Amitesh Grover

Amitesh Grover is a theatre director and artist. He has won multiple awards and exhibited his projects across the globe. Grover's work spans performance, video, digital art, text projects, installation, and theatre.[1] He is currently associate professor at National School of Drama.[2] He also curates contemporary performance and is a published writer.

Amitesh Grover
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of the Arts London
AwardsMASH FICA New Media Award

Education

He is an alumnus of The National School of Drama (India) and completed his post graduation from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London.

Career

Grover work has been shown at Southbank Centre (London), Arts Centre (Melbourne), MT Space (Canada), HKW Berlin (Germany), Segal Festival (U.S.),[3] Belluard Bollwerk International (Switzerland),[4] The Hartell Gallery (U.S.), Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art,[5] The Shrine Gallery, VAICA Video Art Festival, TATA Literature Festival,[6] Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Prithvi Theatre Festival,[7] Serendipity Arts Festival.[8] He was an artist resident at PACT Zollverein (Germany), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Japan),[9] and Berliner Theatertreffen.[10] His work has been commissioned by the Chennai Photo Biennale[11] and by Australia's Sydney-based 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.[12] He is the creator of India’s first cyber-theatre play THE LAST POET,[13] and India’s longest running billboard art VELOCITY PIECES.[14][15][16]

He was the artistic director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala,[17] Ranga Shankara Festival (Bangalore),[18] and Nove Writers’ Festival (Prague).

Currently, he is associate professor at the National School of Drama (India),[19] and visiting faculty at National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), Shiv Nadar University (U.P.), and Tisch School of the Arts (NYU).[20]

Awards

He is the recipient of MASH FICA New Media Award,[21] Prohelvetia South Asian Residency Award,[22] Bismillah Khan National Award, Charles Wallace Award (U.K.)[23] and was nominated for Arte Laguna Prize (Italy),[24] Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and Forecast Award (Germany).[25]

Selected publications
  • Performance Making and the Archive, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar & Sharmistha Saha, ISBN 9780367195601, Routledge India, 2022
  • Pandemic of Perspectives, Ed. Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty, ISBN 9781003320524, Routledge India
  • Postdramatic Theatre and India, Ed. Ashis Sengupta, ISBN 9781350154094, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Why Curate Live Arts? TURBA, The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, Ed. Dena Davida, ISSN: 2693–0129, Berghahn Journals, New York & Berlin
  • ISSUE, Ed. Venka Purushothaman, ISSN: 2315–4802, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
  • Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance, Ed. Ranjana Dave, ISBN : 978-81-945348-2-2, Tullika Books
  • Hakara, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar, ISSN 2581-9976
  • Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures, Ed. Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
  • A Voice, Under 35: The Murder of A Scene: The Indian Express

References
  1. "The Immersive Theatre Experience Of Amitesh Grover's 'Money Opera". Outlook India.
  2. "Faculty Members". National School of Drama.
  3. "The Last Poet by Amitesh Grover". Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022. 8 February 2022.
  4. "The sleep of the grateful dead". Swissinfo. 2016-07-21.
  5. "Bonsai Gone Wild". Open The Magazine. 31 May 2017.
  6. "As cultural festivals go digital, organisers aim for global reach, hybrid online-offline presence in future". Firstpost. 10 December 2020.
  7. "Prithvi's all decked up for its annual theatre festival". Hindustan Times. 27 October 2009.
  8. "In an abandoned building in Goa, Amitesh Grover creates a layered piece on capitalism, titled The Money Opera". The Indian Express. 21 December 2022.
  9. "International Visitors Program". www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp.
  10. "Theatertreffen 2013 - Broschüre by Berliner Festspiele - Issuu". issuu.com. 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  11. "Amitesh Grover's 'imageless photographs' occupy the crowded frame of text and memory". News9live. 20 February 2022.
  12. "China Daily Lifestyle Premium". China Daily Lifestyle Premium. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  13. "A digital festival that responds to the times". Mint (newspaper). 4 December 2020.
  14. "The Last Poet cyber theatre directed by Amitesh Grover". The Telegraph.
  15. "All the world a stage: Artist urges protest through KG Marg billboard in Delhi". The Indian Express. 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  16. "An artist nudges Delhi with verses on a billboard". Mintlounge. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  17. "Celebrating Otherness". The Indian Express. 2020-01-21.
  18. "Ranga Shankara theatre festival opens on Oct 27". Deccan Herald. 2021-10-19.
  19. Nath, Parshathy J. (16 January 2020). "I make the audience complicit in my art: Amitesh Grover". The Hindu.
  20. "All the web's a stage". The Week.
  21. "Mash FICA New Media Grant". The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  22. "South Asian artists awarded residencies". Pro Helvetia New Delhi. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  23. "Amitesh's story". Charles Wallace India Trust. 2020-10-20.
  24. "ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 12th Edition by Arte Laguna Prize - Issuu". issuu.com. 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  25. "A Project By Amitesh Grover – Forecast". 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
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