Raj Comics: Fighter Toads
03/30/2009 · Grant Davis
Raj Comics Special Issue, Junk City: Fighter Toads
Shail Shah
03/27/2009 · Mansi Shah
Rabindranath Tagore
03/25/2009 · Mansi Shah
Rabindranath Tagore (1961) documentary by Satyajit Ray
Anita Dube
03/25/2009 · Mansi Shah
Inside Out, 2007
Dystopia’s Spillage, 2006
Silver Gelatin Prints
Desi Thugz
03/18/2009 · Mansi Shah
“DeSi Fo LyF”
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Kiran Subbaiah
03/16/2009 · Mansi Shah
Use_Me.exe, 2004
Computer Program (Pseudo-Virus for Windows on CD)
20MB
Crash_Run.exe, 2002
Computer Program (Pseudo-Virus for Windows on CD)
1354KB
“A malicious computer virus is that classic dweller of the liminal space between function and dysfunction: its entire function is geared towards draining out all use-value from a computer, to render it dysfunctional (in various degrees). Also for someone who has been consistently engaging with objects and their (dys)functionality, this intense concentration on the interface is perhaps expected. Today, if we look around our homes, we see an increasing array of objects getting ‘contaminated’ with the digital.
Consequently, the formal attributes of an object are no longer tethered to its putative function. When it’s the same digital chip that controls the clock as well as the microwave, what defines the object formally are not cog-wheels or heating coils but its interface – the functional surface it offers its users for manipulation and control. We could possibly parody McLuhan and say, ’the interface is the object’.”
— From Abhishek Hazra: The Ludic Epiphany of Kiran Subbaiah
Kiran Subbaiah lives and works in Bangalore and Amsterdam.
Cross and Circle
03/15/2009 · Mansi Shah
Group of Marwari men playing pachisi, c.1880’s
Space Is The Place
03/11/2009 · Neil Doshi
Cloud Gate, 2004
Sky Mirror, 2001
Untitled, 1995
White Sand Red Millet Many Flowers, 1982
“I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects.”
Charlie Chaplin
03/10/2009 · Mansi Shah
Raj Kapoor in Shree 420 (1955)
Chiranjeevi in Chantabbai (1986)
Sridevi in Mr. India (1987)
Charlie Circle from Adipur, Kutch
Mughal Jades
03/10/2009 · Mansi Shah
Dagger of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707)
India, Mughal, dated 1660/61 (A.H. 1071)
Pale green & burnt-orange nephrite jade hilt, gold inlaid steel blade
13 3/4 x 2 in.
Opium Spoon
India, Mughal, late 17th-early 18th century
White nephrite jade
4 1/4 x 1 x 1/4 in.