Public Art Student Workshop read more...

Public space is leaving home (Vito acconci)

'Enter the public space and reclaim it instead of waiting for something to
happen.' (Andre Mesman)

Periferry Jam read more...

Periferry Jam Session 1 at M.V Chandardinga

26 April 2008

Jam session on the ferry. First Periferry jam session kick started with musicians from various bands who played different instruments and different sound. The sound of this jam contributed to the idea of building an alternate sound space in the city to celebrate the experimentation.List of musicians and sound professionals include

Hridoy Goswami, Ambar Das, Anup Phukan,  Joshua Queah, Uzzal, Krishna, Deepu and Tarique

Periferry Jam Session 2 at M.V Chandardinga

26 May 2008

Band of Brothers

It is fusion band and a musical collaboration between musicians and instruments. exploring the sounds of a fusion between folk and electric sound of instruments. Folk instruments like  bhoor taal, duitara, flute with electronic instruments like Vibrophone, guitar etc.

The members of the band are Amber Das on the drums and percussion, Ralf Kemphuif on the Vibrophone, Deepak Sarma on the flute, Nitul Goswami on the Tabla & Percussion, Pankaj Bora on the Duitara  and percussion, Depajyoti Goswami on the guitar and vocals, Biswajeet Haloi on the keyboard and Papu Gogoi on the bass guitar.

Photography Workshop 2008 read more...

19th - 29th of March 2008

Syeda Farhana conducted a ten day photography workshop. The workshop began on the 19th of March and continued till the 29th of March 2008. Eight artists, designers, filmmakers and social activists participated. Syeda Farhana said, "We are here to share photographs and our experiences and discuss photography as an art. We are not discussing the finer techniques or the fine prints of technology but are examining the politics of images."

The ace photographer is also showing the participants the immense possibilities of the automatic camera and imparting tips on capturing that 'perfect image' with the simplest of cameras is one of the chief agendas of the workshop.

The open day and exhibition of the workshop is on the 12th of April 2008, 11 am onwards on MV Chandardinga (Ferry), Near Fancy Bazar bus stop, MG Road, Guwahati, Assam

Participants

Rajkumar Mazinder, Wahida Ahmed, Anjuman Ara, Bhaskar Das, Suresh Kumar Barla, W. Dorendra, Viswanath Kothagattu, Prasana G. Kate

Exhibition of Photography Workshop 2008

12th April 2008, 11am onwards

International Residency 2008 read more...

14th January - 29th February 2008

"Periferry1.0 ", starts with a 6 week residency program, which begins on the 14th January and ends on 29th February 2008. There will be 7 artists participating, 2 from India and 5 international. They are Syeda Farhana (Bangladesh), Parismita Singh (India), desire machine collective(India), Bruce Allen (England), Pauliina Salminen (Finland)-Andreas (Argentine) & Mahardhika Yudha (Indonesia) . The open day has been scheduled 28th February 2008.

The activities would include organizing seminars on the contemporary artistic production, initiating a global-local interaction of art and events and publications in the public realm to foster critical debate. The residency thus builds a powerful repertoire of ideas and practices by willfully juxtaposing individuals from diverse contexts and making this exchange the basis of producing art and knowledge about art. This juxtaposition is the best way in which we can balance out the subjective and objective dimensions of art and knowledge where diverse values and ideas challenge each other and allow for the emergence of new ideas and practices

Inner Lines: A Media and Art Event read more...

16th -19th January, 2008

The curation attempts to identify the hot spots of contemporary conflict, its dynamics and actors, its movement and the trajectories that depart from temporary uneasiness to the desire of building an alternative to one's own situation. And a set of questions emerge: How to transform a map into a process of re signifying a territory and re articulating social movements? How to name a territory undergoing permanent transformation? How to situate new mechanisms of power, conflicts and emergent social subjects in a fragmented and  complex territory?