADA SAMPADA Programme A : Ethnographic Collection 22 Programme B : Adi Drishya 23 Programme C : Lifestyle Studies 25 North East Study Programme KALADARSANA Exhibitions/Events 33 Public Lectures/Seminars/Workshops 34 Music Concerts 34 REGIONAL CENTRES Eastern Regional Centre, Varanasi 36 Southern Regional Centre, Bengaluru 37 North East Centre, Guwahati 38 SUTRADHARA 39 ANNEXURES I : The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts 40 Board of Trustees (as on 31.3.2013) II : The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts 41 Members of the Executive Committee (as on 31.3.2013) III : List of Exhibitions held in IGNCA from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 42 IV : List of Lectures and other programmes held in IGNCA fromApril 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 43 V : List of the IGNCA Publications from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 46 VI : List of officers of the IGNCA, including Senior /Junior Research Fellows/Consultants in the IGNCA (as on 31.3.2013) 47 bafnjk xk¡/kh jk"Vªh; dyk dsUnz Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Annual Report 2012-13 Introduction the old and the modern. Here, the emphasis is on the connectivity and continuity between The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the the diverse fields that ultimately relate to Arts (IGNCA), established in the memory of human-to-human and human-to-nature Smt. Indira Gandhi, in 1987, is envisioned as symbiosis. an autonomous national level institution The IGNCA manifests its academic and encompassing the study and experience of all research work through its publications, multi- the arts -- each form with its own integrity, yet media products, international and national possessing a dimension of mutual inter- seminars, conferences, exhibitions and dependence and inter-relatedness with nature, lecture series. Schools and other institutions the social structure and cosmology. of learning are within the ambit of the This perspective of the arts, integrated with outreach programme of the IGNCA. It and essential to the larger matrix of human complements its research by cross culture, flows from Smt. Gandhi's disciplinary landscape studies in the field to recognition of the role of the arts as essential promote and ingest cultural inputs in to the 'integral quality of a person, at home development models. with himself and society.' It embodies the The principal aims of the Centre are: holistic world-view so forcefully articulated throughout the Indian tradition and • To serve as a major resource centre for the emphasised by modern Indian leaders, arts, especially written, oral and visual; e s p e c i a l l y M a h a t m a G a n d h i a n d • To undertake research and publication of Rabindranath Tagore. reference works, glossaries, dictionaries The IGNCA's view of the arts encompasses a and encyclopaedias concerning the arts, wide area of studies, such as creative and the humanities and cultural heritage; critical literature, written and oral; the visual • To establish a folk arts (including those of arts, ranging from architecture, sculpture, tribes) division with a core collection for painting and graphics to general material conducting systematic, scientific studies culture; photography and film; the performing and live presentations; arts of music, dance and theatre in their broadest connotation; and festivals, fairs and • To provide a forum for creative and in lifestyles that have an artistic dimension. critical dialogue between and among the The Centre also aims at exploring, studying diverse arts -- traditional and and enhancing the dialogue between India contemporary -- through performances, and her neighbours in areas pertaining to the exhibitions, multi-media projections, arts, and also between communities in India conferences, seminars and workshops. and the world over sharing a similar global • To foster dialogues between the arts and perspective. contemporary ideas in philosophy, The uniqueness and strength of the IGNCA's science and technology, with a view to approach to the arts lies in the fact that it does bridging the gap that often occurs between not segregate the folk and the classical, the the modern science disciplines on the one oral and the aural, the written and the spoken, hand and the arts and culture, including 1 bafnjk xk¡/kh jk"Vªh; dyk dsUnz Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts traditional skills and knowledge, on the a cultural system, combining the textual with other; the oral, the visual with the aural, life and arts, and theory with practice. It has initiated long- • To evolve models of research programmes term programmes for (a) Kalatattvakosa - a and arts administration that are lexicon of fundamental concepts and appropriate and significant to the Indian interdisciplinary glossaries/ thesauruses on ethos; basic technical terminologies in arts and • To elucidate the formative and dynamic crafts; (b) Kalamulasastra - a series of factors in the complex web of interactions fundamental texts of Indian arts; (c) between and among the diverse social Kalasamalocana - a series of reprints of strata, communities and regions; critical writings on Indian arts; (d) A multi- volume encyclopaedia of Indian arts; and (e) • To promote awareness of and sensitivity Area Studies. to historical and cultural linkages between India and other parts of the world; The Janapada Sampada Division complements the programmes of Kalakosa. • To develop a network of communication Its focus shifts from the text to the context of with national and international the rich and variegated heritage of rural and institutions of arts and culture, and to small scale societies. Its activities focus on affiliate with Universities and other lifestyle study programmes comprising the institutions of higher learning in India and Lokaparampara, which revolves around a abroad, for the purpose of expanding the community, and the Kshetra-sampada, which knowledge base in the arts, humanities revolves around a region. It has developed (a) and cultural heritage. a core collection of material and documentation of folk arts and crafts Organisation including those of tribes; (b) multi-media To fulfil the mandate outlined in the Deed of presentations; and (c) multi-disciplinary Declaration of the IGNCA and achieve its lifestyle studies of tribal communities for principal aims, the Centre functions through evolving alternative models for the study of five Divisions that are autonomous in the Indian cultural phenomena and noumenon s t r u c t u r e b u t i n t e r c o n n e c t e d i n in their totality and mutuality, and the inter- implementation of programmes. webbing of environmental, ecological, agricultural, socio-economic, cultural and The Kalanidhi Division comprises a political parameters. Reference Library of multi-media collections, which include printed books, The Kaladarsana Division provides a forum slides, microfilms, photographs and audio- for inter-disciplinary seminars, exhibitions visual material, a conservation laboratory, a and performances on unified themes and multi-media unit and the Cultural Archives. concepts. Bal Jagat, the programme for children, comes under this Division's The Kalakosa Division undertakes activities. Kaladarsana opens windows fundamental research and investigates between India and the world by disseminating intellectual traditions in their multi-layered the IGNCA's research in visual and tactile and multi-disciplinary dimensions and forms. cultural connections. Through its research and publication activities, it endeavours to Kalanidhi and Kalakosa concentrate on the place the arts within the integral framework of collection of primary and secondary material, exploration of fundamental concepts, 2 bafnjk xk¡/kh jk"Vªh; dyk dsUnz Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts identification of principles of form, (Department of Arts) Resolution No. F.16- elucidation of technical terminologies at the 7/86-Arts dated March 19,1987, the Indira level of theory and text (shastra) and Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Trust was intellectual discourse (vimarsha) and constituted and registered at New Delhi on interpretation at the level of marga. M arch 24, 1987. Initially established with Janapada Sampada and Kaladarsana focus seven members, it has been reconstituted on manifestations, processes, life functions, from time to time. lifestyles and oral traditions at the level of The names of Trustees and the Executive loka, desa and jana. Together, the Committee Members, as on March 31, 2013 programmes of these four Divisions place the are given in Annexure I and II. arts in their original context of life patterns, subsistence and resource management Highlights of programmes of 2012-13 strategies and its relationship with natural and social sciences disciplines. The methodology Celebrating 25 years of IGNCA of research, programming and final output are 2012-13 was landmark in the history of the analogous, thus making the work of each IGNCA. It was established on 19 November Division complement the programmes of the 1987, twenty-five years ago. To mark this, a others.