Kohima Virtual Exhibition
Object. Institution. Identities
Date: 25th September
Time: 5.00pm
Venue: Online @ Zoom
Enter the Exhibition with this link
https://zoom.us/j/93175630910?pwd=SjBBa3Foblp2NE85ZDJXQVRodDBrZz09
Meeting ID: 931 7563 0910
Passcode: 586581
Exhibition Itinerary
- Lamp Lighting
- Welcome Note by Prof. Jay Thakkar (Head- Exhibitions, CEPT)
- Introduction to KOHIMA Exhibition by Rohan Shivkumar
(Dean of Research and Academic Development at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies)
- Walkthrough into the exhibition guided by Prof. Sandeep Menon, KRVIA)
Synopsis
Along with all the academic activities on campus being seamlessly conducted online, we at CEPT University are also now functioning virtually and will be presenting our exhibitions using a 3D model of the CEPT Library Exhibition space that we have developed. It is a way of continuing the connection and hopefully getting viewers to ask questions.
Our first exhibition of this semester is a project from KRVIA USM'S KAMLA RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES School in Mumbai. It is a study of Kohima in Nagaland. Objects that we collect around us open out trajectories and connections with the world - material, functional and symbolic.
The objects that we collect around us open out trajectories of connections with the world, material, functional and symbolic. These trajectories make communities, structure identities and are directed and mediated by institutions.
This exhibition is the outcome of the Third Year Study trip of the students of KRVIA to Nagaland wherein the students studied and documented the Institutions of Kohima City by tracing multiple narratives of the city via the everyday objects found in the homes of the Angami tribal community in the Kohima Village.
Objects that we collect around us open out trajectories and connections with the world - material, functional and symbolic. These trajectories make communities, structure identities and are directed and mediated by institutions. The Third Year Study Trip to Kohima, Nagaland followed some of these trajectories from objects in the homes in Kohima Village to discover some of the institutions that help in shaping the contemporary identities in the Kohima city.
The village itself is divided into four distinct communities called, 'Khels'. Each Khel has many clans within. The students were divided across the four khels. They identified objects within the homes whose trajectories they followed. These objects are historical or ritualistic artefacts from the traditional crafts of Nagaland or from the contemporary realities of the inhabitants. They then followed the different trajectories that emerged from the object- its material history, its daily, weekly or annual usage or its symbolic role. These vectors moved outwards through institutional systems at different scales, studying the actors and agencies (communities involved and the identities, memories and desires that they represent. These were then compiled to make a map of identities and institutions for the Kohima Village.
The Third Year study trip was interested in discovering these institutions and identities through the artefacts that existed around us. The study concentrated on the Kohima Village in the city, which owns the land upon which the city has grown. It lies just outside the Municipal limits and has its own system of governance. Any development imagined for the city of Kohima must first be discussed with Kohima Village Council.
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