[Reader-list] BLANK NOISE: I ASK FOR IT

[Jasmeen P]

Dear all

 I look forward to your hearing from you after you read the note below.

(sorry for that second dose of introduction)...

best,

Jasmeen


Hi,

I am Jasmeen, a practicing artist from Bangalore.

 I initiated Blank Noise-a project on street harassment in 2003. In its first phase Blank Noise comprised of a series of workshops conducted with a group of nine girls from the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology. The workshop explored the public and private identities of the nine girls and was translated into an exhibition for an audience that was viewed as either victim, perpetrator, or mute spectators of street harassment. 

In it current stage, Blank Noise is seeking wider participation and audiences. The project is currently located on Brigade Road. A series of performative and participatory experiments involving the public will be conducted on this site. 

Within Blank Noise, one of the experiments being conducted is “did you ask for it?”
 When attacked on the streets the first thing we look at is our clothing. We question if we ‘provoked’ or ‘asked to be made victim’. The garment worn at that point of time contains a memory and is witness to an experience thus becoming a testimony.

Taking this notion forward, I wish to build testimonies through a gathering of clothes given by all those who have experienced sexual threat/ attack on the streets, and have at that point questioned if they asked for it. These clothes will contribute to the making of a public art installation. 

Blank Noise is not a gender specific project and I look forward to your participation. 

There is power in numbers. I have faith in the collective.

The supporting material and further information will be provided on request.


Thanking you,
Sincerely.
Jasmeen Patheja

Ph: + 9198868 40612

 C/o Srishti School of Art Design and Technology
Yelahanka PO Box 6430
Bangalore 560064


Jasmeen 

ph: + 91 9886840612
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