Artalaap
Episodes
Ep 21: Vestibular Criticism ft. Geraldine Tedder
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special Artalaap episode, Kamayani Sharma speaks to Kunsthalle Winterthur director Geraldine Tedder about writing and curating practices throu...
Ep 20: Portrait of a Citizen - '2024: Notes from a Generation'
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this Artalaap episode, Kamayani Sharma speaks to Prarthna Singh and writer Snigdha Poonam abouttheir multimedia project 2024: Notes from a Generati...
Ep 19: Family Archives - 'Film Pictorial' (1941-1947)
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this Artalaap episode, I, Kamayani speak to Jayant Parashar about his family's legacy -- a pre-Independence film magazine called Film Pictorial, st...
Ep 18: Remembering the Present - The 1947 Partition
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this Artalaap episode, I, Kamayani Sharma, speak to artist Pritika Chowdhry, whose solo exhibition 'Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories' fea...
Summer break!
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With two seasons behind us, ARTalaap is taking a hiatus over the summer. We will be back soon with all-new programming -- stay tuned! Follow us ...
Ep 17: Tales of Silence
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, I Kamayani speak to Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai whose solo exhibition 'Naguftaha-e-Havva' ('The Unspoken Words of Havva') is currently on v...
Ep 16: Indigenous Horizons - The 4th Kathmandu Triennale (2020)
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I, Kamayani Sharma speak to the curators of the 4th Kathmandu Triennale titled "2077" -- Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung. Th...
Ep 15: Sarkari Sci-Fi - FD & the films of Pramod Pati
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, it's gonna be just me, ARTalaap creator and your host, Kamayani Sharma. I talk about my work on the cinema of cult Films Divisio...
Ep 14: Imaging Resistance - Shaheen Bagh
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I, Kamayani Sharma, speak to artist, researcher & educator Ita Mehrotra, author of the graphic book ‘Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Rec...
Ep 13: A Partitioned Memory - The Lahore Museum
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with art historian Aparna Kumar, recipient of the inaugural UC Berkeley South Asia Art and A...
Ep 12: Char/Coal Country
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with artist Prabhakar Pachpute, among the winners of the Artes Mundi Prize 2020 abo...
Ep 11: The Bahujan Gaze
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with Jyoti Nisha, filmmaker, writer and scholar. She is the director of 'BR Ambedkar: Now ...
Ep 10: Art & Labour - Culture Workers Support Trust
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with Shukla Sawant and Annapurna Garimella, Founder Trustees of the Culture Workers &nbs...
Ep 9: Screenwriting as an Archive of Early Bombay Cinema
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Rakesh Sengupta researched early Indian cinema. His essay 'Writing from ...
Ep 8: Sundance Film Festival 2021 World Cinema Documentary Awardees
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the Sundance Film Festival 2021, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh won the Special Jury Award: Impact for Change and the Audience Award in the Wo...
Ep 7: Cognitive - Computational - Cosmic - The 13th Gwangju Biennale (2020)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
18 May marks a watershed event in South Korea's ultimately successful pro-democracy movement - the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. As we come up on...
Ep 6: Solidarity Aesthetic - Artists of Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement 2021
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, against the backdrop of Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement that arose in the wake of the military junta's coup of 1 February 202...
Ep 5: The Webcomic as Political Form - Part 2
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the second in a two-part series on political webcomics in India. In the context of an increasingly repressive regime, the ...
Ep 4: The Webcomic as Political Form - Part 1
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first of a two-part series on political webcomics in India. In the context of protests, arrests and judicial intimidat...
Ep 3: Farming as Art - Artists Against the 2020 Indian Agriculture Laws
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, in the wake of India’s 71st anniversary as a republic, we’ll speak about the farmers’ protests that have been raging across the...
Ep 2: The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts' Photobook Grantees 2020
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Hari Katragadda & writer/editor Shweta Upadhyay were awarded The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts' Photobook Grant 2020 for their colla...
Ep 1: 10 Years of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
India's first major private museum of modern and contemporary art, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi reopens on 5 January 2021 after a period o...
What is 'Artalaap' All About?
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Delve into the discourse around the aesthetics, politics, and infrastructure of visual art. Artalaap is a podcast on visual culture focusing on modern...