Take Part | LONDON - DELHI 2010-2012

Showing: Mon 29th Jun - Tue 3rd Jul

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.

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. 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.

In Delhi the large urban settlements - informal, quasi-permanent, illegal - are in the process of being demolished, 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.

Stage 1 of this project, London- Delh 2010 - 2012: Arts Lab London: brought together the artists from both cities and gave them an opportunity to explore ideas in 4 phases

Mon June 29, 7pm at Watermans (by invitation)           

CINE: London - Delhi 2010-2012 with artists Mark Saunders, Adnan Hadzi, Iram Ghufran and  Amitabh Kumar 

Tues June 30, Walk I: Battersea Power Station Tour led by Mark Saunders (Open to the public)

This tour includes Vauxhall developments, the new bus station, a riverside walk and presentation on Battersea Power Station. A picnic in Battersea park with some local history followed by a walk through three distinctive and unusual social housing estates. 

Wed 1 July, Walk II: Urban Frontier - East London led by Ben Seymour (Open to the public)

This tour includes a trip to Broadway Market, a walk through London Fields, and the Hackney Town Hall Square development area, the official story of the Olympics at the Hackney Museum, picnic in the park, then a ride over to the Olympic Zone to see what it's like in real life

Thur 2 July, Watermans, debrief and wrap, and agree next steps (Closed session)

For more information please contact ilze@watermans.org.uk

    



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