October Associate Residency

Vasudha Thozhur (Baroda) – supported by Monica Wahi and Zaid Ahmed Sheikh

This art project involved working with six adolescents who lost several members of their families in the carnage at Naroda Patiya, Ahmedabad, on the 28th of February 2002. It examines the role that art practices can play in a collective trauma such as that which gripped Gujarat that year, and addresses a range of issues from personal loss to displacement, and the possibility of mobilization and economic revival through the use of the visual language.

In terms of methodology, the focus is on process rather than a on pre-determined outcome, and further the recording of the process through painting, writing, and the digital media, as an archive against forgetting, and the creation of a context – specific resource.

The residency at Khoj more specifically supports the compilation of the output, and looks at ways of presenting/exhibiting process through an experiential rather than a documentary perspective.

Brendan Jamison (Belfast)

Brendan Jamison will present a series of outdoor site-specific wool works, which have been created in direct response to the architectural features of the KHOJ complex. These will be combined with a selection of small sculptures created in response to images produced during Vasudha Thozur's community based art projects.