Amitesh Grover
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Amitesh Grover is an Indian theatre director and artist based in New Delhi. He is one of India’s leading theatre makers[1] who has won multiple awards and exhibited his projects across the globe. Grover’s work spans performance, video, digital art, text projects, installation, and theatre. He is currently Associate Professor[2] at National School of Drama. He also curates and writes about contemporary performance.
Biography
Grover’s work has been described to have “transcended the barriers of disciplines”, working with live acts, texts, objects, images, installations and films for more than a decade[3]. He has been on numerous artist residencies including PACT Zollverein (Germany), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Japan)[4], and Theatretreffen Berlin[5]. He is one of the rare non-photographers to be commissioned by the Chennai Photo Biennale[6]. He holds the honour of being commissioned by Australia's Sydney-based 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art[7]. He is the creator of India’s first cyber-theatre play THE LAST POET[8], while his billboard art project Velocity Pieces has received wide-spread critical acclaim[9].
He was the Artistic Director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala[10], Ranga Shankara Festival (Bangalore)[11], and Nove Writers’ Festival (Prague). His writings have been published in Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Bloomsbury (U.K.), Berghahn Journals (Berlin), Art Journal (Singapore), and in India in Tullika Books, TAKE on Art, Indian Cultural Forum, RAIOT, The Outlook Magazine, The Indian Express, ASAP Art, and Hakara Online. His work has been widely covered by mainstream media, and essays on his work have appeared in several books including Post-Dramatic Theatre and India and Imagined Worlds (University of Chicago Press).
He has given talks about his work on prominent global platforms like ANCER (Lasalle College of Art, Singapore), University of Exeter (U.K.), Vilnius National Theatre (Lithuania), Curating for Change (Canada), APAM Australia, Cornell University (U.S.), the 23rd Performance Studies International Meet (Germany) among others.
Currently, he is Associate Professor at the National School of Drama (India), and visiting faculty at several institutions including National Institue of Design (Ahmedabad), Shiv Nadar University (U.P.), and Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). He is an alumnus of The National School of Drama (India) and competed his post graduation from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. He is currently based in New Delhi, India.
References
- ↑ "Amitesh's story". Charles Wallace India Trust. 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Faculty Members". Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ admin (2022-01-18). "When art is not restricted by medium: Exploring the oeuvre of interdisciplinary artist Amitesh Grover". Abirpothi. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "International Visitors Program". www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Theatertreffen 2013 - Broschüre by Berliner Festspiele - Issuu". issuu.com. 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Chennai Photo Biennale: Maps of Disquiet". www.platform-mag.com. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "China Daily Lifestyle Premium". China Daily Lifestyle Premium. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "The Last Poet: A Dystopian Journey from Amitesh Grover - India Art Review". 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "An artist nudges Delhi with verses on a billboard". Mintlounge. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Celebrating Otherness". The Indian Express. 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Ranga Shankara theatre festival opens on Oct 27". Deccan Herald. 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
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