[Reader-list] City as Studio: EXB 10.03,

[Jeebesh]

Sarai invite you for the first open day of City as Studio: EXB 10.03,  
the third in the City as Studio exhibition series.

The City as Studio exhibition platform is an artist run space for  
emerging and experimental contemporary art in the heart of Delhi. Rife  
with curious energy, open to new practices, sharp and finely tuned to  
the frequencies of a rapidly changing world and a transforming city.

City as Studio is a space hospitable to all those who are willing to  
re-define art and life, speculate, fantasize, play and take the pulse  
of a critical time. The platform is closely associated with the 'City  
as Studio' programme for artists and practitioners at Sarai and  
committed to showcasing new work and processes on a regular basis.

The third in the exhibition series, City as Studio: EXB 10.03 brings  
together 17 artists who collaborate to produce 6 works and 3  
performances.
The exhibition showcases some finished work and some in the making.

Time: 6: 30 pm
Date:  Friday, June 18, 2010
Venue: Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi (5 min walk from the Civil  
Lines metro station)

Exhibition Timings: 11 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday.
The exhibition runs till July 14, 2010.


Performances by:

1] Manola K. Gayatri

Street Walkers: Groping in the dark- fantasy or night mare? What  
markers a new city as home? What’s the apparel change from one side of  
the street or the country to the other? A dramatic monologue on street  
life experiences for the ‘walking’ Akka-hood.

Manola K. Gayatri is currently pursuing her PhD at the School of Arts  
and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi. Experimenting with performance and  
writing, her earlier work includes Red a dramatic monologue and Excess  
a choreography for the Gati Summer Dance Residency 2009. Her research  
work focuses on liveness, technology and body in performance and  
collaborates with media artists interested in the performing body.

2] Ambarish Satwik

Bodily: short fiction and graphic essays on anatomy and pathology by  
Ambarish Satwik. Rochie Rana will read from Paraphilia (a short story  
by Ambarish Satwik).
Lurid in addition to being graphic. Prepubescents and puritans should  
refrain from attending this session.

Ambarish Satwik is a Delhi based vascular surgeon and writer. His  
debut work of fiction Perineum: nether parts of the Empire was  
published by Penguin in 2007. His polemical commentary on sundry  
matters involving food, sex, popular culture and pathology appears  
most often in Time Out. He is currently collaborating with artists to  
produce graphic non fiction.

3]  Gautam Ghosh

Wiping Pink Mountain : The Pink Mountain is a skin that has been hung  
to dry. Sandwiched between layers of mist, and fluctuating shadows,  
this skin is opaque and transparent. It forms a diagram of  
restlessness: some dissolving, some drying, increasing, decreasing.

Goutam had studied visual arts and art history from MS University,  
Baroda. His work has been shown in several group shows. He is  
currently an Associate Fellow with the City as Studio process at Sarai.


Showing works by:

Prayas Abhinav
Shamsher Ali
Love Anand
Hemant Babu
Konrad Bayer
Ram Bhat
Nabina Das
Neelofer
Gaigongmei Gangmei
Goutam Ghosh
Deepankar Gohain
Niha Masih
Suraj Rai
Ish S
Nishant Sharma

The event announcement can also be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111870292192834&ref=mf

To read more about the City as Studio process, see - http://www.sarai.net/practices/media-forms/the-city-as-studio-associatefellows-2010

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