“Voice” featured in ‘The Pioneer’ (New Delhi)

The Pioneer (New Delhi Edition) published a feature on the “Voice” project on June 21, 2008. Its been written by Timsy Jaipuria.

“Voice” under the old Yamuna bridge

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

The old Yamuna bridge is a two-level bridge (one for railway, one for traffic). It has long been declared to have outlasted its life-time and it actually…

“Voice” @ Basant Lok market, Vasant Vihar

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

In a marketplace like Basant Lok, the perceived value of space (occupancy, advertising) being so high, this performance is a study of how this space is…

“Voice” at Majnu Ka Tila (Tibetan rehabilitation colony)

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

With this statement, I was responding to the way refugee communities under political asylum go through the process of re-creating their “place” in an alien country.…

“Voice”@ the informal settlements in the Okhla industrial estate

The message behind the jacket says: “Main ujala hun” (I am the light).

I was interested in performing there because no infrastructure exists in informal settlements like Okhla. Most of the streets are dark or lit up by privately set up…

"Voice"@ the informal settlements in the Okhla industrial estate

The message behind the jacket says: “Main ujala hun” (I am the light).

I was interested in performing there because no infrastructure exists in informal settlements like Okhla. Most of the streets are dark or lit up by privately set up…

CitySpinning @ Khoj (pictures)

(from left) prayas, attia, sandeep, nisha and manmeet

at work on the processing sketch for “Before I Visit Vidarbha” in my studio

putting up the photographs of my performance with the modular jacket for our “open studio”

 
one of the walls of the…

module for jacket: portable snack kit

The module (attached to the jacket in the picture below) is made from milk packets and cloth. Four pockets are sticked to a foam piece with velcro to stick to the jacket.

The four pockets can be used to sprout moong,…

“Voice” under the safdarjung flyover

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

the flyover doesn’t belong to the public works department (PWD)

the bedroom under the flyover

When I stood under and around the flyover, my jacket saying that “This space…

“Voice” @ the Parliament + Rashtrapati Bhavan

The message behind the jacket says: “Yeh meri jagah hai” (this is my place).

at the gates of the rashtrapati bhavan

walking in front of the north block

@ the north block parked in a “tow away zone”

the guard in front of the…