Art
The Artist, the Eco Warrior
Art, in the 2009 Celebrate Bandra Festival, will be used to sub serve the issue of climate change, highlighting some of its local problems.
We believe what we create of paramount importance, forgetting the responsibilities that are inherent in the process. We have created the all important gods of plenty, consumption and waste and now are faced with the destruction that follows the path of these gods.
Through its installation art, CB Art will strive to use the waste generated through our numerous creative efforts in all walks of life. The public character of installations will ensure a wider dialogue amongst our selves regarding this issue.
The effort is also to involve many sections of society, while providing a platform for the artist to understand the importance of waste managers like our rag pickers.
All the artists selected, will, at the core of their work, juggle with the thought of creation and the destruction that follows this very creation.
1. The ‘Bottle Fall’- concept and design by Minali Thakkar. This is a huge installation of hundreds of empty water bottles, descending dramatically, from the upper floors of the Mumbai Educational Trust, to the front lawn area, in Bandra Reclamation.
Title - ‘The Bottle Fall’
Concept Artist – Minali Thakar
Collaborators – Ali, MET Maintenance Staff, Waste recyclers
Location – Mumbai Educational Trust Facade
Time – 14th to 29th November
Medium – Waste Plastic Water Bottles
Concept Note – We are fast approaching an age, when our future generations will no longer know, what a water fall used to look like. There will be plastic and more plastic every where. It is not too far fetched to imagine, that they will think that bottled water is the only source of this resource.
2. The land mark Mount Mary steps’ risers will be painted by a number of artists providing an unusual canvass for their creativity. You will see one picture standing at the base of the steps and others as you climb them. Concept by Vidya Vaidya and Minali Thakkar
3. Similarly if permission is granted the Stanislaus school wall will once again be painted by the local school children.
4. The organization, ‘CRY’ will arrange an Open air paint and display activity for all our residents and users of the Band Stand promenade
5. Art by Courier – concept by Vidya Vaidya. A few Bandra based artists will lend their black and white work to be used by our courier services on their counterfoils for the 15 days of the festival.
6. Installation Art at the promenades – Participating artists –
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c. Pratap Morey
Title - Perish the Imperishable
Artist - Pratap Morey Collaborators - Nilesh Vishwakarma, Shalaka Patil, amar, Milind, Mangesh, Kundan, Gaurav, Omkar.
Location - Clock Tower area, Carter Road Promenade Time - 14th to 29th Nov
Concept note - A lot of plastic glasses are used to drink water in malls, multiplexes and public functions. Whenever I use a plastic glass & throw it in the bin after one single use, something pricks my conscience. I understand the hygiene issue, behind the single use of these glasses. But I feel, we, including myself, are not conscious enough, about the amount of plastic dumped in the ecosystem. I have fused two plastics & put images of people drinking water inside it. Our quest for hygiene is proving to be the down fall of our environment. However, on the contrary I like the visual effect of a lot of plastic glasses thrown together. The wind chime structure is made up of these glasses. As a wind chimes throws positive vibes, my wind chimes will generate visual vibes of the amount of plastic we use.
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e. Palak Raval
Title - ‘We are the ones’
Artist – Palak Rawal
Medium – Fish Drying Lines
Concept Note - We are used to the sight of this structure used by fishermen, to dry their fish. It’s a prominent feature in all our fishing villages. I have used it here, as people can easily relate to it.
Hanging from that structure, these hands are our hands. It can be your hand or mine. The hand is our presence every where in place of the other creatures of the sea. Our voracious appetites have ensured the destruction of sea life all over the world. We humans are responsible for the pollution that sea is facing today. Our hands are the ones throwing litter, waste and other rubbish on the shore. And unable to hold it, the sea throws it back in our faces on our shores.
This installation, an attempt to create an awareness of our foot print in this polluted world. Soon, it is going to be too late and we face the work of millions of such hands.
f. Nilesh Kinkale
Title - ‘The Bag’
Artist - Nilesh Kinkale
Medium - Polythene bags
Concept Note -
My current installation is a humungous Polythene Bag, a composite of many, amongst the mangroves. These are the remnants of the personal agencies corroding our environment through their activities. The in-your-face presence of the mass consumer culture is the structuring myth of our lives.
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h. Pratap More
Title -‘Wish Balls’
Artist - Pratap More
Medium - Recycled Plastic Mineral Water Bottles
Concept Note - We have stopped our millennia old intuitive interaction with nature, stopped thinking of our impact, on nature and each other. As an affected artist, I thought of using and making these ‘Wish Balls’ to highlight our plight.
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l. Gautam Patole
Title – ‘The Green Man’
Artist – Gautam Patole
Collaborators – Chotubhai Mavani the furnace owner, Vaibhav Devrukhkar, Rupali Madan
Location – Clock Tower area, Carter Road Promenade
Time – 17th to 29th November
Medium – Tuborg beer bottles
Concept Note – A reinterpretation of bottle trash. A melting green man, a metaphor for our disappearing greens.
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n. Sandeep Paradkar
Title -‘Wish Balls’
Artist - Sandeep Paradkar
Collaboraters – Advance and Diploma Students of Vasai Art School
Location – Clock Tower area, Carter Road Promenade
Time – 14th to 29th November
Medium - Recycled Plastic Mineral Water Bottles
Concept Note - We have stopped our millennia old intuitive interaction with nature, stopped thinking of our impact, on it and each other. As an affected artist, I thought of using and making these ‘Wish Balls’ to highlight our plight.
o. Milind Thakur
Title -‘The Illusion’
Artist – Milind Thakur
Collaborators – Pravin Salunke, Pradeep Pal
Location – Clock Tower area, Carter Road Promenade
Time – 14th to 29th November
Medium – Chalk on Stone
Concept – The creation of this illusion of space and its attraction is similar to the illusions we face in our daily life and our ever pressing environment issues. Though, of course, the pure enjoyment of this illusion, is also my motive, for painting it.
p. Vineet Bhatt
Title – ‘Umbrella’
Artist – Vineet Bhatt
Collaborators – Haider Ali,
Location – Clock Tower area, Carter Road Promenade
Time – 17th to 29th November
Medium – Metal wires
Concept Note – The skeleton of the umbrella without the cloth is used here as a metaphor for the loss of our ozone layer, our shield against harmful ultra-violet radiation. This installation brings to light one of the foremost pressing environmental issues of our time.
q..Students of Vasai College
Title – Trash Island
Artists – Advance and Diploma students of Vasai School of Art.
Location – Band Stand Promenade
Time – 14th to 29th Nov
Concept - A lot of trash basically comprising of plastic & thermacol was seen near the Bandra sea shore. Much of this trash that lands on the sea shore comes from miles away, floating on the sea currents. This is a huge monster heap of thermacol trash nearly 12 to15 ft in diameter, floating on the sea. A huge ball of trash sourced out of our band Stand sea shore. If possible we would like to add to this ball of trash each day, a small replica of the huge and terrifying trash island floating on the Pacific oceans called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ measuring twice the size of the Texas state of USA.
7. The world renowned Video and Installation artist Shilpa Gupta is showcasing one of her interactive video projections at the Carter road promenade.
Title - Shadow 3
Artist – Shilpa Gupta
Location – Behind Carter Road Promenade Stage
Time – 26th to 29th Nov
Concept - An interactive video art projection incorporating the viewer's simulated shadow.
8. Community service- Reaching out to our community helpers- concept by Vidya Vaidya, designed by Minali Thakkar.
a. An interactive clay workshop will be held at the Bandra Traffic chowky under the fly over for our Traffic Police. It’s a therapeutic workshop conducted by eminent ceramic artists Priya Patil & Rekha Goel
b. Rest rooms of the BEST staff at the Bandra Station bus depot and our local Police Station will be painted by artist and the staff during the festival period.