WHAT TIME IS IT
Published in conjunction to the Technologies of Life in the Contemporary (14th – 16th December, 2017), Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
‘Infra’ often means ‘below’ a threshold. Here, we engage in conversation or initiate the process, but the authorial impulse disperses and may not coalesce into a single entity. Our practice folds into other practices, developing a stream that converses while moving with its own momentum. The associative density these practices acquire over time remains unscripted.
A cursory glance at the ‘Sarai Readers’ (01 to 09), produced over ten years, shows how they attract authors and artists from across the globe—inner cities, insulated laboratories, hospital intensive care units, and the raging fields of protest. This accumulated layer of voices propels the world around us.
Sarai Reader 09: art as a place / The Exhibition
Work 10am-5pm Over a Week, in the Space || Call People for Lunch Discussions if You Want || Develop a Critical Lexicon and Vocabulary for Contemporary Art || Involve More People || Work by Yourself || Work Together With Others || Invite || Perform || Initiate || Create Punctuations || Pair || Make a Set […]
Sarai Reader 09: Projections
The Sarai Reader 09: Projections sets its stage on dual platforms: the printed Reader and a parallel exhibition at the Devi Art Foundation—inviting ideas and visuals to journey together, sometimes converging, sometimes diverging. More than a catalogue or companion piece, this book creates a roadmap: illuminating questions, amplifying desires, and sparking new lines of inquiry across […]
CYBERMOHALLA HUB
Cybermohalla Programme began in May 2001 as a dispersed network of labs and studios for experimentation across Delhi, initiated by the Sarai program (CSDS) and Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education. The Cybermohalla Ensemble is a collective of ten writers and practitioners that emerged out of this programme. Over seven years (2001-07), around 500 young […]