Abhishek Hazra has sent me two mails. The mails are themselves exciting and more so because we hardly ever write about other’s work. Thanks Abhishek.
congratulations syar.
tomar blog onek din dekha hoini - ekhon giye to ekta kajer ek jholok dekhei durdanto laglo:
"public sculpture for ants"!
Brilliant!!!
are ei kajta niye to ekta puro uponyash lekha jabe - aha - bheri inetresting.
theoretically very rich and poses some interesting philosphical conundrums:
01. can ants have an 'aesthetic' experience?
02. if they do, how can we know about it?
03. by making a 'public' sculpture to the scale of its intnded viwer it makes a political comment abt human public sculpture
04. also what is interesting, in the sense of suspended motion, that is implicit in these 'sculptures' - potentially they could be carried off the gallery floors by an army of ants. what would such a move say about artwork and viwership?
thank you for such an interesting work! this is precisely in the best traditions of conceptual art - where the formal properties of the work itself is minimal and in a way even banal, but is the discursive and theoretical framing of the work that makes it stimulating.
jiyo....
Abhishek
and forgot this one:
05. and what would a work like this say about "inter species" communication (which incidentally a hot topic in arts+science). can we make art works for a fruit fly?
06. and the how would a fruit fly make an art work for us, or for a nematode worm?
07. in this context, would it be relevant to explore the gift giving aspects of art? are the 'fruits' of genetic research, the fruit fly's unintended gifts to humanity?
08. although question 07 is guilty of being anthropocentric. this is relevant becuase anthropocentrism is something that the artwork itself tries to move away from (although in an ironic register)
to be continued
cheers
abhishek
congratulations syar.
tomar blog onek din dekha hoini - ekhon giye to ekta kajer ek jholok dekhei durdanto laglo:
"public sculpture for ants"!
Brilliant!!!
are ei kajta niye to ekta puro uponyash lekha jabe - aha - bheri inetresting.
theoretically very rich and poses some interesting philosphical conundrums:
01. can ants have an 'aesthetic' experience?
02. if they do, how can we know about it?
03. by making a 'public' sculpture to the scale of its intnded viwer it makes a political comment abt human public sculpture
04. also what is interesting, in the sense of suspended motion, that is implicit in these 'sculptures' - potentially they could be carried off the gallery floors by an army of ants. what would such a move say about artwork and viwership?
thank you for such an interesting work! this is precisely in the best traditions of conceptual art - where the formal properties of the work itself is minimal and in a way even banal, but is the discursive and theoretical framing of the work that makes it stimulating.
jiyo....
Abhishek
and forgot this one:
05. and what would a work like this say about "inter species" communication (which incidentally a hot topic in arts+science). can we make art works for a fruit fly?
06. and the how would a fruit fly make an art work for us, or for a nematode worm?
07. in this context, would it be relevant to explore the gift giving aspects of art? are the 'fruits' of genetic research, the fruit fly's unintended gifts to humanity?
08. although question 07 is guilty of being anthropocentric. this is relevant becuase anthropocentrism is something that the artwork itself tries to move away from (although in an ironic register)
to be continued
cheers
abhishek
