[Reader-list] See If It Can Happen, an audio-visual installation / Nainsukh-the 18th century pahari painter/ SWISS BOX at Dilli Haat

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See If It Can Happen, an audio-visual installation






A collaborative presentation by the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist Rashmi Kaleka, 

‘See If It Can Happen’ will transcend sounds as moments of energy will be ensnared between music and voices of real people and real situations. An electronic synthesis that arrives at a coherent sound design. 

Date: Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 6:30 pm
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi-Garhi Artist Studios, Kalka Devi Marg, East of Kailash, New Delhi - 110065

Project brief:
Hawkers voices are of real people whose survival roles decree their own rules, it's a form of 'surrender'. A whole life can be written around them - voices that spawn amazing ways of singing, the idea is to use the form and to play with its expectations. It's an unknown territory that has the potential to produce a 'sonic' pleasure. A social aspect of music that has the possibility of losing its own 'self' is what interests me. To use the old monument in Garhi as a backdrop for that night is to suture indigenous with the 'western', -'western' as manifested in the mainstream)
The idea is to ensnare moments of energy between music and a voice - point of departure and return, new and old, past and present. I was thinking what would come closer to creating a 'within': in regards to musical instruments, many are able to morph into a variety of sounds that echo a human voice. The closest in today's sounds that has an electronic beat that pulses around a one-note baseline, has to be Radiohead's song The Butcher. It slides and glides around shadows that rise and fall. The other seven minute song Supercollider is beautifully calm, electronic pulse, riffs of synth, unpredictable chorus, the synth crescendo merges beautifully with Yorke's, (lead singer), falsetto. I wanted very much to create a symphony of music which combine live instruments as well as electronic apparatus, weird chord sequences, strange keys which can be musically challenging. The innovation of today's time is a combination of live instruments and a sonic pleasure created with recordings, (voices) and electronic synth to arrive at a coherent sound design.
Rashmi Kaleka
New Delhi 2011
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Nainsukh-the 18th century pahari painter


Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council 
in partnership with Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Amar Mahal Museum and Library Jammu, India International Centre New Delhi, National Institute of Design Ahmedabad and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai presents
“Nainsukh” - the 18th century pahari painter
lectures by Dr Eberhard Fischer and Prof B.N Goswamy and biographical film by Amit Dutta (Venice Film Festival 2010)
Schedule:
Chandigarh / 18 November 2011 
Venue: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi / Government Museum & Art Gallery at 5:30 pm
Programme: film (with brief introduction)
Partner: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
Jammu / 20 November 2011 
Venue: Amar Mahal Museum and Library at 10:30 am
Programme: lecture & film
Partner: Amar Mahal Museum and Library  
New Delhi / 23 &24 November 2011 
Venue: India International Centre at 6:30 pm
Programme: lecture & film (respectively)
Partner:  India International Centre 
Ahmedabad / 26 November 2011 
Venue: National Institute of Design
Programme: lecture & film 
Partner: National Institute of Design
Mumbai / 29 & 30 November 2011 
Venue: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at 2:30 pm
Programme: lecture & film (respectively)
Partner: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
The Film 
Nainsukh (c. 1710 - 1778) was trained in a traditional Pahari painters' family-workshop at Guler in today's Kangra District (H.P.) and became the major retained artist at the court of Jasrota (J&K). Famous for his intimate, well observed and precise, sometimes humorous, often somewhat enigmatic, always sensitively drawn pictures, especially of his long-time patron Balwant Singh, Nainsukh is today considered the most extraordinary Indian artist of his time. His biography and extensive oeuvre as researched and reconstructed by Prof. B. N. Goswamy has been the basis of the film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta, produced by Dr. Eberhard Fischer. 

The film ‘Nainsukh, the Great Pahari Painter of the 18th Century’, premiered at the Venice Film Festiva in 2010. 
Film Credit: 
Producer: Dr Eberhard Fischer
Research and guidance: Prof. B. N. Goswamy
Director: Amit Dutta
Miniature artist who plays Nainsukh: Manish Soni
The Lecture 
Eberhard Fischer has researched, propagated and collected Nainsukh's unique artistic work for the last thirty years. In his lecture, he will present pictures, art-historical documents and major sites connected with Nainsukh's life and discuss this painter's extraordinary achievements. This background information will serve for a better understanding of the exquisite film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta. 
For information on Swiss art-anthropologist Dr Eberhard Fischer, Indian art historian Prof B. N. Goswamy and film director Amit Dutta click here. http://www.prohelvetia.in/fileadmin/pro_helvetia_india/docs/_Nainsukh__cv_s.pdf
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SWISS BOX at Dilli Haat


Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council 
in collaboration with Dilli Haat & The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust 
presents

SWISS BOX
Four languages. Four fairy tales. 
One country: Switzerland.

A seven-minute puppet performance that brings Switzerland to you right here in New Delhi! 
on Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 November 2011 
can be viewed by two persons at a time from 5 to 9 pm
at Dilli Haat, Sri Aurobindo Marg, (opposite INA Market) New Delhi - 110016 

Puppeteers: 
Anurupa Roy, Vivek Kumar, Pawan Waghmare, Asha 
and Swiss puppeteer Frida Leon.

Story tellers: Nina Taho Zanetti, Astride Schläfli, Katharina Baldauf and Roman Weishaupt.

Entry: Admission as per Dilli Haat regulations.
Language: German with strong visual impressions. Comprehensible to all.

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Swiss puppeteer, Frida Leon Béraud is currently in India on a Studio Residency. 

Frida is a puppeteer and an actress from Zurich. She has specialised in doll-theatre and has travelled extensively with her performances in USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She studied puppetry at the «Ernst Busch» Drama College in Berlin. After gaining experience in acting, street and movement theatre,  Frida Leon Béraud joined hands with musician Frauke Jakobi to establish the Dalang Puppencompany in 2004.  A freelance director and scenographer, Frida is also the co-founder of ‘Chamäleon’.