Limitations of Liability
Limitations of Liability was an eight day program between March 17 to 28, 2017, structured around ‘256 Million Colours of Violence’ – an interactive survey-based-research project by contemporary transmedia artist, Ali Akbar Mehta. This interactive survey-based-research project started in 2016, now includes more than 200 entries of people from all walks of life. 256 Million Colours of Violence is available to the public for free. The exposition of the past survey results will be installed along with a participation booth at The Mumbai Assembly and Harkat studios inviting everyone to participate in the ongoing survey.
Held across three venues – The Mumbai Assembly (Bandra), The Piramal Art Foundation (Lower Parel) and Harkat Studios (Versova) – the program also included poetry recitations, talks and discussions, and a series of films screenings concerned with the subject of violence and trauma.
Details below:
THE MUMBAI ASSEMBLY
March 17 – 19, 2017
March 17, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 pm: 256 Million Colours of Violence: Project Preview
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Performance by Ramneek Singh
Following a spoken word performance by Ramneek Singh, a conversation between Artist Ali Akbar Mehta and Ramneek Singh looks at ‘Colour and Violence’ through the lens of poetry and the spoken word, attempting to bridge the often unverbalised but deeply personal and unique emotional responses.
March 18, 2017
6:30 to 8:00 pm: Manifestation of Violence
Ali Akbar Mehta and Simpreet Singh discuss how the project is addressing the notion of freely given information, conditional agreements and consent – to corporations and governments, as opposed to an artist project. Simpreet Singh brings his knowledge and experience of having worked with the 'Right to Information Act; (RTI) to similarly pursue and make visible those truths that are important to us.
March 19, 2017
- 6:30 to 8:00 pm
- Big Data Ethics
Ali Akbar Mehta in conversation with Sameer Pitalwala discuss how most data-mining exercises and empirical scientific surveys require a culled group in order to eradicate diversity, a standardisation of the test group to remove ‘noise’. Instead, a project such as ‘256 Million Colours of Violence’ is a celebration of that noise which represents the diversity of Human experience and collective memetic history. It is also part of an ongoing discourse to reduce effects of stereo-typification through personal scrutiny of the word and meanings of ‘Violence’ by asking how is the narrative experience of colour embodied, embedded and extended in the contexts of these meanings.
PIRAMAL ART FOUNDATION
March 24, 2017
- 7:00 – 8:30pm
- The Urgency of Asking Questions: Ali Akbar Mehta in conversation with Kevin Lobo
HARKAT STUDIO
March 25 – 28, 2017
March 25, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 pm: 256 Million Colours of Violence, project preview and vernissage
March 26, 2017
10:00 am onwards: Films Screenings*****
10 am – 9 pm: Exhibition and survey continues
March 27-28, 2017
10 am – 9 pm: Exhibition and survey continues
* Screening Schedule:
4.1 Miles
Directed by Daphne Matziaraki (2016), 22min
10:00
Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island
Directed by Lukas Schrank (2015), 16min
11:00
Al midan [The Square]
Directed by Mostafa Sharaf (2014), 1h 35min
11:30 am
The Pride of Strathmoor
Directed by Einar Baldvin (2014), 9 mins
13:30
Devil
Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot (2012), 8 min
13:45
How to start a revolution
Directed by Ruaridh Arrow (2011), 1h 25min
14:15
Waltz with Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman (2008), 1h 30min
16:45
Akrosh
Directed by Yusuf Mehta (2003), 20 min
18:30
Ram Ke Naam [In the Name of God]
Directed by Anand Patwardhan (1992), 1h 31min
19:45