Nov 26 2026 to Nov 26 2026 6 p.m.

Book/Buy

Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

Many contemporary archival practices treat their work as material that engages public memory in the present; they’re not simply driven towards finding, guarding and building safe repositories. They consider what archives can offer in challenging established narratives and providing a framework for engaging with underrepresented histories. How can these ideas be tinkered around with in educational settings, and what can that offer to pedagogy? Through this discussion, we will engage with archives that operate out of, or work with, educational institutions in different registers to understand how their practices enter learning contexts and what the future of their work looks like.

We will be joined by Anjali Ramachandran from the Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Mira Brunner from the Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection, and Activism (QAMRA) at National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in conversation with Dr Samyak Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Social Science at NLSIU.

This event is part of Art is Life: Elsewhere hosted in collaboration with National Law School of India University (NLSIU), as an offshoot series of programs as part of our annual festival Art is Life. 

Anjali Ramachandran
Speaker

Anjali Ramachandran works as a senior archivist at the Archives at NCBS. She coordinates archival processing and leads education outreach through internships, school and volunteer programmes. She is trained in literary and cultural studies, art history and archival studies.

She had previously worked at IIT Bombay Archives and Museum as an archivist andresearcher, and was part of a team that set up the Virtual Experiential Museum on Ajanta, a digital museum on the Ajanta caves at the National Museum, New Delhi.

Mira Brunner
Speaker

Mira Brunner is an archivist and a visual artist living in Bengaluru, India. She has has worked in artist’s archives for the better part of a decade, and now works at QAMRA – the Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection and Activism. Her personal and professional interests intersect around ephemera, personal papers, and the cataloguing of unconventional archival items.