Whorled Explorations:
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 (Short Guide)
This is a short guide to the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) from 12 December 2014 to 29 March 2015. Spread across multiple venues in the city of Kochi in southern India, the exhibition features 95 artists from 30 countries.
'Two chronologically overlapping, but perhaps directly unrelated, historical episodes in Kerala during the 14th to 17th Centuries become parallel points of departure for Whorled Explorations. Drawing from them, allusions to the historical and the cosmological recur throughout the exhibition like exaggerated extensions to gestures we make when we try to see or understand something. We either go close to it or move away from it in space, to see it clearly; we also reflect back or forth in time to understand the present. Whorled Explorations draws upon this act of deliberation, across axes of time and space to interlace the bygone with the imminent, the terrestrial with the celestial.' - Artistic Director and Curator Jitish Kallat (from the KMB website).
Artistic director: Jitish Kallat
Managing editor: Mirjam Fischer
Curatorial Assistant (Publications): Nandini Thilak
Texts: Nandini Thilak with Jitish Kallat
Translation into Malayalam: Benny Francis, Nijas Jewel Gautam Das, Sajan Mani, Jaison Mathew
Proofreading: Chiranjeevi Kulkarni (English), Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya (English) Sajan Mani (Malayalam), Rajesh Rajendran (Malayalam)
Photography: Mohammed Roshan, Swanoop John
Agency: The Local Network, Kochi
Design: Ratheesh Ramachandran
Creative Support: Sreejith Snark, Prince Antony, Saljo Joseph
Published by
Kochi Biennale Foundation
1/1903 Kunnumpuram, Fort Kochi P.O. Kerala 682 001, India
Printed at
Anaswara offset, Kochi.
Printed and published in India.
© 2014 Kochi Biennale Foundation; the authors; the artists.
