Founder-Director, Disappearing Dialogues
A staunch believer in socially engaged art practice, Nobina Gupta conceived the Disappearing Dialogues (dD) collective, which aims to initiate interdisciplinary interactions. In the past few years curating dD as Founder Director, it has developed into a dynamic platform engaging different communities, institutions, social groups and generations through interactive artworks, research, documentation, community collective activities reflecting on historical, cultural, social and environmental losses, sediments and memories intrinsic to a city or a region.
An alumnus of Kala Bhavan, her work has been showcased widely both in India and elsewhere. The need to collaboratively work within socio-spatial realities with the community came to her while researching for the initial dD project, which was a part of the Earth Art Project, co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation, in the Changthang valley in Ladakh. Initiating co-creation, her desire is to break norms and boundaries to explore and disseminate research and community based learnings, focusing on process, practice and everyday life.