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What's On and Upcoming:
First Came the Trees
Then the Art
LAMO invites you to Forest Art Festival's 2026 Report Session 'First came the Trees, Then the Art!
Forest Art Festival in Ladakh began as an afforestation initiative and has since grown into a community-engaged art project, bringing people together, fostering creativity, and encouraging care for the environment.
This presentation shares the stories, artworks, and ideas that have taken root along the way. Come and discover how planting trees can grow into something more-and perhaps inspire you to see forests, art, and our relationship with nature a little differently.
The curators of the festival - Akiko Ookuni, Kazunori Hamao - will be present, as well as participating artist Chemat Dorjey.
The festival was held in collaboration with Wall Art Project.
Forest Art Festival in Ladakh began as an afforestation initiative and has since grown into a community-engaged art project, bringing people together, fostering creativity, and encouraging care for the environment.
This presentation shares the stories, artworks, and ideas that have taken root along the way. Come and discover how planting trees can grow into something more-and perhaps inspire you to see forests, art, and our relationship with nature a little differently.
The curators of the festival - Akiko Ookuni, Kazunori Hamao - will be present, as well as participating artist Chemat Dorjey.
The festival was held in collaboration with Wall Art Project.
WHAT IS THE CHANGTHANG?
LAMO invites you to a discussion on 'What is the Changthang?' This is an interdisciplinary dialogue for fostering a better understanding of the region.
Changthang is shaped by competing ecological, political, economic, and cultural interests. This workshop brings together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and conservation biology to examine these interconnected dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens. Particular emphasis will be placed on integrating Changpa knowledge and fostering dialogue among researchers and other stakeholders concerned with the plateau's future.
Changthang is shaped by competing ecological, political, economic, and cultural interests. This workshop brings together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and conservation biology to examine these interconnected dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens. Particular emphasis will be placed on integrating Changpa knowledge and fostering dialogue among researchers and other stakeholders concerned with the plateau's future.
The Time is Never Ripe : Film Screenings
Join us for a programme of film screenings presented as part of 'The Time is Never Ripe', Raqs Media Collective's solo exhibition, curated by Qamoos Bukhari at the LAMO.
Saturday, 8 August 2026 | 4 - 6 PM
Provisions for Everybody, 2018
Single screen, video, 50 minutes
The film inscribes an eccentric itinerary between Northern England, Eastern India, Myanmar (Burma) and Catalonia.
Raqs pause at Wigan Pier (England) where George Orwell queried the future, at Motihari (his birthplace in Bihar), in Durham investigating coal mining and miners, and in the streets of Barcelona, where he dodged bullets.
A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission, 2018
Single screen, video, 18 minutes 4 seconds
A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission turns to the Rann of Kutch, where salt stretches between sea and land, dazzling the horizon. The film is a reflection on cycles of erosion and renewal, where earth remembers its transformations.
Saturday, 22 August 2026 | 5 - 6 PM
The Blood of Stars, 2017
Single screen, video, 13 minutes The film invites us to think about the relation between the presence of iron, a fugitive from the stars, sleeping deep inside the earth and the veins of warm-blooded mammals.
Meanwhile, it reads meteorites for clues about the stains at the edge of every sharp blade that cuts into flesh, and registers resonances that ricochet between mining, militarism and the mutations that mark a remote landscape.
Deep Breath, 2019
Film, 25 minutes
A phrase that is inscribed onto the sea floor and then filmed with the help of three divers, sign-posts an interval between the resting place of two shipwrecks; one ancient, another not. Together they might have transported a cargo of all the old and new things that defy memory, had they kept sailing.
All Are Welcome
Image Credits
Film Stills: The Blood of Stars, 2017, Raqs Media Collective.
Saturday, 8 August 2026 | 4 - 6 PM
Provisions for Everybody, 2018
Single screen, video, 50 minutes
The film inscribes an eccentric itinerary between Northern England, Eastern India, Myanmar (Burma) and Catalonia.
Raqs pause at Wigan Pier (England) where George Orwell queried the future, at Motihari (his birthplace in Bihar), in Durham investigating coal mining and miners, and in the streets of Barcelona, where he dodged bullets.
A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission, 2018
Single screen, video, 18 minutes 4 seconds
A Planet Turns on its Axis Without Permission turns to the Rann of Kutch, where salt stretches between sea and land, dazzling the horizon. The film is a reflection on cycles of erosion and renewal, where earth remembers its transformations.
Saturday, 22 August 2026 | 5 - 6 PM
The Blood of Stars, 2017
Single screen, video, 13 minutes The film invites us to think about the relation between the presence of iron, a fugitive from the stars, sleeping deep inside the earth and the veins of warm-blooded mammals.
Meanwhile, it reads meteorites for clues about the stains at the edge of every sharp blade that cuts into flesh, and registers resonances that ricochet between mining, militarism and the mutations that mark a remote landscape.
Deep Breath, 2019
Film, 25 minutes
A phrase that is inscribed onto the sea floor and then filmed with the help of three divers, sign-posts an interval between the resting place of two shipwrecks; one ancient, another not. Together they might have transported a cargo of all the old and new things that defy memory, had they kept sailing.
All Are Welcome
Image Credits
Film Stills: The Blood of Stars, 2017, Raqs Media Collective.
An Exhibition into the Mind
LAMO is pleased to announce the photography exhibition
'An Expedition into the Wind' by Ben Viatte. This marks th culmination of Ben's 600 kilometre walk from Dharamshala to Leh, which he has accomplished by following the application of the 37 Bodhisattva practices of body, speech, and mind.
Ben Viatte is from Switzerland, where he grew up doing various professions from building roofs to websites. He began his journey following a dream, in which he saw a Buddhist monk walking eastwards.
Opening and Talk
Wednesday 15th July 2026 | 4 to 6 pm
Exhibition continues
15th August | 11 am to 5 pm
Sundays closed
All are Welcome
'An Expedition into the Wind' by Ben Viatte. This marks th culmination of Ben's 600 kilometre walk from Dharamshala to Leh, which he has accomplished by following the application of the 37 Bodhisattva practices of body, speech, and mind.
Ben Viatte is from Switzerland, where he grew up doing various professions from building roofs to websites. He began his journey following a dream, in which he saw a Buddhist monk walking eastwards.
Opening and Talk
Wednesday 15th July 2026 | 4 to 6 pm
Exhibition continues
15th August | 11 am to 5 pm
Sundays closed
All are Welcome
The Time is Never Ripe
LAMO is pleased to announce 'The Time is Never Ripe', the first solo presentation of Raqs Media Collective in the Indian Himalayas and their first exhibition in India in over a decade.
Conceived and curated by Qamoos Bukhari, the exhibition brings together a body of 25 old and new works across photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and film, the majority of which have never been displayed in South Asia before. The exhibition opens a dialogue between Raqs' reflections on human economies, planetary change, and the landscape of Ladakh.
Lead Institutional Partner: RMZ Foundation
Additional Philanthropic Support: Jamnalal Bajaj
Foundation, Heba Zaidi-Khosla Logistical Support: Project 88
Lodging Support: The Grand Dragon, Ladakh
All are welcome.
Conceived and curated by Qamoos Bukhari, the exhibition brings together a body of 25 old and new works across photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and film, the majority of which have never been displayed in South Asia before. The exhibition opens a dialogue between Raqs' reflections on human economies, planetary change, and the landscape of Ladakh.
Lead Institutional Partner: RMZ Foundation
Additional Philanthropic Support: Jamnalal Bajaj
Foundation, Heba Zaidi-Khosla Logistical Support: Project 88
Lodging Support: The Grand Dragon, Ladakh
All are welcome.
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