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

[Inder Salim]

Dear All,
Please press  to see few images from performance/installation
at MF Husain Gallery, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi on 4th of March

http://thisispalestine.blogsppt.com

the show ( Artists from Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh ) is on still 19th of  March

love and regards
inder salim



On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Shuddha (and all)
>
> I think this point about whether politics and art can be separate, is a
> question which may not have been necessarily been there even among the
> creators of the art piece itself.
>
> Politics, as I see it, is basically influencing people for a common cause.
> (Incidentally, I am doing the same by asking people to believe that there
> could be chances of 'a-political' art).
>
> Art, on the other hand, could be defined as human effort to imitate,
> supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.* *
>
> Now whether an act of art is necessarily created to influence people, or it
> is just created for one's own sake, is something one can't be sure of. For
> example, both the religious conservatives and liberals in India talk about
> Khajuraho. Now, Khajuraho, as it was made then, may have had such
> sculptures, neither as what conservatives believe to be sacred deities, nor
> to just portray sexuality as some great liberals claim. (Here, the
> conservatives refer to the Sangh Parivar and their like, and the liberals
> are basically the TV-pink chaddi-others gang.....). But who knows with what
> intention did the laborers make it? May be some king ordered and they were
> made exactly in the same way, in case of which it was simply a job.
>
> So, it's not art which is necessarily political. But yes, the way one looks
> at art can certainly make it political.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
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