KHALLIKOTE: New Bridge Video Art Film Festival, organised and conceptualised by art historian Rajashree Biswal, concluded at Government College of Art and Crafts, Khalikot Tuesday.
The festival intends to create awareness and appreciation about video art as a powerful medium reflecting contemporary times. Moreover, it aims to reach out to different art worlds as well as diverse audience and larger public.
New Bridge India is a non-profit cultural initiative by Rajashree Biswal and Birendra Pani. Started in 2015, it endeavours to create a novel cultural forum to understand and engage with the complex human experience in a local, regional, national and global paradigm in the contemporary times.
Moreover, to propagate ‘new viewership’ of ‘art’ and promote cultural dialogue among the larger public are important facets of this initiative. Government College of Art and Crafts, Khallikote is one of the most significant art institutions in Odisha which has produced a large number of renowned artists as well as art educationists who had shaped the course of direction of art in Odisha.
Principal Jayant Kumar Das and Trinath Mohanty, lecturer, Graphics Department, try to give exposure and awareness to its students by organising various art workshops and other programmes regularly.
New Bridge Video Art Film Festival hosted art films on Indian artistes Ramkiner Baij, Subodh Kerkar and others as well as on western artists like Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Keith Haring, Marina Abramovic and others.
Video art works by noted artistes like Anita Dube, Babu Eshwar Prasad, Birendra Pani, Inder Salim, Kiran Subbaiah, Pooja Iranna, Pramod Pati, Pratul Dash, Pushpamala N. Ravi Agarwal, Sharmila Samant, Surekha, Subba Ghosh, Sweta Bhattad, Tushar Joag, Vivan Sundaram and Veer Munshi featured at the event.
These works were included in thematic sections like Identities, Boundaries and the Liminal Space; Foreboding Inheritance?, Towards a New Ecology and Regeneration of Self, Folk, Kitsch and the Postmodern Flirtation and Art, Self and Existentialism.
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The festival intends to create awareness and appreciation about video art as a powerful medium reflecting contemporary times
