Pallavi Chander
Artist and Creative Arts Therapist
Theatre Jam
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Taking arts to the people by using dead and unused public spaces in the city.
Painting the city walls
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Painting on city walls and streets acts not just as a form of expression but resistance as well. These are some of the art projects carried out in public spaces, most of them were done in collaboration with other artists and organisations, like October Jam and The Tree Festival.
Fear and Gender
The project was to identify safe spaces within personal and public spaces. The porject was in collaboration with Brazalian visual artist Ana Paula, Srishti Art and Design school and Maraa.
Disposable Cameras…
Connect…n click!!
Spaces that are safe
Spaces of fear…
Warm..n cold
Black or white…maybe just grey!!
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Art - Collaborative work
Over my years as a student of the arts, I felt there was a need to make art that was 'responsible' rather than art that was merely pretty. The premeditated content prescribed within the walls of the university seemed quit obsolete. The peering eye made a bunch of us jump beyond for inspiration and mentors. There began my journey in understanding the arts beyond the self. 'Arts in Activism': The first few interactions began with local campaigns and movements. It became imperative to respond with creative means to the troublesome situations. It began with making posters, banners, masks and performing on streets to inform the public of the happenings within their own city. To name a few - 'Fear and Gender', ‘October Jam’ - taking the arts to the people' and ‘Painting the City walls’
In 2010, after a mall was built on the Sampige road, there were threats to cut down the sampige trees as it blocked signage and advertisements of the mall. A silent public intervention was staged to inform the locals and intervene by creating posters of resistance on the streets. These cloth banners were put up on the trees in full view of mall-goers and the locals.
children who stopped to paint and wonder.
In 2010, after a mall was built on the Sampige road, there were threats to cut down the sampige trees as it blocked signage and advertisements of the mall. A silent public intervention was staged to inform the locals and intervene by creating posters of resistance on the streets. These cloth banners were put up on the trees in full view of mall-goers and the locals.