As on 4th June 2007

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The second fortnight began with a lot of vigor in the Peers Residency 2007. Aditi Kulkarni dipped her legs in the white paint as she performed a cake walk on the corrugated sheets in her studio. Prathap Modi is done with his massive woodcuts and he has to proceed with printing. The welders and carpenters are done with their works by now. A visit to Manisha Parekh’s studio was facilitated on Thursday, 31st May 2007. The artist engaged us in a serious discussion on current issues apart from explaining and elaborating her process of working. We went through her past catalogues and asked several questions regarding the medium and conceptual thread that runs through her abstracts. There were questions like, “What would demarcate a design from an art work?” “whether the artist makes reproductions of the same work and so on…?”

On Saturday (2nd of June), Sculptor Ram Bali offered an invitation to visit his studio. We could see some of his sculptures that remind one of the 3D skeletons made during the animation process and Kandinsky’s animal sketches. The week ended with a sweet Saturday night bash.

Few folks proceeded towards the studio on Sunday whereas some of us explored certain portions of the city in the scorching afternoon sun. Monday, an Israeli film maker Shira Richter shared her work with us. Shira showed some of her early art works pertaining to art-photography. There were questions pouring in and interesting debates around feminism. She invited everyone to her film screening in the Israeli film festival at Habitat Center the same evening. Shira’s art works are self referential looking in to the organic body that deals with motherhood.

In the afternoon we had the pleasure of interacting with Artist Atul Balla. His studio visit to cheer up the Peers and the informal sharing of his experiences are greatly benefiting. The coming week demands everyone’s progress towards the completion of the projects…