Proposals

Initial proposals that lead to collaborative interventions running in parallel on the streets of Bangalore city.

Ana Paula Albé

Home_Street_Home

What makes you feel fear in public spaces? //

What makes you feel safe in private spaces? //

What makes you feel fear in privates spaces? //

What makes you feel safe in public spaces?

The project is about self expression trough disposable cameras.

I invite 15 people to look for fear and safe in different spaces.

15 different points of view about self expression, fear, safe, and how it is related to public and private spaces.

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We make an image through the reality that we see
The photo is, by itself, the reflex of a reality
How much reality has on the images that we produce?
Is the image that I see the reflex of what I want to see?
Is it the reflex of what the photographer saw or wanted to see?
The reflex, as the image in the mirror, is the inversion of the reality itself.
The photo that I see would be, then, my version to that version created by the photographer that is, from the begining, an inversion of what we see through the naked eyes.
How much of what we see is real, shows the real?
The image is an open message, waiting the reciver to complement it, or to decipher it.

Karoline H. Larsen

Free of Fear

Invitation to do ARCHI-PUNCTURE on Bangalore - LET’S TRANSFORM ARCHITECTURAL AND SOCIAL SPACE OF BANGALORE

1….Go in the city. Move yourself/group in a different way than you are used to moving through the city space.

Move yourself/group bodily/emotionally/socially in connection to the existing elements (e.g lamppost, tree, bench, bike..) and existing places (e.g. park, bus, building, pavement, shopping mall) and move in a way which is new for you. Feel free to add materials (e.g. clothing, recycle-stuff, string, clay, drawing) to underline the movement. Relate to a minimum of 3 varied places/elements in the city.

2…Go in the city. Use the city elements/places in a way that you/the group are not used to do.
Feel free to add materials (e.g. electronic devices, mobile phones, recycle materials, wood, bus tickets, clothes, pencil, feather, clay, etc) to extend/broaden the/your usual use of the existing city elements/places. Relate to a minimum of 3 varied places/elements in the city.

For both proposals - * Invite by-passers to join ‘the movement or new use of the city’. Maybe they come up with more ways…
It is not so important whether or not you make people join, it is more important to show your positive intention and ‘invitation’ to get connected.
* Document the proces, e.g. a drawing or photo or video, and write a short statement (5-10 lines) on what you investigated and experienced.

The documentation will be uploaded to
http://www.creativeactions.com/BANGALORE_2008/index.html

Documentation of earlier creative actions performed in Delhi can be viewed here: http://www.creativeactions.com/delhi/index.html

Liz Kueneke

Bangalore’s Urban Fabric

Liz Kueneke investigates the relationship that people have with their environment. For this project she has embroidered a map of the center of Bangalore. This map will be taken to different public spaces and stretched onto a foldable embroidery table. Passersby will be asked different questions about their city, and they will respond by sewing simple symbols into the map. Examples of questions are: “Where do you live?”, “What is a building/space which is positive/negative for the community?” “Where would you (not) go alone?”, “Which place would you like to cheer up or give some color to?”, and “Where is a place that doesn´t exist anymore that you wish was still there?”. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Previous phases of this project have been done in Barcelona and New York City, and she will also realize the project in Morocco and Ecuador in 2009. In the end, materials and documentation from all 5 continents will be shown.

The schedule of locations and times of interventions can be found on the “Schedule” page. If you are interested in coming to participate, please call Liz to confirm the venue and time: 9743821759.

A description of the project is available here: www.peacexpeace.org
Photos of the interventions in Spain and the United States are at her website: www.hangar.org/gallery/lizkueneke

Richard Widerberg

Sonic safety and fear

I want to investigate fear and gender in the public spaces of Bangalore from a sonic perspective. I am interested to know how a safe or unsafe space sounds? What sounds are there in these spaces? Can sounds be added or taken away to change the experience of the space regarding the theme? What is the relationship between silence, noise, safety and fear? I will investigate this with activities such as making soundwalks, recordings, interviews etc and in the end make a soundmap and one or more soundscape-composition.

Archana Prasad
Transforming Spaces through Performance Sonic-Video Art

This is a collaborative effort between Ricard Widerberg, Jutin Vidyarthi (Sonic Artists) and I as a Performance Video Artist. We plan to transform a chosen public space to create awareness and perhaps even a spirit of questioning amidst the pedestrians present, through a live performance of mixing and projecting videos and sounds. We will do this intervention in a space that ideally epitomizes Bangalore’s rapid growth, change and development - for example in an unused underground pedestrian walkway or at a construction site. Through this we hope to initiate and facilitate a dialog between the people of the city and the city itself.

Letter to the MD of Namma Metro/CPRO requesting the use of the underground walkway in Shivajinagar


Vera Maeder

Performative Tour

I would appreciate very much to collaborate with 4 to 6 artists or art
students from Bangalore/other places in India and
work on a more or less daily base between 3 and 6 hours a day.
My plan is to introduce working methods that we developed in our work with
performative travels - guided tours in public space, that focus on
faciltiating new ways of relating to ones environment. To explore on that
background gender specific behaviourisms, invisible and visible
borderlines in public space.to work on a sensibilisation of bodily and
kinesthetic knowledge. From there, to develop and intervene with
structures, that awaken a physical knowledge and facilitate different
relations and ways of acting. The form of those could be everything
ranging from the use of visual objects, to actions or sms chains.
At first, it could be singular elements, that - if time allows , can be
woven into a sequence for a participant to experience.

Vinayak Das

Off-limits

The city’s public spaces are for everyone - at least they should be. However there are areas in our city which are off limits to women. This is not determined by law but by fear. There are certain roads, paan-beedi shops, some bars, some chai shops where women do not feel comfortable to venture out. Fear of being molested, commented on or even being seen as ‘non’-respectable women plays a big part in how a woman conducts herself in the public space. As part of the Fear and Gender workshops I train my lenses on such spaces in the city and try to bring out the essence of how fear and gender play a big part in the city’s spaces.