KOCHI: The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) has become a major subject for this year’s prestigious Chevening Clore Leadership Programme for senior professionals in global cultural management.
The participation of a large number of artists from across the world and the thought-provoking venues of Biennale have made Meena Vari, an Indian arts teacher selected for the British cultural leadership programme, choose the contemporary art event the topic of her study.
Students from the prominent art school Central St Martins, London and the Bangalore-based Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology will conduct the online study, conceived by Vari under a project called ‘Global Art Spaces’.
As many as 16 senior students of the Srishti School have already arrived at the Biennale venues to pursue the project, which is conducted in collaboration with Britain’s foremost art institution, the Tate, UK.
While the students of Srishti College will study the KMB, their counterparts at the Central St Martins will work with the Tate, UK. The students of both the institutions will then discuss their studies guided by two project leaders from India and the UK.
“The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an ideal space to work with because there are so many artists from around the world coming to participate in the event in locations decided by them,” says Ms Vari, Dean, Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice at the 1996-founded Srishti School.
The study by the students will culminate in an exhibition, which will be shown in Bangalore, London and at the biennale in Kochi in February next year.
