SARAI

07.10 – 20.11.2011 SARAI City as Studio

Kordegarda Project

curator: Amitabh Kumar
artist, project mentor: Inder Salim
curator of Kordegarda Project: Magda Kardasz
cooperation: Adam Repucha

City as Studio will present the works of Indian artists and practitioners who participated in the SARAI programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi – one of India’s leading research institutes producing critical thought on the development, particularly in reference to South Asia. City as Studio project sought to bring contemporary artistic practice into space of today’s urbanity and resulted in creating cultural processes in locations in Delhi. The studio brought together artists, filmmakers, dancers, writers, urbanists, educationists, cultural workers and diverse audiences who worked in dialogue to create free standing art works, mini-exhibitions, installations, performances and happenings, publications, sound works, video, internet and mobile phone based works, graphic novels, public art works, graffiti and speculative architectural proposals. All the participants were invited to imagine that the city itself is their studio, and that urban realities are their materials.

The exhibition in Kordegarda Project will be a selection of art projects from the Sarai’s programme City as Studio made by Amitabh Kumar and Inder Salim. The entire show is to be seen as a play with documentation of a certain processes and practices which produces not only information, but also materials, energies and dialogues.

Exhibition is another presentation in frames of the Room with a View / Pokój z widokiem series.

Inder Salim (born 1956) and educated in Kashmir, and currently lives and works in New Delhi. For the past 25 years he has used the name Inder Salim as a conceptual construct aimed to reinvigorate and restore cultural ties between the Hindus and Muslims of India and Kashmir. Since 1998 he has been active in Performance Art/Action Art and has also worked in photography, video, poetry, and blogs. He currently works with Sarai, Delhi as artistic director to initiate experimental collaborations and events.

Amitabh Kumar (born 1984) is a designer/artist from New Delhi and has been trained in the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. He has worked as part of the Sarai Media Lab (2006–2010), where he researched and made comics, programmed events, designed books and co-curated an experimental art space. He is visiting faculty to the Srishti College of Art and Design and is an initiating member of the Delhi based comics ensemble, The Pao Collective.

 

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SARAI
City as Studio
07.10 – 20.11.2011

Kordegarda Project
ul. Gałczyńskiego 3, 00-362 Warszawa

sponsor of the KORDEGARDA PROJECT: Benq
strategic partner: Centrum Dobrego Obrazu
sponsors of the opening ceremony: Freixenet, Chocolissimo
media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice, Stolica