India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) launched their new podcast, The IFA Archive Podcast, this month to reach out to a wider audience and open conversations with their grantees on their projects. The organisation has provided funding to more than 750 projects, allowing the grantees to choose the most suitable medium as the outcome of their research. Today, their projects exist in the form of books, catalogues, films, photo-archives, games, performances, exhibitions, etc. One can only imagine how challenging the process of converting these into archives would have been, and then the archives, further, into podcast episodes.

In 2015, when the organisation completed 20 successful years, the team decided to start the IFA Archives as a celebratory step. “We asked ourselves what could have a long-term impact and be of value to artistes, scholars and the general public. There was an excitement among the team to capture the history of IFA, the projects we have supported here, and what has come out of these efforts. We also wanted to make the outcome more accessible to those who would be interested in studying various artistic practices that have emerged over the last 29 years,” shares Menaka Rodriguez, executive director.