Dissection of the process - 2016

Group  period performance
Kochi-Muziris Student's Biennale, Year 2016

Curator - Rajyashri Goody

Dissection of the process involves students grinding what they deem their least impressive works of art.

Conceptualized during an intensive workshop on the theme of self-critique and the significance of process in an art student’s life, the performance deals with the subjective and objective complexities of ‘bad art’ in art schools today and the aspiration of creating ‘contemporary art’.

Grinding their artworks to dust is a violent, painful act for the students. Yet it reveals an openness towards letting go of past artistic attachments (both tangible and not) and simultaneously, by embracing the creation of dust particles as giving life to a new work of art, acknowledging their role in one’s practice.

(text courtesy - the Curator)