Colomboscope 2024 - Way of the Forest (19 - 28 January 2024)


Colomboscope 2024 Way of the Forest will manifest from 19 to 28 January 2024 across several venues in Colombo. The 8th Colomboscope edition is shaped with over 40 Sri Lankan and international artists and collectives. Interwoven with interdisciplinary programmes Mushroomings ranging from conversations, excursions, performances, workshops, open air cinema and listening experiences realised with a host of cultural partners. Colomboscope 2024 is curated by Hit Man Gurung, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Sarker Protick with artistic director Natasha Ginwala.


Colomboscope is a contemporary arts festival and creative platform for interdisciplinary dialogue that has grown steadily within the cultural landscape of Colombo since 2013. The festival has worked with a range of intergenerational artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, social theorists and scientific researchers from Sri Lanka and internationally delivering a focused programme with each festival edition held at key historic sites in Colombo. Several of the cultural practitioners participating in COLOMBOSCOPE have gone on to show their work within regional and international exhibitions. The festival organizers are committed to building a sustainable and context-responsive environment for cultural producers to continue generating path-breaking, collaborative and genre-defying approaches in the field.


Festival Venues 
Exhibition Venues: J.D.A. Perera Gallery / SNAFU / Barefoot Gallery / Public Library Garden


Festival Participants
Anoma Wijewardene / Anupam Roy / Anushka Rustomji / U. Arulraj / Barbara Sansoni / Chija Lama / Dumiduni Illangasinghe / Fernando Garcia-Dory / Jayatu Chakma / Karachi Lajamia / Karunasiri Wijesinghe / Kieren Karritpul / Komal Purbe, Madhumala Mandal / Rebati Mandal and Selo Yadav Krisushananthan Inkaran / Kulagu Tu Buvongan / Laki Senanayake / Memory, Truth and Justice Monica De Miranda / Muge Yilmaz / Nahla Al Tabbaa / Otobong Nkanga / Pankaja Withanachchi and Roshan De Selfa / Pathum Dharmarathna / The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care with Myriam Mihindour, Tawfiq Sediqu and Elena Sorokina / Rakibul Anwar / MTF Rukshana / Ruwangi Amarasinghe / Sarmila Sooriyakumar with Pirainila Krishnarajag / Shiraz Bayjoo / Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah / Spore Initiative with U Yits Ka'an, Colectivo Suumil Mookt'aan, Rafiki Sanchez, and Cecilia Moo / Tamarra Jayasundera / Thava Thajendran / Thujiba Vijayalayan / Trent Walter / Sangita Maity / Sanod Maharjan / Saodat Ismailova / Shehan Obeysekera / Soma Surovi Jannat / Subas Tamang / Sunita and Sanjeev Maharjan / Venuri Perera and Eisa Jocson / Zihan Karim 


Website: 
https://www.colomboscope.lk/way-of-the-forest


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