Artist Residency

Govandi Arts is a community-led arts and culture movement that reclaims, transforms and celebrates the socio-spatial narrative of marginalised neighbourhoods in Mumbai’s Govandi. The Festival celebrates the spirit and resilience of the residents through performative and visual arts.

With the aim to hone the skills of the residents and encourage city residents to interact with the neighbourhood, we work with artist residents across the city, enabling them to use different mediums to situate their methods of practice within the community of Govandi for four months. We support them in the curation and exhibition of the work that comes through the residency. In the last edition of the festival, we issued an open call and selected artists working with different creative mediums of sound, animation, narrative mapping to capture the voices from the neighbourhood.