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

[Inder Salim]

sorry for the spelling mistake , the correct one is below:

http://thisispalestine.blogspot.com/




On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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