"The Undivided Mind-II" the second edition of the Art & Science Residency exhibition at KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 11am-7pm on 13th & 14th April 2015
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"The Undivided Mind-II" the second edition of the Art & Science Residency exhibition
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KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
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The second edition features Jaden Hastings (USA), Lalinthorn Phencharoen (Thailand), Paribartana Mohanty (Delhi) and Shreyasi Kar & Bidisha Das (Bangalore) who has explored the crossover between art and science by creating a diverse laboratory where sound, video, text, drawing, biology, physics and chemistry co-exist.
Jaden Hastings (Portland, USA) calls herself a “bio-hacker” and is a bio-medical researcher with multiple Science degrees and also a degree in Fine Arts. She says: “Bio-hacking is a movement that aims to demystify biotechnology, increase awareness and contextualise its potential to a wide audience outside of professional labs – allows the artist, and the common citizen, to not only participate in, but also critically evaluate, the contemporary state of scientific research. I want to reinforce that scientific research and experiment can take place outside of fancy institutions and without expensive equipment.”
“For this residency at Khoj, I have used my blood (stains on glass slides) mixed with pigments and metallic oxides. Once projected on Giclee prints, they look like abstract art imagery. There will also be a video showing the movement of blood cells played to self-composed music. This is to interpret that protein cells are unique to each one of us, almost like a metaphor of our life cycle. This is in tune with my previous hacks such as ‘decellularisation’ or holographic projection of scientific data.” She carried around the world with herself a blue ribbon printed with the Genome sequence of the first tree to be sequenced by science. In Delhi, she tied this ribbon around some trees in Sanjay Van in an attempt “to bind the world through science and art”.
Lalinthorn Phencharoen (Bangkok, Thailand) has a BFA in Fine Arts and has been working in dual professions, as an art theory instructor in Silpakorn University and an artist. Interested in the relation of art and science, she especially creates artworks with combination of essences from both sides of the brain, rational and irrational or objective and subjective conditions. Her artworks are base on conceptual drawings, reflecting negative human behaviors in society. The drawings are executed with traditional techniques, e.g., ink, silverpoint and graphite on paper, trying to imitate (appropriate) classic scientific and medical illustrations.
She says: “My work ‘LALINLAB’ is an installation that portrays my ideas and methodologies through documentation of myself, or my story, simultaneously Using text, scientific drawings, specimens of earth and water collected from around Khoj, are part of my laboratory.”
Paribartana Mohanty is a New Delhi-based artist working in multiple mediums of video, performance and painting. At Khoj, he has created a video titled The Miniaturist which takes its reference from the famous physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer reciting shlokas from the Bhagavad-Gita in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust. Mohanty calls a physicist a ‘miniaturist’ who can see beauty on the smallest detail – in this case, the atom. “The scientist is performing as a victim but also carrying a sense of guilt, which makes his performance more complex. Sometimes it seems Oppenheimer is searching a way out from his trauma by reciting the spiritual text, but simultaneously defending or justifying the evil atomic experiment and violence on the basis of dharma and karma, alluding with what Krishna suggested to Arjuna.”
“I want to take the video documentation as raw material to think and work further. What will happen if people are asked to perform like Oppenheimer in front of the camera? And what is to read and recite a text like Bhagwat Gita? Hence, the project will focus on “reciting” as a performative action.” To do this, he has invited friends to rewrite the text from Gita which will be used as part of the video and has also juxtaposed images of destruction post the nuclear bombing with images of ancient civilization sourced from Hiroshima Museum, Japan and National Museum, Delhi respectively.
Shreyasi Kar & Bidisha Das (Bangalore, India) are collaborating to create an eclectic laboratory that has several mini-labs inside it – a bio lab, an electronics lab, a sound lab, a photo lab, all using plants as the basis of experimentation. They say: “Our aim is to explore the relationship between man and nature and reflect on how plants react to human environment. Our current work is inspired by the work of the polymath J.C Bose, we would like to use Bose’s experiments with plants as a starting point for our own experiments. Using simple electronic devices, which can be built in a community setting, we will construct a public laboratory in which we will attempt to open a sonic communication channel with plants and later expand our instruments to include other non-human actors.”
Surely when art and science come together, we can see what lies beyond our sight.
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Entry : Free
Venue : KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
Area : Saket
Event Description : Khoj presents "The Undivided Mind-II" the second edition of the Art & Science Residency exhibition.
The second edition features Jaden Hastings (USA), Lalinthorn Phencharoen (Thailand), Paribartana Mohanty (Delhi) and Shreyasi Kar & Bidisha Das (Bangalore) who has explored the crossover between art and science by creating a diverse laboratory where sound, video, text, drawing, biology, physics and chemistry co-exist.
Jaden Hastings (Portland, USA) calls herself a “bio-hacker” and is a bio-medical researcher with multiple Science degrees and also a degree in Fine Arts. She says: “Bio-hacking is a movement that aims to demystify biotechnology, increase awareness and contextualise its potential to a wide audience outside of professional labs – allows the artist, and the common citizen, to not only participate in, but also critically evaluate, the contemporary state of scientific research. I want to reinforce that scientific research and experiment can take place outside of fancy institutions and without expensive equipment.”
“For this residency at Khoj, I have used my blood (stains on glass slides) mixed with pigments and metallic oxides. Once projected on Giclee prints, they look like abstract art imagery. There will also be a video showing the movement of blood cells played to self-composed music. This is to interpret that protein cells are unique to each one of us, almost like a metaphor of our life cycle. This is in tune with my previous hacks such as ‘decellularisation’ or holographic projection of scientific data.” She carried around the world with herself a blue ribbon printed with the Genome sequence of the first tree to be sequenced by science. In Delhi, she tied this ribbon around some trees in Sanjay Van in an attempt “to bind the world through science and art”.
Lalinthorn Phencharoen (Bangkok, Thailand) has a BFA in Fine Arts and has been working in dual professions, as an art theory instructor in Silpakorn University and an artist. Interested in the relation of art and science, she especially creates artworks with combination of essences from both sides of the brain, rational and irrational or objective and subjective conditions. Her artworks are base on conceptual drawings, reflecting negative human behaviors in society. The drawings are executed with traditional techniques, e.g., ink, silverpoint and graphite on paper, trying to imitate (appropriate) classic scientific and medical illustrations.
She says: “My work ‘LALINLAB’ is an installation that portrays my ideas and methodologies through documentation of myself, or my story, simultaneously Using text, scientific drawings, specimens of earth and water collected from around Khoj, are part of my laboratory.”
Paribartana Mohanty is a New Delhi-based artist working in multiple mediums of video, performance and painting. At Khoj, he has created a video titled The Miniaturist which takes its reference from the famous physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer reciting shlokas from the Bhagavad-Gita in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust. Mohanty calls a physicist a ‘miniaturist’ who can see beauty on the smallest detail – in this case, the atom. “The scientist is performing as a victim but also carrying a sense of guilt, which makes his performance more complex. Sometimes it seems Oppenheimer is searching a way out from his trauma by reciting the spiritual text, but simultaneously defending or justifying the evil atomic experiment and violence on the basis of dharma and karma, alluding with what Krishna suggested to Arjuna.”
“I want to take the video documentation as raw material to think and work further. What will happen if people are asked to perform like Oppenheimer in front of the camera? And what is to read and recite a text like Bhagwat Gita? Hence, the project will focus on “reciting” as a performative action.” To do this, he has invited friends to rewrite the text from Gita which will be used as part of the video and has also juxtaposed images of destruction post the nuclear bombing with images of ancient civilization sourced from Hiroshima Museum, Japan and National Museum, Delhi respectively.
Shreyasi Kar & Bidisha Das (Bangalore, India) are collaborating to create an eclectic laboratory that has several mini-labs inside it – a bio lab, an electronics lab, a sound lab, a photo lab, all using plants as the basis of experimentation. They say: “Our aim is to explore the relationship between man and nature and reflect on how plants react to human environment. Our current work is inspired by the work of the polymath J.C Bose, we would like to use Bose’s experiments with plants as a starting point for our own experiments. Using simple electronic devices, which can be built in a community setting, we will construct a public laboratory in which we will attempt to open a sonic communication channel with plants and later expand our instruments to include other non-human actors.”
Surely when art and science come together, we can see what lies beyond our sight.
"The Undivided Mind-II" the second edition of the Art & Science Residency exhibition at KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 11am-7pm on 13th & 14th April 2015
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