[IMC Bombay] Aar Paar 2: Mumbai and Karachi

[PUKAR @ IndyMedia]

 From Shilpa Gupta <shilpagupta@hotmail.com>

<http://www.members.tripod.com/aarpaar2/>http://www.members.tripod.com/aarpaar2/
Aar Paar 2 - a public art exchange project between India and Pakistan

Aar Paar 2000 was a project in which artists from Karachi and Mumbai, 
made work which was swapped between the two cities and shown in 
public spaces: roadside eating places , paan shops etc. The idea of 
intervening in the city was to encourage an alternative audience, 
extend viewership of art, to not exclusively an "art" audience, but 
incidental viewing and sharing of work by artists, in places where 
spontaneous interaction between people occurs.

Aar Paar 2  took place in July and August 2002  in which ten artists 
from each city, developed works which were printed locally and 
inserted into public spaces in Mumbai and Karachi simultaneously: by 
plastering on city walls, distributing these as folded leaflets at 
traffic lights across the city, or something which enters people's 
homes with their morning newspaper. A short, targeted, intervention: 
less 'incidental' , less 'subtle' than before, more obtrusive.

Artists
 From Pakistan are Asma Mundrawala,  Danish Ahmed, David Alesworth, 
Huma Mulji, Imran Qureshi, Munawar Ali, Naiza Khan, Quddus Mirza, 
Rashid Raana, Roohi Ahmed, Sumaira Tazeen and a collaboration by 
A.Adil, A.Madani, M.Sohail and F. Hussain.

 From India are, Jitish Kallat, Kausik Mukhapadhya,  N. S. Harsha, 
Riyas Komu,  Sharmila Samant,  Shilpa Gupta and Tushar Joag and 
Jaishri Abichandani, USA and Shez Dawood, UK

July - August 2002 (ongoing) | Organised by Shilpa Gupta & Huma Mulji

The project has been documented at 
<http://www.members.tripod.com/aarpaar2/>http://www.members.tripod.com/aarpaar2/. 
The posters are also on display at the Pavement Art Gallery in Kala 
Ghoda during Reclaim Our Freedom Week, organised by Open Circle Arts 
Trust from 6-15 August in Mumbai.
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