[Reader-list] Fwd: [Announcements] Performance 'Palestine' : 4th of March: MF Hussain ART Gallery

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Inder
 
I must apologise for having commented too hastily.
 
The Exhibhition is for 'contemporary art from jammu, kashmir and ladakh'. You are a 'contemporary artist' from 'jammu, kashmir and ladakh' so you have a place in the exhibhition.
 
I would agree with your hinting (as you seemed to do) that art accepts no limitations of 'form' or 'content'.
 
In fact, speaking on a personal note, "Palestine" is figures as a comparison quite pertinently in my concern for the slow but sure erasure taking place of the unique histro-socio-cultural-religious identity that is Kashmiri Pandits. 
 
The overwhelming "Internal Displacement" of the Kashmiri Pandits and the strangulated existence of the remanants still left in their native-land Kashmir is reflected in somewhat similar situations of the Palestinians, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborginese of Australia and the Native Americans in the USA.
 
Apologies again for my 'artifice and not art' comment.
 
Kshmendra  
 
 
--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: [Announcements] Performance 'Palestine' : 4th of March: MF Hussain ART Gallery
To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 9:49 AM

Dear Kshmendra
thanks for response

it is one's  sweet will to consider what art stands for, or what it does
not.

i respect your comment ' artifice, at work than art' for my proposed
work on Palestine

this is even before seeing it, this even before knowing how art has
radically shifted its dependence on conventional forms of aesthetics

but all the schools exist, and have right to exist, even if they are
boring most of the times, or meant  only to lure the corporate houses.

when  were artists from jammu kashmir and ladakh criticized/condemned
for doing anything beyond their geographical boundaries?

when were artists  instructed not to draw anything that comes to their
imagination.

today's news,
Jaahangir Art Gallery mumbai has rejected Delhi Artists for painting
breasts and buttocks. just not to attract Right wingers

that is the situation at ground reality, are we marching ahead in
terms of fresher understanding of art, nature, and poltics with
aesthetic merged ?

i really want people to encourage such alternative practices, which is
good for society and art at the same time

still if you have some questions on art, i will gladly try to answer
#

lot of love and regards
is







On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Even I was wondering how did this come up; almost out of nowhere.
>
> The invitation card I received of the same event yesterday at the Kashmir
> Festival; didn't mention this as well.
>
> Maybe, this comes as part of some strategy to mix issues and even seek
> support from Jamia by igniting their emotions. It is interesting to note
> that Jamia is one of the only places in Delhi which has support for
> Palestine; other being JNU (refer: recent protests).
>
> We shouldn't mix Politics with Art.
>
> On 3/3/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> wondering what PALESTINE has to do with Art from Jammu, Kashmir and
Ladakh
>> ..... on the face of it as per 'made known' information, seems
to be more
>> 'artifice' at work than 'art'
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Performance 'Palestine'
: 4th of
>> March: MF Hussain ART Gallery
>> To: announcements at sarai.net
>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 11:08 PM
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> INVITATION
>>
>>
>> MF. HUSSAIN ART GALLERY, Jamia Millia Islamia, near Ansari auditorium
New
>> Delhi
>>
>> presents 'Strains of Himalayan Spirits', an exhibtion of
contemporary
>> Art from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
>>
>> on 4th of March to 16th of march, at 5.30 P.M. conceived by Mr. Keshav
>> Malik, eminent poet and art critic.
>>
>> opening performance 'Palestine '  by Inder Salim
>>
>>
>>
>> regards
>> inder salim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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