Fellow at Dara Shikoh Fellowship |
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Fellow
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Ladakh, India
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Job Type & Duration
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Full-time Residency, 1 month
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Background
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Inspired by the intellectual pursuits of Dara Shikoh, a Mughal royal who tried to find a common ground between religions in unique poetic and literary forms, the Dara Shikoh Fellowship is an attempt to drive academic and cultural discourse in a region vitiated by years of cynical political dialogue. Envisioned as a platform where students from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh can interact with a diverse range of scholars, the Fellowship cross-pollinates the cultural, economic, artistic and scholastic influences to reinvigorate the artistic scene within the region while simultaneously contributing to discourses around art and culture across the world.
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Role & Responsibilities
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The Dara Shikoh Fellowship aims to bring together individuals across varied disciplines and backgrounds in a month-long immersive experience which allows them to interact with local students, artists, craftsmen, writers, and theatre practitioners. The 2018 Fellowship focuses on intersections between environment and art in propelling conversations around climate change and ecology.
Each Fellow will bring to the program an independent project that creatively engages with the region, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with experts in the field within Ladakh to build upon the project over the course of the program. Creative engagements with customs and traditions will be highly encouraged: for instance, by applying postmodern sculptural critique on Ladakhi metal work, combining jazz with Kashmiri Sufiana Kalam music, or juxtaposing Pahari miniatures with Surrealist paintings. Fellows will have the option to display their work through events and workshops or to organise panels and seminars to further delve into their areas of interest, for which venues will be provided by the program. At the culmination of the program, Dara Shikoh Fellows will be expected to produce a piece which best crystallises their experience: this could be a work of literature, a painting, a work of craft or any other creatively inspired piece that will feature in the Centre’s annual publication. Their interaction with the program will not end here, however: all Fellows will become members of the Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts and will have access to its resources for any projects linked to the region that they pursue in the future. |
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Prerequisites
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Applicants must be current undergraduate or graduate students.
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Benefits & Compensation
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The Fellowship will cover accommodation and other related expenses for the duration of the program. However, Fellows will have to make transport arrangements to Ladakh independently.
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Application Deadline
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February 28, 2018
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