॥ Form-Play॥

Form or an expression of content has been a distinguishing feature of art and culture. The expression could be in the form of a physical entity that represents the content, or it could be the incorporation of various elements that form and design a work. Like content, form doesn’t remain static as it traverses through the human mind, societies or different mediums within time and space. Thus, form remains movable, mutable, transformable and playable.

हाकारा।hākārā is interested in exploring the intriguing nature and interconnectedness of content and form while focusing on ‘playing form’. Addressing the multi-fold relationship of the intrinsically connected worlds of content and form, we are interested in exploring artistic and scholarly practices that address and get unfolded through form-play.

Some of the questions we would like to address in the sixth edition are as follows: How do different forms of production, consumption and circulation merge in order to express or represent art and culture? How does the process of the change in form from one to another get evolved through time and space? How do human beings perceive transformation and interchangeability of form? What could be different ways and practices for an artist to construct and reconstruct form through changing technologies and societies?

Are you a story-teller, writer, scholar, poet, visual artist, critic, photographer, translator, a curator or anyone who is interested in sharing concepts and practices regarding ‘रूप-खेळ/Form-play’? Do send your work in Marathi and/or English or in audio-visual form by November 12, 2018 to info@hakara.in. For submission guidelines, please click here. Select works will be published in the forthcoming issue of हाकारा । hākārā.

Ashutosh Potdar and Noopur Desai
Editors, हाकारा । hākārā[