NGMA Mumbai and Ministry of Culture, Government of India and Avid Learning present Multipolis Mumbai: The Sea and the City. Join Author and Mumbai History Fellow at Gateway House Sifra Lentin, Artist Meera Devidayal, Cartoonist Paul Fernandes, Curator, Maritime History Society, Mumbai Commodore Odakkal Johnson and Co-Founder at Marine Life of Mumbai Pradip Patade who will be in conversation with Archaeologist Kurush Dalal. This discussion will address a whole gamut of issues and viewpoints related to the sea as addressed by historians and activists and appropriated by artists. This discussion will touch upon Maritime trade and the city’s earliest formed identity, that of a port, as well as its synergies, influences and cross dialogues with similar port cities. This talk will address the use of The Sea as a Protagonist in the work of artists and as represented in print. This panel will also touch upon how creative individuals engage with the life-giving significance, mythologies, stories and, now, more recently, crises related to the sea and its resources and origins. These experts will also discuss local marine wildlife, ecology, topographies and ecosystems of our city’s coastline while taking cognizance of environmental crises and polluting factors which are impacting the water body that has nurtured us for centuries- and discuss how we need to re-evaluate our relationship with the sea while protecting this increasingly threatened resource.
21 Feb 2019 | National Gallery of Modern Art, Sir Cowasji Jahangir Public Hall, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai,
