On 27th April, we have an intense unfolding of Lingering Remnants, a lecture performance by Avik Debdas and beatnyk in the form of sounds, narrations, language, and moving images exploring epistemologies, memories, technologies, and ecosystems.
The lecture performance extensively reflects on the agency of water through Avik’s recent project around the water systems of Berlin and Kolkata. It unfolds many nuances in thinking about the agency of water and, in a larger context, the agency of different beings.
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On Wednesday, 29th April, Sukanya Deb presented findings from her ongoing research titled ‘In the theatre of Images’ at Shared Ecologies, New Delhi. The research was developed during her Art Scribes Award residency at the La Napoule Art Foundation, organised by the Prameya Art Foundation with support from Institut Français in India, under the Villa Swagatam Residency network.
The closed door conversation explored how contemporary image-making technologies shape our perception of reality in an image-saturated world. Sukanya examined the development and use of imaging technologies as tools for framing, staging, and controlling space and narratives.
The research found an early articulation at the Open Studio at the La Napoule Art Foundation, and will inform her upcoming exhibition with PRAF in 2027.
Shared Ecologies is pleased to present ‘Lingering Remnants’, a lecture performance by @dastaan_e_tahqeeq and @beatnyk . The lecture performance explores the nuances of different beings, guided through water as more than an element. In what ways can we think about agency of different beings beyond our own understanding? What does it mean to live with and listen to the plurality of water? Combining sound, text, image, video and poetry, the performance will unfold as a fluid space.
Poster design from the ‘Plurality of Water’, a research notebook by Avik Debdas, drawing by Nikhil KC
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Workshop | Portraits of a Fragmented Forest
Join artists Shreni Sanghvi and Abhishek Kapahi in creating a unique hand-made portrait and sonic signature of a species, moving from observation to data to expression. The workshop culminates in a wall of fragmented portraits, connected through lines of chemical kinship.
📆 19 April 2026, Sunday
⏰ 11am-1pm
📍 Science Gallery Bengaluru
For details and free registration, please visit the Programmes link in our bio.
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Opening Event | Walk into a Fragmented Forest
Join artists Shreni Sanghvi and Abhishek Kapahi for a walkthrough of their exhibit, Walk Into a Fragmented Forest, followed by a talk about their collaboration with ecologist Meghna Krishnadas's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences.
The work is an outcome of the Entangled Ecosystems Grant by Science Gallery Bengaluru and Shared Ecologies, an annual programme that brings art and ecology into conversation.
📆 18 April 2026, Saturday
⏰ 5pm-7pm
📍 Science Gallery Bengaluru
For details and free registration, please visit the Programmes link in our bio.
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We had an immersive evening with a set of film screenings at Shared Ecologies on Friday, 27th of March titled ‘In Search of Home.’ The screening followed with discussion reflecting on the forms of migration and how in current times migration and cross migration produces nostalgia and belongingness. How insider forms the idea of outsider through the caste, culture and crisis.
What are the influences on imagination, which shapes the thinking body? Where does home lie? How do peripheries form temporality and alienation?
A big thanks to the filmmakers for joining both online and offline for the discussion, along with the audience and Mahesh.
1. Hidden Mist by @bissu777 and @thedhibri
2. Lullaby of waves by @ayonpratimsaikia
3. Leaving home by @harshilbhanushali
Images credit: @rahul__junejaaaaa
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Shared Ecologies brings forward a film screening that maps the interconnected ecosystems of migration and their relationship to the economy. In today’s world, migration is no longer simply a matter of choice; it is shaped by a range of invisible forces that compel movement. These movements do not only shift individuals and homes—they transform entire worlds, carrying with them cultures and traditions.
These movements emerge from a complex network of factors, including climate change, political disparities, resource scarcity, and deeply embedded social structures. These forces do not operate independently; they are interwoven, forming a chain of conditions that produce and sustain migration as an ongoing process.
Such transitions reconfigure subjectivity and the conditions under which belonging is constructed.
1. The Hidden Mist by @bissu777@thedhibri
The story is situated in the immense scenery of the lower Himalayan highlands and its traditional way of life. It addresses the issues of migration from the Himalayan mountains and the vacating of villages.
2. Lullaby of Waves by @ayonpratimsaikia
The filmmaker reflects on his mother’s struggles and the impact of the river on their lives, challenging notions of belonging and identity as they grapple with being labeled as “Hiporiya.” Despite the challenges, the river’s influence and the search for a home remain central to their story.
3. Leaving Home by @harshilbhanushali
Leaving home is a film based on a family travelling to their village revisiting memories of the past through folktales and landscape of Sohra (Cherrapunji). It deals with the displacement of nature and its indigenous people.
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We aim to invite and engage a network of practitioners and encourage thinking across singular art practices towards correlational work with the possibility for collaboration and exchange. In order to facilitate such sites for discussion, we initiate and disseminate programs, talks and workshops that can engage a wide range of practitioners. Every month we organise in-person and hybrid events to initiate conversations.
Thank you to the artists who presented their work, we were thrilled to engage with your practices:
@_vanshikababbar@eroded_ways@poonamfound@shubhdeepkaur
And a big thank you to Susanta Mandal (@susanta.mandal.188 ) for your deeply engaged responses that sharpened our points of view.
Special Thanks: Mahesh
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We had our first film screening of 2026, titled Shadows of Apocalypse. All the artist-filmmakers joined the conversation, which flowed from discussions on micro-ecologies and how we read ecosystems through these micro events and systems.
We also reflected on questions such as: What are the ethics of the human body when it extends to perform non-human agency and their forms? How does our relationship with water shift after tragedy? And why do we continue to re-encounter the same ecological questions?
We are grateful to the audience who joined us and made the conversation more insightful.
Special thanks to Shubrakant and Mahesh
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We are delighted to announce the recipient of the Shared Ecologies Photo Grant 2026-28: Gaurav P. Patil, for his project ‘Lifting the Everyday Veil’ that focuses on the coasts of Goa and Maharasthra, bringing intercostal beings to life through his photography, while critiquing the industry of tourism that leaves the coastlines deeply affected.
Gaurav Patil is a marine biologist turned nature educator, photographer, and illustrator based in Mumbai. With a master’s degree in marine biology, his early career was marked by contributions to research on marine mammal ecology, coral reef resilience, intertidal ecology, and elasmobranch fisheries. His work with various senior researchers on different projects unveiled his true passion for visual storytelling, leading him to artistically portray often-overlooked wildlife landscapes.
Congratulations, Gaurav, we look forward to the development of your project!
We are also pleased to announce the special mentions by the jury: Muskaan Gupta and Ufaq Fatima.
Muskaan Gupta (b.2000, India) is a visual artist from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Coming from the western Himalayan region, her practice focuses on representing the changing landscape and the communities connected to it. She works closely with materials and people, letting her surroundings shape her process.
Muskaan’s work spans photography, filmmaking, sculpture, painting and collage, with exposure to various printing techniques such as cyanotype, carbon printing and darkroom printing during her NID education.
Ufaq Fatima is a documentary photographer and journalist from Kashmir whose foregrounds memory, resilience, and the politics of representation. She works at the confluence of memory, displacement, erasure, and the cyclical nature of power, navigating fluidly between personal narratives and collective histories. By layering intimate portraits with a documentary approach, she creates images that articulate trauma, resilience, and cultural memory. Her practice is invested in the ethics of witnessing, caring collaboration, and the dignity of marginalised voices.
A big thank you to the jury for their careful deliberation.
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Shared Ecologies is pleased to invite you to the upcoming event at our space in Jangpura, New Delhi.
This film screening curation brings forward apocalypse not as a science fiction but an ongoing condition, already embedded in everyday life. The present is already haunted by futures that feel inevitable, revealing a world slowly unravelling while continuing to function.
We continue to re-encounter recurring questions around the impact of deforestation on animal lives and its effects on humans; the politics of human agency within landscapes in relation to food security for both human and non-human beings; and the melting of ice and the consequent loss of ecological systems.
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Currently underway at the ABC Art Room, facilitator Anju Acharya leads "Drawn Mediations," a three-day workshop exploring anatomy and difference through a "more-than-human" lens. Part of the Shared Ecologies series, this program investigates how we can evolve our vocabularies to address the contemporary ecological crisis. Drawing from the Growing Lexicon—a project initiated by Ravi Agarwal—the workshop examines nature as a state in constant flux. Acharya proposes drawing not merely as a skill, but as a vital methodology for sensing and uncovering the complex associations between our words and the changing environment.
By deconstructing the "scientific" as the primary space for knowledge production, the workshop invites participants to engage with anatomical drawings of both animals and humans. This process challenges traditional modes of reasoning, using the act of drawing to bridge the gap between ourselves and "the other." As we navigate the climate crisis, "Drawn Mediations" serves as a space to investigate our vocalizations around nature, encouraging a deeper understanding of the relational ties that bind all living forms.
About the facilitator:
Anju Acharya is a distinguished contemporary artist based in Kochi. Her artistic journey is defined by academic excellence, a deep scientific curiosity regarding living organisms, and a unique stylistic evolution. Her work is the result of rigorous scientific study of life forms combined with persistent experimentation, leading to the development of a signature aesthetic.
With special thanks to Shared Ecologies @sharedecologies
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