http://prayas.in/ 2010-09-07T00:34:44-07:00 http://prayas.in/ http://prayas.in/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-02-04T04:29:23-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:a_place_to_stay?rev=1265286563&do=diff Meta Documentary/Hindi/5.5 minutes/miniDV/2006 Description While thousands in Mumbai, lose their home every month, thousands also search for one. One of these thousands, Prayas is disoriented and frustrated, fearful of what would happen if he doesn’t find a place to stay. His friend offers him his place for the weekend, but for the week he still has to figure something out. He starts exploring Mumbai at night hoping to discover some places where he can sleep safely. As he begins his explorati… text/html 2010-02-04T04:43:17-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:before_i_visit_vidarbha?rev=1265287397&do=diff Meta Interactive installation with processing and Yahoo pipes Description This is a musical instrument which sonically interprets the farmer suicide cases reported in the English media. There are two two layers of sound, one a chant and the other a groan. The buttons at the corners of the red triangle can be pressed to add sounds to the soundscape. text/html 2010-03-14T10:00:59-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:bhatka_bhatka?rev=1268586059&do=diff These shoes help you get lost. If you know where you want to go, they'll make sure you don't get there. Drifting for the age of information glut. Meta Interactive footwear / Acrylic, arduino and foam / Exhibited as part of the Continuum Transfunctioner show at Exhibit 320 / 2010 text/html 2010-02-04T05:17:49-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:breaking_a_wall_is_like_breaking_silence?rev=1265289469&do=diff Meta performance video / 37 seconds / 2010 Description Thsi video was a part of the installation, Investigating Claims. The installation was produced for the Contested Spaces exhibition (curated by Heidi Fitcher) at the Seven Arts Gallery (Delhi). text/html 2010-02-04T09:10:41-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:canopy?rev=1265303441&do=diff Meta Interactive, functional public space installation / Bamboo, plants and tea-shop / 2008 Description A publicly installed bamboo structure, which allowed a dual use of public space. It allowed a tea shop to function and created space for children to climb it and grow vegetables and medicinal plants for themselves. I then did music, drawing and craft workshops at the space to seed different imaginative associations of the space in the children's minds. text/html 2010-07-26T06:43:40-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:cityspinning?rev=1280151820&do=diff CitySpinning is a series of interventions which look at expanding the nature and use of public and unused urban spaces, in Bangalore and Delhi. It was initiated by Prayas Abhinav in October 2007 at CEMA and has been supported by Khoj, OpenSpace India, 48c, IIACD and others in India and beyond. text/html 2010-02-03T23:03:25-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:dead_projects_and_collaborations?rev=1265267005&do=diff text/html 2010-03-22T23:12:11-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:investigating_claims?rev=1269324731&do=diff Meta installation / Gallery Seven Arts / 2010 Description Narrating the “space between space” as a territory of fiction, mixed reality and collision. A wall (about 20 ft in length) was prepared. It had two layers: an outer and an inner layer. The outer layer of the wall was fragile and people could open a breach into it. On opening a breach, people will discover fictional, real and fantastical versions (illustrations mounted on light-boxes) of how our cities are being appropriated by th… text/html 2010-02-05T20:38:05-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:jingle?rev=1265431085&do=diff Meta Video Art / English / 5 minutes / Photographs / 2005 Description A study of the advertisements in Ahmedabad’s public-spaces. A visual and literary interplay with the hoardings in Ahmedabad and how they pull us/romance us constantly. A story of living in a city in confusion, query and irony. There are elements of recording, memory, commentary and romance in these works. I have used the stance of both the advertisers and the critics of the advertising industry. I talk of the experience … text/html 2010-02-05T20:49:10-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:migrating_mammals?rev=1265431750&do=diff Meta poetry / 2005 Description Twelve poems dealing with the issues of immigration, homeland, and the politics of the expatriate Indian. Written while in residency at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, USA) in 2005. Download a PDF with the poems [here]. text/html 2010-02-06T05:49:39-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:petpuja?rev=1265464179&do=diff Meta urban farming / performance / public intervention / 2007-08 Description PetPuja examines different layers of urban food systems. It demonstrates the possibility of a network of freely accessible network of community-grown food in Bangalore. The project has looked at the nutritive,environmental and inter-personal implications that growing vegetables in the public can have on neighborhoods. text/html 2010-02-06T05:27:58-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:porous_city?rev=1265462878&do=diff Meta neighbourhood project / public space intervention / demonstration / 2009 Description In December 2008, I started working on projects at CitySpinning I refer to collectively as The POROUS CITY. As a part of POROUS CITY I started out doing two things: one was to shape some construct of a space or a vehicle, which could be moved around and be parked around Bangalore. And the other was to locate unused land or building in the city and establish a space for neighbourhood conversation there… text/html 2010-02-05T20:36:07-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:sensor_networks?rev=1265430967&do=diff Meta arduino / sensors / 2009-present (ongoing) Description This ongoing project involves installing a set of arduino-powered, sensors (noise, crowd, pollution and heat index) around the city. People can SMS-query these stations and receive the sensor readings there as automated responses. text/html 2010-02-06T04:31:51-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:shooting_cool_guys_in_mumbai?rev=1265459511&do=diff Meta poetry / 2005 Description Nine poems set in Mumbai in the early nineties when the film industry started making a shift from analog to digital technologies. Many film-people (editors, cameramen, ...) couldn't cope with the shift. Many could. These nine poems are about a woman who couldn't. Who somehow found that everything was happening too fast. Got left behind. text/html 2010-02-05T19:48:28-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:voice?rev=1265428108&do=diff Meta Jacket / LED display / performance and walks / 2008 Description Voice is a jacket, which spells out statements at its back using an array of LEDs. It is intended to be used as a mechanism for people to say what they want in cities. Across boundaries and restrictions and politics. Voice was also a series of performances in which I walked around many neighborhoods of Delhi wearing this jacket with some contextual statements. text/html 2010-03-27T03:36:45-07:00 http://prayas.in/projects:zoda_zoda?rev=1269686205&do=diff Do you ever wonder if there is anybody out there? But if there IS, how will you connect? The Zoda Zoda shoes help you make friends. A video about the Zoda Zoda concept (a promo): Meta shoe strap / accessory / Exhibited as part of the Continuum Transfunctioner show at Exhibit 320 / 2010