[Reader-list] PROJECT Y: A Yamuna-Elbe Public Art and Outreach Project -4th November, panel discussion "Public Art: sifting through the ground"

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND AESTHETICS
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI, 110067
 
 
You are cordially invited for a panel discussion
 
Public Art: sifting through the ground
 
With Ravi Agarwal & Rohan D’Souza, chaired by Shukla Sawant
 
VENUE:               BUILDING  II, School of Arts and Aeshtetics
DATE & TIME:   4TH NOVEMBER 2011, 4PM
 
 
The discussion is a part of
PROJECT Y: A Yamuna-Elbe Public Art and Outreach Project
A Public Art Project at the Yamuna in Delhi and the Elbe in Hamburg
Curated by Ravi Agarwal (Delhi) and Till Krause with Nina Kalenbach (Hamburg)
 
 
The panel discussion will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine the recent intensification of artistic engagement with environmental concerns; often site specific in nature. This commitment to direct intervention in the landscape has brought  with it an attentiveness to the public space as a plural space, eliciting a multiplicity of creative responses and discursive methods. From antagonistic methods, provoking dissensus, to collaborative forms of community initiatives, “public art” as an activist art practice has had a thought provoking trajectory in recent years. The panel brings together artists and environmental activists to discuss some critical and aesthetic concerns around these interventions.
Panelists
 
Ravi Agarwal, is an artist and  environmentalist, founder director of Toxic links, a public advocacy group based in New Delhi. Ravi’s recent work delves into “personal ecologies” through  photography, installation and video, marking a shift from his early documentary work. His work has been included in important exhibitions such as Documenta  11 and Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery, London and he has had four solo shows in Delhi.
 
Dr Rohan D’Souza,teaches at the Centre for Science Policy Studies, JNU. He has written extensively on hydraulic manipulation of river systems in India, and other issues dealing with environmental history , the political economy of nature, conservation and history of technology.  His recent publication includes Drowned and Damned:Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (1803-1946)
 
Shukla Sawant is an artist and writer and teaches at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
 
 
The Site for Project Y in Delhi
• Golden Jubilee Park near Old Yamuna Bridge
To be held from November 9th to 20th, 2011