[Reader-list] On since Aug 18, with works punctuated on and begun since Oct 13, and happenings, auditions and screenings every weekend starting tomorrow, ARTISTS AT WORK THIS NOVEMBER in Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition

[Shveta]

ARTISTS AT WORK
SARAI READER 09: THE EXHIBITION
at
The Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon
Address and map at the end of this mail

Parvez Imam >> People-powered, Script-less, Video Art Project

How: Exploring a narrative that proceeds through story upon story

What: A story will be initiated, and invited participants and incidental 
visitors will take the narrative wherever they wish. Anyone, and 
everyone, can participate in the process of knitting and taking the 
story forward.

Where: The story will be initiated on November 4, Sunday, at 10 am at 
DAF, and in the afternoon, the camera goes into the city. On November 
10, Saturday, at 6:30 PM, watch the screening of the work in progress 
(Screening Space, First Floor, DAF). On November 16, travel with the 
artist through the city, take the story forward. On November 24, at DAF, 
watch screening of the work in progress.

Moritz Fingerhut >> Rec:On

How: A looper on the ground floor of DAF records sound in Sarai Reader 
09 for 17 hours, every 17 hours. Each recording layers over the previous 
one. A set of speakers in the first floor corridor continuously play the 
live recording together with all the previous ones. The 
recording/playback, as it is 17 hours long, shifts bit by bit through 
the 24 hour cycle of the day.

What: This is Rec:On. Recording is on 24x7. Perform a reading or make 
music, conduct an interview... Do it when at DAF, or send a recording of 
between a few seconds to 3 minutes, to play into the mic, most 
preferably through a file sharing platform, to dak [at] sarai [dot] net

Where: The live stream is at http://fingerhut.caster.fm/ - it is the 
same sound that is playing, simultaneously, at Sarai Reader 09.

Jenson Anto >> How a Pinhole Camera Sees a Large Abstract Drawing

How: On a canvas he will make, and with a pinhole camera he will assemble.

What: In the coming weeks, Jenson will draw on the canvas, take a 
picture of it, paint over the canvas, and draw on it from the picture, 
till the abstract print and the drawing come almost to naught.

Where: In the sun, behind the Cybermohalla Hub, by one of the DAF 
'slanty' walls, every week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Parul Gupta >> Untitled

How: Through making lines in the space a part of her work

What: Over the next two months, one may find her one day by a window, 
tracing out the shadows cast by the windowsill upon itself, and on 
another day, creating a 'landscape' from an already existing frame. The 
possibilities, she finds in the space, are infinite.

Where: Anywhere. Everywhere. After all, a line is a point taken for a 
walk. Every week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Rabindra Patra >> Paste for Propose

How: Building a connection between the artist, the space, and the viewer.

What: Through a minute photographic documentation of Sarai Reader 09 
over the next two months, as well as of his own daily travels between 
his home and DAF, Rabindra will create a dense tapestry that grows and 
covers, slowly, an entire floor.

Where: Proposal Room (First Floor)

Mihaela Brebenel >> Ruptured Sense(ation): Art and Politics in Romanian 
Moving Image

How: Researcher's Open studio at Sarai Reader 09
What: Conversations around films by Romanian film makers to explore the 
responses, thought affiliations and affective concatenations that moving 
images elicit in the viewer.
Where: Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, in the Proposal Room

Anvita Jain >> My Hair Tell Stories

How: As a studio in Sarai Reader 09, to test, experiment and make.
What: A material exploration with hair, thread, wires.
Where: First Floor exhibition space

Namrata Pandit and Uday Pandit >> Timepass

How: A shifting, morphing, mobile paper sculpture.
Where: Within DAF, the location continuously shifts from corner to 
corner, space to space.

Parismita Singh >> Why Ask the Old Questions?

How: On October 13, Episode One, following the erasure of the mural 
Parismita had made over two months, she said: I kept telling myself all 
throughout: No this is not. Not an erasure. Its like turning a page. We 
are preparing the canvas for where I am going. Because once a piece is 
done, its gone already. Not an erasure, but a preparation.

What: In the coming weeks, Parismita is etching out forms from within 
the blackened out wall, and creating afresh.

Where: First Floor

Ishita Tiwary >> Amateur Cinema

How: Gathering and screening of films by amateur film makers, 
discussions with the film makers

What: On November 10, Saturday, 4:00 PM, everyone is welcome to the 
second discussion with the film makers. Watch out for further details on 
the Sarai Reader 09 Facebook page.

Where: First Floor @ DAF (Screenings are on throughout the week)

Paribartana Mohanty >> Act the Victim

For all those who missed the dramatic first audition of Act the Victim 
on October 6, the second audition is on 17 November, Saturday. Starts at 
noon. Look out for details on Sarai Reader 09 on Facebook.

Ongoing, since October 13:
Anita Dube >> Reflections on Love and War; Vijai Patchineelam >> Esforco 
Monino (Minimum Effort), Slideshow


Coming Soon:
Koustuv Nag, Srishti Bajaj and Kanishka Prasad, Umang Bhattachrya, 
Rehaan Engineer, Malini Kochupalli and Julia Gutge, Ayesha Hameed, Saba 
Hasan, Rashmi Kaleka, Amitesh Grover, Elske Rosenfeld, Niranjani Iyer 
and Payal Wadhwa, Alexander Hahn, Ranjeeta, Silke Kästner, Nancy 
Goldring, Meera Menezes, Layout

Read extracts from proposals here, starting November and December:
http://www.sarai.net/sr09-ep2-extracts.pdf

Ongoing, since August 18:
See http://www.sarai.net/sr9-episode-one.pdf and read extracts from 
proposals 
http://www.sarai.net/sr09-singlepages-fromproposals-online-18aug2012.pdf

Sarai Reader 09 opened on August 18, with:
Architectural interventions by Sayantan Maitra ‘Boka’ || Architectural 
insertion by Zuleikha Chaudhari || Experimental sounds and 
electro-acoustic music by Ish Shehrawat, Andi Teichmann, Brian Citro, 
Ignat Karmalito || Amateur cinema presented by Ishita Tiwary || P.T.O. 
presented by Shveta Sarda (http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/PTO)

For updates, conversations, news about upcoming events and images, join 
Sarai Reader 09 on Facebook

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SARAI READER 09 is an ongoing contemporary art exhibition (18 August 
2012 – 16 April 2013), curated by Raqs Media Collective. The exhibition 
is a collaboration between Sarai-CSDS, Delhi, and Devi Art Foundation, 
Gurgaon. Over nine months, roughly 100 
artists/researchers/practitioners, invited through an open call, will be
working within the exhibition context.

The call for proposals is now closed. See www.sarai.net for details.

Address:
Devi Art Foundation, Sirpur House, Plot 39, Sector 44, Gurgaon.
Tel: 0124-4888177

Map here:
http://www.deviartfoundation.org/map.htm

Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition is generously supported by the Royal 
Embassy of Norway, Delhi.