AT A GLANCE
Pooja Kaul, PhD
Area of Practice:
OVERVIEW
Pooja Is a drawing-based visual artist . She is interested in conceptually exploring the power of Art in the ordinary. She explores Everyday life as the abundant ground for resilience. This she usually explores visually through place based narratives. As a pedagogue she brings these ideas and tools to the classroom while also taking the classroom to the ordinary world.
EDUCATION
PhD in Exact Humanities – IIIT-Hyderabad; MFA in Painting – Visvabharati University, Santiniketan; BFA in Painting – Delhi University
WORK EXPERIENCE
1. Full time Faculty (since June 2012 to present) and Associate Dean for General Studies Program at Srishti Manipal Institute, MAHE-Bangalore Campus.
2. Lecturer at the Center for Exact Humanities, IIIT-Hyderabad (August 2010 to May 2012).
3. Assistant Director to Delhi-based art-historian Benoy K.Behl, in the making of 12 films for Ministry of External Affairs and Doordarshan National channel, on “The Story of Buddhism” and 2 films on ‘the Cosmopolitan Culture of India in the Ancient and Medieval times’ in the year 2007 to 2008.
4. Production Designer on a short-fiction-film with Kneedeep Productions, directed by Sunil Pandey.
5. Various workshops over the years on Drawing Practice, Philosophy of Art and Indian Aesthetics.
INTEREST AREAS
Drawing, Embodied Artistic Practice, Everyday Life and Ordinariness, Indian Philosophy (Tantra)
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Associate Dean of General Studies Program, Faculty for Contemporary Art Program and Foundation Studies Program, alongwith offering Masterclasses and mentorship across UG-PG levels.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
I have been a Full-time faculty member at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, now Srishti Manipal Institute, Bangalore since June 2012.
My teaching commitments are diverse and I teach at both the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate program levels.
On an average I teach between 20-24 teaching credits worth of taught courses and an optional 6-10 credits of Seminars and Interim projects as part of my full-time commitment at Srishti.
The taught courses include for example:
a. Studio courses in fundamentals of Drawing, Mark-making, Colour and Printmaking techniques.
In studio courses students explore the fundamental elements and principles of visual making practices by hands on exercises and applied research into methods, materials and history.
b. Contextual Enquiries under umbrella concepts of “Space and Place”, “Body as Context”, “Visual Narratives”
Contextual enquiries are taught in project mode and enable students to hone their skills across our 3 Axes of Dimensions of Practice, Studio Habits of Mind and Capability sets.
c. Project mentoring for graduating students enabling them to develop their independent art-practices.
d. Master classes and seminars for Post-graduate students on a range of topics from contemporary art, history, philosophy of art and so on.
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Drawing-based Visual artist practices through :
– Making of Artist books,
– Maintaining daily drawing journals,
– Large sclae drawing based installations,
– Taking art into the public places,
– place-based narratives,
– collaborative projects developing multi-disciplinary artforms which include performative artforms.
