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April 2006
Video Filming /Resource person :Johanna Hoyne
This module was conducted with the help of Johanna Hoyne, an art student from the Australian National University . The girls learnt how to handle a video camera, and created footage related to whatever was current in their lives – the plays that they had produced, learning to ride a bicycle, visiting the darga, interviewing each other about the project that they had been a part of. Six films have so far been edited from this footage, most of them of a documentary nature. The editing was done during a residency at Khoj Artists’ Workshops in Delhi . The longest film, ‘Cutting Chai’, is about visiting their homes in Faizal Park . It has been screened, independent of the other exhibits, by Vikalp in Bombay, and been selected for an experimental film festival, Experimenta 2007, to take place in March at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore and Bombay.
May – June 2006
Embroidery on Fabric / Resource person :Santa Rakshit
This being the last formal session in terms of the sequential development of the project, the idea was to be able to translate the drawings, paintings, and other forms of visual output into motifs and narratives on fabric. They could then be sewn into cushion covers, curtains, wall hangings: functional household and other accessories that could be sold to generate an income. The girls learnt to work with the traditional kantha form of embroidery. An important aspect of this module is the originality of the motifs and other elements used, evolving as they did entirely from the girls’ work – thinking about the market does not necessarily preclude creative expression arising from the experiences of a community. They can in fact enter the commercial stream as personal expressions which have the added component of sustainability in the financial sense of the word, while still remaining an authentic record of an evolving cultural consciousness. We framed the cushion covers because they were rich in imagery and narrative.
September 2006
Completed four books using written documentation compiled via the project: The Story of Five Posters, Mahakali versus Megacity, The Project, and Bibi Tere Naam Himmat.
October 2006
The Quilts / Resource persons: Neha and Deepa Sharma
With the samplers that the girls had made while learning different stitches, and with pieces of hand block printed, vegetable dyed fabric, we created two quilts that are installed along with the other exhibits. Deepa Sharma runs a boutique, “Arankri’, in Delhi , which creates and sells vegetable dyed/hand-printed/ handwoven fabric products.
Sepember 2007
Paintings (for After-Images, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda , curated by Ranjit Contractor)
A four-day workshop was conducted at the centre, and three paintings were exhibited at the show. Two were bought by Sakshi Gallery.
All the original pieces in this archive will be preserved as a resource from which things can emerge.
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