Prajakta Potnis: 52 proposals for the 20’s
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 | by project88blogadmin
Throughout 2021 curator Maria Lind invites fifty-two artists to inhabit the instagram account @52proposalsforthe20s and make weekly proposals for the decade of the 2020s. Prajakta Potnis , How to decide which human gets your last ventilator By Emily Gallacher Viall (Emily Gallacher Viall is a nurse and poet) First, Study lungs. See lungs in trees, bronchial the …
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Not an Imitation Preview
Friday, March 19th, 2021 | by project88blogadmin
Not an Imitation Preview Our Online Viewing Room Not an Imitation opened on 11 March 2021. The zoom preview began with an address by Rohini Devasher and Pallavi Paul and a number of Project 88 artists joining in from around the world to continue the conversation. The preview is now available for viewing here We know intuitively …
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ART TALK: Chirodeep Chaudhuri with Ranjit Hoskote
Friday, February 19th, 2021 | by project88blogadmin
Project 88 presents ART TALKS, A series of conversations with artists, writers and curators. The third talk of this series took place on7th February 2021 between Chirodeep Chaudhuri and Ranjit Hoskote Photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri in conversation with poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote about his ongoing exhibition, ‘Seeing Time’, and about the nature of his practice of documenting, …
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Break the Mould: Why, unlike in other megacities, one is a creature of habit and limited imagination in Delhi
Sunday, November 22nd, 2020 | by project88blogadmin
The pandemic has brought public life to an unprecedented standstill. An artist reimagines and re-examines form and functionality in the cities which nurture us Infinity in multitudes: Anti-CAA/NRC protest at Shaheen Bagh earlier this year. (Source: Express Archives) By Monica Narula Sometimes, I go cycling with a 13-year-old. The roads are uneven but empty these …
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ART TALK: Sandeep Mukherjee and Diana Campbell Bentancourt
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 | by project88blogadmin
Project 88 presents ART TALKS, A series of conversations with artists, writers and curators. The second talk of this series took place on 11th October 2020 at 9:00 pm IST between Sandeep Mukherjee and Diana Campbell Bentancourt A virtual studio visit and conversation between Indian born, LA based artist, Sandeep Mukherjee and curator Diana Campbell Betancourt. Mukherjee works in …
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ART TALKS: Prajakta Potnis with Nancy Adajania
Monday, November 2nd, 2020 | by project88blogadmin
Project 88 presents ART TALKS, A series of conversations with artists, writers and curators. The first talk of this series took place on 25th September 2020 at 6:00 pm IST between Prajakta Potnis and Nancy Adajania Prajakta Potnis and Nancy Adajania reflect on Potnis’ ongoing exhibition, ‘A Body Without Organs’ which opened just before the lockdown. A dark foreboding of how …
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WOODEN HORSE IN BOGGY LAND: FOUR PROPOSITIONS ABOUT LANDSCAPE – PRAJNA DESAI
Friday, May 19th, 2017 | by project88blogadmin
In looking for landscape— Eyes by the windowsill wait for the brain to light up the slope of the hill. Thought cuts a strobe to the farthest reaches of the horizon. Beds of flowers appear at the edge of a dry riverbed. Great green grasses shiver on scorched plains otherwise racked by so much …
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“8688”: Walk-through by Diana Campbell Betancourt
Thursday, November 17th, 2016 | by project88blogadmin
8688 is an exhibition that challenges our perception of opposites. It is only by looking as far past ourselves as possible that we can understand what makes us who we are. The exhibition turns Project 88 on its side (a conceptual gesture evoked by Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs Media Collective, who by doing so, found …
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a note on STALKINGS AND OTHER STORIES – Prajna Desai
Friday, September 30th, 2016 | by project88blogadmin
One thing after another. The ecstasy of narrative begins early, inside the womb while listening to the story from the other side, at the playground with imaginary companions doing your bidding, or in that first fib about how you got a black eye at school. When bringing up ‘narrative’ what we’re really talking about is …
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On entering a quarry – Nida Ghouse
Saturday, March 26th, 2016 | by project88blogadmin
On entering a quarry, one enters the earth. One descends into that which as long as it existed could not be accessed. A rock is a record of everything that formed it—the magma of millions of years since a volcano erupted. Inside a quarry, the surface of the rock is the ultimate intermediary; its exposure …
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