On November 17, 2015: Jindal School of Liberal Arts in collaboration with the Winter School on Art\/Law at O.P. Jindal Global University organized an engaging forum that brought together contemporary artists, curators, scholars and students to discuss and deliberate on the different concepts of \u201cvalue\u201d in art, and their practical manifestations in the art world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The forum was organized at the O.P. Jindal Global University\ncampus in Sonipat and deliberated on three varied concepts of \u201cvalue\u201d (social,\neconomic, and intrinsic) in art. The first being its social value: the way\nparticular cultures and societies consider the value of particular objects and\ntheir role in the larger society. The second being the economic value: the\nexchange value or market value, where, art is thought of as a kind of\nproperty. The final conception is intrinsic value: best captured by terms\nlike “aesthetics” and “beauty.” Participants were invited\nto evaluate and locate their own encounters with these three senses of value\nwhile working in different locations within the art world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delivering the welcome address at the\nseminar, Prof. Kathleen Modrowski, Dean, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and\nHumanities, said, \u201cJSLH began this series of\nencounters last spring based on the understanding that the \u201carts\u201d are a vital\npart of the pursuit of knowledge. As a School of Liberal Arts we see the\narts<\/em>, visual and performing arts along with vernacular arts, as part of\nhuman expression common to all human beings. It is within this perspective that\nwe wish to engage in an ongoing discussion that will broaden our understanding\nof creative expression and to borrow a term from culture critic Denis Dutton,\nthe \u201cart instinct\u201d.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Vik Kanwar, Academic Director, Winter School on\nArt\/Law; Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, spoke on the multiple\nmeanings of the term \u201cvalue\u201d and how these intersect and depart when applied to\nart. He encouraged the audience to formulate their own ideas on the\nrelationships between economic, social and aesthetic forms of value after\nlistening closely to various panelists who would describe their direct\nencounters with these concepts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar was divided into two sessions, and had speakers\nfrom different walks of life who had organized and participated in an assorted\nrange of visual arts exhibitions, which included: painting, sculpture, drawing,\narchitecture and decorative arts, film, video, and photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first session began with artists Susanta Mandal and\nSakshi Gupta presenting their engaging and thought-provoking work from previous\nexhibitions and installations, which showcased their emphasis on\nexperimentation and how while working in a wide range of mediums, they had\nchallenged the traditional ideas of how art is defined, what constitutes art,\nand how art is made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Both experts are renowned contemporary artists based in the\ncapital city, Susanta, is best known for kinetic installations incorporating\ncombinations of light, video, and mechanical apparatuses, while Sakshi,\nprimarily works with a diverse range of material including scrap metal,\nconcrete, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 and wood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second session of the seminar had two very eminent\nspeakers Dr. Shukla Sawant, a historian of Modernism and Contemporary Art who\nis currently engaged as Professor of Visual Studies, School of Arts and\nAesthetics, JNU, and Meenakshi Thirukode, Writer, Researcher and Curator,\nformer Creative Director at Dakshinachitra (Chennai, India) and Curator for\nExhibit 320 in New Delhi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Shukla Sawant, spoke from her dual locations as art\npractitioner and historian, surveying the ways in which artistic movements,\nsuch as European impressionism and Indian art in the 19th<\/sup> century,\nwere sometimes shaped by commercial forces, while never only reducible to them.\nShe also issued a warning on encouraging artists to be politically engaged in\ncommunities without first equipping them with interdisciplinary training in\nanthropology, political theory, and other ways of understanding local contexts.\nMeenakshi Thirukode, for her part, argued for the value of politicization as a\nworthy artistic endeavor in itself. She drew upon her experience studying\n \u2018art market, connoisseurship and criticism\u2019 at Christie\u2019s, New York,\nweaving a narrative of transitioning back from New York to the Indian art\nworld, with her impulse to move from viewing art through a commercial lens to a\ncritical and political one, based on intersectional identity politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yugank Goyal, Associate Professor,\nJindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JSLH) and Anica Mann Kapur,\nResearch Associate (JSLH) chaired individual sessions of the seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHOTO\nCAPTION<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yugank\nGoyal, Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and\nHumanities<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Shukla Sawant<\/strong>, Professor of Visual Studies, School of\nArts and Aesthetics, JNU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meenakshi Thirukode<\/strong>, Writer, Researcher and Curator,\nExhibit 320 in New Delhi, India<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 17, 2015: Jindal School of Liberal Arts in collaboration with the Winter School on Art\/Law at O.P. 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