Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Artefacting Mumbai: Using Art to Stir Things Up in India






Tentang Artefacting Mumbai

Pada dasarnya proyek seni ini menggunakan seni sebagai penggambaran tentang sebuah pemukiman kumuh yang  dalam keadaan mengenaskan karena digerus oleh proses urbanisasi di daerah miskin terbesar di Asia di distrik Dharavi’s 13th Compound di Mumbai, India.

Perupa dan aktivitis urban dari AS, Alex White Mazzarella dan rekannya city planner/photographer Casey Nolan dengan sepenuh hati  berinteraksi bersama warga Dharavi. Mendokumentasikan dan memanifestasikan pengalaman mereka sendiri, dalam melihat prespektif kemanusiaan, identitas, energi serta budaya lokal lewat karya seni.

Mereka mencipta lukisan mixed media dengan produk percampuran  serta energi warna lokal untuk mengeksplorasi transmisi tempat, fenomena manusia, realitas eksistensial distrik Dharavi dan berbagai situasi ekstrem daerah slum di Mumbai. Menyediakan ruang, melihat secara mendalam dan memancing diskursus soal kemungkinan kemajuan, komunitas, masyarakat dan pertumbuhan. 

City planner dan filmmaker Casey Nolan yang berasal  dari Portland Oregon merekam  dan menyediakan narasi dengan teknik foto jurnalisme.Artefacting Mumbai lebih dalam ingin berbagi bagaimana perupa atau pekerja kreatif membawa harapan apa yang sesungguhnya bernilai  dan penting bagi hidup manusia dan komunitasnya, seperti: cara manusia berbagi dan peduli dengan sesama.


About Artefacting Mumbai

Basically this art project exercises art as an illustration of a heartbreaking slum marginalized by urbanization process in the biggest poor area in Asia, Dharavi’s 13th Compound district, in Mumbai, India. 

Artist-cum-urban activist from USA, Alex White Mazzarella and his partner, city planner/photographer/filmmaker Casey Nolan, wholeheartedly interacted with Dharavi locals. They documented and manifested their own experience in seeing humanity, identity and local culture in perspective, via their works.

They created a mixed-media painting with combined products and the energy of local colors to explore location transmission, human phenomenon, existential reality in Dharavi district and various extreme situations in Mumbai slums. 

They provided a space, looked deeper and encouraged a discourse about a possibility of advancement, community, society and growth. Portland-based Nolan recorded and provided a narration with photojournalism technique. “Artefacting Mumbai” aimed to share how artists and creative workers bring hopes about what truly matters and what is valuable for humankind’s and the community’s lives, such as: how people share and care about each other.












source: www.artefacting.com

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