Navgunjar by Vishal K Dar in collaboration with Experiential Design Lab
22 August, 7.00 to 10.00 p.m.

A project where the main façade of the British Council building is used as a canvas, illuminated with a large scale projection and synthesized with human presence and interaction.

Real-time tracking through camera-capture of the visitor creates this parallel projected 'avatar' on the facade (screen mounted in the middle aperture). This 'avatar' (silhouette of the person) involves itself with the presently populated field of animals spirits in plenty (rooster, peacock, snake, bull, lion, tiger, elephant, horse).

Depending on the speed of movement and stillness, the animal spirits move towards the human 'avatar'. When a human 'avatar' has 8 different animals attached to it, it becomes the 'nav-gunjar'. This triggers off a various animated clips that present the condition of our relationship with other living creatures.

The project found its inspiration in the mural on the facade of the building (that of a living tree), located on one of the busiest boulevards of the city, desires to express a relational diagram between 'live' art and architecture.  

The experience enmeshes mythology, sustainability, gaming on an urban level by using the architecture as a canvas.

PAD.MA initiated by Chitrakarkhana/CAMP, Majlis, Point of View (Mumbai),
oil21.org (Berlin) and the Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore)
22 August 2009, 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.

Pad.ma- short for Public Access Digital Media Archive - is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films.

The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non- commercial use.

It is seen as a way of opening up a set of images, intentions and effects present in video footage, resources that conventions of video- making, editing and spectatorship have tended to suppress. This expanded treatment then points to other, political potentials for such material, and leads us into lesser-known territory for video itself... beyond the finite documentary film or the online video clip.

HAWKERS KI JAGAH (a place for Hawkers) by Rashmi Kaleka
22 August, 2009, 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.

The ongoing project of recording the hawkers started four years ago, particularly in and around Delhi. The sound installation is a celebration of the many voices of Delhi street hawkers. The voices are allied to the rhythms of our daily lives. Individual criers are differentiated by their attitudes reflected in their manner of hawking. One single empty street at dawn is projected to focus our attention as the hawkers’ voices singly and collectively in a chorus evoke a human soundscape.