Anuradha Pathak

Sculpture Installation [interactive (non digital) / participatory]

New Delhi, India

Artist in Residence at the Rote Fabrik from: April - June 2010

About the artist:

• 2009 «Cross Country» curated by Priyadarshini Sharma and organized by Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, Kochi and New Delhi, India
• 2008 Six weeks Internship entitled «City[in]visible» at KHOJ, International Artist Association, New Delhi, India
• 2008 «Midhunam», National Artist Camp, Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi, Kochi, India
• 2004 - 2008 Assistant curator for 4 thematic and 6 retrospective exhb. and Research co-ordinator for 7 books on Contemporary Artist of India
• 2007 Published an article at www.artsconcerns.com, titled «We are not entitled to Dream» and an article on an eminent artist Late Shri. Paritosh Sen, titled «A Great Scholar, Artist and Soul»
• 2007 Three person show at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
• 2007 Making History our Own, a year long travelling group exhibition organized by SAHMAT, New Delhi
• 2006 Written articles for the Newsletter of India International Centre for the volume XX No. 1, E-creativity and volume XX No. 5, Negotiating Identities in the Wake of the New Global Economy
• 2004 Delivered an invited talk at IIT Kanpur, India, Dept. of Humanities and Social Science on «Interactive Art and its prospects in India»
• 2003 First Solo exhb., titled «Merging Boundaries: A new step Forward» at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, India, where I had organized an Interactive session with mentally Challenged Children (from Ashaniketan) and Common Children as well

AiR-Project:

«Positioning of Indian contemporary art practice and its impact on the Indians residing in Switzerland» is my topic. In this, I intend to explore 2 aspects in my 3 month long residency in Zurich. 1. Positioning the Indian art practice in Switzerland, which I plan to do through sculpture installation,which will be either participatory or interactive (non digital) in nature, giving a sense of Indian mind set (through my work) set in a Swiss environment and the people as a whole how do they act or react, which will get either recording or projected live (if possible) & 2. Impact of Indians residing in Zurich, a documentation on the difference in life style and outlook in general and views on the practice of Indian Contemporary Visual arts in particular. Here I plan to video record and request them to fill up a questionnaire prepared after my initial interaction with these Indians and Swiss people in the swiss environment (2 interactive sessions). I wish to interact face to face and document 5 children (preferably between 12-18 yrs), who are born in India or have connection with Indian society in India, 5 Indian adults (not permanent resident yet) and 5 swiss people, who have been to India or have Indian friends. The edited version of the videos and the questionnaire will be project/displayed as an installation on my open day along with my other installation, mentioned a above. I would rely on my coach to assist and guide me to complete my project during my stay.

Artist Website: realmofhalfmolecule.blogspot.com

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