New Delhi: In continuation with its vision to promote alternative art practices, especially in the field of public art, the International Association of Artists Khoja ‘presents a multidimensional art project emerged from a residency program for six weeks across the ecologies most of the city. The project supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in India called In Context: Public. Art Ecology artists will be Italy, Germany, Japan and the United States. The works were shown in three points, including Khoja Studios, the public spaces in Select City Walk Mall and 20 Barakhamba Road April 8 to April 16, 2010.
Besides the works of artists in residence at Khoja, the project also will include a sculpture and a work of public intervention in Pushp Vihar Market Thukral and Tagra Monday, an innovative sound system andVideo Saba works of Aastha Chauhan Chhachhi, Gigi Scaria Ravi Agarwal and Select City Walk, Saket, New Delhi.
Since 2002, Khoja Studios has seen a series of residences. Pooja Sood, director of the Khoja explains: “Although both workshops and residences have led to the exchange process and the intention and the results are slightly different. The residences of slow evolution, which generally last six to eight weeks, with limited fewer participants than you are, allowing a clearer examination of the city, and a more intimate and meaningful exchanges between artists and their work processes. So if you happen to hear strange voices in the use of a reorganization or know someone in Khoja Studies invites you to plant trees on the Barakhamba road, it might be time you realize the scope and importance of art in the public domain.
Ends April 8, draft all the artists focus on interventions Khoja residence in the public sphere. Projects range from mapping weather patterns and climate change effects to examine the importance of trees within the areas of roads. From the design of a table that interact with people in conservation for the construction of a natural biological purification of water and make an interactive video sculpture of a discourse that traces the paths of people and objects constituting Chandni Chowk in Gurgaon .
Participating artists in residence are: Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga (USA), Sylvia Winkler (Austria) and Koperl Stephan (Germany), Sohee Iwata (Japan), Aliya Pabani, Namrata Mehta, Tejas Pande (Bangalore) Chhachhi Saba (New Delhi) and Navjot Altaf (Mumbai).
Project 1: Title “Hello, Weather! Vent and Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga
Type of project, installation and Web-based projects
Project description and location
Good morning! (Aka Namatse, Mausam!)-Card installation of local climatic conditions and attempts to demystify the collection and use of weather and climate, so that artists, technicians and environmentalists weather stations of the city. The project investigates the means of cooperation related to weather and climate observation and science and is based on existing international phenomenon of personal weather stations around the world where lovers unite technology “do it yourself with forums Web organized for the collection and analysis. Draft sonifies both screens and data, and invites viewers to participate with the data available in a variety of formats. In addition to the station Khoja, Hola, El Tiempo! currently has four professional weather stations feature two New York City, one in Los Angeles and one in Zurich. This project was able to show in Khoja Studios.
Vent-It is an interactive sculpture that shows that one person dies every hour in the air pollution in Delhi. Is displayed in the Select City Walk Mall, Saket
About the Artists
-Andrea Polli Andrea Polli (www. andreapolli. Com) is an artist, associate professor of Engineering and Fine Arts and director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media at the University of New Mexico. Chickens work has been widely presented in places like the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and the Field Museum of Natural History and has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News and others. In 2007/2008, he spent seven weeks living in Antarctica. www. 90degreessouth. org
Chuck Varga (USA)-In 1985, Chuck Varga (www. chuckvarga. Com) joined a group of five people who think the theater and founded the rock band GWAR. Varga Sexicutioner created the character, who has appeared in eight big GWAR touring productions in the U.S. and Europe in over 1000 performances. He also wrote scripts, designed and created costumes and set designs, written and illustrated more than a dozen graphic GWAR comic book stories, and co-author of two feature films as “The Grammy nominations Wonderland.
Project-2: Title-PPR (Passenger rickshaw Driven) by Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Koeperl, type of intervention projects in public space
Description and Location
PPR (rickshaw passenger ship)-The project insists that self-powered vehicles will play an important role for transport over short distances in cities sustainable future. It focuses on the use of cycle rickshaws in Delhi. A prototype of PPR (powered passenger rickshaw) is being built. In this vehicle, the hierarchy of the passengers / extractor is transformed into a temporary units, which are shared physical strength and knowledge to carry out logistical issues. Artists passersby to participate in an impressive career in the PPR to feed the dream of a post-oil. Is displayed in the Select City Walk Mall, Saket.
About the Artist
Sylvia Winkler (Austria) and Koeperl Stephan (Germany), Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Koeperl obtained their titles, both the State College of Art in Stuttgart, Germany grants from the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the DAAD, the Austrian Government and the Cultural Council Canada. His temporary interventions are developed specifically for each situation and are always the result of observations made on the spot. By creating unexpected minimalist anonymous passerby.
Project 3: Title-The fieldwork in Delhi Iwata Sohee
Type of project installation and intervention in public space
Description and Location
The fieldwork in Delhi-Sohee Iwata is currently developing the “Cell House in a rural village in West Bengal. As an experiment in context: the public. Art. Draft ecology, Sohee is working with the House amendment Cell rural to urban areas. It will examine the efficiency of water purification system using the filter bacteria are able to work for the groundwater in Indian cities or running water supplied by the government. This project was able to show in Khoja Studios.
About the Artist
Iwata Sohee specific job studied Art Project ‘and’ site ‘Tokyo University of Arts. Organized art project ‘SICE’ in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2003-2007. “He was one of the largest international art events in Sarajevo after the war in the Balkans. Since 2008, he was chosen by the artist sent by Cultural Affairs, Japan and initiated an art project called” Apamnapat “in Santiniketan, India . The purpose of ‘Apamnapat is developecological to households of ethnic minorities in India.
Project4: Title-l’oggetto of my extension by Namrata Mehta, Aliya Pabani and Texas Pande, type of intervention projects in public space
Description and Location
The purpose of my attempt to ascertain the extent of the trade network that linked social workers on the streets of Chandni Chowk to the New Cyber Park Gurgaon. Objects are designed to reflect the views of people on how their everyday spaces are tempered by the memories and aspirations. Their stories trace collected trajectories and paths that are not simply forced to road and rail provision, but overlapping, repeated and design at a distance impossible. Just as the city is perpetually extends from a fictitious past, this project expresses the various “city” people that extend into it and walking distances impossible. This project could be displayed in Khoja Studios.
About the Artist
Namrata Mehta is a student of the Advanced Diploma in the Art Center Experimental Media, SRISHTI School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. He holds a degree in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. Some of her most recent projects involved tactical media and community participation to explore various aspects of urban experience. His research interest today is the map data and exchange of material starting from interactions with objects symbolic boundary.
Aliya Pabani is currently conducting research at the Experimental Center of Media Arts (CEMA) in Bangalore. He holds a BA in English Literature and Psychology at McGill University in Montreal. It is exploring the possibility of representing the range of interactions that make up the public infrastructure, using film to capture and simultaneously complete a narration track individual trajectories within it.
Tejas Pande, a graduate student in interdisciplinary design SRISHTI School of Art, Design and Technology, has an interest in understanding the nature penetrates deep urban spaces and the possibility of manipulation as a tool for communication and change.
Project 5: Title-Bhogi/Rogi by Sheba Chhachhi
Intervention Project for interactive video
Description and Location
Bhog / Rogi is an interactive installation that offers the viewer an experience of herself / himself as constituted and transformed by what she / he consumes – foodstuffs, articles, words … … The installation explores the continuity between the consumption-production-blending, with special reference to genetically modified food, through a series of transformations in real time autonomous body of the viewer. Although limited to a single viewer at a time, the changes are visible to all around. Saba Chhachhi in collaboration with Thomas Eichhorn show this project in Khoja Studios.
About the Artist
Saba Chhachhi-installation artist and photographer, transformed into works of Saba Chhachhi direction, the marginal and the difference between myth and social context of gender, representation, urban ecology, violence and visual culture. His work has been included in numerous international exhibitions of art, biennial, triennial and numerous publications. He has exhibited extensively in India, Europe, Japan, South America and North America, and published writings, lectures and workshops, research and projects related to these concerns.
Project 6: Title Barakhamba-2010 by Navjot Altaf
Type of project-intervention in public space
Description and Location
Barakhamba 2010 discusses the importance of trees in the context of the road areas and work towards ecological sustainability and social equity. This projectis in collaboration with some of the people who attended the first phase of the project “Barakhamba 2008 ‘, and other interested persons / groups of Barakhamba Road and other parts of Delhi, who have taken steps to make a difference as the planting of new trees, working for the spark of the trees and see the ground and raise awareness on issues related to many trees and save the trees. Ambientalista Ajay Mahajan, one of cooperation and ‘Kalpavriksh’, an organization active in other areas in search of significance of trees in the context of the road areas and work towards ecological sustainability and social equity. The current concern is whether there are resources as possible after the establishment of a minimum of space may be required (the addition of soil and fertilizer) around the existing trees and replanted Bahedas more than 100 years have a better growth is able to provide benefits to the people, and other living things – should give the trees). The horticulture department has responded to the NDMC the proposal and is working with Navjot the concerns mentioned above right between Barakhamba Road Barakhamba Metro Station and the Mandi House circle. Navjot says: “I, as an artist believes that when the artistic strategies become a point of compromise with participants. What emerges is a new way of thinking about the purpose of art in total. But understand this work is to recognize that the process and all related activities, because this is not a case of a final product / object to which everything else is preliminary. “The project should be considered in Khoja Studios and 20 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi
About the Artist
Navjot Altaf, Navjot has had a series of solo and towns in India, Germany, New York and has participated in important national and international exhibitions, biennial and triennial. He also participated in national and international seminars and artist residencies and has presented a seminar on art in India, Japan, Bangkok, A UKUSA and Canada. Since 1991 he has been involved with interactive and collaborative projects with Indian and international visual artists, classical singers, directors and technicians. At the same time, since 1997 has committed to the training site specific and public art projects in collaboration with Adivasi artists / communities in Bastar, central India. The process involves issues of interactive or collaborative art practice as a strategy of negotiation.