SANDARBH ARTIST WORKSHOP / RESIDENCY

SANDARBH ARTIST RESIDENCY / WORKSHOP

2010-02-26T17:28:00.000-08:00

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One month sandarbh internatinal Residency 2009

2009-04-25T11:01:00.001-07:00

SANDARBH
International Artist Residency At Partapur- BANSWARA (Rajasthan)
Dated - 15 Feb to 15 March 2009

Participate Artist

1.Ko, Hyun-hie - Korea
2.Ri, Eung-woo -Korea
3.Ryu, Seung-gu - Korea
4.Anke Mellin -Germany
5.EGAMI HIEOSHI - Japan
6.Nagashima - Japan
7.Umesh Kumar - Bangalore
8.Vijay Sekhon-USA
9.Mr.Ogawa-Japan
10.Joanthan - U.K.
11.Lata Upadhyaya-U.K.
12.Mr.Okabe -Japan
13.Ms Noguchi-Japan

ARTIST WORKS ON THE SITES

EGAMI HIEOSHI - Japan
Title: Black Earth
Medium: Bamboo, clay and cow dung.

Vijay Sekhon-USA
Site - Madkola
Medium: Bamboo

Anke Mellin -Germany

The supporting institution is:Behoerde fuer Kultur, Sport und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany

Medium: Foot print,marbal powder.

Site- house Near play Ground,Partapur.

Partapur inspired me to realize three different works. the first idea appeared by seeing the empty house near the playground. The empty space and many children playing there attracted to do some collaborative work. The idea about PRINT evolved. After I opened the doors curious children appeared and we started cleaning and later painting the house. Then we started by making fingerprints on paper which we observed carefully. Each child drew her/his individual fingerprint on paper. Afterwards visiting children and adults made footprints on white paper. The signed prints were collected and hung on two walls and because the red ink used it looked very beautiful. White marble dust was seeved on the floor and framed by marble bricks. During several workshops people were invited to leave their footsteps on the floor. Two open doors flushed light on the always changing relief and displayed an interesting artwork made by the people of Partapur.

Anke Mellin -Germany

As second work I made A BENCH for Chintans Land. The hilly landscape and Mati river valley attracted me to make a curved bench with uprising levels to sit or lay down. With the help of locals I used the traditional broken-stone-technique with mortar for the construction. The bench invites to take a rest and enjoy the view especially at sunsrise and sunset. It is already proved that it works as a meeting place for the people of the nearby village.

Anke Mellin -Germany

For the third project called HHHMMM I bought expensive silver plates and collected the shit of animals. While walking on the main road and waiting for animals excrements people watched me and declared me as crazy. But after a while they helped by bringing goat shit for the project(goat shit consists of very small pieces). The display on silver plates in the old market worked really well since visitors understood that animals products have something to do with nutrion of people.

Umesh Kumar

Ko, Hyun-hie - Korea
Medium: Briks, marble, mud,dry grass and plants
Site: Adavera, Bori village.
Size: 180 x 80 x 230 cm

>Not a House<

I think all people take their energy from earth and heaven.

I have seen the area of Partapur mostly as farmland. The natural colors, like red burnt bricks, white marble and yellow hay are dominating the colors of Rajasthan, so I used these materials for making my work. As always natural colors are very interesting for me.
The material also talks about energy: bricks are made from earth, marble was processed while the earth was liquid, and hay is growing constantly on the ground.
Size: 180 x 80 x 230 cm

Ryu, Seung-gu

Title: Face
Medium: Stone from the site.
Site: Madkola Village

Ri, Eung-woo. Korea

"Sprout in Sandarbh"
Medium: Artist's hair, seeds, Bamboo and iron
Site: Madkola village

I wished the people luck by making an image of a sprout that they can see it from a distance. And I decided to use bamboo as a material. Because the peoples in Partapur use a bamboo basket as a cradle. That is why I chose it. It was very meaningful to make the installation representing their future at the moments. The image of a sprout and a baby growing in a cradle can meet through my work.

Lata Upadhyaya-U.K.
Site - Adevera Pound

FICA Present
Power Of Cloth
Public Art Project by Lochan U
Supported by SANDARBH
Site - Subesh Chandra Bose play Ground,Partapur
Date - 1st to 2nd march 2009

POWER OF CLOTH

The project “Power of Cloth” is very specific to the Vagad region of Rajasthan. This community has a specific cultural space, different from other Rajasthan surroundings. Being born and brought up in the same community culture, I have always been a regular spectator in witnessing the various activities. While pursuing the art education outside I was able to stretch my local to a much wider arena where in an effort was input to develop a dialogue between the self and the community, through their language, their material, their space, their issues, their involvement.
The project includes a life size marriage shamiana typical of this area where the marriages are usually held in open grounds by building up these temporary structures. A huge gate made of iron armature is kept at the entrance with the banner of the parties involved in the marriage. Also are the stylized chairs on which the bride and the groom are seated. Using these visual vocabularies I have tried to reconstruct the whole look of a marriage. The entrance gate and the chairs for the bride and the groom are made in iron structures, covered with the metal net and then further covered with stripes of cloth, considered as a waste, collected from the various tailor shops from different villages. Apart from this huge installation used in marriages, I was also interested in the concept of Marriage, which is all intertwined with the social structure. Caste system and dowry has become a ritual, on which the marriage is performed. What I intended in this project was to use these issues as the major driving force to reconstruct these structures in order to create an atmosphere where one is more aware and more conscious of the environment and the social structures s/he is being framed in.
Apart from its power to represent a region and the social and political aspects involved, cloth turned out to be the most apt medium for its deep involvement in the rituals of Marriage in form of gifts which turns to be a trick to subdued the heaviness of the term Dowry. A further research into this area proved to be very interesting because the clothes in terms of material, colour and design were very different, in fact very specific to Vagad, also that cast system at its strength has a very direct reflection on the choices of clothes being used by the people.
A lot of pictures are being taken as a documentation of the event of gifting. These pictures are a collection of the marriage album. I have collected these pictures from various houses of the different villages and have printed on the cloth for making the sidewalls of the shamiana in a design format generally used in such structures.

Performance by "Mela Group" and local Musician
Venue- Chaar Khamba, Partapur, Dated 5.03.09

10 days internatinal workshop 2009

2009-04-25T10:58:00.001-07:00

SANDARBH
10 Days Artist Workshop at Bhagora Village,Partapur-Banswara

Dated - 20 Jan. to 30 Jan. 2009

Open Day on 29 Jan 2009

Workshop in Action

1. Amrish - Patna

2. Anne Parcoce - USA

3. Bhuvnesh- Mumbai

4. Kiran Telkar - Delhi

Performance

5.Lochan U.

6.Palak Rawal - Mumbai

7. Parag tandle - Mumbai

8.Prantik Chattopadhyay - Baroda

9. Shamla - Banglore

10. Soomu Desai - Vaapi

one month 2 artist internatinal residency

2009-04-25T10:55:00.000-07:00

one month International 2 Artist Residency At partapur

Dated - 5th November to 5th December 2008

Artist photo

Barbara Ash - U.K.

1.“Ship of the desert” (performance)

This piece looked at the impact & challenges of globalization on rural, traditional communities. I decided to use a camel for two reasons – hailing from England, where camels are only found in zoos, I was compelled by the fascinating & intriguing nature of the creature, which seems to be a mixture of stately majesty & bizarre ungainliness. Also, more importantly,I saw it a pertinent icon of the rural & traditional way of life in the face of technological “progress”. I attempted to juxtapose the traditional with the modern in a specially-designed camel coat. This used a traditional design & aesthetic, with local materials & collaborative embroidery work from a local craftsperson, but incorporating rosette-like logos from big multi-national companies. As the lone white person in the area I was constantly aware of my racial difference & so used myself as the “westerner” element in the context of the local culture versus possible encroaching westernization.

2.“Catharsis” (performance)

This was a more personal piece, which was primarily inspired by the beauty & serenity of the Bhagora lake & the deep primal desire to sit in the middle of the lake in a fisherman’s boat. I made previously, in the studio, small multiple birds in clay, one for each year of my life, which were then wrapped up in plastic & sellotape. At the lake these were placed in a stainless steel bowl in a bed of red rose-heads & were ceremoniously unwrapped & dipped into the water & smoothed & then flung out into the water followed by a red rose, all to suitably emotive music. This piece dealt with memories/experience & embracing the past while simultaneously putting it to rest, all in a somewhat ritualistic, romantic, “self-indulgent” manner. I also used the idea of returning the clay to the earth, to the mud at the bottom of the lake. The bird motif, to me, was about using an incongruous element for the lake context (sinking birds rather than soaring) & also as a loose metaphor for past emotions & hopes.

3.“Vanishing Village Goddesses”

This work follows the same theme of local versus global culture. The two images of women were taken from visits to Kotada. They were in part inspired by a Hanuman icon by the Bori lake. I liked the simplicity of the idea of making a clay relief with conventional, meticulous modelling then submerging it at the lake-side till it dissolved back into the mud, this had echoes of the familiar portion of the English funeral rites “from earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust…”. I also wanted to bring the dynamic of art, in the clay object, & nature, the lake & the earth, together. Also, I find the appearance of ancient stone sculpture appealing, when it starts to lose its form with the erosion of time, touch & weather, producing a softer, rounded dissolving echo of its original form.

4.“Self-empowerment”

Following a visit to a women’s group meeting & then a further visit to their village I decided to make a celebratory piece of work on their story. Twenty-four women had formed a group to work together to get a loan from the Government SGSY Scheme to get people above the poverty line. Three years ago they took a loan to buy buffaloes to start a business & were then able to repay it in a short period & have now become self-sufficient & are prospering. It was heartening to come across a positive success story in a region that has a seemingly poor record on women’s equality/rights. I took the most basic female symbol possible, borrowed from toilet door signs, for it’s simplicity & universality. On one side there are digital photos of the women at work & on the other drawings of women from a workshop I took at the Government Primary School in Bhimsor. I wanted to have actual specific images & also general expressive images in the same piece. There is also a sign-post aside the figure with “self-empowerment” on one side in Hindi & English on the other.

5."Masquerade" (Performance)

This performance looked at ideas of cultural perception, belonging &
sexuality, touching also on issues of cultural assimilation.
The starting-point was the recent experience of being a foreign woman
living in India & in particular, a 1 month, intense period in
Partapur, a small town in Rajasthan. Being the only white person in
the area produced a lot of attention/scrutiny & curiosity & made me
constantly aware of my racial/cultural difference. Feeling like a
passive "zoo creature" I decided to turn the situation around & to
"dress up" as an Indian woman in a saree & sit in the market-place,
subject myself to being squirted with water to remove my applied
colour (liquid clay) then rapidly divest myself of my sari revealing
my normal (western) clothes &, finally, flee on the back of a
motorbike.

Pooja Panchal - Baroda

I am currently working on plates crafted from traditional mud-work. This process is a traditional, but vanishing skill, & the sole craftsperson of the village is an 80 year old lady who is guiding the work. The pieces will carry the phrase “I am here” & affirm the presence of the individual & their particular home & history. These will be sited on selected residencies in the locality. The next project is to use a number of colourful Rabadi traditional skirts as a large flower-form arrangement on a local hillside.

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>"Sandarbh" One month International artist Residency

2008-03-31T20:32:00.000-07:00

"Sandarbh" One month International artist Residency
Site Specific Workshop At Bhagora- Partapur, Banswara (Rajasthan)
Dated - 20 Feb to 20 March 2008
Body Art
Eross Istvan - Hungary

"SUN TATOO"

A Performance perform By Eross Istvan - Hungary

Lochan Upadhyay - Baroda-INDIA

"Celebration"
Medium- Iron and Rope

"Power of Cloths" (Dowery)
Medium - Cloths ,Iron

Koter Vilmos - Romaniya
Wall Painting

Nandesh Shantiprakesh - Banglore
Medium - Matchboxs

Sudhir Pandey - Mumbai

Yatin Upadhyay-Partapur
"Red Path" Medium - Cloth and Bamboo

"Boat"

One-Month Residency for three artists, Partapur

2008-03-31T20:19:00.000-07:00

Date-
Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur

1. Shreyash Karle, Baroda 2.Hemali, Baroda
SHREYAS KESHAV KARLE
Site - Partapur

A collabrative Work Done by SHREYAS KESHAV KARLE And HEMALI BHUTA
Site - Bai ka gada , Dhani - Bedwa Panchayat

SHREYAS KESHAV KARLE
Site - Bai ka gada, Metwala
Performance Title - "APKI KAHANI APKI ZUBANI" - Know Your village tale

3. Devang M. Anglay, Ahmedabad

Ten-Day Residency, Partapur

2008-03-31T19:18:00.001-07:00

Date-16 Nov - 26 Nov 2007
Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur

1. Malvika Mankotia, Mumbai

2. Reji Arakkal

3. Barbara Ash, U.K.

4. Sisir Thapa, Sikkim

5. Koumudi Patil,Kanpur

6. Rahul Jain, Baroda

7. Mansoor Irshad, Baroda

8. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda

9. Bhavin Mistri, Baroda

10. Heena Mistri, Baroda

11. Prashant, Mumbai

12. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai

13. Ashok Kansara, Partapur

14. Yatin Upadhyay, Partapur

15. Somu, Baroda

16. Sidhu RV, Delhi

17. Iqbal Bhai -Partapur

Fifteen-Day Residency for two artists, Partapur

2008-03-30T02:14:00.000-07:00

Date- 1 Nov - 15 Nov 2007
Organized by Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan

1. Sandeep Pisalkar, Baroda

2. Charanjit Singh, Baroda

3. Medha

Sandarbh: Ten-Day Residency, Baroda

2008-03-29T20:18:00.000-07:00

Date - 20 Jan - 30 Jan 2007
Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan, Partapur And Faculty Of Fine Arts (MSU),Baroda (Gujrat)

1. Ashok Kansara, Partapur

2. Dilip Chobisa, Baroda

3.Collabrative works by Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai,,Shakar,Delip Chobisa,Baroda

4. Collabrative works by Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai,Yatin Upadhyay,Shakar,Delip Chobisa,

5. Chinmoy Pramanik, Baroda

6. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda

7. Vishwa, Baroda

8. Surbhi, Indor

9. Vinima Gulati, Delhi

10. Shashidharan, Baroda

11. Anish Tikoo, Baroda

12. Indroprmit Roy, Baroda

13. A ollabrative works by Shresh Karle, Baroda,Shakar,Delip Chobisa,Chintan upadhyay

14. Atul Mahajan, Baroda

15. Ragav Acharya, Baroda

16. Suresh Parashar, Baroda

17. Vijay, Baroda

18. Yatin Upadhyay, Partapur

19. Narendra, Baroda

20. Rambali Chohan-Delhi

Sandarbh: Ten-day Residency, Partapur

2008-03-28T18:58:00.000-07:00

Date -20 Nov - 30 Nov 2006
Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan, Partapur

1. Dilip Chobisa, Baroda

2. Droupdi ghosh, Kolkata

3. Atanu

4. Sabesaachi, Kolkata

5. Shrinivas, Kolkata

Image will come soon

6. Shresh Karle, Baroda

7. Garima Pandya, Indor

8. Manoj, Baroda

9. Mahesh Baliga, Baroda

10. Aarti Teldarkar, Mumbai

11. Devang, Ahemdabadh

12. Ashok Kansara, Partapur

13. Bhart Singh Rav. Falabara-Partapur

14. Prashant, Govadi

15. Sakshi, Delhi

16. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai

17. Lochan Upadhyay- Baroda

18. Rambali Chohan - Delhi

Sandarbh: One-Month Residency for International Artists, Partapur

2008-03-28T04:07:00.000-07:00

Date - 20 Feb - 20 March 2006
Organize by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur

1. Ivan Smith, U.K.
"His and Her"

"Light Bucket"

"Pod"

2. Scott Martin, U.K.

3. Palesaybu, Tanzania

4. Minor, Japan

5. Kansuki, Japan
A Performance based on "Communication and Heart"

6. Bharti Kapadiya, Mumbai

"Padharo Mahra Desh"

7. Chinmoye Praminc, Baroda

8. Hussian, Turkey

9. Camilla Rocha, Brazil
Vedio

10. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai
"Flower"

"Rupish Scu."

A collabrative Performance by Chintan and Yatin Upadhayay "Bird Clue"

A collabrative Performance by Chintan ,Yatin Upadhayay,Rajesh Acharya,Rohit Bhatt, Hemant Mehata

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11. Sakshi Gupta, Delhi

12. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda

13. Yatin Upadhyay,Banswara

Ten-day Residency, Partapur

2008-03-27T19:58:00.000-07:00

Date -5 Nov - 15 Nov 2005
Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur

1. Himanshu Desai, Mumbai

Rokin Vagad

2. Gigi Scariya, Delhi
Movie - Bai ka Jagda

3. Atul Bhalla, Delhi

4. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda

5. Scylar Smith – USA

6. Ajay Sharma, Baroda

7. Murli Chirote

8. Sakshi Gupta, Delhi

9. Ratna, Mumbai

10. Hemant, Nagpur

11. A collabrative performance by Murli and his group

Exhibition View

One-Month Residency for two artists, Partapur and Bori

2008-03-27T06:10:00.000-07:00

Date - 8 April - 8 May 2005

Organized by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan, Partapur

Artist Host Family

1. Sakshi Gupta – Delhi

2. Shiba Sharma – Chandigarh

Collabrative works by Sakshi Gupta – Delhi and Shiba Sharma – Chandigarh

Collabrative works by Sakshi Gupta – Delhi and Shiba Sharma – Chandigarh

Collabrative works by Sakshi Gupta – Delhi and Shiba Sharma – Chandigarh

Local Artist

1 Rachit upadhyay

2.Krati

3 Ramesh,Rakesh,Mukesh

4.Yatin Upadhyay
A Performance on "Water"

Rural-urban, Samode, Jaipur

2008-03-27T06:07:00.000-07:00

Date - 1 Sept - 15 Sept 2004

Site - Samode-Jaipur
Participate Artist

Artists Work imges will come soon

1. Madhav Imaret, Mumbai
2. Vibha Galhotra, Delhi
3. Sakshi Gupta, Delhi
4. Anant Joshi, Mumbai
5. Valson Colere, Cochi
6. Nageena
7. Vivak Vilasni, Bangalore
8. Aksh Choyle, Udaipur
9. Viplav, Baroda
10. Yatin Upadhyay, Partapur
11. Mahesh Dev, Dungarpur
12. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai
13. Santosh More, Mumbai
14. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda
15. Anjana Mehara, Mumbai

Water, Partapur

2008-03-26T20:07:00.000-07:00

Local Artist Workshop
Date 26 May - 1 June 2004
Organize by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur

1. Chetan Patidar, Jasela

2. Lochan Upadhyay, Partapur

3. Yatin Upadhyay, Partapur

4. Mahesh Dev, Nandod

5. Nishant Trivadi, Talwara

6. Samta Pathak, Saroda

7. Rachit Upadhyay, Bori

8. Gajendra Acharya,Banswara

9.Rakesh Upadhyay

10 Sushil Sompura- Talwara

Vagad Project II: Rural-Urban, Partapur

2008-03-26T19:36:00.000-07:00

Date - 17 March - 23 March 2004
Organize by - Beneshwer Lok Vikas Sansthan,Partapur
Site - Partapur,Bori

1. Sudhir Pandey, Mumbai

2. Sanjeev Sonpimpre, Mumbai

3. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai

4. Bhupesh Kawadiya, Udaipur

5. pijush patra, Baroda

6. Ritesh Ajmeri, Baroda

7. Nitin Agrawal, Baroda

8. Balgovind Sharma, Jaipur

9. Mahesh Dev, Nandod-Dungarpur

10. Chetan Patidar, Jasela-Dungarpur

11. Rakesh Upadhyay, Partapur

12. Bhupesh Triwedi, Banswara

13. Yogendra Purohit, Bikaner

14. A Collabrative performance by Lochan Upadhyay,Baroda and pijush patra, Baroda

Vagad Project I: A Metamorphosis from Rural to Urban, Partapur

2008-03-26T04:17:00.000-07:00

Date - 15 March - 26 March 2003

Site - Partapur and Navapadar

Particepate Artist

1. Chintan Upadhyay, Mumbai

2. Rekha Sharma, Jaipur
Medium- Grsass,Wood

3. Manish Sharma, Jaipur

4. Yatin Upadhyay, Banswara
A performance Perform on Dry Pound Site - Adevera Pound,Garhi-Bori

5. Malisa Water, Australia
Site - Navapadar Village

6. Shiv Kumar Gandhi, Jaipur
"Between A Few Miles " Video

7. Camille, Switzerland

8. Lochan Upadhyay, Baroda
Medium- Iron Site- Bori

9. Ashutosh Apte, Mumbai
Performance

10. Suresh Parashar, Baroda

11. Dr. Vidyasagar Upadhyay, Jaipur