Reflections From the tapestry of ‘TANA BANA, Chapter 1, Kota’
14 December 2012
Artist: Pramod Kumar,
(Patna and Baroda)
When I burn the wood
Where does the mass of wood go?
In the morning, around 10:00 AM,
emerging artist Pramod Kumar started writing something on a busy street. Before
that we were engaged into some other discussions in front of our temporal residency-spot
and were planning about the day ahead. Suddenly one of us noticed, Pramod was
walking to and fro on the street. It was a busy street: people were moving to
office places, working places, public vehicles were asking for passengers and
in brief all were hurried and all were busy in their own respective ways. We
came out of the campus and saw Mr Pramod almost restlessly scratching something
on the street and trying to figure out certain mark on the street.
We came closer and realized he was
trying to write something across the street. Again speaking, it was a busy street,
people were rushing on both the sides, Pramod was least careful about the rush
and was very comfortably engaged into his own task , as if today he was trying something
very desperately. His ignorance towards the traffic and involvement into his
own work made an effective gesture. Gradually he started forming letters and
then sentences. Some of other fellow artists now went ahead to do documentation
of the work-process and to handle the traffic.
From letters to words, to sentences
formed:
When I burn the wood
Where does the mass of wood go?
A very essential question that is scientifically
as well as metaphysically relevant also: where does the mass go? Energy
transforms? If yes, what about the mass? Does the spirit transform? If then what
happens to the body? Without the body where does the spirit exist?
Pramod did a subtle performance on a
busy street of Civil Lines. He was writing down the words with a lot of physical
energy by putting strength on a found broken piece of brick, rubbing it again
and again on a very rough surface of the street and making the environment very
eventful by being an obstacle to the traffic. People, vehicles, dusts, leaves,
gazes, glances, weights, masses and everything were in a rush; all were
foot-stepping over the written words…
Perhaps what I got: all about
Existence and Vanishing…
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
A Public Art Event, 10th-16th Dec, 2012, Kota, Rajasthan
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