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B.Ajay Sharma In Collaboration
With
Arfaaz Kagalwala (Fuzzy Logic)

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History proceeds by its bad side. The battle for
the design of the 21st century has begun. Freedoms,
institutions and alliances are under assault by
populism, nationalism and fascism, with no sign of
deceleration in the near future.
E-flux architecture - closing editorial
Http://www.e-flux.com/architecture//97579/closing-
editorial/

























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Nature of performance




Performance mode collaboration and collective intervention
with local people, incorporating storytelling and sound
Collaboration with the musician Arfaaz Kagalwala, field
recording, and light projection
yoga and pranayama - through this process I will become aware
of my breath and body as well existential duality.
Performance idea by - b. Ajay sharma
Collaborator - Arfaaz Kagalwala and others

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CONCEPT NOTE




I would like to share a few different aspects of the process that I will
experience with people, space, and country. This builds on my last work,
the whole land shall be a desolation a collaborative project with Future
Collaborations.
https://2bajaysharma.wordpress.com/category/futurecollaborations/

I use these allegoric images to understand the displacement of people from


different states and neighboring countries; Tibet, Nepal, Iran, Russia, and
Bangladesh. Even within India, displacement happens due to in search of job,
surviving life, religion, cast, race and skin.

In India, religion and populism are being used by the right wing to create a
utopian ideal of one national identity in the name of patriotism.
The idea of one nation race and religion is reinforced with different
actions; storytelling and the way people dress to confirm identity.
My first idea of working on this performance is where i collaborate with
children and make stories of their favorite objects and use alternative
photography cyanotype prints to tell the story of their experience.

I then took a wider perspective to collaborate with others, extend the idea
of performance, intervention, and develop different imagery representing the
utopian idea of motherland, politics, and displacement.
This perspective means I can play with the performative individual
experience, and the notion of different ideas and imagery of time.

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My work creates a paradoxical paradigm,
where I try to reflect the time what we

are facing and changes in the name of
boundaries, religions, race,
nationality, patriotism, cast politics
and freedom in our country. These all
drive to some utopian idea.
I use this imagery to create a visual
and experiential notion of time and
social reflection. Which in turn is a
kind of visual code to understand the
situation and our time.























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I will use my yoga practice to conceptualize how this philosophy


works to unite different people and places. Yoga will guide or
transform the action of bringing everyone together.
In India several political / spiritual organizations are using this
conceptual core for their own purposes to mold the mind of people.

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Reference Of Dress
Design MOTHERLAND AND OTHER STORIES






A key foundation of yoga thought is that we
must move easily, and the dress design reflects
this. This movement will allow me to practice
various yoga forms in a more playful and
constructive way. The dress will also have an
historical trace of religion as it reflects
aspects of Sufi and catholic religious dress.
The extended cloth on the head references Hindu
Brahmanical.




In Collaboration With -Khurshid Alam
(Tailor )

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Process And Methodology
Performance have different
layer. So I, divide it in three
parts
1.) I am making dress for
performance which is part of
lance base performance where I
ask some one to collaborate in
that to perform in different
land scape, I am making
photography with that.

2) I am doing video in India


that is not clear to me now but
I have idea to execute.
3) Final performance where I
wanted to execute in gallery or performance space where
performance happened. Again there is tow layer of it a.)
I will work with different people and tech them the
breathing system and basic yoga since one week. After
that I will take them different place or part of city and
make them to act in there won in respect of body and
their action. Develop story with each individual.
Final performance will part of gallery space or any
other. (It depends on intuition. My respond on the
present of place, historical reference all guide me to
explore the possibility of movement.
3) This particular performance, I am collaborating with
musing areas kagalewal we both developing sound and field
recording sound, where it is
one of significant part of
performance and body gesture.
Responding with motion, feel,
word and story,
Requirement few sound system
basic
For that I will tech people to
Swaryoga And Hatyagoa bit of
meditation
Anybody will interest they will
join but not more the 10 people


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B.AJAY SHARMA
https://2bajaysharma.wordpress.com
https://vimeo.com/user19281998
Arfaaz Kagalwala (FUZZY LOGIC)
www.arfaaz.com
www.soundcloud.com/arfaaz

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