[Reader-list] Popular Arts Fellowship: Call for Proposals

[Tasveer Ghar]

Dear Friends
We are delighted to announce the launch of Tasveer Ghar: A Digital
Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture. Tasveer Ghar is a
trans-national virtual "home" for collecting, digitizing, and
documenting various materials produced by South Asia's exciting
popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps
and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms
of street and bazaar art.

Tasveer Ghar invites proposals for its first short-term fellowship
involving the collection and documentation of popular visual arts with
a focus on "Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday", resulting in
the digitization of the collected specimens and their virtual
exhibition on the website of Tasveer Ghar at the end of the
fellowship.

This fellowship is ideally meant for individuals or groups who already
have an important collection of popular arts that needs to be
archived, digitized, or restored, but may not have the resources or
know-how to go about doing that. We are also open to proposals that
seek to start a new collection or document/photograph something that
is available in a public space and needs urgent attention (say, some
unique political graffiti on the streets of Kolkata!). Currently we
offer this fellowship to individuals or groups based in India only. In
exceptional cases, we may consider projects from outside India, but
the subject of research/documentation would have to be Indian and the
artwork needs to be sent to New Delhi, India.

The Tasveer Ghar Fellowship 2007 is a meant for a period of 6 months,
starting June 2007. The last date for the submission of proposals is
April 30, 2007.

For more information on what we mean by popular visual culture, who is
eligible to apply to this fellowship, and what one is expected to do
during this fellowship, kindly visit our website www.tasveerghar.net,
or write to us at tasveerghar at gmail.com

We invite you—as friend, colleague, and partner—to join this
initiative in whatever capacity that you are comfortable with. Kindly
see our detailed Call for Proposals on the website. We also request to
kindly forward this message to many more friends and inststitutions
that maybe interested in such an initiative.

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Christiane Brosius
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Yousuf Saeed

http://www.tasveerghar.net