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By Prayas Abhinav Tuesday December 1, 2009

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Madhu D’s project at CitySpinning was shown at the 1 shanthi road gallery on the 28th and 29th (November 09).

The show, called “City At Siege” was a part of Suresh Jayram’s curatorial programme on art engaging with issues around …

Madhu D @ CitySpinning: walking through change and resistance

By Prayas Abhinav Thursday November 26, 2009

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Madhu .D was away from Bangalore for six months and when he returned he couldn’t recognize his city. “The accelerated change and erasures are inevitable here, the city seems like a construction site, a battle ground of change and …

Reciprocating Memories: invited projects at the POROUS CITY site in Thippasandra

By Prayas Abhinav Sunday September 20, 2009

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Porous City @ Thippasandra invited artists and architects from Bangalore to respond to the site with project concepts. The following projects were developed across conversations with the artists, relating their projects to the space, context and the curatorial theme (to …

Rewind Replay, playing forgotten games, 3rd-9th September 09

By Prayas Abhinav Thursday September 10, 2009

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The idea for Rewind Replay was shared by Deepak Srinivasan at Maraa and Rashmi Gopal. Deepak took me along to meet Rashmi and after talking, playing and drinking tea together, we decided to host these playing sessions.

Then Meeta and …

CitySpinning in Time Out Bangalore, August 09

By Prayas Abhinav Wednesday September 2, 2009

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The current issue of Time Out Bangalore carries a story by Jaideep Sen on the numerous community-art projects in the city which engage with public spaces in different ways. It features a lot of CitySpinning‘s ongoing work, especially the …

Mathinahalli: Playing With Stories, a festival of exchange from 26-30 August 09

By Prayas Abhinav Wednesday August 26, 2009

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WHEN: 26-30th August 09

Mathinahalli: playing with stories was a festival of exchange and mutual gestures designed to document the neighbourhood’s stories about childhood, play and the city at large. These stories will help in capturing the evolution and dynamism …

Eating Value: exchange economics in the neighbourhood

By Prayas Abhinav Tuesday August 25, 2009

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The Eating Value workshop happened at the Porous City camp at a construction site in Thippasandra. Eating Value was a way of opening up concepts of the economy, value and entrepreneurship for children through food, exchange and storytelling.

The workshop …

Stepping into Thippasandra, expanding the porous city

By Prayas Abhinav Thursday August 20, 2009

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The physical act of occupying a vacant construction site in a residential neighborhood is seen like setting up a basecamp in a forest,

ACT 1: cleaning, clearing

ACT 2: fencing, bridging

ACT 3: locating water and energy source

ACT 5: …

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