Ticket-free
days scheduled for the new year
Kochi, Dec 19: The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF)
is going to banish Monday blues. Starting in January and set to last for the
course of the exhibition till end-March, people will get free entry to the
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014 on the day.
So far, over 15,000 people—from celebrities to
gallery owners, curators, academics, students and families—have trudged the
seven Fort Kochi venues of KMB ’14—in less than one week after the art and
cultural show opened its doors to visitors, but the free day is expected to
make it easier on the pockets of local people, and prompt them to visit.
“We have been keen to make the biennale—the
first and the present ones—belong to the people, because it happens with the
support of people from all walks of life,” said KBF president Bose
Krishnamachari, director of KMB ’14. “Free Mondays just reiterate the stand
that ‘it’s our biennale’. This is not just an art exhibition; we have put
together a carefully curator programme of seminars and films, that we want
everybody to participate in.”
The 108-day biennale features 94 artists from 30
countries. Every evening, starting from 6 pm, there are documentary, short and
feature films in a 100-day festival segment called Artists’ Cinema, chosen by
some key personalities from the film circuit. There are also scholarly
discussions on politics, art and history, among other things, in a Let’s Talk
series that will be held periodically.
A week before the biennale started, tickets to
the exhibition, costing Rs 100, were distributed in residences around Fort
Kochi and Mattancherry. Students up to the ages of 15 have a subsidised rate of
Rs 50. Check-ins will be monitored on the free Mondays too, to keep tabs on the
numbers of visitors.
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