EVENT POSTPONED | Rosalyn D’Mello: „Traminer Marmeladen-Almanach“
Book presentation & jam tasting in the context of Premierentage 2024
***The book presentation and jam tasting “Traminer Marmeladen-Almanach” with Rosalyn D’Mello as part of the Premierentage 2024 can unfortunately not take place due to health reasons! A new date will be announced shortly.***
The author, art critic and researcher Rosalyn D’Mello presents her Traminer Marmeladen-Almanach (Tramin Jam Almanach), a manifestation of her autotheoretical project In the Name of the Mother, which she conceived after moving from Delhi to Tramin and expanded on as a Büchsenhausen Fellow in 2021/2022.
Taking as a starting point household and food preservation practices in Tramin, she focuses on the invisible life stories and artistic practices of women whose intellectual and creative agency is located in the privacy of their own households. Building on this, and from an intersectional-feminist perspective, she reflects on ideas about what is considered art and how the artistic legacy of women can be made visible.
A blind jam tasting will accompany the presentation: D’Mello invites participants to taste and comment on jams from Tramin –“jam criticism” as an artistic, eco-feminist discourse.
The event takes place in the context of Premierentage 2024.
Rosalyn D’Mello (she/her) grew up as a “Bombay Goan” in Mumbai. She graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and earned her Master’s degree from the Centre of English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. After a brief stint as a theatre critic in Mumbai, in 2010, she adopted Delhi as her base for almost ten years before moving to her current location in Tramin, an alpine town in the autonomous province of South Tyrol in Italy. Over her decade-long career as a freelancer, she has performed various callings as a feminist writer, art critic, columnist, essayist, editor, researcher, consultant, and proofreader across industries.
She is currently a TBA21 Ocean Fellowship 2021 Mentor. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, A Handbook for my Lover. She is also the recipient of the India Foundation for the Arts arts research grant (2019-2020), which is supporting her ongoing research for her forthcoming book for Oxford University Press, India, based on her visits to Indian artists’ studios. Since January 2016, she has been writing a weekly memoir-based, feminist column for mid-day. She writes fortnightly art columns for STIR while her criticism frequently appears in the Indian weekly magazine Open. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary anthologies, such as Dress (HarperCollins India, 2018), Walking towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell their Stories (HarperCollins India, 2016; Hardie Grant Australia, 2016) and collections of art criticism, including Critical Writing Ensembles: Dhaka Art Summit 2016 (Office for Contemporary Art, Norway; Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Navigating the Planetary (Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020). She was previously the editor of BLOUINARTINFO India (2012-2014) and was nominated for the Forbes’ Best Emerging Art Writer Award in 2014. She was also shortlisted for the Prudential Eye Art Award for Best Writing on Asian Contemporary Art in 2014. She was an evaluator for The Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2020.
https://www.rosalyndmello.com/
Location
Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen