VISIT TO MELA at CKP, where we get the chance to view crafts and musical performances.
In the course of conversation we remarks that most of the crafts product on display are 'very commercial'. Some of you, quoting a product designer who visited Srishti a while back, believe that this is inevitable.
I suggest that one can retain one's integrity and find an economic support base by targeting the right audience: audience who have made the effort to learn to appreciate the crafts and have enough respect to pay higher prices for authentic pieces.
As part of the 'New Art from South Asia' exhibition I am curating in the UK, I commission a new piece of work from Durga Bai,an artist from the Gond tribe (Bhopal), about the Bhopal chemical factory disaster which had immense repercussions on the people of Bhopal [See film: 'The Bhopal Express']; the victims are still fighting for compensation.
This commission will give the artist the opportunity to deal extensively with an important contemporary issue which is dear to her, but which she has not tackled so far on a large scale (3'by 5').
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