Room for Improvement
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Room for Improvement
The Showroom (old venue), London
Book Launch. Room for Improvement is the gap between the plan and the activity itself. It is the possibility of changing or abandoning the plan in order to keep your agenda going or switching agendas altogether.
Room for Improvement
Book Launch
Thursday 12 September 6-8 pm
Room for Improvement is the gap between the plan and the activity itself.
It is the possibility of changing or abandoning the plan in order to keep
your agenda going or switching agendas altogether. It functions as a
self-help manual in the search for the healthy and the positive, and while
it acknowledges that things are not always perfect, it suggests that they
generally turn out alright in the end. It is also, literally, a room with a
purpose, or a series of rooms. These rooms perform various functions: for
making and viewing artworks; for having drinks and for improving cultural
relations.
The book Room for Improvement documents a workshop that took place over four
weeks at the Crafts Museum in New Delhi, bringing together six leading
artists and craftsmen from India and the UK. The Museum with its famous
collection of rural and tribal arts, and its informal setting, provided an
unusual context for an experimental workshop - where a loosely affiliated
group of artists and craftsmen could make new work.
This book documents the process, through an eclectic mix of material
generated during and after the event. Full colour illustrations describe
the results, which include an installation of refuse from the museum and its
surroundings by Tomoko Takahashi, surreal, large scale wall drawings by
Valsan Koomer Kolleri and a series of cartoons depicting the artists at work
by Kalam Patua, made in the 19th Century Kalighat tradition. There is also
photographic documentation of a wedding performance by Enrico David and
flower sculptures by Eva Rothschild. Accompanying this are images from the
museum, texts by the curators and the museum¹s director, plus transcripts of
conversations held between the participants.
The artists who participated in the residency were: Valsan Koorma Kolleri,
Ravinder Reddy, Anita Dube, Tomoko Takahashi, Enrico David, Eva Rothschild,
Kalam Patua and Jivyasomamashe. Room for Improvement was organised by the
British Council in India and was curated by Grant Watson, Suman Gopinath and
Sushma Bahl.
The book will be available for a special price of £7 during the launch
event.
For more information on the launch event please call the Showroom on: 020
8983 4115 or for further publication information
contact Cornerhouse on 0161 200 1502 or E-mail grant@project.ie
Room for Improvement is distributed worldwide by Cornerhouse Publications,
70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tel: + 44 (0) 161 200 1502, Fax + 44 (0) 161 200 1504.
publications@cornerhouse.org
http:/www.cornerhouse.org/publications
The Showroom is financially supported by London Arts.
The Showroom 44 Bonner Road London E2 9JS
T. 020 8983 4115
020 8981 4112
Nearest tube Bethnal Green on Central Line. Buses 26, 48, 55, 106, 253.
Overground to Cambridge Heath.