"Waking From Dreams of India" an illustrated talk by Neil Chowdhury at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP > 6:30pm on 29th December 2011
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : “Waking From Dreams of India” an illustrated talk by Neil Chowdhury.
This work tells the story of my lifelong dream of exploring India, the land of my father's birth. He died without telling me much about the culture in which he grew up or his early life there. Growing up in the United States, isolated from Indian culture fostered the cultivation of imaginative fantasy about the land of my ancestry. My knowledge of Indiaripened from exoticized Western media accounts. None of this prepared me for the masala mix of complexity, misery and beauty of contemporary Indiathat I finally had the opportunity to see for myself. Having now made several trips, and collected a wealth of photographic images, videotape, and journal writings, I am shaping this material into a body of work that connects and contrasts my youthful fantasies of Indiawith my adult experience building a relationship with the land of my ancestry. With this work, I hope to symbolize the merging of my experience of the place with the expectations I carried for half a lifetime.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' ( Yellow Line and Blue Line )
Event Details : “Waking From Dreams of India” an illustrated talk by Neil Chowdhury.
This work tells the story of my lifelong dream of exploring India, the land of my father's birth. He died without telling me much about the culture in which he grew up or his early life there. Growing up in the United States, isolated from Indian culture fostered the cultivation of imaginative fantasy about the land of my ancestry. My knowledge of Indiaripened from exoticized Western media accounts. None of this prepared me for the masala mix of complexity, misery and beauty of contemporary Indiathat I finally had the opportunity to see for myself. Having now made several trips, and collected a wealth of photographic images, videotape, and journal writings, I am shaping this material into a body of work that connects and contrasts my youthful fantasies of Indiawith my adult experience building a relationship with the land of my ancestry. With this work, I hope to symbolize the merging of my experience of the place with the expectations I carried for half a lifetime.
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"Waking From Dreams of India" an illustrated talk by Neil Chowdhury at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, CP > 6:30pm on 29th December 2011
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