TRANSFORMATION
Patachitra Artists (West Bengal) and Transit\ion Collective (London) collaborated on TRANSFORMATION, a two week workshop that culminated 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
TRANSMISSION is an online project space, making visible some of the processes and incidental works produced during our collaboration with Patua artists which may otherwise have been disregarded in the editing process required for the exhibition. It also charts the development of the work here in London, as it takes time to understand what has happened in India and what our relationship with the Patua artists was. TRANSMISSION also functions as a forum for discussion via the 'comment' option in the blog format.
The project has been initiated and supported by Banglanatak Dot Com.
