Image above: installation at Movement, Medium, Metaphor, NIV Art Centre, curated by Georgina Maddox
Residency and installation at NIV Art Centre, Delhi, 2011
The busy ring roads near Connaught Place often have no proper place marked for pedestrians to cross. Those wishing to get to the other side of the road wait until there are enough people around them that they can get to the other side safely, and advance in a horizontal line, lane by lane, across the road. As a performance, a group of twenty NIV artists and friends repeatedly crossed this road through traffic for twenty minutes during an early evening.
A horizontal wall of mattresses borrowed from a crowded sleeping room was transformed into a daytime privacy wall in my studio, and visitors had to traverse a narrow corridor to enter. This narrowness is the pedestrian street and our shared spaces at the residency expressed.
It is also the narrow corridor used by pedestrians to cross the lanes of cars forever circulating around Connaught Place.
When I passed someone in the hallways at NIV Art Centre, often I would instinctively move to the right, causing confusion, as everyone here customarily moves to the left.
