We are delighted to connect with you through live events at physical spaces, via hybrid modes or virtually at the click of a button! We invite you to join us, whenever you are ready, or from wherever you are, on myriad creative journeys, where with valued partners in India and in Korea, we explore new pathways and experiences, the magic of live performances and exhibitions or engage with those newly imagined from creation to reception and distribution on digital platforms. In this edition, as we open our cultural calendar, through a combination of phygital presentations, we invite you to evocative journeys and sensory experiences that though moored in local culture, connect and resonate with audiences worldwide!
We hope, with this e-digest, to stay meaningfully connected with you, to discover and engage with the unique, local characteristics as well as the shared, global dimensions of the dynamic, ongoing intercultural dialogue between India and Korea.
Annyeong Station
Season:4, Episode-2
Annyeong Station, is a platform in our online infotainment section, for conversation, interaction and exchange. With a focus on Korean popular culture, this online space will periodically present K-lounge curated interactions with industry specialists and influencers.
In the second episode of Season 4 of the K-lounge section on Annyeong Station we present an engaging conversation that focuses on the mass appeal of K-pop, its vibrancy and inclusivity as a genre. Our guest Shital Sikarwar, who is a prominent name in the entertainment industry who has curated the K Town Festival which celebrates K-pop and Korean culture, will be in conversation with our moderator, Puja Talwar, Executive Editor, Lifestyle and Entertainment, Good Times.
Join us for what promises to be an insightful, sparkling conversation.
Shital Sikarwar
Shital Sikarwar, the CEO, TANI Events and Entertainment leads with a visionary approach, blending passion and precision to curate immersive cultural experiences. Under her leadership, TANI has become a prominent name in the entertainment industry, most notably through K Town, an innovative festival celebrating K-pop and Korean culture. K Town Festival this December will feature acts from popular K-pop artists such as Bam Bam, BI, Chen and Xiumin.
Puja Talwar
Puja Talwar is the Senior Journalist & Editor with over 28 years experience in Broadcast Journalism. Puja is a Content Creator, Show Host, Moderator and a published Writer. She hosts the popular series 'Candid Conversations With Puja Talwar' on Youtube and a podcast titled ‘Entertainment Unlimited on Spotify. She lives for coffee, travel and K dramas!
For further information, please contact InKo Centre - T: 044 24361224; E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
Heart of Matter 2024- Episode- 1
Illustrated talk on Car-Temples and Temple-Cars of South India.
Presented in association with
Heart of Matter is a series of reflective conversations that dwell on holistic living, wellness, history, philosophy, literature, art and culture. Presented by InKo Centre as quarterly editions, in association with partner organisations, these direct and inspirational conversations will focus on lived experience rather than theoretical abstractions.
We invite you to explore what lies at the heart of matter, what matters most and why.
We are delighted to present in the first episode of our Heart of Matter series 2024 Episode 1, in partnership with DakshinaChitra Museum, a talk by Srishti Sankaranarayanan that delves deep into the significance of the metaphor of temple cars that pervade the architectural imagination of pre-modern South India.
Illustrated talk on Car-Temples and Temple-Cars of South India.
Abstract:
From the twelfth-century Airavatesvara Temple’s south pavilion in Darasuram to Garuda’s sixteenth-century shrine in the Cintalarayasvami Temple at Tadipatri, the metaphor of the car pervades the architectural imagination of premodern South India. The first car-temples — replete with two stone wheels, sculptures of caparisoned animals and reliefs of human performers on the base moldings — were constructed under Chola administration in the twelfth century. Parallel to this interest in making stone car-temples since the twelfth century was the regular procession of gods and kings on wooden cars along the arterial roads of urban temple towns during grand, multiday festivals. These wooden cars, which bear loose resemblance in form to Hindu temple spires in south India, are popularly known as ‘temple-cars.’ Temple-car processions signaled yet another architectural development: the morphology of three stone temples built in the early sixteenth century, among which the stone car shrine in Hampi is well known, directly responded to the form of wooden temple-cars.
In this talk, I delve deeper into the intermedial exercise of sculpting the car metaphor in wood and stone by considering two broad questions. Firstly, how do monumentality and materiality grade the interaction between stone temples and wooden cars? Secondly, what did stone car-temples and wooden temple-cars offer Brahmanical Hindu deities and their audiences? In answering these questions, I also examine the ramifications of this architectural phenomenon for concurrent developments in politics, theology, devotion, and urban development in peninsular India between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries
- Srishti Sankaranarayanan
About the speaker:
Srishti Sankaranarayanan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Her ongoing dissertation project centers on the history, form, and function of wooden temple-cars in southern India.
About DC Museum Talks:
DC Talks is a monthly lecture series organized by DakshinaChitra Museum. Culture is not static and this series seek to present a diverse collection of ideas and experiences to enlighten and inspire. The speakers are chosen from a wide spectrum of knowledge and practice – the choices are underpinned by the thought ‘culture is a basic need’.
About DakshinaChitra:
DakshinaChitra Museum, celebrating its 27th anniversary this year, is a not-for-profit institution based in Chennai. A key mission is to promote the contemporary arts and crafts, folk performing arts, domestic architecture and lifestyles of the five southern states of India.
Monday, 21 October 2024 at 6.00 p.m. at InKo Centre.
For further information, please contact InKo Centre - T: 044 24361224; E: enquiries@inkocentre.org.
Reverberation: Korea & lndia Art Exchange Exhibition.
Presented in association with
Supported by
We are delighted to partner Pyeongchang ARTccc to present an exchange exhibition of Korean and Indian works in Pyeongchang and in Chennai in 2024.
This exhibition was developed as a collaboration between Pyeongchang ARTccc and Cholamandal Artist Village, Chennai.
Pyeongchang ARTccc's Director, Soonyoung Yang, has visited lndia nine times to learn about lndian culture and to maintain exchanges with Indian artists. Soonyang notes that ln particular, Tamil Nadu and the Chennai region, has a culture similar to Korea, which enables cultural exchange and collaboration. Pyeongchang ARTccc and lnKo have held Korea-lndia art exchange exhibitions in 2019 and 2023. ln 2024, works by Korean and lndian artists will be held in Pyeongchang and Chennai and will be complemented with Korean Contemporary Art Workshops. 'We want to create an opportunity to actively understand the art of both countries and share Korea's traditional culture', says Soonyang.
Exhibition:
Indian Artists:
A Selvaraj
Basappa Onkarmurthy Shailesh
Bhoopathy Sivakumar Latha
C Douglas
Gnanasekar Hemalatha
M Senathipathi
P Gopinath
P S Nandhan
Richard Jacob Jebaraj
S G Vasudev
Senathipathi Saravanan
Venkatapathy Umashankar
Korean Artists:
BangYoung Park
Bong-myeong Choi
DuSub Jung
Hyeon-gyo Jeong
Kyung-eun Kim
Jeong-geun Jang
JongShu Kim
Jongyong Choi
JinHo Kim
Jin-gil Kim
Min-sook Park
Shin-gyu Song
SoonBeom Kwon
SoonYoung Yang
So-young Yoo
The exhibition will open on Tuesday, 22 October 2024 at 6.00 p.m. at the Gallery @ InKo Centre.
On view until Wednesday, 20 November 2024.
(except Sundays and published holidays).
For further information, please contact InKo Centre - T: 044 24361224; E: enquiries@inkocentre.org
Workshop on Korean traditional painting & Talk on Korean Contemporary Art:
Presented in association with
Supported by
We are delighted to partner Pyeongchang ARTccc to present an exchange exhibition of Korean and Indian works in Pyeongchang and in Chennai in 2024.
This exhibition was developed as a collaboration between Pyeongchang ARTccc and Cholamandal Artist Village, Chennai.
To complement the exhibition, we present a workshop on traditional Korean painting by Jinho Kim, Art Director, Soonyoung Yang and a talk by BangYoung Park and SoonBeom Kwon.
Workshop on Korean traditional painting & Talk:
Instructors: Jinho Kim, Soonyoung Yang, BangYoung Park, SoonBeom Kwon
Date: Thursday, 24 October, 2024.
Venue: InKo Centre.
Workshop: 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Talk: 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Participants: 20
Workshop: Korean Painting- Moon in-hwa
Jinho Kim
Invited artist to the Korean Calligraphy Exhibition and Deliberation committee member.
Director, Soonyoung Yang
Instructor at Oriental Painting Department, of Dongbang Culture University, Lecturer at Kangwon National University.
Talk: Korean Painting - Contemporary Art
BangYoung Park
Bang-Young Park (b.1957) is a South Korean artist who is known for integrating Eastern and Western art
into his paintings. He utilizes traditional tools such as the calligraphy brush and Chinese ink with
unconventional materials such as pearl powder, gold, and acrylics on traditional Korean paper. Bak
mastered calligraphy and Chinese characters at a young age, but he became more interested in Western
Painting and Drawing during his high school years. He studied at Hongik University and received a BA in Design and a MA in Western Painting. In 1985 he founded an art installation group called “Nanjido”, which was one of the groups that led the end of the Minimalist Movement in Korea. During this period of time, he transitioned from painting to art installations, but would later return to painting while living in New York City between 1993 and 1996. His experimentation with different media made him realize how much calligraphy and traditional Korean Art had influenced him throughout his life. After three years in the U.S. he returned to South Korea to study Eastern Painting for his Ph.D. program. Despite integrating many elements of traditional Eastern calligraphy into his paintings, Bak does not proclaim himself to be a calligrapher. His artistic style may rather be considered its own genre, fusing the techniques and aesthetic of both Western and Eastern Painting while maintaining the mind and spirit of Eastern Calligraphy. This self-created artistic style was a result of his passion to express his ethnicity, his experiences of Western and Eastern culture, his philosophy in spirituality, and his love for nature.
SoonBeom Kwon
The artist, who paid attention to the physical properties of each material under the theme of the passage of time and the continuity of space, began to work on the question of which object was different from his own reflection in the mirror. This work, which is not only faithful to the object expressed by realism, but also studies and analyzes the object, is borrowed as a method of expressing conflicting images in space and is reborn as a fantastic new space by conveying messages through each material such as the transparency of glass, the diversity of light, and the reflection of mirrors.
Workshop & Talk on Thursday, 24 October 2024 at InKo Centre.
Limited seats available. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information and to register, please contact - T: 044 24361224; E: enquiries@inkocentre.org
