Book your dream House at most affordable Prices

Reflections From the tapestry of Chapter 1, Kota:

14 December 2012

Artist: Samudra Kajal Saikia,

(New Delhi)

Kala Dirgha, the State Art Gallery became a central place of activities, preparations, interactions and discussions for the Tana Bana (public art festival) participants. As the artist arrives the place early in the morning on 13 Dec 2012, he discovers three small tent houses. Then on the basis of an immediate thought came to his mind the artist made out some posters and a bigger banner in front and besides of the small house structures, saying, “Book your dream House” or “Get your dream Home at most affordable Prices…” etc.

Samudra Kajal Saikia, an artist and performer working across the multiple disciplines has been working on a project that deals with the individual and collective memories around “Home/House” for several years. Many ways his artistic engagement tries out to figure out the meaning of these two words: Home and House. The central project series is known as the “Disposable House”.

(also See:

http://www.disposablehouse.blogspot.in/) 

A note made by Baishali Mukherjee after her photo documentation  works at the house construction sites in Delhi and NCR

Baishali Mukherjee at work

The current work sets a site-specific installation that critically looks at the ironies of the promotion of the “Dream House” and the “Dream Home” taken by the commercial house construction and dealing agencies as well as the urban building development strategies taken by the Government itself. 

Images from "houseHOLD", a Disposable Theatre at KNMA, Delhi

The artist explains how the growth of urban housing complexes created an amount of pain in his Santiniketan Days where he saw the gradually increasing urban looking buildings in the areas around Prantik, a neighboring locality to Santiniketan. Moreover as a resident of New Delhi, he explains how he has to face the everyday provocations to immediately book a “Dream House at the most affordable Price”. 

In this work many local people contributed in taking a shape including some students from Institute of Polytechnics, Kota.

The activity happens under TANA-BANA, The Warp and Weft of Art and the Public Domain.
A Public Art Event, 10th-16th Dec, 2012, Kota, Rajasthan 

Image from "Ghar Katha: a Disposable Theatre", Baroda