public intervention

Khirkeeyaan: Shaina Anand

admin — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:46:04 -0400

Khirkeeyaan: Shaina Anand

” Khirkee-yaan" was the exploration and employment of an open circuit TV system as a network, communication feedback and intervention device within Khirkee environs. Through the month of April 06, the artist Shaina Anand developed Khirkeeyaan as an extension of process-oriented and self-organised in-situ public media interventions.

A documentary filmmaker and media artist based in Mumbai, Shaina Anand is the Founder of ChitraKarKhana (picture factory/artist food) a fully independent unit for experimental media.

Khirkeeyaan: Shaina Anand

admin — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:45:12 -0400

Khirkeeyaan (khirkee-window / yaan-vehicle)

KhirkeeYaan is an exploration of an open-circuit tv system as a local area network communication, micro-media generation and feedback device.

Marco Paulo Rolla

Rohini Devasher — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:39:19 -0400

'BODY EXTENSIONS'

Performances

Rohini Devasher — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:08:46 -0400

"Lesson 1... Lesson 2"

Performances

Rohini Devasher — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:02:21 -0400

Important Public Notice / Important Noticia / Mahatvapoorna Soochna Janata Ke Liye

Paolo Nazareth

Rohini Devasher — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:50:11 -0400

"Paulo Nazareth based in the town of Melo in Brazil, carries the fire of Latin American Performance Art. A radical new generation performance artist, Paulo is the new generation Brazilian performance artist, working and redefining a style first mastered by Danniel Saraiva.. His body of work is an ironic commentary on schizophrenia of lower middle class existence in Brazil. Using a calculated impromptu approach, Paulo uses re- contextualised gestures as his principle medium."

^{Rahul Bhattacharya}

Public Performances at Dilli Haat and India Gate

Rohini Devasher — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:47:00 -0400

With what degree of transversing would one be satisfied?

"Dressed as a conservative.... slightly shabby nearly middle-aged Jewish lower middle classmate. Oreet was out being tourist in Delhi. The act of gender crossing had shielded Oreet from the male gaze...'letting her be' for a while. Oreet had her portrait sketched...one could see that the portrait artist assumed Oreet was male...a sharply depicted angular jaw line sealed this observation. People dropped in to see what was going on...drawn in by the odd looking Jewish man and the cameras. A while later she returned to the artist, only this time with a Palestinian scarf over her/his head... This time s/he attracted much more attention. The catchy red and white pattern.... and the scarf gave her gender identity an interesting twist. Some of the onlookers could actually sense that it was a difficult portrait to sketch...and soon a small crowd gathered around the artist to watch him render the portrait. It was apparent that the artist was by now completely confused about Oreet's gender identity....perhaps even a little disturbed. This infact went on to affect the quality of his work.... at the end we got a confused sketch...." Rahul Bhattacharya

During the residency I also went to Dilli Haat, where I asked a street portrait drawer to draw me whilst I was dressed as Jewish Man and than to draw me as I was dressed with a Palestinian or Arabic Kafia. This is part of my interest in the cultural cross over between Judaism and Islam.

The visit as a whole was of tremendous importance to me. My work deals generally with cultural identity and cultural anxiety, visiting India give me a first hand experience into a non-western perspective, something I only experienced before in my birth place at the Middle East.

Now In England, where Asian artists form a very important part of the cultural diverse art scene and where I am currently mentoring a second generation artist from Punjab for Fierce performance festival, this experience seems fundamental to my development as an artist with interest in cultural diversity.

I an hoping to come back and develop the relationship further by trying to talk to the Live Art Development Agency and the Surry Institute, where I am a visiting lecturer, about the potential for some exchange programme, or a programme of Indian performance work visiting the UK.