EXHIBITION “Beyond Pain: An Afterlife” an exhibition by Vasudha Thozhur in collaboration with Himmat(2002-2012) at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 16th October to 9th December 2015

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Time :
16th October : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 16/10/2015 17:30 16/10/2015 19:00 Asia/Kolkata “Beyond Pain: An Afterlife” an exhibition by Vasudha Thozhur in collaboration with Himmat(2002-2012) Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/10/beyond-pain-afterlife-exhibition-by.html Gallery & Public Spaces of SAA-1 & SAA 2, School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY  - Opening 
17th October to 9th December : 10:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sundays and gazetted holidays closed) Add to Calendar 17/10/2015 10:00 09/12/2015 19:00 Asia/Kolkata “Beyond Pain: An Afterlife” an exhibition by Vasudha Thozhur in collaboration with Himmat(2002-2012) Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/10/beyond-pain-afterlife-exhibition-by.html Gallery & Public Spaces of SAA-1 & SAA 2, School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY  - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Venue : Gallery & Public Spaces of SAA-1 & SAA 2, School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067

Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
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Event Description : School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

presents “Beyond Pain: An Afterlife” an exhibition by Vasudha Thozhur in collaboration with Himmat(2002-2012)

SAA Exhibition Coordinated by Shukla Sawant 

VasudhaThozhur was born in 1956 in Mysore. She studied at the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, and at the School of Art and Design inCroydon, UK.

 She lived and worked in Chennai between 1981 – 1997 and in Baroda between 1997 – 2013. Besides participation in exhibitions/workshops in the country and abroad, institutional work has involved lectures/teaching/juries at MS University, Baroda, NID, Ahmedabad and IICD Jaipur.Two grants from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, between 2002 – 2006 and 2009 – 2011, supported a research project 'The Himmat Workshops'. The project looked at ways of rooting art practice in ground and other realities as experienced in the country, with particular reference to conflict zones. It involved collaborating with Himmat, an activist organization based in Vatva, Ahmedabad, between 2002 – 2007. Among grants received earlier are the French Government Scholarship to work at the Cite des Arts andthe Charles Wallace Grant to work at Gasworks, London. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Design and Performing Arts at Shiv Nadar University, Dadri.Other interests include writing and music.

The Himmat Workshops
Participants: Shah Jehan Shaikh, Rabia Shaikh, Taslim Qureshi, Taher Pathan, Farzana Shaikh, Rehana Shaikh
Co-ordinated by Vasudha Thozhur
Himmat is a collective formed by the widows of Naroda Patia, with the help of Monica Wahi and Zaid Ahmed Sheikh. The project was possible due to the infrastructure that it provided.
This art project involved working with six adolescent girls who lost several members of their families in the carnage at Naroda Patiya, Ahmedabad, on the 28th of  Feb. 2002. It examines the role that art practices can play in a collective trauma and addresses a range of issues from personal loss to displacement and the possibility of mobilization and economic revival through the use of the visual language. In terms of methodology, the focus was on process rather than a predetermined outcome, and further the recording of the process through writing, painting and the digital media, as an archive against forgetting, and the creation of a context-specific resource. The first phase (2002-2008) of the project  involved primarily fieldwork, and the community speaks for itself through the work produced.  The second phase of the project (2009-2012) includes my paintings, mostly done in retrospect.
The exhibit focuses on building an understanding, and the message, at its most basic, is about friendship. It could be considered as a working model through which a range of skills are acquired along with political awareness and the possibility of resistance, intervention and change through creative means.
The idea of working with display as a narrative mode is central to the curation/exhibition. A project that had functioned actively within the community as a locus for mobilization and creative process is transformed into an artwork – art that enters the area of display could in that sense, be seen as an afterlife, but almost always is also a presage of things to come.

VasudhaThozhur

Accompanying Events : 

Exhibition walkthrough with Vasudha Thozhour at School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 4pm on 17th October 2015

ART TALK "Beyond Pain: An Afterlife" by Vasudha Thozhur as part of her ongoing exhibition at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 3pm on 9th December 2015

The project was supported by : Himmat, Indian Foundation for the Arts and Khoj International Artists' Association

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