Shaina Anand has been working on this project during the April Art and 
Activism discussion, and is one of our discussants.
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> PUBLIC / COMMUNITY / INTERVENTION / ART?
>
> APRIL 28, 29, 30, 2006
>
> KHOJ invites you to a three-day series of cross-disciplinary events; 
> presenting, debating and critiquing a series of artistic interventions 
> and satellite projects. Over the past month, these projects have 
> attempted to realize the potential for engaging in the domain of 
> public and community through artistic practice and dialogue.
>   
>  The three days will comprise of Open Studio Visits and a two-day 
> workshop focusing on public art, interventions in the public domain, 
> community art and community building in real and cyber space with an 
> aim to generate dialogue and discussion between practitioners/artists 
> and theorists.
>
>  Brief program:
>
> Friday, April 28, 6:30pm - Open Studio
> at Hotel Al Noor,  Old Delhi
>
> DILLI DUR AST A lens-based workshop: Walled City of Old Delhi.
>
> Supported by KHOJ, conceived and programmed by Gigi Scaria in
>  collaboration with Atul Bhalla and Himanshu Desai.
>  Performance by Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Hussain:
>
> Dastan Bol..a lost tradition of Urdu story telling
> Venue: Hotel Al Noor, Pahari Bhojla, Chitli Qabar,
>  Turkuman Gate, Delhi.
> (Facing Turkuman Gate, take the left lane,
>  and then take first right Al Noor is approximately
>   500 meters down the lane)
>
> contact  Gigi - 9350831504 / Atul –9350510770
>
> Saturday, April 29, 5:00pm - Open Studio and Screenings at KHOJ 
> Studios.
>
> KHIRKEEYAAN (Khirkee-Window / Yaan – Vehicle)
>
> Shaina Anand/chitrakarkhana. Filmmaker, media artist.
>  Artist-in-residence at the Khoj Studios through April)
>
> Khirkee-yaan is the exploration and employment of an open circuit TV 
> system as a network,
>  communication feedback and intervention device within Khirkee 
> environs.
> Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and media artist based in mumbai.
>  Founder of ChitraKarKhana (picture factory/artist food) a fully 
> independent unit for experimental media.
>  (http://www.chitrakarkhana.net)
> Saturday - Sunday, April 29-30,  10:00 am - 5:00pm at KHOJ Studios
>  WORKSHOP - PUBLIC / COMMUNITY / INTERVENTION / ART?
>
>   is a workshop designed to introduce, debate and discuss a series of
> projects that intervene in the domain of
>  public and community art. The two-day workshop
>  will consist of presentations by both practitioners and theorists,
>  in which the various projects/papers will be introduced following
>  which the floor will be open to debate.
>  Sessions will focus on both the conceptual
>  and practical aspects of working in the dynamic
>  and often problematic arenas of public/community.
>
> Speakers:
> Nishant Shah is a Junior Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study 
> of Culture and Society, Bangalore. Apart from his own Ph.D. research 
> in cybercultures, Nishant also works as a consultant and information 
> architect for many multinational companies and projects.
>  
> Rahul Srivastava   has studied anthropology at Mumbai, Delhi and 
> Cambridge (England).He taught sociology and anthropology for eight 
> years in Mumbai. He was the Director of PUKAR,
>   Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, Mumbai - where he 
> also
>   initiated the Neighbourhood Project - between 2002 and 2005.
>  
> Takahiro Noguchi   Based in Delhi, he recently completed a one-year 
> Fulbright fellowship
>  to study various public and emerging time-based arts in India and 
> their implications in a complex,
>  contemporary Indian culture.
>  
> Artists presenting works:-
>
> Aastha Chauhan: Khirkee ki Khoj    - Community Art in Khirkee
>
> Shaina Anand: Public media art and intervention.
> http://www.chitrakarkhana.net
>
> Takahiro Noguchi  & Kriti :  Art- Jhuggi –
> a community art intervention in Jhuggi clusters
>
> Gigi Scaria , Atul Bhalla and Himanshu Desai :
> Dilli Dur Ast -A Lens based workshop:
>  Walled City of Old Delhi
>
>
>  The workshop is free but limited seats are available.
>  Please book in advance by phone or email.
>  Last date for registration April 27, 2006.
>  Attendance for both days is mandatory.
>
> Send registration requests to   
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>  S-17 . Khirki Extension.
>  (Near Sai Baba Temple)
>  New Delhi-17
>  Call:91-11-55655874\73
> www.khojworkshop.org
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