CROSS BORDER CONSTELLATION
a group show of artists explore the borders that separate nations in the SAARC region.
Given its aspiration to build a sturdy network of art practitioners and scholars not only within India but also outside the country, 1.Shanthiroad aims at forging strong links with South Asian countries and the global South. Its core focus is to stimulate and encourage international exchange. Its multi-faceted endeavour is supported by organizations like KHOJ in the past .
a group show of artists explore the borders that separate nations in the SAARC region.
Given its aspiration to build a sturdy network of art practitioners and scholars not only within India but also outside the country, 1.Shanthiroad aims at forging strong links with South Asian countries and the global South. Its core focus is to stimulate and encourage international exchange. Its multi-faceted endeavour is supported by organizations like KHOJ in the past .
SHANTHIROAD AND SOUTH ASIA
We share a special relationship with South Asia and have fostered many “conversation across cultures”.
As a deliberate policy our core invitees have been from South Asia which has resulted in the development of an active network of artists in the region. We seeks to promote cross cultural exchange within the visual practices of the ‘Global South’.
Our South Asian collaborative residencies have strengthen relationships established by KHOJ INTERNATIONAL ARTIST ASSOCIATION with 1.SHANTHIROAD STUDIO SPACE.The ongoing Sethusamudram Project between Shanthiroad and Theertha and the CAB 2012-"Becoming"-Colombo Art Biennale. are an out come of this relationship.
We worked with artists from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ,Nepal and established a people to people contact.
The residency became a catalyst for the artist who worked together, in the spirit of experimental art practice beyond the authority of institutions and socially engaging in common issues.
The most enduring aspect of people to people contact was conversations that dismantled ghosts created by the media about each others.These were real people,sensitive artist who understood the situation and were coloured by cliches and preconceived notions about our common history and geography.Here was a space were artist reached out to each other,helping each other,discussing the common aspects about art education,gallery system and alternative art practise and obviously the new interest in the subcontinent about the emerging art market and it’s repercussion on the art scene in the respective countries.
The red tape of visa,local police registration,visa extension was an experience with patience and bureaucracy .It opens up questions about the reality of the lack of trust,strained relationships with neighbouring countries,caution and fear of the other.
People to people contact is the only solution to dismantle our notions about each other and in a small way brings people /artists together to work, share and collaborate.
As we exist within the contemporary landscape of alternative spaces of the South Asia,Alternative art spaces have always pushed the edge of art beyond the official photo opportunities and institutional art and cultural diplomacy.
This is a constellation of artists who have connected to contemporary issues that affect us as nations and people.
It is an attempt to create a constellation of artist who have networked and bonded in the spirit of SAARC,
Suresh Jayaram
1Shanthi Road Studio/Gallery
We share a special relationship with South Asia and have fostered many “conversation across cultures”.
As a deliberate policy our core invitees have been from South Asia which has resulted in the development of an active network of artists in the region. We seeks to promote cross cultural exchange within the visual practices of the ‘Global South’.
Our South Asian collaborative residencies have strengthen relationships established by KHOJ INTERNATIONAL ARTIST ASSOCIATION with 1.SHANTHIROAD STUDIO SPACE.The ongoing Sethusamudram Project between Shanthiroad and Theertha and the CAB 2012-"Becoming"-Colombo Art Biennale. are an out come of this relationship.
We worked with artists from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ,Nepal and established a people to people contact.
The residency became a catalyst for the artist who worked together, in the spirit of experimental art practice beyond the authority of institutions and socially engaging in common issues.
The most enduring aspect of people to people contact was conversations that dismantled ghosts created by the media about each others.These were real people,sensitive artist who understood the situation and were coloured by cliches and preconceived notions about our common history and geography.Here was a space were artist reached out to each other,helping each other,discussing the common aspects about art education,gallery system and alternative art practise and obviously the new interest in the subcontinent about the emerging art market and it’s repercussion on the art scene in the respective countries.
The red tape of visa,local police registration,visa extension was an experience with patience and bureaucracy .It opens up questions about the reality of the lack of trust,strained relationships with neighbouring countries,caution and fear of the other.
People to people contact is the only solution to dismantle our notions about each other and in a small way brings people /artists together to work, share and collaborate.
As we exist within the contemporary landscape of alternative spaces of the South Asia,Alternative art spaces have always pushed the edge of art beyond the official photo opportunities and institutional art and cultural diplomacy.
This is a constellation of artists who have connected to contemporary issues that affect us as nations and people.
It is an attempt to create a constellation of artist who have networked and bonded in the spirit of SAARC,
Suresh Jayaram
1Shanthi Road Studio/Gallery
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