Anshuman Das Gupta

Anshuman Dasgupta is an Art Historian, Critic and Curator, teaching at the Department of Art History in Santiniketan since 1997. He did his Bachelors in Art History from Santiniketan, Masters from Baroda and Film Appreciation from F.T.I.I. Pune. Dasgupta’s theoretical interests cover Visual Cultures and Cinema.

He has contributed extensively to publications like Marg, MuHKA, de Appel, Verlag Berlin, Nandan, Lalit Kala Contemporary, Art India and presented papers at a range of academic seminars including more recently, Hyderabad Central University seminar on Spectatorship, Periferry seminar organised by Khoj and Desire Machine, Global Art and the Museum- seminar at Max Muller Bhavan.

He was part of international curatorial conference Berlin Biennial 2006; organizer- Khoj Kolkata 2006, critic in the International Workshop; organizer- Ramkinker Baij International Seminar, 2007. He has curated shows in India and abroad.

Interests: The politics of process in the formation of subject/agent in specific locations. For me this doesn’t exclude the translocated or dislocated beings but rather my projects/conceptions are sensitive and interested in those otherings. My idea is to work towards a curatorial venture that may be called conceptual/interactive, or collaborative, with a view to exploring the shared episteme in the process of the subject formation.