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1. What are some of the distinct representations in colonial photographs from the Indian subcontinent? You may select more than one answer.
- A. Candid images of ordinary Indian subjects
- B. Romanticised images of landscapes and architectural ruins
- C. Exoticised study of ‘natives’ distinguished by caste and racial ‘types’
- D. All of the above
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2. How do modern and contemporary Indian artists go beyond artistic mediums like traditional painting and sculpture in their practice?
- A. By incorporating sound and multimedia
- B. By experimenting with performance art
- C. By creating interactive works that involve audiences
- D. All of the above
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3. Drag and drop the name of the artist to their corresponding artwork.
- Sonia Khurana
- Nikhil Chopra
- Pushpamala N
- Desire Machine Collective
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4. Which of the following statements are true about performance art? You may choose more than one answer.
- A. It rejects disciplinary conventions of fixed narratives, rehearsals and techniques
- B. It uses the artist’s body as a medium and places abstract concepts at its core
- C. It often combines live performances, photography, videography, light and sound.
- D. All of the above
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5. Considered a pioneer of performance art in India, Sonia Khurana’s ‘Bharatmata’ offers a satirical, cynical and feminist take on colonial and nationalist image practices.
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- False
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6. Which among the following collectives commented on mass hysteria, crime and urban development through their work ‘5 Pieces of Evidence’ based on Delhi’s ‘Monkey Man’?
- A. Raqs Media Collective
- B. Desire Machine Collective
- C. The Otolith Group
- D. Rainbow Art Group
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7. Which performance artist enacts the prominent characters of Yog Raj Chitrakar and Sir Raja to stage an interplay of history and memory, performance and painting?
- A. Shuddhabrata Sengupta
- B. Jeebesh Bagchi
- C. Nikhil Chopra
- D. None of the above
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8. How does Sonia Khurana’s ‘Bird’ offer an important critique of social inequalities and standards?
- A. Through a public performance with pigeons and an isolated female body that raises issues of women’s rights within the public sphere
- B. By using the naked female body to question the feminine as fragile, and the problematic beauty standards in society
- C. Through a photo-performance on ideas of post-coloniality, belonging and anti-racism
- D. Through a synchronised performance video engaging with the history of the feminist movement in the country
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1. Which of the following statements best describes this photograph by Pushpamala N? You may select more than one answer.
- A. The artist is depicted as a woman from the Toda tribe of South India, presented in the style of colonial ethnographic photographs of the 19th century.
- B. The use of 19th century props in the photograph celebrates the scientific pursuit that propelled ethnographic research.
- C. A chequered screen backdrop to the figure, similar to the one used by the British to measure bodies of ‘natives’, critiques the colonial documentation practices.
- D. By depicting the backdrop being held up by people, the artist explores the idea that British stereotypes of native women were fictitious and performative.
- E. A depiction of a woman from the Toda tribe is a tribute to the ethnographic work of British anthropologists, who were responsible for preserving the culture of the community.
- F. All of the above
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10. How can developments in technology influence artistic practices? You may select more than one answer.
- A. By encouraging new forms of thinking
- B. By encouraging people to move beyond conventional artistic mediums
- C. By promoting collaboration among artists
- D. All of the above
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1. Which among the following represents the ways in which artists in India have worked with the camera?
- A. Documenting landscapes, communities and contemporary social realities
- B. Inserting themselves into historical imagery through re-enactments and photo-performances
- C. Through installations that include video recordings as performance
- D. All of the above
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