City [In] Visible

Parul — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:04:42 -0400

City [In] Visible

An art project which will be generating dialogues and narratives with local communities in the neighborhood of Khirkee village. These communities subsist on daily-wage earnings in small workshops and factories, as construction labourers, as artisans. Though barely seen, they remain a crucial demographic variable within the rapidly expanding and impersonal cosmopolitan ethos of high-end shopping complexes, business centres and corporate habitats.
Within the relentlessly mutating metropolitan landscape today, the migrant working class is subject to various powerful modes of alienation, even while the city enlarges these communities’ frames of reference, deconstructs small town and rural prejudices, offers a range of new affiliations, and new possibilities of personal freedom. Both hostile and hospitable, this paradoxical space of seductive modernity and burgeoning new capital is a dramatic arena
of technological efficiency, fetishism, affluence and material fixation, as well as an interface fostering human connectivity and the creation of significant informal local networks that allow people to survive in the absence of secure work.
The primary site for the execution of the residency art project would be the mega shopping mall across the road from Khirkee. Visit artist's blog here >>>

Open Day City[In]visible

manoj — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:44:05 -0400

Open Studio Day of City[In]visible, Associate Residency (Community Art Project) by Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee on June 15th @ Khoj Studio met the same adverse weather conditions and more.

khirkee community

City [In] Visible

Open Day City[In]visible