EXCHANGE 2022: A Peer Learning Fellowship

Exchange: A Peer Learning Fellowship was a self guided project which supported six emerging artists and three art writers to explore and discover more about their practice through the central idea of peer-learning. The fellows worked in pairs, built their own working schedules and engaged in regular feedback and peer review sessions. The writing fellows observed and worked alongside the artists to produce text in any form including articles, essays and poems. During the three month period from May till mid July 2022, the fellowship facilitated studio visits, workshops, collective reflections and studio hours for thinking, planning and executing of ideas. The fellows also participated in discursive sessions led by facilitators with specialized expertise and received production fees to support their artistic developments. The program concluded with a celebratory event, a public exhibition: On Taking Flight that included a showcase of artworks and texts produced during the fellowship. This fellowship was supported by the Swiss Embassy of Nepal.

Participating Artists
Kripa Shakya
Shubhekshya Sinkhwal
Nirvik Maskey
Sushant Shree Rajbhandari
Leo Jhankar
Zubbin Dhital

Participating Writers
Ritu Rajbanshi
Prajjwal Dhungana
Shranup Tandukar 

Theme.

The fellowship was anchored by the central theme of Time & Society which foregrounded and investigated different aspects of socio-political issues such as, but not limited to, memory, identity, social injustices, human rights, migration and interdependent communities, and positioned them in different interludes of recent history and changing concepts of time. Throughout the fellowship, these topics were extensively analyzed, reviewed and critiqued to form opinions and ideas which were then thoughtfully transcribed into artworks and texts.