Patachitra Artists (West Bengal) and Transit\ion Collective (London) collaborate on TRANSFORMATION, a two week workshop culminating in an exhibition in Kolkata, India. The theme of transformation has been developed in response to a Patachitra scroll painting depicting a mythological story about the Hindu goddess Durga. This story, as with many other Hindu stories, depicts gods in many earthly forms. Transformation and metamorphoses are commonly used narrative devices that twist a plot structure away from the banal and familiar, toward the chimerical and the phantasmagorical. Transformation can be understood as a constant condition, endlessly forcing new artistic strategies in an ever-changing environment.
TRANSMISSION will function as an online project space for the TRANSFORMATION workshop, making visible some of the processes and incidental works produced during the workshop which may otherwise be disregarded in the editing process required for the exhibition. TRANSMISSION will also function as a forum for discussion via the 'comment' option in the blog format.
For more information on the Patachitra artists visit:
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080529/REVIEW/821524739/-1/ART
http://www.banglanatak.com/new/revivefolkart.asp#10
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/naya/scrolls.html
For more information on the Transit\ion Collective and associated artists:
http://www.nielsstaats.com/
http://www.post-projects.org.uk/
For more information on the Patachitra artists visit:
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080529/REVIEW/821524739/-1/ART
http://www.banglanatak.com/new/revivefolkart.asp#10
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/naya/scrolls.html
For more information on the Transit\ion Collective and associated artists:
http://www.nielsstaats.com/
http://www.post-projects.org.uk/
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