Pratul Dash's project

pratul has been growing some wheatin his studio backyard. he has planted them in word formatins fear and risk. sometime in the mid april there will be a pamphlet campaingn inviting his neighbourhood into his studio backyard for an interactive viewing project through which he intends to bring focus on the spree of farmer';s suicides ripping the agranian heartland of india.

29TH MARCH performance ...PHOTO DOCUMENTATIONS

ARTMAHARAJ'S PERFORMANCE







hASSAN'S pERFORMANCE





Title : I don't want to be like this
Duration: its limited to the artist action
Location: at Mandi House, out door, Lalit Kala Akademy
Time: in the after noon, at 5 pm
Date : Saturday, 29 March 2008

About the Perform
The perform diel with forn occupation of Iraq an the descramination and abous of the Iraqian people by the occupation forces; showen the tragedy of Iraq that keepet forget in this time, and during American election in this days.
The artist believe that no body, or force in the world can take 'Freedom' away from people, he takes a risk by using personal photograph as the poritrate's of American presidents, from one to next president, drown over their names, as he feel everyone from Iraqi people is somehow without freedom under the American occupation, also to keep the memoirs of suffering by th eoccupation in relation to American presidential election, 2008 as they are all persones, condemned others to silence by their agressivity as presidentes. So, the artists say: "I don't sant to be like this" an ordinary Iraqian without freedom ferist. And also "I don't wont to be like this" as diabolical, an American president with acts of duplicity second. In the perform, the artist us a Digital selfportrait photo, secraced and drawn over with Ink craon and acrylic color; its supported by physical action, to rend the performance a live peform in his contemporary life art practice, it's a kind of manifestation in supporting freedom.

About the Artist
Al Saidi Hassan, Iraqi origin, based in Delhi artist, born in Baghdad, and educated in Rome, Italy

for the 30th march

jenson will be doing doing something in the in the agricultural lands between akshardham temple and Nizzamudin flyover. the performance will take place on the 1 pm of the 30th .
jenson does not know what he is doing
we are all meeting Jenson in fron of the akshardham temple at 12.30 pm

inauguration

after attemts to find corners inside the Old delhi station, the corner for the inauguration ceremony took place at a deserted car park in the station premises. a stubborn candel was lit to formalise the informal.

a bad vdo of the concept note reading is available at
www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=vFUfvnDCoQQ&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//i.ytimg.com/vi/vFUfvnDCoQQ/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskI-WGOGSuNuf6_sCFfA_mK9

a better vdo will be uploaded soon.

event listings : changes

the inauguration ceremony took place at a deserted car park in the station premises. a stubborn candel was lit to formalise the informal.

mithu Sen's performance is now to be held on the 2nd of april...wednesday

Artmaharaj: INSECURITY GUARD'S tie was castrated during his performance at the anant art gallery as a part of Khoj live.
today at 4 pm, he will tie the castrated tie on the gates of the british council ( kasturba gandhi road-Connaught Place), and hold on the railings...waiting to be rescued. date : 29th march 2008

Hassan Al-Saidi will do a performance in mandi house on the 29th evening...a small act directed towards focussing attention towards the spree of farmer's suicides ripping the heartland of india. 5.00 pm . mandi house lawns. date : 29th march