exhibition / festival – The Travelling Archive

From 2011, we have been taking part in exhibitions curated by others while curating our own shows. We have been part of festivals too. Here we present extracts from those events.

Life of Rivers, 2011.
Life of Rivers/জলের জান
Film made with footage from the National Maritime Museum archives for the opening of their 'Traders Unpacked' gallery
Time: 2011
Venue: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Unbox 2013.
Stories in Sound: Journeying to the field with The Travelling Archive
Field recording workshop
Time: February 2013
Venue: Delhi

Footsteps of Sound 2013.
The Presence of Sound: Early sound recording in India
An audio-video installation artwork
Time: August-September 2013
Venue: Foundacion Botin, Santander, Spain

Travelling Archive in East London 2015.
The Travelling Archive in East London: Field Recordings and Field Notes from Bengal
An exhibition in sound, text and image and a performance
Time: 22 June-5 July 2015
Venue: Lower Cafe Gallery and Main Space (final performance), Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA

Baul Fakir Utsav 2006-2015.
Baul Fakir Utsav
A people’s festival of folk music
Time: First weekend of January from 2006
Venue: Jadavpur-Shaktigarh, Kolkata

Time upon Time: Arnold Bake in Bengal 2016.
Time upon Time: Arnold Bake in Bengal
An exhibition of field recordings
Time: 7-15 March 2016
Venue: Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati Santiniketan

Chobi Mela Biennale, 2019.
Borders and Freedoms/Borders of Freedom /স্বাধীনতার সীমান্তরেখা
An 8-channel soundtrack, interspersed with video
Time: February 2019
Venue: Abdur Razzak Biddapeeth, Dhanmondi, Dhaka

A Slightly Curving Place 2020.
A Slightly Curving Place
A Soundplay and Video Installation
Time: July-September 2020
Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin

Baba Betar at Chobi Mela Shunyo 2021.
Songs Grow Out of the Land
A 66 minute audio essay on The Travelling Archive
Time: February 2021
Venue: Baba Betar

Her Voices at ‘Like Air, I’ll Rise’, Experimenter, 2024.
Her Voices
An audio essay (1:05:31) and archive
Time: 27 November 2024 – 4 January 2025
Venue: Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, Kolkata.

Rehearsals for Revolution at Serendipity Art Festival, 2024.
Rehearsals for Revolution: Rise, Fall, Rise Again
A sound installation in three parts: Rise, Fall, Rise Again.
Time: 15-22 December 2024
Venue: 'A Haptic Score', Serendipity, Old GMC Building, Goa

Notice Board

Workshop on the Archive as a Knowledge Site, 2-3 Feb 23, Jadavpur University
Moushumi will present at a workshop on THE ARCHIVE AS A KNOWLEDGE SITE: THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPE AND INDIA, Organised by SCTR, JU in association with CNRS, France and IRN-AITIA.