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Sarai Reader 09 | Details for 16-24 November
Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition
18 Aug 2012 - 16 Apr 2013
at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon
Contemporary Jobs || Jenson Anto has prepared his frame and begun the first painting for How a
Pinhole Camera Sees a Large Abstract Drawing || Parul Gupta continues making lines in the space
a part of her work || Mihaela Brebenel engages visitors in her researcher's open studio for Ruptured
Sense[ation]: Art and Politics in Romanian Moving Image || Ishita Tiwary hosts the second in her
series of discussions with amateur film makers towards Amateur Cinema || Parvez Imam does the first
screening of his work in progress, People-powered, Script-less Video Art Project || Namrata Singh
Pandit and Uday Pandit prepare for their shifting, mobile paper sculpture Timepass
Sarai Reader 09 invites you
to participate in artist-led events
dialogue with ongoing processes,
and engage with artists at work
Bring an idea, a script, a dialogue, a gesture.
Perform it to the cameras. Or simply watch. There will be props.
There will be takes, retakes, improvisations. Some of the participants
from the last audition will also revisit their act, or come with a new one.
Saturday, 17 Nov, from noon to 6 PM
Audition to the cameras with Paribartana Mohanty
In Act the Victim
By downloading the sound player to your Android phone, you will be able to look up
sound fields created near the Devi Art Foundation.
Fields of sound, ranging from ambient soundscapes to samples,
and different voices by people of various places.
Walk through sound fields
Saturday, 17 Nov, from 2 to 6 PM
With Tapio Makela In Vocative Cartography
(As a sister event of the ongoing Vocative Cartography part of the Sound Reasons Festival)
6 to 7 PM - discussion with artist
On November 4, a story was initiated on camera,
and invited participants and incidental visitors to Devi Art Foundation
took the narrative wherever they wished.
On Friday, 16 November
In Badarpur (9-12hrs), Nehru Place (13-15hrs), Hauz Khas Village (15-18hrs)
Take the story forward with Parvez Imam
in People-powered, Script-less, Video Art Project.
On Saturday, 24th November
See the screening of the work in progress
at Devi Art Foundation.
What thought affiliations do moving images elicit in the viewer?
Are specific works of moving image art capable of creating new
sense-abilities, new modes of seeing and doing?
Watch screenings and engage in discussion in the Researcher's Open Studio
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
with Mihaela Brebenel, as part of Ruptured Sense[ation]: Art and Politics
in Romanian Moving Image
Watch slideshows
Esforco Minimo (Minimum Effort), Slideshow, by Vijai Patchineelam
Financial Markets and the Ironies of Capital by S. Ananth
Occupancy as a Disobedience Kit by Solomon Benjamin
Listen/Record
Hawk a Day by Rashmi Kaleka (on Sarai Reader 09 Facebook)
Rec:On with Moritz Fingerhut
Participate in an instruction-based work
Reflections on Love and War by Anita Dube
Engage in conversation and see works in process
with artists at work
Jenson Anto >> How a Pinhole Camera Sees a Large Abstract Drawing
Parul Gupta >> Untitled (Making lines in the space a part of her work)
Rabindra Patra >> Paste for Propose
Anvita Jain >> My Hair Tell Stories
Namrata Singh Pandit and Uday Pandit >> Timepass
Cybermohalla Ensemble >> Bureau of Contemporary Jobs
Ranjeeta >> Silence of Sorrow
Umang Bhattacharya >> Untitled
Drawing as a Mental Exercise >> Gagandeep Singh
Coming Soon
Koustuv Nag || Rehaan Engineer || Srishti Bajaj and Kanishka Prasad || Malini Kochupalli and Julia Gutge || Ayesha Hameed || Saba Hasan || Amitesh Grover || Elske Rosenfeld || Niranjani Iyer and Payal Wadhwa || Alexander Hahn || Silke Kästner || Nancy Goldring || Meera Menezes || Layout || Rudra Rakshit Sharan
Ongoing, since August 18:
Chakravyuh by Akshay Rathore and Flora Boillot
Story within a Story with Astha Butail
Harkat School/Unschool for Performance Arts with Inder Salim
Shadow Libraries by Lawrence Liang
Karmaleaks by Portside
Act the Victim by Paribartana Mohanty
Untitled by Asim Waqif, Raakesh MPS, Julien Segard, Ashhar Farooqui and 9 Circuits
Gurgaon Glossaries (Ver 1.0) by Rupali Gupte, Prasad Shetty, Prasad Khanolkar
Indiscernible by Suraj Rai
Financial Markets and the Ironies of Capital by S. Ananth
Occupancy as a Disobedience Kit by Solomon Benjamin
The Flyover (Scanned QR codes) by Anurag Sharma and Anush Singh
Bureau of Contemporary Jobs with Cybermohalla Ensemble
Amateur Cinema, presented by Ishita Tiwary
Act the Victim with Paribartana Mohanty
Visualising the Invisible: Reading & Writing Nietzche with Belinder Dhanoa
Untitled by Mitali Shah
Why Ask The Old Questions? by Parasmita Singh
The Artist's Studio as a Self Myth-Cube with Ramesh Pithiya
Of the People, By the People, For the People with Bhagwati Prasad
Five Eyes of a Leader (Furniture) by Kumar Ranjan
Art Direction Breakdown (Design Shed) by Aradhna Seth
We in a One Room Kitchen Field 0.25 (Video) by WALA and Kush Badhwar
Drawing as a Mental Exercise (Drawings) by Gagandeep Singh
Sarai Reader 09 opened on August 18 with
Architectural interventions by Sayantan Maitra ‘Boka’ || 1:1 prototype of the Cybermohalla Hub by Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, in collaboration with Cybermohalla Ensemble || Architectural insertion by Zuleikha Chaudhari || Experimental sounds and electro-acoustic music by Ish Shehrawat, Andi Teichmann, Brian Citro, Ignat Karmalito || Amateur cinema presented by Ishita Tiwary || P.T.O. presented by Shveta Sarda || Cybermohalla Hub (book) edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Shveta Sarda
Read extracts from proposals
http://www.sarai.net/sr09-singlepages-fromproposals-online-13october2012.pdf
http://www.sarai.net/sr09-singlepages-fromproposals-online-18aug2012.pdf
For updates, conversations, news about upcoming events and images, join Sarai Reader 09 on Facebook
Coming soon to Sarai Reader 09
With Almost Island/Sharmistha Mohanty
An evening with poet Anne Waldman
30 November, Friday
Watch our next few mailers for details
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SARAI READER 09 is an ongoing contemporary art exhibition (18 August 2012 – 16 April 2013), curated by Raqs Media Collective. The exhibition is a collaboration between Sarai-CSDS, Delhi, and Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon. Over nine months, roughly 100 artists/researchers/practitioners, invited through an open call, will be working within the exhibition context.
Address:
Devi Art Foundation, Sirpur House, Plot 39, Sector 44, Gurgaon.
Tel: 0124-4888177
Map here:
http://www.deviartfoundation.org/map.htm
Cybermohalla Hub is supported by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna