The Middle Tone I Artist Management Workshop

The Middle Tone  

Chameleon Art Projects in collaboration with 1.Shantiroad Studio/Gallery presents one of the first Artist Management Workshops in Bangalore, 

“The Middle Tone” by Kanchi Mehta

28^th July 2012

A workshop for young and emerging artists to understand the art world and the various opportunities it offers to an artist. The artist is the most important element within the art community. It is crucial for the artist to evaluate the options and boundaries that this industry has to offer to empower themselves.

This workshop enables the emerging artist to gain an insight into the various possibilities of strengthening their practice, as well as methods of approaching galleries, institutions, curators, residencies etc.

For registration and further information, please go to

www.chameleonartprojects.com / info@chameleonartprojects.com

Venue – 1.Shantiroad Studio/Gallery, No.1, Shanthi Road, Shanthi Nagar, Bangalore 560027

Session 1

2 - 4 pm

Slide show + Talk

·       Introduction to the art world

·       The 5 Elements of the art world

·       The role of the Artist - In India and Internationally

·       The Career of an artist – the growth and path, limits and possibilities

·       Role of the curator, gallery and collector for an artist

  

Session 2

4:30 – 6 pm

Slide show + Talk

 ·       Artistic practice and medium

·       Conceptual + New Media art today

·       Demand and Supply of art

·       The Art Market in India

·       Expectations of an artist

·       Expectations of the market from an artist

·       Residencies

·       Public Projects

·       Grants

·  Consultancy

REGISTRATION – RS 750  - LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE

This is a project initiated by Chameleon Art Projects for 1.Shantiroad Studio/Gallery.

All rights reserved.

About: Chameleon Art Projects is an initiative to encourage artistic practices across the globe through curated exhibitions, residencies, publications and artist management.
Kanchi Mehta, the Founder and Chief Curator of The Chameleon is an artist, with a Bachelors degree in Painting from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. After her Masters in the History and Connoisseurship in Art from Christie’s Education, New York in 2005, she dedicated the next six years into understanding the art market by working integrally with prominent galleries, fairs, artists, biennials, curators and collectors across the world. 

The Chameleon was established in 2005, where all her projects were archived under one name, however, in November 2011, The Chameleon came into the forefront converging all her experiences to empower the artistic community with an aim to establish stronger foundations for the young and experimental artists. With a strong international program, The Chameleon has collaborated with several galleries, curators, residencies and publications across the world to encourage inter-cultural exposure to emerging artists.

                                                          

CURATORIAL PRACTICE AS A PRODUCTION'S PROCESS

Swiss curator Patrick Gosatti will make a presentation on curatorial practises at 1.Shanthiroad as part of his India tour. Patrick is in India to participate in the

Experimenter Curator’s Hub in Kolkata. 

The talk will address the question of curating and art producing considered from both a theoretical and practical point of view. The term "production" will be in this sense

considered not only as a pragmatic process leading to the creation of an art work but also as an holistic process which goes beyond the art object and leads to the creation

of meaning and practical / theoretical knowledge. As part of his presentation Patrick will introduce the audience to his curatorial projects and theoretical research.

About:

Patrick Gosatti: Patrick has been teaching Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Art & Design, Geneva and has been the Co-curator of the Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne. He has also been writing for the Art Collector magazine, Basel and the Kunst-Bulletin magazine, Zürich.

Anil Kumar: H.A. Anil Kumar is an Art Historian, Critic & Curator based in Bangalore. He currently teaches Art History in the department of Art History at

Chitrakala Parishath in Bangalore. He is a co-editor to the national art magazines (Art & Deal, New Delhi; and Art Etc, Kolkata).

The Practice of Living History: Patachitra and Performance

The Practice of Living History: Patachitra and Performance

A Public History initiative by the Centre for Public History

In partnership with 1.Shantiroad Studio/Gallery, Bengaluru

 

Performance: Khadu Chitrakar and Radha Chitrakar

Introduction and presentation: Indira Chowdhury

Venue: 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

Date: 14 July 2012

Time: 5 pm onwards

 Khadu Chitrakar and his wife Radha Chitrakar come from a community of folk artist who paint scrolls and sing the stories. Khadu and Radha live in Naya, Pingla in Medinipur, West Bengal. Traditionally, Chitrakars composed songs that were taken from incidents in the Puranas and the Ramayana. In recent years their visual and musical narratives have changed to include contemporary events such as the Tsunami and 9/11. Khadu Chitrakar and his wife will present traditional as well as more recent compositions. Their performance will be presented by Indira Chowdhury of the Centre for Public History at Srishti. The performance and presentation will make space for a conversation with the audience around the contemporary nature of folk art, and the nature of folk memory.

Pata-Chitras will be on display and some will be up for sale.

the nature of (in) perfection

THE NATURE OF (IN) PERFECTION

The prefix post (as in postmodern) can sometimes suggest the redundancy of ideas that are surprisingly persistent despite the aesthetic changes that come with the new ideology/technology. Looks can be deceiving! Precision, perfection and beauty have a persistent presence in art, science and religion and a contemporary presence in digital technology, which carries these attribute/attitudes. Although the desire for and promise of progress can lead to image content that appears to supersede the preceding idiom, digital technology has a metaphysical character that has more in common with a pre-modern sensibility. Indeed, precision and perfection can be thought of as beautiful, much in the same way a scientific theory can be.

There is a case then for an active engagement with digital media, one that does not accept that technological progress involves the redundancy of older ideas and media; a refusal to be duped by the prefix post. This engagement needs to explore digital media through an acknowledgement that, like

science it has a longer history and can’t be neatly quarantined from an imperfect past.

About: Kevin Todd is an artist and designer originally from Ireland and living in Australia since the early 1980s. He is a graduate of Sydney College of the Arts and the Tasmanian School of Art and currently SeniorLecturer in computer-based art and design at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Kevin has exhibited and undertaken residencies and projects internationally including with the Australian Antarctic Division, the Australian Museum and the Australian Pulp and Paper Institute. In 1995 he spent a year in Malaysia on an Asialink fellowship and he has also been a visiting professor at the State University of New York and a visiting scholar at New York University.

His art practice has two components; art-for-architecture where work is made/designed for a specific context and work for exhibition, which is generally more personal. A feature of his exhibition work has been a concern with limits of rationalism and the relationship between art, science and technology in Western culture. More information on Kevin’s work is available at; www.toddartist.com

SHOUSHAUN

Painting-Photography-Sculpture & Music Performance by NASIM DAVARI - ALLAHYAR NAJAFI 15th June, 2012 @ 6:00 pm Show continues to the 18th of June Wanting to create something which is the consequent of reproduction, the reproduction of some or sometimes all the token effect from society. All the existing things around which is telling their own story not the variable expression of mine. NASIM DAVARI Any thing has its own story to tell, but what kind of listener you are is the important thing when something narrates for you. Everything has so many different stories about their own language or their own life and all of those can be quite close together that you can’t find the difference between. The richness of our knowledge about approaching to different things or subjects and how we can calculated and compromise those together will lead us to find or make our combination of different story’s reach point with any another translated collection of objects, which it has the findable similar point with the other one. ALLAHYAR NAJAFI 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

NASIM DAVARI

ALLAHYAR NAJAFI

MUSIC PERFORMANCE