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EMBRACE OUR RIVERS- PUBLIC ART AND ECOLOGY IN INDIA

LITERATURE |The Slate Hindu Lit for Life 2019

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The Slate Hindu Lit for Life_12.01.2019 © Goethe-Institut Chennai

EMBRACE OUR RIVERS © Goethe-Institut Chennai Urban spaces, particularly those in rapidly expanding cities in new developing economies, are in direct conflict with nature.
 
To help re-think urban space as democratic and in coexistence with nature, Embrace our Rivers was proposed as a public art project in Chennai. It was to be held on the estuary of the polluted river Cooum where Indian and international artist responded to the City’s rivers and canal systems.
 
The project however could not be installed at site, due to denial of site clearance.  The artist’s voice though found expression in an exhibition- DAMnedArt which was held at the local Lalit Kala Akademi in February 2018.
 
This book, a first on public art and ecology in India, is an outcome of this effort. It also locates the project in a wider context of public art practices in India and elsewhere, through invited essays and calls for broader collaborations for urban sustainability.

Panelists :
Helmut Schippert, Director, Goethe-Institut /Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai
Mukund Padmanabhan , Editor-In-Chief, The Hindu
Parvathi Nayar, Multi-disciplinary Artist, Chennai
Ravi Agarwal, Artist, Environmental Activist, Writer and Curator
 
Moderator: T. M. Krishna, Carnatic Music Vocalist and Writer

 

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