BackMay 14, 2020 - June 3, 2020
Collab
Curated by Jesal Thacker
Throughout history, nature has been the witness and inspiration for many artistic expressions, scientific explorations and philosophical enquiries. From a sense of amazement and beauty to becoming the means for intuitive knowledge and understanding the abstract notions that lie beneath and beyond, it is today a subject of ecological concern. It has and will always be a stimulus for creative intelligence and evolution as we survive entirely on its existence. Humans are coherent partners with this co-existence except that in recent years they have tried to become masters, leading to an unbalance and exploitation of nature.
The purpose of this curated series is to witness once again the many artistic expressions that reflect upon the influence our nature has over us; it’s aesthetic order, harmonious notations, hidden chaos, along with the discordant hues and deteriorating forms. It’s expressions as classical landscapes, abstract formations and contemporary revolutions trace the story of nature and our relation with it. From patterns that connect and soothe, it has transformed into conflicting forms and sounds that disturb and disengage, precisely representing our lost equation with nature. We may attribute this decay to overconsumption, consumerism, industrialisation, progress etc. yet the question: aren’t we all part of this process and equally responsible for this collapse?
Not all can reform and revolt the current system, enforcing solutions and programs, but we surely can become aware and grow sensitive to the expanding dichotomy. Through informed measures we can educate ourselves about the ecological urgency and work collaboratively towards its sustainability and conscious co-existence. F. David peat, a holistic physicist very aptly expresses, “What our planet requires are not violent revolutions, or vast government programs imposed from above but a new action that is sensitive and highly intelligent. This action must grow out of our sense of harmony and relationship to nature and each other. It has its source in very gentle but coordinated activity that sweeps inwards and outwards so that the whole system is able to produce its own healing. Each of us is empowered to face the problems that challenge the planet and, by developing a greater sensitivity and a more meaningful relationship to the whole of life, this ability to heal ourselves and our planet will echo around the world just like those tiny ripples in a lake that grow into a giant wave. If there is to be hope for the future then it must begin with the creativity and sensitivity of each one of us.”
Collab, is an effort towards this realisation as a collective laboratory, exploring and experimenting with forms and texts that remind us of nature's harmonic order and its looming ecological disorder. An effort to be conscious and work collaboratively towards a sustainable co-existence.
It is said that it takes three weeks to transition old memory patterns into new ones, and so this first series will last for twenty-one days, each day revealing new expressions and a renewed awareness about these creative explorations. Breaking away from the norm, the entire list of artists/art works will not be disclosed instantly, we will instead organically construct refreshing and engaging discourses every day.
Curated by Jesal Thacker
Throughout history, nature has been the witness and inspiration for many artistic expressions, scientific explorations and philosophical enquiries. From a sense of amazement and beauty to becoming the means for intuitive knowledge and understanding the abstract notions that lie beneath and beyond, it is today a subject of ecological concern. It has and will always be a stimulus for creative intelligence and evolution as we survive entirely on its existence. Humans are coherent partners with this co-existence except that in recent years they have tried to become masters, leading to an unbalance and exploitation of nature.
The purpose of this curated series is to witness once again the many artistic expressions that reflect upon the influence our nature has over us; it’s aesthetic order, harmonious notations, hidden chaos, along with the discordant hues and deteriorating forms. It’s expressions as classical landscapes, abstract formations and contemporary revolutions trace the story of nature and our relation with it. From patterns that connect and soothe, it has transformed into conflicting forms and sounds that disturb and disengage, precisely representing our lost equation with nature. We may attribute this decay to overconsumption, consumerism, industrialisation, progress etc. yet the question: aren’t we all part of this process and equally responsible for this collapse?
Not all can reform and revolt the current system, enforcing solutions and programs, but we surely can become aware and grow sensitive to the expanding dichotomy. Through informed measures we can educate ourselves about the ecological urgency and work collaboratively towards its sustainability and conscious co-existence. F. David peat, a holistic physicist very aptly expresses, “What our planet requires are not violent revolutions, or vast government programs imposed from above but a new action that is sensitive and highly intelligent. This action must grow out of our sense of harmony and relationship to nature and each other. It has its source in very gentle but coordinated activity that sweeps inwards and outwards so that the whole system is able to produce its own healing. Each of us is empowered to face the problems that challenge the planet and, by developing a greater sensitivity and a more meaningful relationship to the whole of life, this ability to heal ourselves and our planet will echo around the world just like those tiny ripples in a lake that grow into a giant wave. If there is to be hope for the future then it must begin with the creativity and sensitivity of each one of us.”
Collab, is an effort towards this realisation as a collective laboratory, exploring and experimenting with forms and texts that remind us of nature's harmonic order and its looming ecological disorder. An effort to be conscious and work collaboratively towards a sustainable co-existence.
It is said that it takes three weeks to transition old memory patterns into new ones, and so this first series will last for twenty-one days, each day revealing new expressions and a renewed awareness about these creative explorations. Breaking away from the norm, the entire list of artists/art works will not be disclosed instantly, we will instead organically construct refreshing and engaging discourses every day.
Aaditi JoshiAtul BhallaGanesh HaloiHG ArunkumarJayashree ChakravartyMadhu DasManu ParekhMeghna PatpatiaNandita KumarNavin ThomasPrabhakar BarwePradeep MishraPrajakta Palav AherRatna KhannaRavi AgarwalReena Saini KallatSakshi GuptaSamanta Batra MehtaSanjeev & VaishaliSonia Mehra ChawlaVibha GalhotraVivek Vilasini
