Thursday, July 26, 2012

For First City magazine

Illustrated spread for Gautam Bhatia's idea of the 'map-of-delhi' in the August issue of First City magazine.




Chosen and Published



second option

Thursday, July 19, 2012

sarai inputs : discussion points


  • flying circus, film
  • the artistic body
  • freedom of the geneology of art
  • sendo titlo
  • ed bruche'
  • oulipo : a parody. 
  • post anarchism: failure
  • DISCHARGE
  • HAMMER,CROWBAR
  • oshima ceremony/protest : the bride hasnt arrived but the whole ceremony is completed. nirakaar protest. social science: i would like to problematize the problem - talk about talk about talk
  • lamuk
  • object vs thing : fetishising the object veils the labour behind it
  • touch: how does commodification negate touch? 
  • 60s phenomenology.
  • how does it inform ur work conceptually, apart from being an act of transgression? conditional
  • john dewey: air guitar in art as experience
  • philosophy converts sound into meaning, poetry converts meaning into sound
  • why wary of theory, theory is not western
  • where i start is incidental, where i end is accidental (p?)
  • can you experience space without reason? why the instigator?
  • deep ecology
  • francis alys: subversive tales ( city, gun, life)
    • walks through Jerusalem, along the 1948 partition lines, through armed checkpoints, holding a leaking can of paint (The Green Line [Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic])
  • douchon played chess
  • john cage lalala
  • the representation debate : do we stop representing then? 
  • abstracting the body , the eyes and the subject have to negotiate, adjust
    • removal of the body, body as vector, debranding : removal of familiarity
    • superfluous branding surrounds
  • evil architect: evil planners controlling minions.  counter porosities in the city
  • the myth of the truth : photography: is it a document or art? oh look this is you! how do i know? - photography. narcissus he cudnt fall in love with anything except his own reflection
  • cities like dubai too are longing for a body
  • 'i am a museum exhibit'       ( what? )
  • the discourse over tomato
  • a spurious defense mechanism of sorts : the city?
  • potentially sanitised space
  • the x ray machine at the metro like an opera, this film going in, the guys enjoying it
  • the escalator pretending to be the stair: big choice
  • local/global - a stab in the dark
  • anesthised city, to make room for the global taking away the local, 1947 zionism- the delhi that was, benevolent rulers, pre-libralisation dreams, longing
  • exploring materiality 
    • technology: embodiment to the extent it becomes transparent/superfluous
    • herministic
  • the idea of silent reading, burning a copy of the satanic verse
  • grapefruit, john lenon: burn the book after you read it
  • no man's an island, youre working with the lineage or against it but theres no personal, the original genius vs the . im not trying to create the wheel, but there must be a creative impetus
  • iconoclasm
    • fetishing the object
    • subverting the icon in these projects
    • project called 'anxious', the text: offending the audience. contexts, deactivated.
  • poetic interest
  • when does porn become art? frivolous sex is as much an art as meaningful sex. the suppression of feeling is as much a skill as expression.
  • art that has made seismic shifts within the political sphere
  • poem called tape worm foundry
  • ideas after ideas, Darren worshler henry
  • pamuk : burns a library.
  • richually consigned to the waters
  • manusmriti, raked up, riled up
  • administrative abt it
  • scramble the letters of a book
  • proliferated
  • franco moretti
  • language, the use of TIME as a manmade thing, but time made the big bang, entropy is part of time : pratik;s words
  • deformities museum
  • personification of space: space an active agent
    • theatricality, concerted, fiction/fact
    • bunkers and barbed wire
i'm not sure i  understand any of what i'm hearing, sometimes.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

There are two things,
that i held close to my heart,
I traded the one I had to protect,
and hide the one I had to give.

Leh




                                                             Lamaan and Astha










Astha sniffing flowers.