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Council for Arts and Social Practice (CASP) is a platform for transdisciplinary artistic research and practice to facilitate critical dialogues on cultural sustainability.

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What We Do

CASP provides a platform for arts-based research, process-oriented practices, affective learning and participatory education. Our objective is to employ the arts as a catalyst to formulate ideas on mutualism and cultural sustainability.

Who We Work With

CASP engages with artists, curators, educators, architects, designers, performers, filmmakers, community organizers, social researchers, students and children. We collaborate with people in informal urban settlements, peri-urban spaces and villages.

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Conversations
28th September 2024

Drawing the Lines

Over more than two decades, Uttam Ghosh’s practice has been shaped by democratic ideals around peoples’ movements, social justice, and equality. Finding expression in political cartoons, magazine covers, posters, illustrations,…
Conversations
30th August 2024

Site, Process, Situations

The Covid-19 pandemic accentuated the disintegrated systems across the globe and brought up unprecedented challenges for artistic and critical practices in India. Responding to this context, the Neekoee Foundation in…
Participatory Workshops
15th March 2024

From Up There They Were Just Numbers

What sounds does poetry make? Can poetry speak through images? Can we bring poetry into action, maybe through a song, dance or play? Join us for a creative workshop with…
Conversations
20th January 2024

Collaboration as Practice

Responding to an urgency for materializing and facilitating individual and collective expressions of shared concerns and understanding, Northeast Lightbox started as an address for a shared call for action in…

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Blog
9th February 2024

Featured Project: Publications

CASP is delighted to share that our collaborative arts project "From Up There They Were Just Numbers" (2019-Ongoing) with artist-filmmaker, Kush Badhwar, on the politics of land, people's protests, displacement,…
Blog
30th September 2023

Community Arts Network: Member

CASP has been featured in the newsletter of the Community Arts Network, Vienna, in September 2023. Please visit their website and social media platforms to engage with the diversity of…
Blog
30th April 2023

Global We Artists’ Residency

Connecting Habitat(s): Global We Artists’ Residency (March-April 2023) curated by the Compound 13 Lab and the Museum for the United Nations – UN.Live, was part of the UN.Live’s ongoing Global…
Blog
1st October 2022

7000 Humans: Assemblies

CASP is an official partner in India for 7000 HUMANS, a global community network that connects to 7000 Oaks, one of Joseph Beuys’ (a founder of Fluxus) most beloved social…