"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

ARTISTS' PROJECTS

Parismita Singh

"The adventures of Tejimola and Sati Beula", a 32 page comic book developed in the residency in English and translated into Assamese

Andrés Jaschek

"On my way", site specific video installation
7 minutes (loop)A line of people on their way to somewhere, as if seen from a moving ferry's window.
They are just a line in the middle of the landscape. Suddenly the ferry stops but the movement continues. Who is moving?

Pauliina Salminen

A ten-minute boat trip connects two banks of the Brahmaputra river, two sides of Guwahati: the city and the village. Which side is the other side?Looking for landmarks (On my way 2)This video is made of snapshots taken on different days on my daily bustrip in Guwahati, combined with a text describing the feeling of being disorientated in a foreign city and trying to figure out the unknown environment

Syeda Farhana

"Green Guwahati", a photography ,sound and video installation. She made a shop for selling digital photo on beauty of Brammaputra Outside of her shop she made a bill board with advertisements which shows lives of working class of the city and how the city has been changing. In her shop there are songs playing on which collected from city’s working class.

Mahardika Yudha

“Purusha” a 51 mins video

Bruce Allan

1. "Repository (for One Two)" photographic installation
2. "Your white complexion"

Desire Machine Collective - Sonal Jain

1. "Bhotbhati Tales" a community project in video with the Bhotbhoti (small boats, that ferry people to and from North-South Guwahati.) boatmen. In the daily commute in the Bhotbhoti conversations with the boatmen about what they would like to make a film on, what the source of Brahamaputra is? And other things.

Desire Machine Collective - Mriganka Madhukaillya

2. "Layers of night", a sound installation. The next stage is a plan to set up a media lab on the ferry- MV Chandradinga. “you cannot step twice in the same river”, Plato’s interpretation of Heraclitus. Change is the only constant at the Media-Lab and so the immediate site and location of the Media-Lab is a ferry on the river Bramahaputra with creates an important and historical network for constant flow and fluxes of people, goods, ideas. In a context of fluxes and movement, the digital technology and network emerge as the ideal medium for exploring the same.