In 2017, Kandalgaonkar’s artwork was an interesting way to explore history, but three years later it has suddenly become very relevant again. That’s why Science Gallery Bengaluru has included “Drawing the Bombay Plague” as part of their current online exhibit “Contagion”, which explores many different types of infection - from COVID-19 to computer viruses.
Read MoreFrom exploring similarities between government responses to Bombay’s 1897 plague and our present one, to demystifying the infectious nature of laughs, a new virtual exhibition explores how emotions, behaviours and diseases are transmitted.
Read MoreOrganised by Science Gallery Bengaluru, this multi-disciplinary exhibition presents diseases and the pandemic from a historical and contemporary perspective.
Read MoreThe exhibition explores grim themes like death and loss undergird many of the artworks, but how even joyful things can be contagious.
Read MoreEver since then the pandemic hit, there have been a lot of questions and theories. This virtual art show, an amalgamation of science and creativity, could probably offer some well-explained answers about such events from the past.
Read MoreAn exhibition in Bengaluru takes you to the room where a previous deadly pandemic originated.
Read MoreA unique online exhibition explored the phenomenon of transmission of diseases, behaviours and emotions to make sense of our uncertain times.
Read MoreTo make sense of the current times, a new exhibition explores the phenomenon of virus transmission. Science Gallery Bengaluru presents its first online exhibition-season, Contagion, that explores the infectious nature of not only diseases but also emotions, behaviours and information.
Read MoreScience, technology and art come together in this unique global exhibition on pandemics. Here are some pictorial highlights and curator insights.
Read MoreA Bengaluru exhibition traces how infections spread and its physical and emotional toll on societies.
Read MoreThe Science Gallery Bengaluru's online exhibition CONTAGION opened in April, 2021, just as India approached a staggering 20 million reported cases of COVID-19, a number likely to be a vast undercount. The alarming second wave of COVID-19 in India gives this exhibition an immediacy and relevance.
Read MoreThe virtual interactive artwork ‘A Cluster of 17 Cases’—showing at the Science Gallery Bengaluru in its online exhibition, Contagion.
Read More“The plague outbreak of 1896 reshaped the 20th-century map of the city of Bombay,” says Kandalgoankar, whose artwork, Drawing the Bombay Plague, is part of the Science Gallery Bengaluru’s new exhibition called CONTAGION, which began on April 30 and will run till June 30.
Read MoreWhile there’s only one kind of contagion we can immediately identify in the current context, it’s not just a virus that goes viral: so do ideas, behaviour, culture, emotions — and memes.
Read MoreRanjit Kandalgaonkar’s sprawling interactive drawing — showcased at Science Gallery Bengaluru’s online exhibition, ‘Contagion’, from April 30 onwards — shows a city disrupted by a disease.
Read MoreAn online art exhibition opening April 30 at the new Science Gallery in Bengaluru will take viewers on an incisive journey through the history and science of outbreaks.
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