Art beyond museums and galleries

Pune, Jan 5 : onfined to museums and galleries, the upcoming edition of Pune Biennale will feature several participatory projects at the venues of historic importance along J.M. Road here.

The third edition of India's second Biennale, scheduled between January 5-29, is titled "Habit_co_Habit". It has been curated by art historian and curator Zasha Colah and art critic Luca Cerizza.

The locations will include Modern High School, Municipal Printing Press, Mahatma Phule Museum, Pataleshwar caves precinct, Sambhaji Park and ABIL Subway.

The theme of "Identity and Self" shall be discovered through diverse mediums and forums including displays, installations, workshops, dialogues and seminars.

The projects include workshops and exhibitions of differently-abled artists, student-focussed young expressions, interactions in public spaces like parks, experiment with transient art spaces such as shipping containers, exploring different materials and narratives through visual media.

"For this edition, we have invited a line-up of artists that use a good variety of mediums -- from painting to sound, from sculpture to performance, from film to drawings and more," spokesperson Kiran Shinde told media in an e-mail interview.