The poem Reading-list proposes a list of 96 authors from India who should be in global reading lists – the list is potentially endless. The work stages a dialogue with the concept of cannon by boldly picking up nourishment from an eclectic reading list. The temporary mural is the poem’s fifth iteration and was installed at Åbo Akademi University’s campus in Vaasa 23. 10.2020 – 31.12.2022.
Vidha Saumya was invited by artist-in-residence Lena Séraphin to install the mural on the 7th floor in the Academill building. The project is part of the program Sharing Text that Séraphin launched as a part of her Pro Artibus Foundation residency and postdoctoral research at the Åbo Akademy University. Sharing Text is an inquiry about how text can be published site purposely and written collectively as collaborative writing.
Vidha Saumya is a Helsinki based Artist-Poet, and the co-founder and co-editor of the online art magazine NO NIIN. She has studied art and art theory in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Lahore, and Helsinki and has exhibited across India and North Europe.
List of authors: Makhfi, Namdeo Dhasal, Akhil Katyal, Keki Daruwala, Amrita Pritam, Lal Ded, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Khushwant Singh, Kamla Bhasin, Jacinta Kerketta, Zahir Dehlvi, Mona Zote, Balamani, Hussain Haidry, Baburao Bagul, Madhavikutty, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ritu Menon, Arundhati Roy, A. Revathy, Phanishwarnath Renu, Krishna Sobti, P. Sivakami, Yogesh Maitreya, Urmila Pawar, Rashid Jahan, Ravikumar, Chaman Nahal, Iqra Khilji, Begum Rokeya, Sujatha Gidla, Kavita Kane, Kamala Markandya, Meena Kandasamy, Safdar Hashmi, Gargi Vachaknavi, Anuja Chandramouli, C.S. Chandrika, Shalim M. Hussain, R.K. Narayanan, Padma Gole, Uma Chakravarti, Gulbadan Begum, Aravind Malagatti, Ratan Kumar Sambharia, Kabir, Kiran Desai, Jyotsna Siddharth, Sharmila Rege, Nida Fazli, Urvashi Butalia, Balamani Amma, Vidyapati, Raja Dhale, Suniti Namjoshi, Aamir Aziz, Sheetal Sathe, Mahasweta Devi, Ruskin Bond, Shantabai Kamble, Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao, Nayantara Sahgal, Rajni Bakshi, Pinki Virani, Shanta Gokhale, Bama, Sarojini Naidu, Arun Kolatkar, Easterine Kire, Gieve Patel, Savitribai Phule, Abdul Qavi Desnavi, Adil Jussawalla, Suraj Pal Chauhan, Rosalyn D’mello, Chaya Koregaonkar, Harishankar Parsai, Grace Kujur, Sushila Samad, Sheetal Shyam, Ismat Chughtai, Nissim Ezekiel, Pandita Ramabai, Abraham Eraly, Irwin Allan Sealy, Madur Jaffrey, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Pallathu Raman, Gaddar, Vijila Chirappad, Maitreyi Devi, Gogu Shyamala, Harimohan Jha, Munshi Premchand
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Höglund, H., & Jusslin, S. (2022). Engaging with Poetry on the Wall: Inviting, seizing, intensifying, and transforming literary engagements. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 23(10).
https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea23n10