Publication ‘Dear You -Yours Lovingly, Me’ displayed at the Contemporary Art Exhibition at Travancore Palace, Delhi by Gallery Dotwalk. Curated by Premjish Achari.
HET VERHALENHUIS or THE STORY HOUSE was a participatory art project stationed at Newtonstraat,6. In collaboration with artists Anja Radakovic, Vitoria Aquino and organisation Tante Netty, I took another step forward to explore the ‘Idea of Home’. The six week-long project aimed to bring to life the stories of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ of the community of Woensel West in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
By hosting a series of community workshops, dinner & coffee meets and street interventions in the neighbhourhood we built a cozy house of stories. And, after six weeks of interaction with the warm community of Woensel West, we hosted a day full of performances, installation, walks, talks, games and coffee!
Web of Knowledge
The installation aimed to bring together the conversations, memories and objects from the culturally diverse neighbourhood of Woensel West. The conversations took place during sunny afternoons in the park, on the streets, over warm dinner and several cups of coffee.
The rhizomatic structure or the “web of wool”, which serves as the base of the work, takes inspiration from Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome Theory. A rhizome is “always in the middle, in between things” and never complete. However, these randomly linked connections continually multiply, promote further growth of knowledge and create non-linear cultural networks. We invited neighbours and visitors to join the network, by sharing their knowledge and adding it to the web of stories.
The Wall of Babel - A collaborative participatory word-wall
by Nikita Maheshwary & Premjish Achari
‘The Wall of Babel’ was conceptualised during the second edition of Future Collaboration and was exhibited as a part of group exhibition ‘Workers and Farmers: The Panorama of Resistance (Prelude)’ in April 2018.
Artists’ Note:
“Through our series of exchanges of words or what we call as “utterances”, we both attempt a new way of collaborative writing, thinking about the trauma of the displaced. We would like you to join us and expand the network of words and create a wall of utterances and expressions from different languages, contexts and experiences. Let us raise a Wall of Babel, instead of a lofty tower, a memorial for resistance in our scattered languages.”
- Nikita Maheshwary & Premjish Achari
Tracing Home, 2016
A mix-media Installation
Medium:Photographs on tracing paper along with a sound player
Dimensions:127 cm × 239 cm (50 in × 94 in)
Coming from a place of safekeeping and nostalgia,Tracing Home explores the idea of belonging through everyday objects. Mapping her childhood memories on the blueprint of the five houses she grew up in, the artist tries to recreate the image of her middle-class household.
Installation work was exhibited as part of the first edition of Future Collaborations titled 'Inquiries on the Contemporary' opened at Italian Cultural Centre. Curator: Premjish Achari
Tracing Home, 2016
A mix-media Installation
Medium: Photographs on tracing paper along with a sound player
Dimensions: 127 cm × 239 cm (50 in × 94 in)
Coming from a place of safekeeping and nostalgia,Tracing Home explores the idea of belonging through everyday objects. Mapping her childhood memories on the blueprint of the five houses she grew up in, the artist tries to recreate the image of her middle-class household.
