Saturday, December 18, 2010

Grand Opening of The Embassy of Love - Bangalore



Grand Opening of The Embassy of Love - Bangalore

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by

Markus Shimizu and Jeetin Rangher

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1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery
# 1, Shanthi Road, Shanthinagar, Bangalore- 560 027

His supreme Majesty Kaam Dev invites you to the opening of The Embassy of Love in Bangalore at 1 Shanthiroad.

The gallery will be an extra-territorial space, no longer under Indian jurisdiction. To gain entry to The Love Embassy and receive a visa for the Land of Love all visitors are requested to present their passports upon arrival. It is a requirement to come in your finest clothes.

Opening Sunday 19.12.2010
Inaugural pooja starts at 6 PM

Note: Bring your Passports or ID!
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About the Artists:

* Markus Shimizu is an artist based in Berlin, Germany.
* Jeetin Rangher is a Bangalore based installation and performance artist. He has completed his post-graduation from Bangalore University, 2009 and graduation from Ken school of Arts.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Grand Opening of The Embassy of Love - Bangalore



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Grand Opening of The Embassy of Love - Bangalore

by

Markus Shimizu and Jeetin Rangher

at

1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery
# 1, Shanthi Road, Shanthinagar, Bangalore- 560 027

His supreme Majesty Kaam Dev invites you to the opening of The Embassy of Love in Bangalore at 1 Shanthiroad.

The gallery will be an extra-territorial space, no longer under Indian jurisdiction. To gain entry to The Love Embassy and receive a visa for the Land of Love all visitors are requested to present their passports upon arrival. It is a requirement to come in your finest clothes.

Opening Sunday 19.12.2010
Inaugural pooja starts at 6 PM

Note: Bring your Passports or ID!
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About the Artists:

* Markus Shimizu is an artist based in Berlin, Germany.
* Jeetin Rangher is a Bangalore based installation and performance artist. He has completed his post-graduation from Bangalore University, 2009 and graduation from Ken school of Arts.

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Re-Look Lecture by Kajri Jain : The Handbag that exploded


Somberikatte @1 Shanthiroad
RE- LOOK: Lectures on Indian Art


The Handbag that Exploded:

Mayawati's Monuments and the Aesthetics of Democracy in Post-Reform India

a lecture by

Kajri Jain

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Art Historian, University of Toronto, Canada


Wednesday 15th December 2010, 6.30 pm

@ 1 Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

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The Handbag that Exploded:

Mayawati’s Monuments and the Aesthetics of Democracy in Post-Reform India


Ever since the Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati came into power as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh she has been at the centre of media controversy, most recently because of her massive drive to build monuments and statues of ‘Dalit icons’, including, notoriously, statues of herself holding her trademark handbag. The media coverage so far has largely represented majority public opinion as ‘infuriated and sickened’ at her profligate waste of public money on party propaganda and ‘self-aggrandizement’ rather than the material betterment of her constituency. To this opinion, propounded by right and left alike, is opposed the (almost exclusively Dalit) defence that Dalits have a legitimate claim to being represented in the same forms that have hitherto been available to others. The paper argues that aesthetic redistribution – in this case, the emergence of new forms of Dalit cultural expression – is neither ‘merely’ symbolic nor ‘essentially’ economic, but material/sensible in ways that speak to both culture and economy.


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Kajri Jain teaches in the Department of Visual Studies and the Graduate Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Her research is on image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between images, religion, and vernacular business cultures; she also teaches modern and contemporary Indian art and cinema. She is the author of Gods in the Bazaar: the Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Duke University Press, 2007), and is currently working on a book on the emergence of monumental iconic sculptures in contemporary India.


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*RE-LOOK - Lectures on Indian Art

This series of lectures will present exciting new research being done in the areas of art history, art practice and visual anthropology in India, each for the first time in Bengaluru. Distinguished art historians and academics will be invited to give illustrated papers on their recent work and interests. There will be a lecture every month, which will take place at the popular artist space 1. Shanthi Road, situated in the heart of the city.


*Somberikatte: is a Kannada word meaning idler’s platform - usually the platform around a large tree where people gather to gossip and exchange news. It is a fictional institution, sometimes a forum, sometimes a film production company or the name of a photo studio, used by the artist Pushpamala N.


*1.Shanthiroad:

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he Studio/Gallery at 1.Shanthiroad, Bangalore, is an independent artist run space for art residencies, slide lectures, small conferences, installations, performances, screenings and informal gatherings. Centrally located with an award winning design, it was initiated bySuresh Jayaram and is administered by a not-for-profit trust VAC – Visual Art Collective.


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Pushpamala N

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NOLLYWOODED : Nigerian Films Screening and Discussions



NOLLYWOODED : Nigerian Films Screening and Discussions

Sunday 12 Dec 5 pm
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Films:

5 pm ' This is Nollywood ' - Director: Franco Sacchi , 2007, 55 mins

6:30 pm ' Osuofia in London ' - Director/ Writer: Kingsley Ogoro , 2003, 105 mins

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Discussions

with: Zac O'Yeah, Vinayak Verma, Namita Malhotra, Prakash Belwadi, Sudarshan Purohit, Rakesh Khanna and Achal Prabhala
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"Gone to seed" by Timo Seber : Goethe Institut Bangalore Residency




"Gone to seed"

by Timo Seber

Opens on Saturday 11 Dec 2010, 6:30 pm
Continues on Sunday 12 Dec 10:30 am - 4 pm

@ 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore
#1, Shanthi Road, Shanthi Nagar, Bangalore- 560 053
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In 1967 the famous style observer Richard Blackwell, known for his vicious attacks on badly-dressed celebrities, claimed Barbra Streisand the worst dressed woman of the year:
"Today's flower child who has gone to seed in a cabbage patch."

In 2010 Timo Seber will show his exhibition "Gone to seed" at 1Shanthiroad.

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Timo Seber (*1984)
lives and works in Cologne, Germany

studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne







* This show is the outcome of Timo Seber's residency in 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery through the Goethe Institut, Bangalore.