Fw: Exhibition and Talk 17 March

Hi Geeta,
Just check this one out! Dhunu Roy!
All I can say is, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
------ Aruna.

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From: "Vivan Sundaram" <vivansun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <arunab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:37 PM
Subject: Exhibition and Talk 17 March


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> Dear Friend,
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> I hope you will be able to attend some of the talks
> mentioned below and visit the exhibition if you have
> not done so.
>
> Best wishes
> Vivan Sundaram
>
> Vivan Sundaram
> New New Delhi:Room with Bed, 2003-04
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> Programme of talks in Shridharani Gallery, Tirveni
> Kala Sangam, 205 Tansen Marg, New Delhi
>
> Dunu Roy : The aesthetic of the informal
> Wednesday 17 March, 6pm
> The aesthetic of the informal"
>
> 'The reflection emerges from an accepted
> characterisation of the poor as "criminal" or "dirty"
> or "immoral" - which stands in stark contrast to the
> fact that the rich entrust their precious possessions
> (children, pets, homes, etc.) to their care. There is
> also a paradox between viewing the
> poor man's shelter from the outside (as slum) and from
> the inside (as home). So "Room with Bed" can also be
> seen as "Bed as Room".'
>
> Dunu Roy
> Political ecologist
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> Bharati Chaturvedi: 'They are shabby in appearance'
> Friday 19 March, 6pm
>
> Shantanu Lodh & Manmeet : Inside Out"- unedited
> version by artmaharaj and Mrs Olympia
> Monday 22 March, 6pm
>
> K.T.Ravindran : The Room Outside
> Tuesday 23 March, 6 pm
>
> Ram Rahman : Necropolis/Kabristan.Living Amongst the
> Dead
> Friday 26 March, 6pm
>
> For any enquires contact Vivan Sundaram at 9810277897
> NEW NEW DELHI: ROOM WITH BED
>
> 2003-04
>
> VIVAN SUNDARAM
>
> participation:
> Romi Khosala
> Ram Rahman
> Raqs Media Collective
> Shantanu Lodh & Manmeet
> Bharati Chaturvedi
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> Triveni Kala Sangam, 205 Tensen Marg, New Delhi
> open daily from 11am to 7pm till 29 March
>
> The participants will speak about their work and the
> city.
> Additional lectures by urban activists in the gallery.
>
> Information about the project and the talks at
> www.sanjitdas.com/vivan
> will be posted by 16 March 2004
>
> Vivan Sundaram's installation, 'New New Delhi: Room
> with Bed', is a basic architectural unit of
> habitation. It 'houses' five Delhi residents, engaged
> with art and with urban issues. The differences and
> overlaps in their spaces, the new framing devices for
> their activities, suggest 'portraits', or
> re-presentations of persons/art forms.
>
> The room of architect ROMI KHOSLA is a pavilion on
> wheels. It invites the viewer to look up at the
> suspended bed holding the architect's plans for old
> cities, new cities and for environmental 'utopias'
> within a globalized world.
>
> The room of the RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE ( Shuddhabrata
> Sen Gupta, Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula ) is a metal
> container (with the work-bench as bed). Its structure
> is a metaphor for their movement across the globe as
> new-media artists; it contains references to their
> videos which are about satellite communication, about
> new 'middle-class workers' selling their
> English-speaking skills around the world.
>
> Residence in two cities across continents is what the
> new global artist will increasingly adopt.
> Photographer RAM RAHMAN from Delhi and New York is
> among them. The selection of his photographs focus on
> Delhi artists and intellectuals in their social
> setting. These are interspersed with portraits of his
> men friends from the working class.
>
> The floor/pavement is reserved for the sleeping space
> of the marginally positioned artist-couple, SHANTANU
> LODH and MANMEET, who use photographs that foreground
> their bodies in front of Lodh's father in their small
> middle-class home.
>
> The pavement extends to the space for BHARATI
> CHATURVEDI environmentalist, who organizes rag-pickers
> and engages with the problems of plastic waste. A
> hospital-like bed fitted with the soles of footwear
> occupies her room without walls. Hung alongside is an
> inflatable mattress stamped with an image of
> Chaturvedi with her young workforce.
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