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Tsuktiben Jamir The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art that is hosted in Kochi, Kerala, India every two years. It is both the biggest contemporary art festival in Asia and the largest art show in the whole nation. The fifth edition of this festival recently concluded with a big bang at the […]
Krispin Joseph PX No one can tell the meaning of the colour black quickly. Black is a colour or the mindset or conditions that some people encounter and face in daily life. Grey or black colour may be the reason for exclusion from the elite space, and that makes sense in some spaces. ‘Who are
Krispin Joseph PX How can a piece of stone tell about a country or some loaves of bread about the people? Bread made out of rocks from the river flowing through western Ukraine can never be eaten, which became an anecdote for the people enduring a war. Ukrainian-based artist Zhanna Kadyrova’s ‘Palianytsia’ brings the symbolical
Krispin Joseph PX Why did rulers build massive structures? Political leaders and rulers are fond of giant skeletons. They create this in the form of a statue or Central Vista project. Are the world’s tallest statue and most extensive administration buildings immensely manipulative? Political leaders know the power of the ‘largest structures’ and what impact
Krispin Joseph PX How do you spend your time during the Pandemic? Reading, writing, watching, practising art, music, dancing, learning something, or doing some cooking? What do you think about yourself and the world? Where did you reach, and did you find out anything interesting? What do you think about art practice in pandemic situations?
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Krispin Joseph PX Why books, and what are they doing at the Kochi Muziris Biennale? If Biennale spaces are considered for the artworks in different mediums, then why are books considered, and how do they manage their role in art exhibitions? These questions are echoed in Biennale space; before addressing the subject, we must address
Krispin Joseph PX Are you a firm believer in binary? As human nature, we understand many things in binary oppositions. Binary opposition starts from ‘male/female and goes to good/bad, black/white and so on. The structural theory brings the binary opposition into the humanities discussion table. Many forerunners in this theory and Saucer to Levi Strauss
Krispin Joseph Px Kochi Muziris Biennale brings artists and art projects from marginalised communities. That representation is less than they want and the same as what they get in other regions of social visibility. Many underrepresented subjects are exhibited in this Biennale, and doubtful about who represents these subjects. Elite-class people and artists representing the
Krispin Joseph PX Venetian merchant Marco Polo’s (1253-1324) book ‘the customs of the kingdoms of India shared a fabulous array of stories from sailors and merchants about peoples of the region, some reliable, some wholly implausible, but all fascinating about the Indian subcontinent. In the first chapter of the book ‘Hormuz, Persia and the Land
Krispin Joseph PX There is enough discussion already happening about what art is. In this western terminology, art is everything we ‘created’. Literature, Music and other creative expressions are treated as art under the domain of art. Then, there are some subdivisions of fine art or plastic art to define the materialistic art form differently.