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Small Piece of Earth in my Pocket

Live Art Lab Event 2014

The concept of the event was Warp-Woof-Weft' at Vivekananda
Metro, Bangalore. The central focus for the event was on the

subject of art and craft. The location for the performance was
Bangalore Santhe, a place created by Bangalore Metro to promote
handicraft and small arts and crafts. We chose to work here
keeping in mind the fact that crafty elements is missing in
contemporary art scene, and generally artists hire local craftsmen
to create their work instead of creating themselves.

I intended to focus on two aspects, one rapid development of
urban space leading to constant demand for more land leading to
deforestation and other harmful affects to the nature in large and
the other aspect is constant shift of lifestyle that is inclined to fast-
food culture and other unhealthy practices that is the root cause

of all health issues and indirectly effecting the economy and
farmers are dragged into this vicious trap. I used jute for costume
and prepared the whole costume by myself to give personal touch
and also involve my craftsmanship. I made number of pockets on
the sack to keep small cups that had Ragi sprouts( Finger Millet) ,
since Ragi ( Finger Millet) is the most indigenous crop,
andalso blend of organic food and using jute was intentional since
Jute crop is suggested to help conserve deforestation and jute in

performance is also metaphorical Playing same role.