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Aastha Chauhan

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Aastha Chauhan, New Delhi
Vanishing Point, radio installation, 2006/8 For “Six Degrees,” Aastha will showcase a
community-centered radio show that came out of many hours spent with local tourist guides at the historic Patan Durbar Square as part of a 2006 Sutra Artist’s Residency. Although the workshop lasted only a few weeks, Aastha was able to
gain the trust of the informal community,and record their narratives on hours upon hours of taped interviews. Indeed, by the end of the project the guides had so taken to her project that they began to record stories for each other. At the end of her stay, Aastha was able to condense all of her material into a half-hour radio show which was broadcast over a local Nepalese community radio station (Radio Sagarmatha) to the intense delight of her friends in Patan Durbar Square. Aastha specialized in sculpture both for her B.F.A, completed at the Government College of Art in Chandigarh, and her M.F.A. at New Delhi’s College of Art. Since graduation she has had shows in New Delhi and Bombay, in addition to working with KHOJ
to develop their community arts initiative. As leader of this initiative, she has facilitated nine independent art projects aimed at involving the Khirkee community that surrounds the KHOJ studio in New Delhi.Projects have ranged from artist- commissioned temple installations, to local shop make-overs, to clay toy-making with neighborhood children, all completed with community input at every stage. These projects not only ground KHOJ in its locality and ameliorate the somewhat alienating effect of an otherwise potentially elitist-seeming
venture, but fundamentally inform the practice of Aastha and other artists who pass through KHOJ.

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