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next up.
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Bu…uut we still have the same cycle.
In labels and in particular, now since we have the game ready, I invite new users who are willing to go through the game and lend it their story.
We take it from there into a collaborative narrative which we’ll bring to life.I call it interactive fiction.But it’ll also grow into a visual and performance/experiential tale which should burst out into mythic proportions, invoking all your heroes and heroines,all your totems and gods and goddesses.
But we will be beginning and ending with you as protagonist/ess.Your new avatar will also be called upon to cull it’s courage and occupy performative roles in print and in shows.(Only if you’re comfortable with it)
It’s a whole new persona.
Join us at the labelsthinktank or write to me at project.labels@gmail.com!
       
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| September 4, 2008 | 1:09 AM |
| September 2, 2008 | 3:09 AM |
| August 31, 2008 | 12:08 PM |
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Queer.Azaadi.Queer Azaadi.Azaadi.
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Working it out.
The fight for rights and self-determination for Queer communities in the sub-continent has come through a big milestone with the Queer Azaadi March 2008, as well as various gay pride parades all over the country.
India’s draconian and dated Section 377 which criminalises non-procreative(’unnatural’) sexual behaviour has to give way to a more aware, sex-positive and rights based approach to sexuality law.
Only when you take a good long glance at the margins, you come to understand different ways of being.
I have had a long history of brawls with my latent homophobia.It is’nt that I’m regressive by choice, just wary.
While I’m not that interested in homosexuality as a way of life and don’t think that choices are always unilateral, between this and that or either and or…I have come to understand the binary as a mode of recognition.My work on affirmative stances with respect to identity is about espousing the real struggle which makes you what you are.And freedom is a vital need.
In a group discussion by ‘Cinelabia’, the cinematic wing of ‘Labia’, a support group for Bisexual and Lesbian women that holds film screenings every fourth weekend of the month at Majlis, the need for new languages rang clear.The endeavor, made clear through a film called ‘Working it Out’ was clearly drawing from queer theory but finding utterance to the real freedoms that we seek.The real problems that we have with patriarchal society and it’s termite-eaten woodwork.
Let’s concretise.
The body needs to freed from morose sexual slavery, be it female or male.And sexual violence that patriarchy’ engenders upon it’s inhabitants as modicum of compliance needs to be, the use Bush’s words , smoked out of murky corners.After all, it’s about the joy of life and love that sexuality should be.
       
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reconnaissance
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Credits for Reconnaissance:
Concept and Direction: Raheema Begum
Graphic Design: Ramya Nagaraj
Installation and media: Umesh Kumar, Pradeep Kambathalli, Rajeev, Nadeem Baig and Nitin Muralidharan.
Sound: Ravi Srinivasan and Clyde De Mello
Performances: Arka Mukhopadhyay, Sowmya Jaganmurthy ,Christoph Lechner, Christine Lechner, Michel Casanovas, Antara Hazarika, Eric Miller , Sridhar Pabbishetty…
Photographs: Nitin Mayanath and Gopal M.S.
Thanks for documenting , Smitha Cariappa .
Music from Alanis Morisette, Massive Attack, Asian Dub Foundation, Cold Play and the sound track of ‘Meenakshi’.
For more information and pictures visit the Flickr Set and the Documentation Album or see the Facebook Event.
A big big thank you to Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, to Mona and Nazreen and Mrs. Premilla Baid for all the encouragement, support and co-operation.
Thanks to the Attakalari Center for Movement Arts for it’s vibrant arts culture.
Thanks to Michel Casanovas for his pre-emptory session with the Feldon Chrise technique.
To Arka Mukhopadhyay for all his help and support in making the performances possible.
To everyone who came and collaborated with us, heres hoping that this will lead us to more and more such spaces.
And Marta Jakimowicz, thank you for a fine review!
Write to us at project.labels@gmail.com for any enquiries.
 
       
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More art!
About this category: Arts & Media
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Yang Liu is a Chinese artist who was raised in Germany.
She uses simple icons to express what she feels are the basic cultural differences between East and West, or more specifically, China (red) and Germnay (blue.) Interesting!
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/77/east_meets_west.html
I also like this work of hers, the message says "Children are the rhythm of the world"
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The Burma Chronichles
About this category: Arts & Media
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For years, I felt like I was observing the world of graphic novels behind a glass wall. I wanted to like it, I tried to like it, but no matter how shiny the cover, or tempting the drawings, to me the stories never seemed powerful enough to shatter their own two-dimensionality. Then I realized that I don't necessarily have problems with the medium, it's the story that has to be right.
Persepolis is the first story that has made me realize the value of graphic novels as a medium through which to narrate personal journeys and present insights into different cultures. It takes a lot of skill to communicate feelings and thoughts in a wordless manner: through the choice of colour, facial expressions, and through the combination of a myriad other elements which are almost imperceptible and yet so effective in conveying what the author is trying to share with us. I confess I haven't read Persepolis (I watched the movie), but in following the story I realized how clever this medium can be. It can communicate things in a way a book never could, and its visual and audio restrictions make its impact almost more "noble" than a movie's.
And because Persepolis opened my eyes to the richness that exists in the world of graphic novels, I read The Burma Chronichles with even more interest. Suddenly, I found myself devouring the 208-page story in less two days, completely absorbed by stories of everyday life, of the bonds that emerge when one is away from home, on the life of those in the field, and on the comical situations that occur when one is not used to things like the weather, culinary standards and local traditions.
The book was written and drawn by Guy Deslile, a Canadian cartoonist who lives in France. His wife works for Medicines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), and because of her job, he has lived in North Korea and Burma for significant periods of time. I loved this book because of the author's sense of humor and his undiscussed ability to reflect on cultures and customs using very few words. There's this vignette about how humidity can make the ink smudge that I will never forget. That, for me, was an epiphany. And also proof that intercultural dialogue knows no barriers.
Check out his stuff!
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&art=a41e32dcb62910
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