Category: Archiving Practices
Archiving= Collect, Organise, Document, Preserve, Build Controlled Easy Access.
Memories and actions get imprinted in materials and practices. Some of them are significant collective heritage, while some are very intimate personal memoirs. We inherit tangible and intangible heritage that needs systematic archiving. Archiving helps in carrying forward legacies, making justice to unique unacknowledged practices, celebrating family histories and industrious feats, and learning from revolutionary ideas.
Faandee enjoys working with individuals holding family legacies, private and public art collections, community heritage-oral and material histories and anything that celebrates cultural diversity.
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From Exchange to Documentation
For the Love of Printmaking emerges from the urge to build a printmaking repository – dreaming to become an encyclopedia. Over the past twelve years (2013–2025), IPEP India has functioned as an artist-led platform for international exchange among printmakers, educators, students, researchers, and institutions. What began as a modest print exchange initiative gradually evolved into…
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Bharatan Archives – A Family & Artists’ Archive
Modern Indian art is shaped through several celebrated and many unknown hands. Maledath Bharatan a Textile Chemist from Kerala who initially finds a job at Mumbai, then joining the Communist Party of India, actively works under the cultural wing to inspire artists toward radical social awareness. M. Bharatan though lesser documented have worked closely toward…
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Indelible Black Marks
by Patiala based multidisciplinary artist Kulpreet Singh.
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Suhas Bahulkar – Artist Archive
Suhas Bahulkar- an artist, art historian known for documenting and publishing history of several artists from Maharashtra and Bombay School through the”Encyclopaedia of Visual Art of Maharashtra: Artists of Bombay School and Art Institutions” and several other books. His personal studio practice and public projects are documented by Faandee, offering a comprehensive archiving and cataloguing…
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Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams. Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin
Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin April 2024 | A year long exhibition programme Warli art, renowned for its indigenous graphic vocabulary, forms the foundation of the artistic practice of Tushar and Mayur Vayeda. As young artists deeply engaged with themes of agroforestry, the Vayeda brothers work to…
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Sanjay Kumar: Traveller of the Rational Path
As part of the project documenting artist Sanjay Kumar’s four-decade artistic journey, Faandee led a comprehensive research initiative to compile and construct the biographical monograph, “Sanjay Kumar – The Traveller of Rational Path”. The research process involved extensive in-person interviews with the artist and his associates, conducted before and after the COVID-19 lockdown. Faandee’s team…
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Art Mediation Tool Kit – Editorial
Making art accessible is an essential aspect of exhibition-making. Art mediation goes a step further by encouraging active viewer engagement through inclusive, playful, and easy-to-understand formats designed for diverse audiences. Faandee contributed in an editorial capacity to the open-source publication Tool Kit, developed as part of Space for Encounters – Art Mediation for Open Access,…