What to watch out for

Opening week: When everyone who’s anyone is there, besides being the best time to visit, you’ll get to walk alongside curator Anita Dube to understand her vision of how she conceived Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life (December 12, 12.30-2pm, Aspinwall House). Rana Hamadeh’s lecture performance on the same day (3-4pm, MAP Project Space) should be another

attraction. Dube will respond to her curatorial engagement once more on December 14 (4.30pm, Biennale Pavilion). But for my money, I wouldn’t miss a lecture performance by the Guerilla Girls (whom nobody knows because they’re hidden behind masks) on December 14 (11am-12 pm, Biennale Pavilion).

The Students’ Biennale will open on December 13 and has an impressive six curators. See works by artists in the making and engage with them.

Don’t miss the Let’s Talk series at the Biennale Pavilion throughout the course of the biennale. Enjoy addas at Kashi Art Café, where conversations come amidst contemporary art and a dose of artists, writers and other cultureati.

Expect book launches and readings, music programmes, videos, workshops, performances and announcements about schedules regularly, on location and on the website.

( Clockwise from top) A wall at Fort Kochi dedicated to the biennale; artists working during the Students’ Biennale; a young artist with an installation; Maharashtrian artist Parag Sonarghare’s graffiti, Eyes; Kochi gears up for the biennale; an artist at the Students’ Biennale