Anubhava XP 6: Art, Experience and Absurdity

with Sajid Wajid Shaikh

Anubhava Podcast Episode 06 by the Experiential Cognition Lab, Bengaluru.

What does it mean to be contemporary in art practice?

What is the relationship between art and experience?

What is cognitive dissonance and how do artists employ absurdity in their artworks? 

Cognitive dissonance is when your brain feels uncomfortable because you have two ideas that don't agree. It's like disagreeing with your head, and it makes you want to change one of those ideas to make things feel better.

Join us in this 6th episode of the Anubhava podcast with Sajid Wajid Shaikh to explore how and why juxtapositions of familiar objects in unfamiliar contexts evoke uneasy questions and experiences. Listen to how he evokes absurdity in his art to understand the phenomena of cognitive dissonance. Sajid shares the process of creation and its mediums of dissemination which feeds back into his work as he discusses the immediacy and intimacy of art experiences online and galleries alike.

Short Bio:

Sajid holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Media and started his career as a graphic designer and has won national and international awards recognising his excellence in advertising, design and communication. He later transitioned from Design to Art and continues to deal with contemporary social and political issues through his expansive art practice, showing at leading galleries and art shows. 

Sajid's instagram link: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sajidwajidshaikh/⁠

Poster image credit: Untitled. (Impossibility of reason with a banana) Nov 2022 by Sajid Wajid Shaikh | This Episode was recorded in Sep 2023

Host: Shashank Satish, Principal Investigator at XPC LAB

Episode produced by Holy Cow! Studio.

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What is the relationship between architecture, experience, and consciousness?

What is the purpose of art and architecture? 

and how do we inhabit and perceive them in everyday life? 

What is the role of architects in society?

How do we remain in a state of creative tension between practice and theory?

Join me in this 5th episode of the Anubhava podcast, the second of a two-part series with Ar. Prem Chandavarkar as eloquently answers questions about consciousness and experience while sharing stories and examples that matter to the level of spirit in architecture.

The podcast is an attempt to answer some of our favorite and relevant questions on consciousness through the lens of Mr. Chandavarkar’s experience and knowledge in and of architecture as we explore various ideas from Juhani Pallasama’s book ‘The  Eyes of the Skin’ to Prem’s own ‘Aesthetic of Absorption’ essay that has influenced his thinking and practice.

For more information on the Experiential Cognition Lab visit: https://holycowstudio.in/home/xpc-lab

Prem Chandavarkar: https://premckar.wordpress.com/

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What is the relationship between architecture, experience, and consciousness?

What is the purpose of art and architecture? and how do we inhabit and perceive them in everyday life? 

What is the role of architects in society?

How do we remain in a state of creative tension between practice and theory?

Join me in this 4th episode of the Anubhava podcast as Ar. Prem Chandavarkar eloquently answers questions about consciousness and experience while sharing stories and examples that matter to the level of spirit in architecture.

The podcast is an attempt to answer some of our favorite and relevant questions on consciousness through the lens of Mr. Chandavarkar’s experience and knowledge in and of architecture as we explore various ideas from Juhani Pallasama’s book ‘The  Eyes of the Skin’ to Prem’s own ‘Aesthetic of Absorption’ essay that has influenced his thinking and practice.

For more information on the Experiential Cognition Lab visit: https://holycowstudio.in/home/xpc-lab

Prem Chandavarkar: https://premckar.wordpress.com/

XPC LAB Instagram: xpc.laboratory

You are listening to the third episode of Anubhava, the second of two episodes with Dr. Sundar Sarukkai where we unpack and trace the Philosophical roots of Experience and its role in Art, Science, and Society.

What is the domain of Experience in Philosophy? #philosophy #experience #phenomenology #consciousness #anubhava #xpclab #art #science #society

For more information on the Experiential Cognition Lab visit: https://holycowstudio.in/home/xpc-lab

Sundar Sarukkai: https://www.barefootphilosophers.com/

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You are listening to the second episode (XP 2) of Anubhava, the first of two episodes with Dr. Sundar Sarukkai where we unpack and trace the Philosophical roots of Experience and its role in Art, Science, and Society.

What is the domain of Experience in Philosophy? #philosophy #experience #phenomenology #consciousness #anubhava #xpclab #art #science #society

In this episode, we try to investigate the ontology of the term ‘Experience’ through examples ranging from ancient Indian treatise on performing arts like the Natya Shastra to Western Phenomenology otherwise known as the Philosophy of Experience. Join us in this discerning conversation on Anubhava and its inseparable relationship to our everyday lives.

For more information on the Experiential Cognition Lab visit: https://holycowstudio.in/home/xpc-lab

Sundar Sarukkai: https://www.barefootphilosophers.com/

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Anubhava: A Podcast on ArtScience and Phenomenology by XPC LAB. 

Episode 1: Listen to conversations between artists and scientists from an Art-Science Panel Discussion on Creativity and Laboratory Culture at NCBS, Bangalore 2019.

Lab Culture Exhibition Panel Discussion: Creative Conversation with Scientists

Moderators: Dr. Shashi Thutupalli and Artist Shashank Satish.

NCBS Scientists on the Panel: Dr. Sanjay Sane, Charushansini K, Varsha N T, Suraj R C, Rishav Mitra, and Artist Dhara Mehrotra.

Special thanks to Dr. Vivek Ramachandran at the Museum and Field Stations Facility at NCBS. Curated by Ishita Shah and Netra Ajjampur.

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