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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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MOTHERLAND AND OTHER STORIES
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/
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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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.
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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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