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Clark House Initiative, Bombay

International artists, curators and commissioners will guide a select group of artists, chosen for the strength of their applications, over the course of a year.

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Curated by Diana Campbell, Sumesh Sharma and Zasha Colah

For the past three years, Creative India has been commissioning sculptures by Indian artists for public display around the world. After commissioning works in the US, the UK, Sweden, Australia, and China, Creative India recently supported the commission of Shilpa Gupta's monumental light sculpture 'I live under your sky too' which is currently on display on Carter Road and will tour India. This project is a forerunner and inspiration for the intensive.

Creative India is launching a Public Art Intensive program to mentor Indian artists and help them develop and realise proposals for art in the public realm. International artists, curators, and commissioners will guide a select group of artists, chosen for the strength of their applications, over the course of a year. The program is free of charge, and in its inaugural year, is open to artists under 35 living in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and the intention is to expand the program to include other cities in future years. The application deadline is 3 March.

Clark House Bombay had its predecessor in an experiment, the Crawford Public Art Project, that essayed to draw attention to the formal and informal economies that structure urban markets and the need for heritage preservation. Since then, exhibitions by Clark House try to retain a relationship to passers-by and the structures of agency on the streets: Justin Ponmany's installation on the pavement outside Clark House resembling a humble road-side stall during the exhibition 'Right to Dissent'; a procession of artist's flags through the roads leading to the National Gallery of Modern Art during 'Against AFSPA'; negotiating the use of a political party's billboard - in lieu of a blood drive within Clark House - for Simon Liddiment's exhibition; a performance by Amol Patil in collaboration with a youth club on the street outside his exhibition 'Visa Rejects'; a performance by Htein Lin on streets in Kochi during the exhibition 'I C U JEST'; and an installation by Yogesh Barve along a wall that runs from the train station to his former college, parallel to a landscape of salt pans.

Clark House Initiative
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg (Old Wodehouse Road), Bombay

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