Using a software called Miro Board the artists after preliminary discussions collated videos, images, ideas, concepts, drawings or elements they wanted to explore and include in the project.
Then each artist looked at this collage and picked an element or set of elements that they wanted to work on and developed their segment from there.
The project has built simultaneously with each artist working parallel to the other and keeping the overarching concept of blurring boundaries in mind.
Join us for virtual showcase of a unique collaborative art project between six cutting edge voices from the contemporary visual art world. These interactive pieces across various formats like gifs, videos, 3D renders, interactive urls and paintings are a culmination of an eight week program where these artists after preliminary discussions collated videos, images, ideas, concepts or drawings they wanted to explore and include in the project. Each artist picked an element or set of elements that they wanted to work on and developed their indivdual pieces.
Multi-disciplinary Artist, Manjot Kaur
PLANTS ARE THE NEW CHILDREN
“Can I show a landscape as the protagonist of an adventure in which humans are only one kind of participant?
Over the past few decades, many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias; it is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization. There are other ways of making worlds. Anthropologists have become interested, for example, in how subsistence hunters recognize other living beings as “persons” that is, protagonists of stories. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Yet expectations of progress block this insight: talking animals are for children and primitives . Their voices silent, we imagine well-being without them. We trample over them for our advancement; we forget that collaborative survival requires cross-species coordinations. To enlarge what is possible, we need other kinds of stories - including adventures of landscape.”
Text by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | from the book: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Page 155-156
Artist & Designer, Salik Ansari
THE DEPOSITORY OF ATTENTION
“I was exploring the digital concept of Real Time Bidding or RTB. I was intrigued by a series of letters created by Arshi Ahmadzai, a poem by Amshu Chukki and a powerful image by Sanket Jadia. I further explored using these elements as a form of attention in my work. The final work can be experienced in the form of an interactive webpage comprising of videos and gifs.”
Graphic Designer, Tonoy Sarma
UNTERPRETER
“I saw a beautiful drawing made by Manjot Kaur which showed the growth of a seedling and I could see myself responding to it in my style – of a looping video, creating a plant that never stops growing.”
“I attempted to emojify the letterforms I found in Arshi’s work, purely at its face value and what I visually interpreted it as.”
Artist, Sanket Jadia
RESIDUAL GAZE
“In this collaboration, I am exploring the idea of donation, in the form of text, poetry, images or memory. The final shape that the work takes would be a collection of 3D rendered bricks - the donation of ideas which would be used for to re-construct a monument.”
Visual Artist, Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
Naqsh - e - Dhund - O - Hudud
“Through this journey of being experimental, I am learning a lot. I took references from poets like Asma bint Marwan, Rabia Basri and Lalleshwari. I also took few references from my years of staying in Ahmed Manzil when I was studying at the Aligarh Muslim University and that building reminds me of Ismat Chugtai’s story – The Quilt.”
Artist, Amshu Chukki
AS THE CAMERA PANS
“Fragments of scenes deciphering different landscapes contributed by individual artists come together as a screenplay.”
Join us for a panel discussion on Blurring Boundaries: Collaboration + Art Making Today, where these six artists will be in conversation with Curator Veeranganakumari Solanki to discuss their individual practices and aesthetics, the process and share insights on how they created each element of this project and the result of their collaboration. This panel will be the closing session of this exciting month-long collaborative showcase and is also part of Blurring Boundaries, a larger virtual collaborative series that aims to engage with emerging voices from the visual arts and established voices from design.
