1 - 3 December, 2023
Dedicated to the celebration of art, culture and discourse, Art is Life is an annual highlight on MAP’s cultural calendar. This year we invite artists, storytellers and visitors to reimagine, reinterpret and reinvent historical narratives.
The festival brings together opportunities for visitors to engage more deeply with traditional practices, as well as explore contemporary artistic reinterpretations that present new perspectives on MAP’s collections. Through a diverse range of mediums, from painting to film, we explore both stories and styles that endure, and those that are transformed in the retelling or reimagined altogether.
MAP is delighted to collaborate with filmmakers Amit Dutta, Naveed Mulki and Sumantra Ghosal to use the medium of film to construct new narratives and imagined encounters as they respond to artworks and objects from the MAP collection.
This year, Art is Life is a part of the city-wide Unboxing BLR Habba — a celebration of Bengaluru’s rich and vibrant cultural heritage. MAP, in association with the Indian Music Experience, is thrilled to bring a musical performance by Alva Kuuto, a Tulu band that explores language and identity through stories and memories to reimagine folk melodies and narratives via contemporary sensibilities and arrangements.
