“When the wind blows” – Atreyee Gupta
Thursday, February 18th, 2016 | by project88blogadmin
When the wind blows. Quotidian objects of domestic use – table fans, chopping boards, kitchen mixers, synthetic packing material – take on the semantic and material qualities of drawing, photography, and sculpture to chart conceptual routes between drawing and photography, photography and sculpture, sculpture and installation. Parts of appliances, even those that have outlived their …
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Passages from Reclusive Conversations – Prajna Desai
Sunday, May 17th, 2015 | by project88blogadmin
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious.It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty? -From the Hollywood film Amadeus (1984) Directed by Milos Forman / …
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Earthbound/ Earth Bound – Maya Kóvskaya
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 | by project88blogadmin
earth·bound ˈərTHˌbound/ adjective adjective: earth-bound 1. attached or restricted to the earth.” ~a flightless earthbound bird.” 2. attached or limited to material existence as distinct from a spiritual or heavenly one. ~”her earthbound view of the sacrament.” As unprecedented ecological catastrophe unfolds across our planet, new systems of knowledge and new ways of imagining the …
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Noise Life – Kaushik Bhaumik
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 | by project88blogadmin
This show will baffle visitors for many reasons. For one, there is a lot happening within it that will seem chaotic and pointless. Then there will be the interference between noise and image. This relationship between noise and image occurs either within frames, or between frames of performance. To make things worse, none of …
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Touched – Neha Choksi
Thursday, August 8th, 2013 | by project88blogadmin
Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery, Artists’ Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 14 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year at each venue. This is the first season Project 88 has participated, represented by my Minds to Lose, 2008-2011. A …
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No Less A Drawing – Prajna Desai
Friday, June 21st, 2013 | by project88blogadmin
There is the honoured way to draft a picture, to let a tip nick a surface. This is how drawing began when a point was pushed to make a mark. Beyond running on paper a pencil or pen, lead or ink the colour of soot, or caramel, one might even use fabric, film, or …
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