Episode 05
Brown Atlantis Radio feat. Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
Episode Date: 31 March 2021
Guest: Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
Listen to EpisodeIn this episode of Brown Atlantis we follow two of projects of Mumbai-based artist Ranjit Kanalgaonkar: ‘Shipping and the Shipped’, and ‘7 Isles Unclaimed’ (with Vinita Gatne and The 6th Floor Collective). We talk about the silence in the heart of a dismantled ship, lost islands and the last days of disco at sea.
Kandalgaonkar’s art practice primarily comprises a lens directed at the urban context of cities. Projects such as ‘cityinflux’, ‘Gentricity’, ‘build/browse’ and ‘Stories of Philanthropic Trusts’ map vulnerability within redevelopment strategies of urbanisation or record timelines and ‘blindspots’ -alternate markers of a city that’s unraveling. A study of combative histories of reclamation and speculation have led to projects such as ‘Isles amidst reclamation’ and ‘Seven Isles unclaimed’. Another decade-long project recording ship-breaking practices at Alang, Gujarat have led to the exhibition ‘Shipping & the Shipped’ – showcased at the Bergen Assembly, Art & Research Triennial – 2016, ‘[shipbreak_dossier] at ‘Sea Change’- Colomboscope -2019 and ‘The Stonebreakers’ at Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi-2020. Awards & grants include Majlis Visual Arts Fellowship, UDRI Fellowship, Leverhulme Artist Residency , Harvard University SAI Artist Residency , Seed Funding Award -Wellcome Trust and a Gasworks Artist Residency in collaboration with Wellcome Collections for which he produced an interactive drawing depicting his research on the Bombay plague of 1896.
