MERASHEHER
DEKHA / UNDEKHA. Gender. Jagah. Anubhav
[ MY CITY. SEEN / UNSEEN. Gender. Space. Experience ]
eklavya, hoshangabad | gandhi bhavan, bhopal
The effort to take the OPACITY show and workshops beyond metropolitan centres into emerging cities an smaller towns meant it neded to change both, its language and idiom, in order to have the all-important discussion about gender and space in these environs. Called Mera Sheher: DEkha/Undekha, as in, My City: Seen/Unseen, these installations + workshops were conducted by Vani Subramanian under the 2014-2015 Fulbright Alumni Grant, in partnership with Eklavya.
Each of the workshops drew between 30-50 participants - students, educationists, housewives, activists, teachers, and so on - and culminated in the participants creating a range of artworks: posters and paintings on violence, discrimination and spatial politics, a skit, a theatrical reading, video works, poetry, fiction and personal narratives, and even a map that charted people, trades, labour, ecology and customs through the odours and fragrances of the city.
snapshots of the workshops and their outcomes
