Nancy Adajania is a Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator. She was joint artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012). She has curated a number of exhibitions, including One Hundred Years And Counting: Rescripting KG Subramanyan (Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, 2025, and Emami/Seagull, 2024) and Woman Is As Woman Does (CSMVS Museum/JNAF, 2022), a first-ever intergenerational mapping of the works of Indian women artists, filmmakers, and activists against the backdrop of the women’s movement in India. Adajania’s writing on the practices of women artists across several generations deploys a transdisciplinary approach, melding art history, feminist theory, anthropology, activism, and philosophy.
This public program brought together Nancy Adajania, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Frida Muenala from Mullu for an evening of inquiry into forms and practices of gathering. The speakers, who represent diverse practices in the cultural fields—from art making to curation to institutional leadership—and operate across vast geographies, unpacked their different approaches to assemblies. Among the…
