Dream Your Stories….
“I want to help you… storytellers, writers, and artists… dive into your dreams, into your subconscious, as a deep pond of narratives…To draw from them… To dream your stories…
I want to help you in dreaming your stories, through my work, art and life.
My work as an arts professional.
My art-making in long-form fiction, pictorial and literary.
My life as a creativity coach.”
—John Xaviers Arackal, PhD
John Xaviers Arackal, PhD is an arts professional, who has been serving as a Programme Officer of the Arts Practice programme at the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore since 2019.
He was an Assistant Curator of the 4th edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2018. He taught art theory to MFA students at Shiv Nadar University from 2015 to 2018. He finished his PhD in art theory under the guidance of Prof. Parul Davc Mukherji at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2015. He curated a group show titled Apple in Dream Mode at Mumbai Art Room in June 2018 and Terra Incognita at the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi in 2015. He served as an Assistant Curator at Devi Art Foundation from 2009 to 2011.
As a self-taught artist, he had a solo show of paintings titled The Rise and Fall of Tigerabad Empire in the gallery of the School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU. He showcased his projects, India Art Power 100 since 1900 and Karmaleaks, at Devi Art Foundation as part of Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition curated by Raqs Media Collective. He was one of the actants in Five Million Incidents 2019-2020, conceived by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective.
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