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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 […]
Sea A Historical Boiling Vessel Read More »
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.
How to reappear and appear in the social world Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Regarding the discussion on Abstract art, Paul Crowther and Isabel Wünsche write: ‘the creative process is rooted in the unconscious, and is thence expressed most effectively through acts when the creative impulse is allowed to develop naturally rather than through conscious control’. When the artist does their creative process naturally, that flow
Primary colours and Concerns: a tribute to Abstraction Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX What do you think about writing a postcard to someone? When it’s not only a write something, it’s more than a part of an art exhibition. It is just a postcard, and anyone can write to anyone. You only have someone to write to, and you have the address to send it.
Storytelling postcards from Communities of Choice Read More »
Rajesh Kumar The creepy-crawlies are no longer just a part of the soil, all ignored and disgust upon, they are now a major part of the paintings by Smitha GS. The paintings are full of creepy crawlies and that’s what she loves. You name them, there they are, crawling of flying all over her canvas.
“During the lockdown, I decided to explore the domestic space and work with a medium which is easy to deal with and has a certain degree of fluidity. As I began to work on it with small papers and watercolour, a disconnect with the world outside happened inside me. So, I created a new world
365 watercolour journal by Vasudevan Akkitham at Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022 Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX It’s an absolute godsend to see the photographic work of Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam’s work in Kochi Muziris Biennale in this contemporary political-social context. Shahidul Alam is a pioneering photographer in Bangladesh, and he uses the camera as a socio-political tool, not to capture images but to expose society’s bare truth. He
Touching the political soul of a country with a Camera Read More »
Rajesh Kumar Songs about love and mischief from the people of Phek district of Nagaland makes the documentary ‘Up Down and Sideways (Kho ki Pa Lu)’. The film is made by Anushka Meenakshi. Currently the film is been exhibited at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022. The documentary is about the 5000 local villagers who plant
Farmers of Nagaland singing at the Kochi Muziris Biennale Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Photography is the best tool to capture stillness and ideal to document history as an image. Documentary photography is more into history and documents contemporary life for historical reference. K R Sunil, Kochi-based documentary photographer and visual artist, exhibits his works related to Chavittu Nadakam in Sea, A Boiling Vessel, opened in
Carnivalised life and other stories of a performance Read More »
Krispin Joseph PX Is the identity crisis the most following question for human beings? How many identities are we carrying at the same time? Are we always the same? Or different? Heraclitus once wrote, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man’.
Make me up or serious humour on identity Read More »