Unfreedom-Film screening

UNFREEDOM is an urgent contemporary thriller about a society torn apart by political, religious, and sexual turmoil. Shifting between New York and New Delhi, th...e film juxtaposes two powerful and unflinching stories about religious fundamentalism and intolerance, one of which follows a Muslim terrorist attempting to silence a liberal Muslim scholar, while the other is about a young woman who defies her devout father and escapes an arranged marriage because she is secretly embroiled in a taboo lesbian romance. In this searing portrait of the polarized world we live in, all four characters go to their absolute limit—and beyond—in their struggle to defend their deeply-held and conflicting viewpoints on freedom, faith, family and love.
Read more about the film here: www.unfreedommovie.com

Open studio summer residency program

A multimedia exhibition of a 16mm film, photographs, installation, video and a performance by four artist Arshad Hakim, Murari Jha, Nihal Faizal, Sandeep Tk.

 

Artist Talk - Meera margaret singh

Meera Margaret Singh is a Toronto-based photographer. With a background in anthropology and art history, Meera is interested in exploring the tension between documentary and fiction. She seeks to challenge the viewer through representations of fluidity (of culture, of gender, etc.).

In recent photographic and video works, Meera has questioned ideas of displacement and suspension through cultural, physical, geographical, and emotional states.

Her residency at 1Shanthiroad

has been spent creating new work focused on laughter yoga, With this, she is exploring notions of the ‘simulated’ and the ‘real’ as performed through the body.

Jatwangi art factory @ 1shanthiroad

an interact collaborative project by three Indonesian artists that reclaimed clay in the urban context.The artist collected roof tiles,pots etc and installed it under the Double Road.They also made music.

Rajitha Schade's recent work

Transience always brings with it disquiet, displacement, and disparity. However it also opens up fresh perspectives and demands and realignment. As a subject for my work in the past years I have drawn from the nature of plants for their aspects of beauty, resilience, perpetuation, love, perfection and desire, transience and mortality.
My own life was a series of relocations in different cities. The last relocation has changed my work. I collected experiences that colored my senses. The transition seems to have laid bare questions. These works locate themselves in my past and carry the promise of a future that is uncertain. And I choose to share my work because as I am finally accepting of the doubts and uncertainties.

Coming to Bangalore was a revelation physically and metaphorically, I found Lalbagh Botanical Gardens it was “The garden of earthy delights”. It was here that I explored the experimentation of species and flora from different parts of the world. Much like myself. The plants have thrived and so have I. #1 Shanthiroad Studio provides the ideal coordinates for cultural exchange and artistic reflection in a nurturing environment in this urbanscape of Bangalore, hence the space was ideal for me to introduce myself to the city.