Exhibitions | LONDON - DELHI 2010-2012 Exhibition
Showing: Thu 28th Jan - Sun 28th Feb
LONDON - DELHI 2010-2012
London-Delhi 2010-2012 is a digital arts collaboration between artists and young people in London and Delhi, creating and sharing contemporary stories of their two cities. London-Delhi 2010 -2012 will draw on the different perspectives and transformations of these two cities, each with the eyes of the world upon them, as they prepare to host Delhi 2010 and London 2012.
The research areas that are being explored touch upon large scale structural changes that are happening in Delhi and London, the social worlds that get impacted through these changes and the zones of flux and uncertainty about ways of life that these produce.
In Delhi large urban settlements - informal, quasi-permanent, illegal - are in the process of being demolished and resettlement colonies are being made on the outer edges of the city. Complex networks of livelihood, community, services, relationships are entering the articulations of a changing city prior to the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 2012 Olympics Games are bringing similar changes to the neighbourhoods of Greater London. The regeneration processes are taking place in many areas of East London while the promised legacy of the games can be felt across the town.
Three distinct entry points have been proposed:
1. Urban Frontier - with extensive building work happening in both cities Urban Frontier will look at urban changes, resettlement, memories of displacement and the conditions of re-generation and the negotiations that come with change.
2. Electronic Fortification - who gets to be a legitimate citizen in this great global city? Security concerns are a big issue both in Delhi and London. Processes are underway to make the cities more 'secure' and 'safer' for the players and visitors attending the games. The city landscape is changing as does our ways of accessing and inhabiting spaces that are being monitored.
3. Riverfront - Delhi's relationship to the river Yamuna is quite unlike the one London has with the Thames. Along its banks large informal settlements and small farm holdings exist together with Delhi's own necropolis (Rajghat, Shakti Sthala - state memorials). The Riverfront is now being cleared of 'jhuggis', and plans are in place for new housing, stadiums, waterparks. In London the Mayor of London has just launched his new By the River plan for enhancing river transport in the capital.
The output of the first part of this project is available on DVD. Please write to info@watermans.org.uk and quote London-Delhi Part 1
Part 2 of the project is where groups of young people in London, led by professional artists use digital media to explore the City through these points of entry. The output of their work, together with that of the artists themselves will be available to view in the Gallery and on a DVD created by Chocolate Films from 4 February 2010
A Private View of the exhibition will be held on Thursday 4 February at 6.30pm. If you would like an invitation please contact Angela@watermans.org.uk
Participating groups included The Voice, The Green School and Heston School in Hounslow and Dormers-Wells School in Ealing.
Contributing artists were Dan Stirrup from Chocolate Films, Gareth Mitchell, Mark Saunders from Spectacle and !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Watermans acknowledges the support of the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London as a major project partner and the support of Mediabox for Part 2.
London Delhi 2010-2012 was conceived by Watermans and produced by Watermans in conjunction with the Sarai Media Centre in Delhi, India
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