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Connecting dots, ideas, and people: Lina Vincent

The image has a neon green background, with a faint wave pattern running down the right side. On top, in a yellow square, the words ‘Goa Spotlight’ Below, the headline, in white text: Connecting dots, ideas, and people Next, a subhead, in white text: The art and craft of curation Below that, the date for the session: ​8 May 2022 Below that, in a circular window, the speaker’s portrait in black-and-white, and to its right, the speaker’s name: Lina Vincent And description: Culture worker. curator, art historian Then, below, at centre, the logotype for The Goa Project Sessions, which has the words ‘The Goa Project’ in white text next to a stylised sunset-and-water image, and next to that, the word ‘Sessions’ within a stylised video camera image. In a black strip at the bottom: Alternate Sundays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. IST on Zoom.

Lina is an independent art historian and curator with two decades of experience in arts management. She has worked on projects that highlighted plural, multi-layered approaches, with a focus on inclusivity and collaboration in public arts engagement. It has resulted in interconnected bodies of research and curation that bring together diverse voices, modes of expression, and interfaces for dialogue. The focus areas of her research extend to arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions and folk arts in India, and environmental consciousness in the arts. Her current practice foregrounds sustained engagement with material culture and social history, seen through acts of community interaction, pedagogical interventions; archiving and interpretation.

Carbon miles: Gadhadar Reddy

Gadhadar is an entrepreneur focused on making space accessible to everyone by using carbon nanotubes. With Dr. Robert Kelley Bradley, he co-founded NoPo Nanotechnologies, which manufactures high quality single-walled carbon nanotubes. His team won the fourth International Space Power Competition conducted by the United Nations SGAC for a concept using carbon nanotubes to build solar-powered satellites. In 2018, he was included in the International Institute of Space Commerce’s inaugural 35-under-35 list as the sole Asian disrupting space commerce. He has given INK and TEDx talks that showcase how advanced technologies can be developed in India. NoPo’s carbon nanotubes, proudly made in Bangalore, are considered the best in the world, with a precision within two atoms.

D.I.Y. investing hacks: Deepak Mohoni

The image has a neon pink background, with a faint wave pattern running down the right side. On top, in a yellow square, the word ‘Fringe & Geekery’ Below, the headline, in white text: D.I.Y. investing hacks Next, a subhead, in white text: Uncomplicated strategies for the lay person Below that, the date for the session: 10 April 2022 Below that, in a circular window, the speaker’s portrait in black-and-white, and to its right, the speaker’s name: Deepak Mohoni And description: Investor educator, market strategist, data analyst Then, below, at centre, the logotype for The Goa Project Sessions, which has the words ‘The Goa Project’ in white text next to a stylised sunset-and-water image, and next to that, the word ‘Sessions’ within a stylised video camera image. In a black strip at the bottom: Alternate Sundays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. IST on Zoom.

Deepak, known for coining the word ‘sensex’ in 1989, used to appear daily on ET Now and CNBC, and wrote a weekly column in the Investor’s Guide section in the Economic Times for several years. He now runs online courses for investors and traders, and develops applications for deeper analysis of stock markets, posts useful material for investors on trendwatchindia.com (not paywalled). He was previously a self-employed consultant for Burroughs Corporation in the Netherlands and UK and an IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta alumnus. He is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter.

Flesh and mud: Neha Kudchadkar

The image has a neon blue background, with a faint wave pattern running down the right side. On top, in a yellow square, the word ‘Intersections’ Below, the headline, in white text: Flesh and mud Next, a subhead, in white text: Mixing and growing artistic practices Below that, the date for the session: 27 March 2022 Below that, in a circular window, the speaker’s portrait in black-and-white, and to its right, the speaker’s name: Neha Kudchadkar And description: Dancer, ceramist Then, below, at centre, the logotype for The Goa Project Sessions, which has the words ‘The Goa Project’ in white text next to a stylised sunset-and-water image, and next to that, the word ‘Sessions’ within a stylised video camera image. In a black strip at the bottom: Alternate Sundays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. IST on Zoom.

Neha is a visual and performing artist living on a farm in rural Maharashtra. She has chosen to negotiate various roles — ceramicist, dancer, researcher, choreographer, collaborator — that inform one another and broaden her approach as an artist and maker. She places herself in her social, political, material, cultural, and physical environment through her work, sometimes playful, sometimes sombre, and often uses her body as the subject and object of her work, and as  the tool for the making of it. Neha is a co-founder of beej a performing arts collective in Mumbai, and a co-curator of the Indian Ceramics Triennale.