Agam : Puram ~ At times of War and 'L..'

Agam : Puram
~ At times of War and ‘L..’
Installation by Thitta

Feb 12 -18, 2010
@1shanthiroad studio/gallery.

'Silence of the Manifesto'

'Silence of the Manifesto' Detail

Harvesting Naxals

Democrazy tree

External Affairs

Genocide under a full moon

Agam : Puram
~ At times of War and ‘L..’
" Every isms brought manifestos…propagandas… let it be in art or in
politics….(sometime art become politics.. but politics never reached
stage of art..pun intended..)….but what it does in time…. giving power
to small group to authorize everything…in process the individual soul
is ignored in the name of ‘society’ ( which is so called ‘collective
soul’).. but that same individual soul fights back and creates
another “red book manifesto with words of silence!”……

There is always war somewhere with someone… let it be political..
economical.. cultural.. even within our ‘self’… but this invisible
‘L…’ ..which brings 'us' together..
At times of war what we could to…. Fight back… or defend ourself… or
write eulogy for martyrdom…. Sit back and clean the brushes and close
our fingers and …. Let canvas windup itself … what art will be without
freedom…. Or will it be art.. "
~~ thitta
http://www.poetics.in/
http://www.thitta.com/

Notes towards DOCUMENTA 13 by CAROLYN CHRISTOV BAKARGIEV

DANCE WAS VERY FRENETIC- Notes towards DOCUMENTA 13Speaker- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Curator-Documenta 13

Presentation and Discussion at 7pm
14th Sunday February, 2010
@ 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

The documenta is regarded as the most important exhibition of contemporary art drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator Arnold Bode in Kassel, Germany. The singular character of the exhibition has been preserved. Every five years, a new director is chosen and the exhibition is reinvented, a concept which to date has been affirmed by the public’s interest. A curator and writer, Christov Bakargiev is the Artistic Director of Documenta 13, 2012.

In this talk, Bakargiev will share some notes about Documenta 13 to be held in Kassel 2012 while articulating how large exhibitions shape visual culture and the sharing of world views.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has been Chief Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea from 2001 to 2008 and was interim director for 2009. The author of publications including Arte Povera (London, 1999), she was Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/ a MoMA affiliate, New York from 1999 to 2001. Curated exhibitions include ‘On taking a normal Situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present, Antwerp(1993), The Moderns, Rivoli-Turin (2003) and Faces in the Crowd, London and Turin(2004). She co-curated the first edition of the Turing Triennale (2005) and in 2007-08 she was Artist Director of the 16th Biennale of Sydney – Revolutions – Forms That Turn (2008), a constellation of works exploring the impulse to revolt and the forms embedded in the etymology of the word ‘revolution’ as well as the relation and the gap between revolutionary art and an ‘art for the revolution’