collaboration -Bangalore meets Providence

in the next phase, i will be collaborating with a friend of mine, Christiano Penso, who is studying at the URI in the US.
together we are aiming to have a dialogue revolving around the idea of memory and collaborate on a project together which will be exhibited in both geographical locations.
We have begun to converse over skype and facebook, and i will be posting our progress and our dialogues on the blog.
Excited to see what comes out of this!

Time puncture: first exhibition at srishti.

the first exhibition, where i exhibited "babuji's funeral" turned out to be success. for the first exhibition as a group, it was nice to see how everyone had put up very different kinds of work.and it was an interesting experience working with the Museum and gallery practices class.

personally, i learnt a few things by watching people interact with my exhibit.
i felt i relied too much on the concept note, and that maybe the work would fall apart without the concept note.not that i wanted to go for this, but in the struggle to disaggregate, i realised i got a little bit caught up with the idea of fragmentation.and i fragmented without the bass narrative being too strong. which might have made bits of the work seem too open, maybe even random to some viewers.

for the next work, i will try and make the base of my work. the basic narrative clear and strong. and at the same time will try and fragment and acheive and interesting balance,which allows different experiences, yet communicates the content loosely.

also, this has got me thinking about the idea of abstraction. Why fragment? why abstract?
although i have realised to some extent what these things do to the narrative, the work opens up and in some sense becomes more experiential and looser, in a way allowing different entry points for different viewers.
at the same time, i want to read up more and study this idea and how it has been applied in art forms throughout history.
future posts on this subject soon.