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Karin Shankar
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'Cosmopolitics' and Incense: Notes from the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
by Karin Shankar
Rigo 23, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Sanchayan Ghosh, Sheela Gowda, Subodh Gupta, Ariel Hassan, Tallur LN, M.I.A, Nalini Malani, Amanullah Mojadidi, Joseph Semah, Sudarshan Shetty, Jonas Staal, Vivan Sundaram, UBIK, Hossein Valamanesh at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
December 12th, 2012 - March 13th
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1/13/13
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s inaugural biennale, features the work of ninety-four artists from twenty-three countries in sixty exhibition spaces, spread mainly across Fort Kochi, a quaint suburb of the historic port city of Kochi. Here, large disused spice warehouses, ‘Chinese’ shore-based fishing nets, the church that once housed Vasco da Gama’s remains, Rajah Veera Kerala Varma’s palace and a sixteenth century Jewish synagogue serve as architectural reminders of Kochi’s place in... [more]
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