grazing - a curatorial project by akansha rastogi

7/28/2019 Grazing - A curatorial project by Akansha Rastogi

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Grazing is dratin. It treats te reader as a

grazer and eibitin space as a prairie.

It images a netwrk tat keeps cming pn

itself even after walking frter and frter

r fllws practices f rela t retrieve a new

distance eac time. A reminder f te instabilit f

an event. Te space f seeing sees itself, nt as

a reection but as a parasitical twin. It is calm but

eerie. Parasite is nt tside anmre bt inside,

and als a twin cnjined twin inseparable;

bt die if detaced.

I am tinking f a self-referential strctre tat

is an paqe metapr pretending t talk

abt smeting else, bt describes nl itself

demnstrates a perversit and an bscene

relatinsip wit images. Tis is te space were

translatin appens. And as te ptential

t create a cain f srrgates (sbstittes)

Event - Museumising the Cityscape of Mysore,

A Lectre b Janaki Nair

2nd Jne 2010, Wednesda, 6:30 pm

Smberikatte @ 1 Santirad, Bangalre

Dcmentatin b Sres Kmar Gpalredd

GrazinG

akansha rastoGiby

r were te separatin f te bd frm te

bodily happens and deles the bond of origin.

Sggestin f eventalit.

In si strctres f Grazing, te pastre

simlates te presenter, te presentatin and te

presentee. T view te state f viewing is a lss

f cntent. Mre imprtantl, a lss f speclative

sbject. Grazing is bilt n tis lacnae and tis

scraping alng te srface. Tese si strctres

can be anting tat ne sees, listens, reads, and

plas wit, brwses trg, steps nt, walks

trg, rests n r smeting wic is made

visible nl after certain cnditins are acieved.

Tis eibitin implies being ne wit te grnd

were ne rminates.


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FIELDING

Tese are events. Lcatins and Distribtins.

Fielding essas a state f agilit.

Swift canges in psitins.

Abt straing and craning te neck,

brwsing and cncentrating ccasinall.

Fickleness, aste, slipping and

missing, and stretcing f te and.

METhoDS (A)

Tese are prcessed images;

an eercise in mes-making.

T make visible a cnditin

a sense f disarra.

Packets/ fragments

ExhAuSTIoNis preparing a stage set r set f stages.

An event in cnstrctin;

strctral, in-bilt eastin.

Pints f rest. Caesra.

A qee t pass trg.

Tatlgical r stck at te pint f

departre.

Sggested stillness and mvement.

Tere is a Rmr tat tis is abt Bangalre

This exhibition eld, now grazing space is emptied

of all artistic content and re-lled with

new stretced - mediated relatinsips :between eibit, cratr, artist, te eibitin space

its cntent, its grazers, accessing, arciving, retrieving,

past events and dcmentatin as a frm.

Grazing is a cnceptal paradigm

tat delas an kind f arrivals

and prvkes te idea f lrking :

sing different strategies like apprpriatin,

imitatin, cptin, mediatin, b certain insertins

and displacements f several kinds.

A PRoTRuSIoN


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LuRKING

demands staing. A state f emplment.

T ld and keep lding.

Te ne w lrks is tied bt left lse.

And can mark te periper,accnt fr te inside and te tside better.

We wait.

There is atness in the way the glass encases

te bject, t beld.

Te ambs at nce feels warm and safe;

it als smells f te mment f breaking t.

ShAKINESS oF ThE GRouND

Bilt pn vlnerabilit and misnderstandings,

a srrgate, self-referential strctre.

Wit embedded erism in prtecting

its relatinsip wit reccle bins.

Crrptin / Virs.

Dangers mment - a perversit.

Invlves mltiple servers, seeding, leecing

- a ge netwrk sstem

\\An eercise in cmpreensin -

sggesting apprpriatin, giving cntrl, saring

and at te same time a wa f recalling,

f gatering f evidences and data cllectin.

DESKS: DuMMy CoNVERSATIoNS

Mics speaking t eac ter r t same

sbject.

Statements tied tgeter,

wit reading lens.

Parameters, descriptins, vcablar

An Ecange abt bilding, making and

rnning spaces.

Crllar.

Encnter in-between stream f data relaing,

nt te end pints in te prcess.

Natre f Material: TExTS statements, press-

cts, analsis, self-tgts, cnfessins and

qestins.


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Grazers,

here is an elevatin. Te step p t te platfrm leads t te pastres.

This prairie-eld an assembly,

an aggregatin,

a direct address,a staging.

Devised to slow down your pace.

It asks

Bilds cnditins f/fr viewing,

an interirit tat makes te space f seeing see itself.

Illstrates tis cntins mment,

your own alignment with the eld.

Intrdces t gestatins f reading and writing.

A reminder of the instability of an event

It is a state f mind;

tinking

time;

cewing.

A stillness desnt take frter. Dratin

It reiterates and retrieves sameness.

an epanded practice,

an eercise, cnnected t te srface.

Hosts a parasitical twin in its own body

cnjined, inseparable;

tat feeds n itself t srvive.

Artist-Participants:

Abhishek Hazra, Kiran Subbaiah and Prayas Abhinav

Tet Cprigt:

Akansha Rastogi

ZoNES oF CoNTACT, Prpsitin n te Msem

18t Janar 30t September 2013KNMA-NoIDA, Plt N. 3A, Sectr 126, Nida

grazing - a curatorial project by akansha rastogi

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