Whats going on..?
BAMBANG 'TOKO' WITJAKSONO
I focus in observation of public transport in Delhi.
I came up with different approach about how to treat the tempo as a public/ distribution transport in Delhi.
The idea is to make a stencil graffiti in tempo with popular bollywood actrees and my face … as beauty and the beast…hahaa…
It will be make me famous in Delhi…I hope…
Helmut Dick
Helmut Dick’s work were shown on 3-4 different crowded squares in Delhi.
roving public installation/performance that were periodically unloaded,
arranged in various places, picked up and moved on.
Jasmine Patheja
Jasmeen Patheja’s work at Khoj residency is an extension of her project on street sexual harassment, ‘eve teasing’, Blank Noise.
Two performances have been scheduled for Sunday the 17th of September.
The first performance is located at Lajpat Nagar market. This intervention attempts to challenge and provoke the people present there by asking them to engage with the actors.
The 2nd performance is situated at South Extension subway. Participants of the Blank Noise Project will be crucial to this public intervention. This performance identifies with women being hyper alert while engaging with their cities.
Both performances will also work with sound.
Posters of what is not allowed/ what constitutes street sexual harassment will bombard south ex, lajpat nagar more towards the event.
jasmeen poster viewjasmeen poster
Graffiti marking sites of sexual crime- eve teasing on the road, footpath etc.
It will be fictionalized and will include the victims name, nature of crime, impact, time
Ali Talpur
In more than one ways, my work is connected to the world of
media. Earlier I have used posters of film actors and religious
personalities, advertisement banners, and pictures from fashion magazines.
All of that, which formulate our present day urban visual culture. In my
work I tried to focus on this half told truth, transmitted through the
medium of contemporary communication. So my work completes,
compliments, contradicts as well as subverts the current visual vocabulary.
Looking again at the popular visual culture and exploring its
mechanism, my new work is in the form of one minute advertisement, played
on the cable TV with the help of cable operators. In this way the work
can reach many viewers, people, who do not visit galleries, admire art
or afford art pieces. This work is contructed with and produced in the
new language of media, which is shared by a large public in this time
and place, since media is playing a strong role in our daily decision
making, our new aesthetic and new life style…………. something which,
besides being "medium is the message" is well illustrated in McLuhan's
another phrase: "We shape our tools and they in turn shape us".
Navjot Altaf
The process of engaging with public art projects allows creating grounds for the artist and the people from diverse socio cultural backgrounds to meet / communicate / interact / collaborate in making art.
In Delhi ,for me because of working from a location linked to KHOJ Studio and primarily the migrant communities from
various parts of the country living in Khirki and new and old Hauz Rani ,(To an extent aware of the KHOJ Studio – hence could relate to - from where I was coming) the process of developing the work titled "DELHI LOVES ME ?" Has been interactive and engaging.
The project deals with the issues of ‘Delhi city and its politics/ policies’ to develop it as a ‘Cyber City’ and how its migrant population is dealing with the uncertainty of their present and future ‘survival’ and ‘work’ situation and their attachment / nostalgia to Delhi city they have been - for generations , coming to earn .(As the villages still lack in providing job opportunities or when the monsoon fails , the water for irrigation is not available for all).
Through Initial informal meetings with the people in Khirki and Hauz Rani and then the gradual process of discussions and interviews involving around their reaction/ response to a very generalized sticker text – I L O V E D E L H I , we could to an extent develop the aesthetic structure which many of the community persons , independently or jointly , have transformed Into a counter text in a prose / poetry form based on their experiences in the city and by reflecting or critiquing the present political situation including by recalling from the existing humorous / satirical poetry /
S h a i r i they are familiar with .
This developed and jointly selected (about 10 in number ) text will be transferred on the stickers to be pasted / installed at the backs of the 20 000 / 50 000 ‘Auto Rickshaws ‘in Delhi city, with the help of ‘Auto Rickshaws Union’ , ‘ Bharatiya Labour Union’ and ’ NGOS ‘ working with the working class population including Rickshaw drivers living between Malviya Nagar and Saket .
At the moment we are working on the designs of the stickers, and the quantity we can afford , but by Sep 12th.stickers should be ready to be installed.
NAVAJBAI RATAN TATA TRUST
